In existographies, Mark Foreman (c.1962-) is an American Christian apologeticist and philosopher, noted for []

Overview
In c.2010, Foreman, after one of his Liberty University philosophy classes, was approached by one of his students, who vented his confused feelings about Peter Joseph’s Christ myth theory advocating film Zeitgeist (2006), as follows: [1]

“Zeitgeist claims that Christianity is a total fiction — that it was completely made up from a combination of other religious claims—and that all world religions are just different expressions of sun worship. [blurting] They really backed up their claims with all sorts of evidence, I don't know what to believe anymore. Is it true? Is all this stuff I was taught in church just a big hoax?”

In 2012, Foreman, in reaction to this student query incident, penned “Challenging the Zeitgeist Movie: Parallelomania on Steroids”, wherein he asserts that the following statement by Dorothy Murdock (2010), the primary religio-mythology scholar behind the film, is a “poorly reasoned” argument that does not “hold up” under close scrutiny:

“Indeed, it is my contention, and that of others deemed ‘Jesus mythicists’, that the creators of the gospel tale picked various themes and motifs from the pre-Christian religions and myths, including and especially the Egyptian, and wove them together, using also the Jewish scriptures, to produce a unique version of the "mythos and ritual." In other words, the creators of the Christ myth did not simply take an already formed story, scratch out the name Osiris or Horus and replace it with Jesus. They chose their motifs carefully, out of the most popular religious symbols, myths and rituals, making sure they fit to some degree with the Jewish "messianic scriptures" as they are termed, and created a new story that hundreds of millions since have been led to believe really and truly took place in history. We are convinced, in other words, that ‘Jesus Christ’ is a fictional character created out of older myths, rituals and symbols.”


A parody of religious apologeticist mindsets of Paul Copan, William Craig, and Mark Foreman, who have to defend against the past, i.e. that Christianity is but reformulated Egyptian mythology, such as professed in the 2006 film Zeitgeist, and the future, i.e. that what was once explained by the mysterious powers of god, e.g. love, morality, war, etc., are now being explained by modern science based reason, such as professed in William Rankine's 1845 "The Mathematician in Love".

A parody of religious apologeticist mindsets of Paul Copan, William Craig, and Mark Foreman, who have to defend against the past, i.e. that Christianity is but reformulated Egyptian mythology, such as professed in the 2006 film Zeitgeist, and the future, i.e. that what was once explained by the mysterious powers of god, e.g. love, morality, war, etc., are now being explained by modern science based reason, such as professed in William Rankine's 1845 "The Mathematician in Love".

Foreman's article soon became cited in discussions and debates by William Craig (Ѻ), among others, as a scholarly refutation of the Zeitgeist claims. [1]

In 2013, Foreman gave a talk, the audio (Ѻ)(Ѻ) of which is available, wherein he tries to debunk Zeitgeist, amid watching clips of the film.

Quotes | Related
The following are related quotes:

“Rankine’s ‘The Mathematician in Love’ reveals the absurdity of reducing all the knowledge to science and mathematical equations. There’s more to love than math and science.”
— Paul Copan (2005), How Do You Know You’re Not Wrong? [2]

References
1. Foreman, Mark. (2012). “Challenging the Zeitgeist Movie: Parallelomania on Steroids”, in: Come Let us Reason: New Essays in Christian Apologetics (editors: Paul Copan and William Craig; foreword: Rick Warren) (§11:169-88). B&H Publishing Group.
2. (a) Copan, Paul. (2005). How Do You Know You’re Not Wrong?: Responding to Objections that Leave Christians Speechless (pg. 74). Baker Books.
(b) Paul Copan – Wikipedia.

External links
● Mark Foreman (faculty) – Liberty University.