Pastor Tom Estes is a creationist and blogger who has
declared his blog “an atheist-free zone”. At the blog he displays his erudition
and sense of logic (“This is why Biblically based logic and rationality will
always work. It begins with God. It has a foundation that cannot be shaken” –
take that, you who know what you are talking about when you think that logic
and mathematics are based on axioms rather than empirical assumptions). So for
instance, to the argument “Well, if God created the universe, than [sic] who
created God?” Estes has a response:
“there must be a reality that causes but is itself uncaused (or, a being that
moves but is itself unmoved). Why? Because if there is an infinite regression
of causes, then by definition the whole process could never begin – Do you see
what I'm saying? It's all circular. If God was created, then someone had to
create who created God, etc, etc, etc. And if that logic were true, nothing
would exist.” Even a freshman struggling with Aquinas would be stumped by that
one, methinks. (And in case you don’t see it, here is a hint: putting a problem
in slightly different words is not the same as solving it).
He also claims that Ken Ham is able to disprove evolution without Bible-thumping (by using “sacred
science”), but has apparently not seen AiG’s mission statement.
Yes, Estes is a big fan of Ken Ham and the Creation Museum,
but intellectually their arguments and claims still seem to blow his mind a
bit.
Apart from that his blog contains the usual creationist
canards – including the ones even Ken Ham warns against using, such as the myth
that Darwin recanted on his deathbed.
Diagnosis: Exasperatingly dense godbotter, of the kind that
even the AiG people would presumably be uncomfortable being caught associating
with.
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