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Book Review: Intelligent Design Uncensored

08.23.2010 · Posted in book reviews, creation

Intelligent Design Uncensored: An Easy- To-understand Guide to the Controversy by William A. Dembski My rating: 5 of 5 stars Intelligent Design Uncensored Dubbed as “an easy to understand guide to the controversy”, it lives up to its name. Perhaps the only difficulty will be with the numbers. Giving us mathematical probability concerning various things ...

Book Review: Evidence for God

08.03.2010 · Posted in apologetics, book reviews

Evidence for God by Michael Licona The good folks at Baker have done a great job with Evidence for God. Edited by William A. Dembski and Michael R. Licona, this is a one volume quick reference guide to apologetics. Contained within the book are fifty articles (as the subtitle states it “arguments”) for faith from ...

R. Albert Mohler on The Age of The Universe

06.22.2010 · Posted in apologetics, creation

The avoidance of this question about the age of the universe will come at the cost of our own credibility. But disaster ensues when the book of natural revelation is used to trump the book of special revelation. We would not be having this discussion today if these questions were not being posed to us ...

More on The Morality of Babies from the NYT

05.14.2010 · Posted in Social, Uncategorized, morality, origins

I linked to a post the other day about babies and morality. Now the New York Times carries a much longer story. All of this research, taken together, supports a general picture of baby morality. It’s even possible, as a thought experiment, to ask what it would be like to see the world in the ...

Human Depravity and The Genesis Creation Discussion

As scholars, teachers, preachers, professors, et al discuss the Genesis creation account there are varied perspectives.  An age old joke asks “What do you get when you put three Baptists in a room?”  Answer: “Five opinions.” The opinions concerning Genesis chapters 1-2 (and sometimes expanding to chapter 11) are proliferating in like manner.  In fact, ...

Answering Questions Concerning The Scriptures; Or Were The Biblical Writers Members of "The Flat Earth Society"?

Below one will find an exchange between a commenter on this blog and myself. I stated to him (David) that the Bible has demonstrated itself sufficient to withstand the onslaught of criticisms directed its way.” David replied to me with the following (my remarks are in blue): “It has indeed demonstrated itself sufficient to withstand ...

Alleged Biblical Inconsistencies

08.13.2009 · Posted in apologetics

GE 18:20-21 God decides to “go down” to see what is going on. PR 15:3, JE 16:17, 23:24-25, HE 4:13 God is everywhere. He sees everything. Nothing is hidden from his view. Answer: Anthropopathy –noun ascription of human passions or feelings to a being or beings not human, esp. to a deity. Also, an⋅thro⋅pop⋅a⋅thism. Anthropomorphic ...

Alleged Biblical Inconsistencies

08.05.2009 · Posted in Bible, apologetics, morality

GE 17:15-16, 20:11-12, 22:17 Abraham and his half sister, Sarai, are married and receive God’s blessings. LE 20:17, DT 27:20-23 Incest is wrong. What is the true issue here?  Is it that there is an inconsistency in the Scriptures, or is it that there is a misunderstanding of the nature of revelation on the part ...

The Amazing Woodpecker

12.17.2008 · Posted in origins

From Creation Moments. The woodpecker’s tongue can stretch from three to five times its normal length in order to fish bugs out of trees. You would think that his tongue would have to be rooted in his tail to do that neat trick! This beautiful creation in which we live is not only filled with ...