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 6

by | Feb 20, 2026 | Uncategorized

In the previous article, we examined the concept of presentism – the belief that “only present things exist.”  We found that there are two versions of presentism, two ways of interpreting the claim: a trivial version and a strong version.  The trivial interpretation merely insists that only present things exist in the present.  No one would disagree with that.  The strong version claims that only present things exist at all – in other words, “only present things exist, have existed, or will exist.”  The strong version is clearly false and antibiblical.  There are past things that have existed that no longer exist, such as the Tabernacle.  And there are future things that will exist but do not exist in the present, such as tomorrow’s sunrise.