Miracle Claims Vs. Hume – Ep.321 – Miracles – Developing Hume’s Skepticism Toward Miracles – Part 5
Miracle Claims Vs. Hume And as we wind down our takedown of Hume, we take one final look at Miracle Claims vs. Hume. We address the valid question about competing miracle claims as well as looking at if the Western worldview has outpaced the belief in miracles. Is it over? Have miracles been knocked out […]
Hume’s Biased Naturalism – Ep.320 – Miracles – Developing Hume’s Skepticism Toward Miracles – Part 4
Hume’s Biased Naturalism Coming into the final episodes of this book, we go after Hume’s naturalism being viewed as unbiased science. In fact, it is biased, can’t help but be biased, and by claiming not to want to take sides in religious debates…takes sides in religious debates. Hume’s biased naturalism has been unchallenged in academia, […]
Hume Humiliated In History – Ep.319 – Miracles – Developing Hume’s Skepticism Toward Miracles – Part 3
Hume Humiliated In History After looking at the science and philosophy of Hume, we now look at his take and impact on history. With looking at how the academy views the science of history we see that Hume is humiliated in history because he helped change what good history actually looks like. We discuss what […]
Agents Enter Into The Picture – Ep.318 – Miracles – Developing Hume’s Skepticism Toward Miracle – Part 2
Agents Enter Into The Picture A little shorter episode this week as this section and the next section have two different focuses. We look at how Hume seems to carve out outside agents enter into the picture to save natural law. The only problem with that is then you leave out those pesky humans to […]
The Bad Effects Of Hume’s Philosophy – Ep.317 – Miracles – Developing Hume’s Skepticism toward Miracle – Part 1
The Bad Effects Of Hume’s Philosophy The bad effects of Hume’s philosophy might not seem apparent on the surface; people have been disagreeing about miracles even as they happen. Yet, Hume supported locking people up in insane asylums who believed miracles happened. And while his support for his movement crumbled while failing to uphold its […]
Circular David Hume & His Critics – Ep.316 – Miracles – Hume and the Philosophic Questions – Part 5
Circular David Hume & His Critics Finishing up looking at David Hume’s Philosophy and we see that Hume is being so circular that you’ll find yourself dizzy. While he redefines miracles, provides circular arguments, and then begs the question, Hume won’t even allow the possibility of a miracle claim to be presented to be considered. […]
Hume Destroys Testimony – All Testimony – Ep.315 – Miracles – Hume and the Philosophic Questions – Part 4
Hume Destroys Testimony – All Testimony Hume is back at it again with destroying more of our ability to know things. Here, we look at how Hume destroys testimony – all testimony. His standard for witnesses is so unreasonable that no witnesses can match it. His description of the normal goings of nature leaves no […]
Can Hume Get A Witness? – Ep.314 – Miracles – Hume and the Philosophic Questions – Part 3
Can Hume Get A Witness? Looking at David Hume’s philosophy on miracles, now we find ourselves not seeing Hume interact with miracle claims, but questioning if someone can even be a witness to a miracle. Can Hume get a witness? It seems his standard is both circular and redefining of key terms. We see that […]
Dismantling David Hume – Ep.313 – Miracles – Hume and the Philosophic Questions – Part 2
Dismantling David Hume We start dismantling David Hume at the best place to start – the beginning. Hume’s definition of miracles, his epistemology, and his claim of neutrality are the best places to see if the foundation of his critique cracks or even fails to support his claims. Timeline: 00:00 – Introduction 01:35 – Hume […]
The Intro To Critiquing David Hume – Ep.312 – Miracles – Hume and the Philosophic Questions – Part 1
The Intro To Critiquing David Hume We enter our into to critiquing David Hume by setting the stage for what our author will talk about. We do what should always be done with philosophical concepts and that is define our terms! Then we provide some background history to set the stage for giving Hume his […]
Ye Ol’ Skeptics – Ep.310 – Miracles – Antisupernaturalism As An Authenticity Criterion? – Part 1
Ye Ol’ Skeptics Kicking off our discussion on miracles we go back to Ye Ol’ Times and see if there are any Ye Ol’ Skeptics of miracles claims. Or do we take the Enlightenment unenlightened view that everyone just believed everything and it wasn’t until the Smarty Pants Times did we learn to properly scoff […]
Book 12 Announcement
Book 12 Announcement Here’s the announcement for the next book we’ll be discussing. The way we’re going to cover this one is a little different than the ones we’ve done in the past. It’ll be a miracle – if we ever get through it. It’ll take someone with a Keener eye for sure. BOOK LINKS: […]