24/04/2024
I have several YouTube videos/recordings on various platforms with my several discussions with Darth Dawkins. In a nutshell, trying to get him to realize his conflation of epistemological claims with ontological claims. He just can't seem to grasp the category difference, but hey....he is a Bahnsen and Van Til stooge....through and through, regurgitating the defenses anticipated or developed later after opposition to Van Til, by Van Til,....such as being circular reasoning and making a distinction between vicious and virtuous circularity (from here on VicC and VirC). Smuggling in the idea that somehow Van Til's VirC is synonymous with epistemic circularity. BUT, not even really considering the magnitude of the dishonesty, bait and switch, burdens put on to detractors that they never accepted or assumed, etc. So, every once in a while, I feel compelled to respond to the egregiously small amount of supporters willing to defend him. Today was such a day. I will paste the conversation below....be forewarned, it's going to appear to be loooong.....but really isn't. Hope you enjoy or if you see some errors by me, feel free to point it out. I will try to keep the conversation updated in the comments.
Wow! and now I am super-p*ssed!!!! My best response, callout, longest most nuanced response, is now gone. I'm not sure if it was deleted, or the comment by the gentleman it was in response too, was deleted. SMDH!!
In any case, here is the link to this particular video and conversation in the comments.....or what's left of it 😑. The comments are on video "Part II".
Part I: https://youtu.be/7lV_2e1J9t8?si=xHKU6FKJSZSIzlyk
Part II: https://youtu.be/6Qjj3avfbbA?si=vbX5xKSJrM_2NG4o
Final Showdown: https://youtu.be/5b1cm0U0Gko?si=9kdOWqcN0dmQqZwi
After many discussions with Darth on his presuppositionalism and conflating epistemology vs ontology, I have mod powers in this discussion for a change. Don'...
