Refuting Phillip Dennis’s Errors in Physics, ASC, and Philosophy – Part 7

by | Mar 6, 2026 | Refuting the Critics

We have been examining the philosophy of presentism – the claim that “only present things exist.”  In its strong form, presentism would insist that “only present things exist, have existed, or will exist.”  Of course, biblically, presentism is false because past things and future things are real according to Scripture (and are known by God).  Thus, the Bible endorses eternalism – the claim that past, present, and future are equally real.  But Phil Dennis has criticized eternalism and insists that presentism is true.  Yet nearly all of his arguments are strawman fallacies – criticizing a misrepresentation of eternalism as if it claims that past, present, and future all exist now – in the present.  Sometimes a presentist will retreat to a trivial claim that “only present things exist now – in the present.”  But no one would disagree with this.  Eternalists accept that only present things exist in the present.  But we maintain that the past and future are just as real (true to the mind of God) as the present.  Let’s continue to analyze Dennis’s claims.

Refuting Phillip Dennis’s Errors in Physics, ASC, and Philosophy – Part 1

by | Sep 26, 2025 | Astronomy, Physics, Refuting the Critics

This article series will be very important for those interested in the distant starlight issue.  Secular astronomers claim that the light from the most distant galaxies has taken billions of years to reach Earth.  We can see these galaxies in our most powerful telescopes.  Many people conclude from this that the universe must be billions of years old, and therefore that the biblical description of creation is false.  But the notion that light takes billions of years to get from distant galaxies to Earth is predicated upon a particular modern convention of how we choose to define the timing of distant events.