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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
If you are, it’s because you have believed a falsehood about a vilified group of people. Original here. The Myth of the Flat Earth Summary by Jeffrey Burton Russell for the American Scientific Affiliation Conference August 4, 1997 at Westmont College How does investigating the myth of the flat earth help teachers of the history ...
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 ...