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Originally Posted by sotzo | Wait, does he argue presuppositionally? I just saw on Wikipedia that d'Souza is a Roman Catholic. | He is Roman Catholic, but check out the link I sent to see what I mean. I don't think being Roman Catholic would necessarily be at odds with presuppositionalism...unless I'm missing something. |
I actually just finished watching the debate. He is pretty much an evidentialist, but he was fun to listen to (along with Hitchens). At the beginning, he said he was just going to use science and reason and not the Bible, which of course exposed his Thomistic basis.
He used some presup-esque arguments -- e.g. the argument from morality, from science/uniformity of nature -- but he did so with an autonomous reasoning approach which would never actually prove Christianity. And of course, Hitchens combated these with red herrings. For instance, when confronted with the argument from morality, he diverged into an argument that Christianity did not have to be believed in order to be moral, a massive straw man argument.
Also, yeah, Roman Catholicism does not have a theology which comports well with presuppositionalism, since they deny Total Depravity.