Christopher McHugh
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Christopher McHugh
Christopher McHugh is an independent scholar and Christian apologist. He has several forthcoming articles in Philo, and is also a referee for that journal. McHugh is one of a small number of philosophers worldwide invited by Quentin Smith to publish a paper in a special upcoming "invited authors only" symposium issue of Philo. He has engaged in debates with such philosophers as Graham Oppy, Ted Drange, George H. Smith, and Richard Gale.
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Drange-McHugh Debate: McHugh’s Fourth Rebuttal
(2004) Christopher McHugh In this rebuttal, I argue that Drange has failed to demonstrate any problems with the case for Christian belief given in my opening statement. Argument from Simplicity (AS) Drange grants that the individual the steps in AS are reasonable, but objects that the conclusion cannot be believed, and should be regarded as […]
Drange-McHugh Debate: McHugh’s Third Rebuttal
(2004) In this rebuttal, I will argue that Drange has failed to show that ANB prevails against ED.[1] Concerning my presentation of ED, Drange is absolutely correct when he notes that the version that I presented does not follow the modus tollens form. This embarrassing error on my part was the result of hurried editing, […]
Drange-McHugh Debate: McHugh’s Second Rebuttal
(2004) This second rebuttal will show that Drange’s critique of my opening statement offers no sound refutation of any of the arguments presented there. Drange’s debate tactic appears to be relegated to pleading a lack of understanding of my opening arguments. This is surprising, for most of the points made in my opening statement are […]
Drange-McHugh Debate: McHugh’s First Rebuttal
(2003) In this first rebuttal, I argue that Drange’s ANB provides no evidence against the existence of the God of Christianity. Premise A of ANB states that if the God of Christianity (abbreviated GC) were to exist, then He would possess at least the following properties: being able to bring about situation S, all things […]
Opening Statement: The Greater Reasonableness of Christian Theism
(2003) This opening statement will defend two theses; the first of these is that it is more reasonable to be a theist than a nontheist, and the second is that it is more reasonable to be a Christian than it is to reject Jesus Christ. In order to show that theism is more reasonable than […]
About the Drange-McHugh Debate
The "lost" Drange-McHugh debate on the existence of the God of evangelical Christianity was originally conducted in the Formal Debates & Discussions forum of the Internet Infidels Discussion Board (IIDB) from November 30, 2003 to May 15, 2004, and has been restored to the Secular Web proper so that it would once again be available to all on the world wide web.
The Drange-McHugh Debate
The "lost" Drange-McHugh debate on the existence of the God of evangelical Christianity was originally conducted in the Formal Debates & Discussions forum of the Internet Infidels Discussion Board (IIDB) from November 30, 2003 to May 15, 2004, and has been restored to the Secular Web proper so that it would once again be available to all on the world wide web.
The Krueger-McHugh Debate: Theism or Atheism
(2003) Christopher McHugh Opening Statement by Christopher McHugh In this debate, I will present a case for theism, and offer refutations of any atheological arguments that Krueger adduces. In many past debates between theists and atheists, the theist philosopher has used a series of intuitively plausible arguments concerning cosmology, morality and history to construct a […]
The Krueger-McHugh Debate: Theism or Atheism
The Krueger-McHugh Debate: Theism or Atheism (2003) Christopher McHugh First Rebuttal by Christopher McHugh In my opening statement, I defended a mystical concept of God that is very different from the one that Krueger has chosen to attack in his opening arguments. Consequently, I can concede Krueger’s opening statement in its entirety, and still maintain […]
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