I've had a recent interest in learning about presuppositional apologetics, which is the idea that since everyone interprets data/evidence according to their presuppositions you have to analyze someone's presuppositions to determine which best accounts for the truth in reality. This is of particular interest when hearing attacks against God's Word through the media, in the news, and in the latest scientific publishing. Often evolution is used as a blunt object with which to bludgeon Christians. But there is not a special cache of evolutionary evidence that disproves God's Word. Everyone has the same evidence...it's how one interprets the evidence that speaks volumes. Therefore, to get past the "he said/she said" arguments of evidential apologetics, it is necessary to analyze the ideas that make up someone's presuppositions.
There are a number of awesome links to do research on presuppositional apologetics, and these are two of the best that I have found so far:
http://proofthatgodexists.org
http://trueforms.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/ultimate-collection-of-free-presuppositional-apologetics-lectures/
When the attacks of the world come against God's Word (to steal away the good seed), we must be ready to give a reason for the hope that we have (I Peter 3:15) I am tempted to engage in full-on Defcon 5 argumentation at the expense of the gospel in order to win the debate. But in winning, can we not also lose?
The rest of that verse is often forgotten by myself and others. Lest we forget it completely:
"But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander."
Let's bring the gospel without timidity, without fallacies, and without forgetting the mission.
