Modern skepticism toward biblical accounts and early Christian history often presents itself as the natural result of rigorous historical methodology. Scholars dismiss miracle accounts, question eyewitness testimony, and reconstruct naturalistic alternatives, all while claiming to follow the evidence wherever it leads. But a closer examination reveals something troubling, leading to irrational skepticism: much of what…
Category Archives: Philosophy
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Sep
Sep
What is the nature of moral values? Are moral values objective or subjective? What does that distinction mean for the argument for God? As it turns out, probing into the nature of moral values leads us to ask some very interesting follow-up questions. Ultimately, one would have to contend with the moral argument for the…
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Jun
Jun
Have you ever found yourself in a discussion or argument with someone about God, and they dared you to prove God exists? Or that Jesus is who he claimed to be? Or that the Bible is the inspired word of God? I’ve seen or heard that hundreds if not thousands of times. Here’s the thing…
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Mar
Mar
Since publishing the article, Can the Universe Create Itself? I’ve had some people objecting to what I wrote, specifically regarding my critique of Hawking. Since there is a common pattern among these objections and so much confusion and bad thinking, I wanted to respond to those objections instead of posting endless individual responses on various…
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Feb
Feb
Have you heard someone say that the universe created itself? Perhaps someone of high profile? Stephen Hawking is among those who’s stated that the universe can create itself. Is this reasonable? Is it logical? Can the universe create itself? Unfortunately, the skilled scientist was a poor logician. The universe cannot create itself.
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Jan
Interesting conversations abound at dinner tables. One day, my older son told us that his science teacher told the class that ‘God could not have created the universe because before the universe began to exist, there was no time.’ He smirked because he knew (we’d had conversations about such topics), even at 14 years old,…
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Jan
Jan
If you have kids or have been around them, you’ll find it familiar to hear them ask all sorts of questions. Sometimes they will ask a chain of questions each of which is based on the answer to the previous question. “Why do the trees sway?” This may be followed by “Why does the wind…
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Dec
Dec
Every so often, I’ll hear or see a skeptic claim that religion is the result of non-thinking, a blind leap into the darkness of human ignorance. At the same time, he’ll claim that his view of atheism is the view of science and truth, of reason and rationality. I find such people to be generally…
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Apr
There was a time when notions of the obvious were so simply eloquent that there was no need to meddle with its argumentation. In fact, there was no argumentation needed since the obvious was so, well obvious. Then came the postmodernist, deconstructionist ideologies that aimed to topple the towers of fundamental knowledge and question the…
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Sep
A standard response from skeptics against those who espouse belief in God is to pose this question: if God created the universe, then who created God? Here are a few reasons why it’s unreasonable to ask ‘who created God?’ 1 Asking ‘who created God?’ is irrelevant to the original question. Asking for a cause of…
