04Mar 2026 by Post

On Undesigned Coincidences: A Reply to Dan McClellan

4. Is the NT True?, Apologetics, biblical apologetics, can we trust the Bible, Christianity, Gospel, Jonathan McLatchie, JonathanMclatchie.com, Lydia McGrew, Undesigned Coincidences, Wes Huff
Dan McClellan, a Biblical scholar with a specialty in the Hebrew Bible, and popular social media content creator, recently responded to a clip of my friend and colleague, Wesley Huff, on undesigned coincidences as a marker of historicity in the gospel accounts. Wesley Huff subsequently posted a statement on his community page on YouTube, linking to my previous response to John Nelson, which deals with many of the same concerns raised by McClellan. This prompted McClellan to publish another video offering a rebuttal to my engagement with Nelson’s (and by extension his) concerns in my essay. I do not know why the critics of undesigned coincidences always seem to want to engage with those examples pertaining to the feeding of the five thousand. Literally every critical treatment of the topic thus far has focused on those. There are…
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06Aug 2021 by Post

God Hypothesis: The Problem of Background Knowledge

Bayesian reasoning, breadcrumbs, car break-in, Charles Lyell, Charles Sanders Peirce, Croatia, Croatians, Delta variant, Faith & Science, Fran Lebowitz, God Hypothesis, Hansel and Gretel, inference to the best explanation, Intelligent Design, James Croft, Lydia McGrew, masks, Michael Scriven, philosophers, puppy, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Substack, Thomas Crisp
The wet-washcloth sensation of puppy tongue on baby cheeks is part of the baby’s evidence that Puppy exists. Source
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10Jun 2021 by Post

Recognizing Design by a “Purposeful Arrangement of Parts”

Alvin Plantinga, complex specified information, computer program, Darwinian evolution, eyes, God and Other Minds, information, intelligent agents, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Lydia McGrew, minds, philosophers, purpose, purposeful arrangement, spandrels, specified complexity, specified small probability, Stephen Meyer
A correspondent asked about “specified complexity” and the intelligent design of the eye. Source
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16Jul 2020 by Post

The Advantages of a Bayesian Approach to ID

arrowheads, Bayesian inference, Bayes’ Theorem, Belief, biological design, designer, Evidence, Evolution News, human agents, Intelligent Design, irreducibly complex machinery, Life Sciences, Lydia McGrew, objections to intelligent design, physical sciences, prehistoric civilizations, Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve, suboptimal designs
Lydia McGrew gives the analogy that there is always a possibility that prehistoric civilizations did not have the ability or desire to make arrowheads. Source
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