The Superiority of Empiricism is Not “Begging the Question”

I've become aware of a blog that doesn't like my open challenge and considers my conditions to be an example of question begging. The author writes,See Alan Roebuck's "No Evidence for God?" in Intellectual Conservative for a useful treatment of the tendency of atheists to beg the question against theism by simply assuming, without basis, something like naturalism, materialism, or positivism to be