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Mar 31 • 18 tweets • 9 min read • Read on X
🧵Did Jesus rise from the Dead?🧵

Happy Easter everyone. The resurrection is one of the central tenets of Christianity.

Here is a list of good scholarly and philosophical resources that take a skeptical perspective on the resurrection:

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Naturalism and the Resurrection: A Reply to Gary Habermas by Stephen T. Davis (1985)


Contemporary Christian Doubts about the Resurrection by J.A. Keller (1988)


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Is There Sufficient Historical Evidence to Establish the Resurrection of Jesus? by Robert Greg Cavin (1995)


Why the Resurrection is Initially Improbable by Michael Martin (1998)


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Reply to Davis by Michael Martin (1999)


Christianity and the Rationality of the Resurrection by Michael Martin (2000)


Why I Am Not a Christian by Keith M. Parsons (2000)


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Historical Evidence and the Empty Tomb Story by Jeff Lowder (@SecularOutpost ) (2001)


The Case Against the Empty Tomb by Peter Kirby (2002)


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@SecularOutpost Greek Resurrection Beliefs and the Success of Christianity - Introduction and first chapter by Dag Øistein Endsjø (2009)


Why Mainstream Historical Jesus Scholars Think Christianity is False by Felipe Leon (2012)


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@SecularOutpost What evidence exists for the resurrection of Jesus? by Tim O'Neill (@TimONeill007) (2013)


Arif Ahmed's Case Against the Resurrection by John Danaher (@JohnDanaher) (2015)


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@SecularOutpost @TimONeill007 @JohnDanaher Hume, Miracles and the Many Witnesses Objection by John Danaher (2018)


Assessing the Resurrection Hypothesis: Problems with Craig's Inference to the Best Explanation by Robert Greg Cavin & Carlos A. Colombetti (2019)


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Five Reasons to Doubt the Resurrection by Matthew Hartke (@MatthewHartke) (2020)


Greek Resurrection Beliefs and the Resurrection of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke: Contexts for Consideration by Nathan Nadeau (2020)


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@MatthewHartke The Implausibility and Low Explanatory Power of the Resurrection Hypothesis—With a Rejoinder to Stephen T. Davis by Robert Greg Cavin & Carlos A. Colombetti (2020)


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@MatthewHartke Supernatural Resurrection and its Incompatibility with the Standard Model of Particle Physics: Second Rejoinder to Stephen T. Davis by Robert Greg Cavin & Carlos A. Colombetti (2021)


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@MatthewHartke Did the Resurrection Happen? A Sceptical Perspective by John Danaher (@JohnDanaher) (2022)


An Unshakable Kingdom: How Cognitive Dissonance Explains Christianity by Matthew Hartke (@MatthewHartke) (2022)


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@MatthewHartke @JohnDanaher Bad Apologetics on Bayes (Part I, II, and III) by Nathan Ormond (@nath_ormond) and Brian Blais (@bblais):

I:

II:

III:

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@MatthewHartke @JohnDanaher @nath_ormond @bblais Briefs from Ben Watkins (@SpeedWatkins) on Hume, Reliability of Testimony, and Miracles:

The Credibility of Testimony:


Hume's Argument Summarized:


Salem Witches and Jesus' Resurrection:


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@MatthewHartke @JohnDanaher @nath_ormond @bblais @SpeedWatkins A Conditional Proof of Hume's Theorem:


Miracles and Bayes:


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@MatthewHartke @JohnDanaher @nath_ormond @bblais @SpeedWatkins YouTube Videos:

Critique of Calum Miller's Opening Statement on the Resurrection (Part I):


Critique of Calum Miller's Opening Statement on the Resurrection (Part II):


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@MatthewHartke @JohnDanaher @nath_ormond @bblais @SpeedWatkins Did Jesus Rise From The Dead? With Matthew Hartke and The Amateur Exegete (@amateurexegete):


Did Jesus Rise From The Dead? More Reasons For Doubt:


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A Natural Explanation For Christian Origins: The Resurrection of Jesus - Kamil Gregor


Jesus Is Dead by The Non-Alchemist (@AlchemistNon) (Great summary of the philosophical/historical issues at play).

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🧵Aquinas for Atheists: Resources on Thomism for Skeptics🧵

Though online Thomists often sully his reputation, I think anybody interested in the philosophy of religion deserves to take the work of St. Thomas Aquinas seriously, that especially goes for philosophical Atheists

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To help with this task, I've put together a list of books and articles/resources that I've found to be helpful in my own investigations of Aquinas and his work:

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Saint Thomas Aquinas by G.K. Chesterton (1933)

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Aquinas (Arguments of the Philosophers) by Eleonore Stump (2003)

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Dec 24, 2023
@efajeta Good thread. I agree that the cumulative case for Theism's explanatory power is the best way to argue for God's existence. Swinburne's work is par excellence in this field. That said, many Naturalists/Atheists have offered powerful rejoinders to many of these arguments.🧵
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@efajeta For the question of why anything exists, which has to do with Leibnizian Cosmological Arguments from Contingency, Atheist philosophers have offered plenty of scholarly rejoinders on this question. The thread below is a great start:

@efajeta For considerations on the nature of the constants and the alleged fine-tuning, I'd point to the excellent thread below which offers a host of good critiques on the inferences that fine-tuning arguments make: (Most of them don't appeal to the multiverse):

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Dec 5, 2023
🧵Necessary Responses to Cosmological Arguments from Contingency🧵

When it comes to natural theology, Leibnizian Cosmological Arguments from Contingency are considered among the strongest arguments for Theism by many philosophers and apologists. @Trent_Horn, @CapturingChrist
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@InspiringPhilos @BishopBarron something that Atheists have no way of responding to.

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Nov 10, 2023
🧵Fine-Tuned Responses to Fine-Tuning Arguments🧵

Given the recent release of @Philip_Goff's book, there has been a lot of discussion on fine-tuning arguments. This is great to see. The FTA is really interesting and spans a wide range of disciplines. However, while there are /1
plenty of bad responses to the argument, there seems to be an overconfidence among apologists who consider the argument undefeatable.

Below is a thread of some good scholarly responses that are freely available which serve as good critiques of different variants of the FTA.
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They are good for understanding why some philosophical Naturalists, Agnostics, and Atheists remain unmoved by the argument. In chronological order:

The Fine-Tuning Argument Revisited by Theodore Drange (2000)


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