Tag Archives: apologetics

How to (Not) Avoid Controversy

Posted on April 4, 2012 by

Some Christians are so cute when they try and avoid controversy.  Take, for example, this suggestion from a webpage for Christian devotional writers: Doctrinal issues can cause divisions. We don’t have the resources, time or training to cover theological issues. … Continue reading →

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Points Worth Pondering?

Posted on March 31, 2012 by

I had the chance to spend almost a whole day at the Rice University library yesterday.  While there I was able to finish most of Professor Richard Bell’s “Deliver Us From Evil,” and start in on his “No One Seeks … Continue reading →

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From Outer Space to Inner Space

Posted on March 22, 2012 by

Here are two truly phenomenal videos.  The first asks two basic questions about the universe, and can only say, “we don’t know.”  The best take-away quote from the video for me was this: “We just might be undergoing the biggest … Continue reading →

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How To Think About God

Posted on March 19, 2012 by

Adler, Mortimer Jerome. How to Think about God: A Guide for the 20th-century Pagan* ; *one Who Does Not Worship the God of Christians, Jews, or Muslims ; Irreligious Persons. New York: Collier, 1991. Print. In this seminal work by Adler, … Continue reading →

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Some Prominent Figures in Design History

Posted on February 7, 2012 by

Murray Eden (MIT) and Marcel P. Schutzenberger (F.A.S.) Both were mathematicians who, at the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology in Philadelphia in 1966 argued that mathematical difficulties with neodarwinism.  They were not convinced that a random shuffling of a … Continue reading →

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You Can’t ‘Prove’ God

Posted on December 20, 2011 by

An interesting quote from Dean L. Overman’s Evidence for the Existence of God (Rowman and Littlefield: 2009): There are real limits to any formal reasoning system attempting something in the nature of a mathematical proof.  Science and faith share a … Continue reading →

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Kant and Arguments for God

Posted on November 30, 2011 by

Kant argued that there were only three kinds of arguments that could be made regarding the existence of some sort of God.  He called these the cosmological, ontological, and physico-theological arguments. Under the cosmological argument type falls all arguments from … Continue reading →

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