Will computers and robots ever become self-aware?
There is a very famous thought experiment from UC Berkeley philosopher John Searle that all Christian apologists should know about. And now everyone who reads the Wall Street Journal knows about it,...
View ArticleWhat should Christians bring up when discussing truth with Muslims?
I have some experience dicussing Islam because my mother’s side of the family is all Muslim. My go-to argument has always been to confront them about the Qur’an’s claim that Jesus did not die of...
View ArticleIs the Bible’s definition of faith opposed to logic and evidence?
Probably the biggest misconception that I encounter when defending the faith is the mistaken notion of what faith is. Today we are going to get to the bottom of what the Bible says faith is, once and...
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Poll: few Millennials describe belief in God as “very important”
Beliefs of millennials and boomers I saw a very interesting article that compared the attitudes of young people about things like patriotism, religion, freedom, etc. The numbers are very discouraging....
View ArticleHow the presence and quality of fathers affects belief in God
Here’s an article by Paul Copan which points out how father presence/absence and father quality affects belief and disbelief in God. Excerpt: Seventh, the attempt to psychologize believers applies more...
View ArticleIs the definition of atheism “a lack of belief in God”?
First, let’s see check with the Stanford University Encyclopedia of Philosophy: ‘Atheism’ means the negation of theism, the denial of the existence of God. Stanford University is one of the top 5...
View ArticleThe authors of the gospels of Mark and Luke knew eyewitnesses to the life of...
Were the authors of the gospels of Mark and Luke connected to eyewitnesses to the life of Jesus? Well, it turns out that there are good reasons to think that Mark was linked to the eyewitness Peter,...
View ArticleShould we expect to know what God’s reason is for allowing evil and suffering?
Here is an article by Steven Cowan about the problems of evil and suffering. Intro: The problem of evil is no doubt the most serious challenge to belief in God. Even religious believers find it...
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Dr. Walter Bradley lectures on scientific evidence the creation and design of...
This lecture is special to me, because I bought a VHS tape of it just after I started working full-time, and watched it a million times. A lot of people come to their convictions about God’s existence...
View ArticleTheistic evolutionists and the two-platoon strategy
What should we make of theistic evolutionists telling us that you can believe in God, while still knowing that matter, law and chance explain the full development of all of life? Consider this...
View ArticleWhat are the historical arguments for the post-mortem appearances of Jesus?
Eric Chabot of Ratio Christi Ohio State University has a great post up about the post-mortem appearances of Jesus. The post contains: a list of the post-mortem resurrection appearances quotations by...
View ArticleMark D. Linville: does Darwinian evolution make morality rational?
Have you ever heard an atheist tell you that naturalistic evolution is an answer to the moral argument? I have. And I found a good reply to this challenge in the book “Contending With Christianity’s...
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Does the Miller-Urey experiment explain how life originated on Earth?
There are two problems related to the origin of the first living cell, on atheism: The problem of getting the building blocks needed to create life – i.e. the amino acids The problem of creating the...
View ArticleAre all sins equally bad? Or are there degrees of severity for different sins?
This question came up recently so I did some digging on theology web sites to find what Bible verses applied to the question. Here’s what Ligonier said: It’s clear that we have different degrees of sin...
View ArticleHow the presence and quality of fathers affects belief in God
Here’s an article by Paul Copan which points out how father presence/absence and father quality affects belief and disbelief in God. Excerpt: Seventh, the attempt to psychologize believers applies more...
View ArticleIs the Bible’s definition of faith opposed to logic and evidence?
Probably the biggest misconception that I encounter when defending the faith is the mistaken notion of what faith is. Today we are going to get to the bottom of what the Bible says faith is, once and...
View ArticleWhat should Christians bring up when discussing truth with Muslims?
I have some experience dicussing Islam because my mother’s side of the family is all Muslim. My go-to argument has always been to confront them about the Qur’an’s claim that Jesus did not die of...
View ArticleHow to defend the kalam cosmological argument just like William Lane Craig
Today, I decided to go back in time, and re-post something from April 2009. I started this blog in January 2009. It’s funny to see what I sounded like when I was just starting out. Dr. Craig has a...
View ArticleHow to defend the fine-tuning argument just like William Lane Craig
Today, I decided to go back in time, and re-post something from April 2009. I started this blog in January 2009. It’s funny to see what I sounded like when I was just starting out. Dr. Craig has a...
View ArticleNabeel Qureshi: the Quran inspires radical Muslims to commit Islamic terrorism
Dr. Nabeel Qureshi, a former Muslim, explains which verses of the Qu’ran are linked to Islamic terrorism in a USA Today editorial. Excerpt: As a Muslim growing up in the United States, I was taught by...
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