{"id":347,"date":"2010-07-02T22:21:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T02:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/?p=347"},"modified":"2016-01-31T19:01:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T23:01:18","slug":"apologetics-and-anti-apologetics-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/2010\/07\/apologetics-and-anti-apologetics-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Apologetics and Anti-Apologetics Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>New York Times<\/i> discusses the latest iPhone trend: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/03\/technology\/03atheist.html\">apps that provide talking points for the existence of God<\/a>, pro and con.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a dozen new phone applications, whether faith-based or faith-bashing, the prospective debater is given a primer on the basic rules of engagement \u2014 how to parry the circular argument, the false dichotomy, the ad hominem attack, the straw man \u2014 and then coached on all the likely flashpoints of contention&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Users can scroll from topic to topic to prepare themselves or, in the heat of a dispute, search for the point at hand \u2014 and the perfect retort.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I expect that, eventually, we&#8217;ll just let our phones argue the basic questions of existence among themselves, and then they&#8217;ll let us know what they&#8217;ve decided.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2010-07-atheism-app.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" alt=\"A screenshot from the LifeWay Fast Facts app\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times discusses the latest iPhone trend: apps that provide talking points for the existence of God, pro and con. In a dozen new phone applications, whether faith-based or faith-bashing, the prospective debater is given a primer on the basic rules of engagement \u2014 how to parry the circular argument, the false dichotomy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1112,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/1112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}