Why is is that equally brilliant people draw differing conclusions on the same matter? In economics, the capitalist argues with the socialist. In politics, the conservative argues with the liberal. In philosopher, the realist argues with the idealist. In theology, the Catholic argues with the Protestant. And so on and so forth, ad infinitum. Why [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘apologetics’
September 16, 2009
Bloggingheads.tv Stirs Up Controversy on Creationism and ID
Bloggingheads.tv, a very interesting website for dialogue and discussion, has created quite a stir for simply giving airtime to a couple of Intelligent Design proponents. In a ridiculous reaction, a number of evolutionists and atheists have stated that they will no longer frequent the bloggingheads.tv website (here and here). Which is just silly, and shows [...]
September 16, 2009
So Much for Academic Freedom and Tolerance
Francis Collins, the well-known director of the Human Genome Project and author of The Language of God, has been appointed as head of the National Institute for Health this past July. He is a fascinating figure because he is a conundrum for the atheistic community-a world-class scientist, scholar, and a convinced Christian that does not [...]
September 3, 2009
If You Say Bad Design You Are Still Saying Design
My good friend Jason Dulle responded to my previous post on ID with this: Bad design does not mean “no design.” The Pinto may have been a bad design, but it was designed nonetheless. At best, bad design could tell us something about the abilities of a designer, but it doesn’t mean there is no [...]
August 28, 2009
Bad Design Is Still Design
A common response to the Intelligent Design movement by its vocal opponents is that the universe may appear to be designed but it seems that things could have been better designed. They point to natural catastrophes, disease, and instances in biology of alleged imperfect design. Of course, no one is doubting that things could definitely [...]
August 25, 2009
A Postmodern Literary Argument for the Existence of God
Words exist, Words have meaning, therefore God exists. Ok, you either get this or you don’t.
May 16, 2009
What Event is the Foundation of the Christian Faith? Part 2
This is how I responded to my friend’s discussion, outlined in part 1: The point of my response was that similarities and commonalities of experience, religious experience in this instance, is to be expected on the one hand because of our shared humanity (and religious orientation, imo), and on the other hand it has no [...]
May 15, 2009
What Event Is The Foundation of the Christian Faith? Part 1
I had a very interesting interchange with an old friend of mine recently on the subject of speaking in tongues. He opened the discussion with a reference to this recent article in the New York Times, “A Neuroscientific Look at Speaking in Tongues.” He was pointing to this article as supporting his experience of speaking [...]
April 3, 2009
Does God Exist? A Debate between 4 Apologists & 1 Atheist
The Christian Book Expo was held last week in Texas and there were a number of interesting panel discussions. One of the most intriguing is this debate between four very well-known Christian apologists, Lee Strobel, Douglas Wilson, William Lane Craig, and Jim Dennison, and the now notorious and witty athiest, Christopher Hitchens. The last debate [...]
September 4, 2008
Quotable #4
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” – C.S. Lewis
