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Originally Posted by Difflugia
I read some of the reviews and I'm guessing (since I haven't read it yet) that the book doesn't live up to the title. Geisler is a died-in-the-wool Calvinist and his apologetics is more geared toward people that are already Christian. He's not quite a presuppositionalist, but he does start from the position that Christianity is true and usually argues positions that are of interest to other Christians (inerrancy, reliability of the Gospels, Calvinist theology). I'm expecting that the content of this book is similar, being a discussion of the nature of God and the existence of evil, but despite the title, it's probably something that doesn't really apply to atheists.
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Do you think that many, and maybe most, agnostics and atheists are presuppositionalists? Don't many of them start out with with the belief that nothing supernatural can happen or ever did happen in the past?
Consequently, both would say that Creation, any miracles in the Bible,
et al. could not have happened and, therefore, did not happen. It seems to me that those supernatural events are the only real evidences that can convince someone that a god exists. The agnostic would say that since these things didn't happen, "I cannot know if there is a god." The atheist would say that since these things didn't happen, "there isn't a god."