Can a scientist believe in the resurrection? Three hypotheses.
I’m a professor of nuclear science and engineering at MIT, and today, I am celebrating the resurrection of Jesus. So are dozens of my colleagues. How can this be? Hypothesis one: We’re not talking about a literal resurrection. Perhaps it is just an inspiring myth that...
Religious and Philosophical Pluralism
About every other week, I confront popular pluralist notions that have become a large part of the way Americans think. For example, pluralists contend that no one religion can know the fullness of spiritual truth, therefore all religions are valid. But while it is...
Atheists Play Their Hand – Probability
The news first broke last year, when atheists in Great Britain announced the intention to put their message on London’s famous city buses. Atheist celebrities including Richard Dawkins and A. C. Grayling joined the campaign and enjoyed the publicity. Now, the...
The Blind Faith of Atheism
You may be thinking that this is a joke. Surely atheism is not based on faith, let alone blind faith. It’s Christianity that is based on an irrational unproven presumptuous faith. Come let us reason together. We will start by asking what atheism is. According to...
Is Atheism viable?
Atheism is, essentially, a negative position. It is not believing in a god, or actively believing there is no God, or choosing to not exercise any belief or non-belief concerning God, etc. Which ever flavor is given to atheism, it is a negative position. In...
Looking Back: TIME Asks, “Is God Dead?”
John T. Elson’s most famous article for TIME magazine appeared over 40 years ago, and it largely defined his journalistic career. His April 8, 1966 cover story, “Is God Dead?,” became an icon of the rebellious and increasingly secular sixties. Elson, who died...
My Pilgrimage from Atheism to Theism
Dear Friends: The following is an exclusive interview that will be published in the Winter 2005 issue of “Philosophia Christi” the journal of the Evangelical Philosophical Society (www.biola.edu/philchristi). “Philosophia Christi” is one of the top circulating...
The Evidence for Christianity
I. The great atheist philosopher Bertrand Russell was once asked what he would say if he found himself standing before God on the judgement day and God asked him, ‘Why didn’t you believe in Me?’ Russell replied, ‘I would say, ‘Not enough evidence, God! Not enough...
Why Darwinist Materialism is Wrong
by ALVIN PLANTINGA November 16, 2012 I. ACCORDING TO a semi-established consensus among the intellectual elite in the West, there is no such person as God or any other supernatural being. Life on our planet arose by way of ill-understood but completely naturalistic...
Identity and self-worth
Professor Glynn Harrison explores the concepts of self-worth and self-esteem, and explains why self-esteem ideology leaves us emptier than ever. In the first part of his talk, Professor Harrison explores how attitudes towards self have changed over the last few...
Charles Darwin’s tree of life is ‘wrong and misleading’, claim scientists
Charles Darwin’s idea of a tree of life is now ‘obsolete’ according to some scientistsThey believe the concept misleads us because his theory limits and even obscures the study of organisms and their ancestries. Evolution is far too complex to be explained by a few...
The New Atheists loathe religion far too much to plausibly challenge it
Anti-faith proselytising is a growth industry. But its increasingly hysterical flag-bearers are heading for a spectacular failure It’s an extraordinary publishing phenomenon – atheism sells. Any philosopher, professional polemicist or scientist with worries about...
Science can’t explain the big bang – there is still scope for a creator
We should not dismiss the concept of intelligent-design lessons in school, says Thomas Crowley You reported a recent poll which indicates about 25% of UK teachers support the teaching of creationism in secondary school science courses (Would you Adam and Eve it?...