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A brief biographical sketch is also available.

• Are There Really No Atheists? (1996) [ 16K ]
  
  Martin refutes Greg Bahnsen’s argument that there are no atheists.

• Butler’s Defense of TAG and Critique of TANG (1996) [ 11K ]
  
  Michael Butler in a recent paper published on the Internet has attempted to defend The Transcendental Argument for the Existence of God (TAG) and refute The Transcendental Argument for the NonExistence of God (TANG). In this paper, Martin concludes that the only thing Butler has added to the discussion is that “it is impossible to go from factual claims to ethical claims– in other words, that ‘is’ does not imply ‘ought.’ . . . The upshot of Butler’s defense is that he has failed to defend TAG and refute TANG with respect to ethics.”

• • Follow-Up (On Michael Martin) by Michael Butler (Off Site)
    
    Butler argues that Martin’s TANG is not even a transcendental argument, “but merely an internal critique of the Christian worldview-and a completely abortive one at that.”

  • Butler’s Reply (1997) [ 8K ]
    
    Martin argues that TANG meets Butler’s conditions for a transcendental argument. Moreover, even if it did not, Martin points out that Butler failed to show that TANG is an abortive attempt at an internal critique of the Christian worldview. SCCCS, by the way, has refused to acknowledge this essay on their web site despite repeated requests to do so.

• “Does Induction Presume The Existence Of The Christian God?” (1997) [ 33K ]
  
  Michael Martin describes and refutes the inductional form of the Transcendental Argument for God’s existence.

• • A Christian Response to atheist thinker Michael Martin on TAG and the foundation of induction (1999) (Off Site) by Adam Spurgeon Zens.
    
    Zens defends TAG against Martin’s critique above.

  • “Zens’ Defense of TAG” (2000) by Michael Martin
    
    Martin responds to presuppositionalist Adam Spurgeon Zens.

  • Reichenbach on the Problem of Induction (2001) (Off Site) by Adam Spurgeon Zens.
    
    Zens responds to Martin’s rebuttal by appealing to the arguments of Reichenbach.

• “Does Logic Presuppose the Existence of the Christian God?” (2000) [ 22K ]
  
  Martin argues that there are no good reasons to believe logic presupposes the Christian god.

• The Jones-Parsons-Martin Debate: Is Non-Christian Thought Justifiable? (1991) [ Index ]
  
  A written debate originally published in Antithesis magazine on the Transcendental Argument for the existence of God (TAG). Christian apologist Douglas Jones defends TAG; atheist philosophers Keith Parsons and Michael Martin respond.

• Reply to Butler, Ventrella, and Fields (1996) [ 24K ]
  
  Martin explains that he refused to participate in an oral debate with Greg Bahnsen because he refused to help SCCCS profit from the debate. SCCCS, by the way, has refused to acknowledge this essay on their web site despite repeated requests to do so.

• The Martin-Frame Debate on the Transcendental Argument for the Non Existence of God (1996) [ Index ]
  
  A written debate conducted exclusively over the Internet, the exchange between atheist philosopher Michael Martin and Christian philosopher John Frame over Martin’s Transcendental Argument for the Non-existence of God (TANG), which argues that logic, ethics, and science presuppose the non-existence of God.