Methodology

The rules governing every poster on this site.

1. Source-grounding is mandatory

Every factual claim on every poster cites a specific primary source with page or section number. The underlying wiki article resolves those citations to files in a local corpus (raw/) of public-domain, open-access, and user-owned scholarly works. No LLM synthesis without grounding.

2. Steelmanning is mandatory

For every debate, critics are cited directly — not via Christian summaries of them. The strongest form of each counter-argument is presented. If a steelman reads weaker than the critic's actual view, that is a defect flagged by peer-review.

3. Tradition balance

For comparative-religion debates (Archetype B), at least 30% of substantive citations must be insider scholars of the non-Christian tradition — Ghazali for Islam, Maimonides for Judaism, Shankara for Advaita, Nāgārjuna for Madhyamaka, and so on.

For Christian positive cases, Evidentialist framing is the default (Craig, Habermas, Plantinga, Swinburne), but where Classical/Thomist or Reformed-Epistemology perspectives diverge meaningfully, they are noted.

4. The four archetypes

• A — Argument for theism: e.g. Kalam, Fine-Tuning, Moral, Ontological, Problem of Evil, Hiddenness.
• B — Worldview contrast: e.g. Tawhid vs Trinity, Advaita vs classical theism, Anatta vs Imago Dei.
• C — Historical/critical debate: e.g. Resurrection historicity, Gospel dating, Documentary hypothesis.
• D — Science-faith interface: e.g. Origin of universe, Fine-tuning, Origin of life, Evolution.

5. Assessment rubric

Each view carries one of four assessment badges:

• Strong — best-supported position in the literature as of the last compile.
• Live — actively defended by qualified scholars; debate ongoing.
• Under pressure — facing serious unanswered objections.
• Fringe — minority position; included for completeness or because it is culturally prominent.

6. Peer-review gate

No poster ships without passing an adversarial red-team review: random citation verification, steelman audit, tradition-balance check, hallucination scan, thin-argument detection. Failed articles are sent back to the compile step with review notes.

7. Hyperlink discipline

Every Scripture reference is a live link to Biblia.com. Every scholar name on first mention is a link to that scholar's profile page. Every primary-source citation is a link into the local corpus with the page number. If you find a broken or unverifiable citation, that is a bug.

8. Compounding, not freshness

The wiki is compiled, not retrieved. New sources are summarized into existing articles; new articles cross-link to existing ones. Over time the corpus compounds into a denser, more internally coherent artifact.