{"id":65072,"date":"2018-09-02T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=65072"},"modified":"2018-09-01T11:21:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T18:21:41","slug":"new-atheism-and-the-five-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/02\/new-atheism-and-the-five-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Atheism and the Five Ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my challenges this year was to become better acquainted with St. Thomas Aquinas. As a result, I&#8217;ve dug more into Thomas&#8217; &#8220;Five Ways&#8221;, five proofs for the existence of God which appear at the start of the Summa.<\/p>\n<p>I generally haven&#8217;t been very impressed with the rebuttals of the Five Ways by the New Atheists. In the article below, Dr. William-Lane Craig reviews the Five Ways and looks at the typical criticisms of them he receives from New Atheists&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reasonablefaith.org\/the-new-atheism-and-five-arguments-for-god#ixzz4hrwULOty\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68612\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FiveWays.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FiveWays.png 860w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FiveWays-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FiveWays-768x581.png 768w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/FiveWays-600x454.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my challenges this year was to become better acquainted with St. Thomas Aquinas. As a result, I&#8217;ve dug more into Thomas&#8217; &#8220;Five Ways&#8221;, five proofs for the existence of God which appear at the start of the Summa. I generally haven&#8217;t been very impressed with the rebuttals of the Five Ways by the New Atheists. In the article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[4982,4981,365,4983,4984],"class_list":["post-65072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-dr-william-lane-craig","tag-reasonable-faith","tag-st-thomas-aquinas","tag-the-five-ways","tag-the-new-atheists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68752,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65072\/revisions\/68752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}