I really appreciate John Byl’s stand for young-earth creationism against all the accommodationist nonsense of old-earthers. He has written some thoughts about apologist Douglas Groothuis’s big book Christian Apologetics which should be pondered. I think he shows the problems which inhere in the ‘two books’ view and in cow-towing to Big Bang cosmology.
http://bylogos.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-defective-case-for-biblical-faith.html#more
I agree with Byl that Groothuis’s book has good things in it, although I cannot recommend it as an apologetics book. I feel okay about it though since Groothuis cannot bring himself to recommend one presuppositionalist work in his annotated bibliography at the end of his book.
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I read the book when it first came out. Lots to like about it but I was shaking my head at his short dismissal of presupp apologetics. Granted, the book was not a critique of other views but it was not handled well.
Thank you for this
I picked up Groothuis’ “Truth Decay” cheap at Half Price Books because it addresses Postmodernism. At a quick skim I saw one or two things I was wary of. Thanks for the Byl link. Will check it out.
It’s very good. Groothuis is good where he’s good 🙂