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news & reflections on ideas that shape us
Augustine: young earth creationist
Theistic evolutionists take Church Father out of context (Wikipedia.org) As his theology matured, Augustine abandoned his earlier allegorizations of Genesis that old-earth creationists and theistic evolutionists have latched onto in an attempt to justify adding deep...
What is the Gospel?
The Truth About Jesus There is a 2,000 year old truth about Jesus that may still need to be discovered in your life. The Bible informs us that we tragically exchange the truth of God for all kinds of substitutes (Romans 1:25). And yet, marvelously, the truth can win...
Science & Christianity
“Christianity is completely irrational and not testable. Without evidence why should I believe it?” Richard Dawkins is a world famous lecturer at Oxford University and a passionate defender of the theory of evolution. He’s also a committed atheist who once wrote a...
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?...
Is the Bible true?
Is the Bible true? The Da Vinci Code‘s “historian” Teabing declares emphatically that it is not. In the book he states, “Because Constantine upgraded Jesus’ status almost four centuries after Jesus’ death, thousands of documents already existed chronicling His life as...
Was Adam an historical person? And what difference does it make?
Does the Bible present Adam as an historical person, a man who actually lived at a certain point in history, the very first man and the father of all the members of the human race who followed after him? And if so, what is the theological significance of that fact?...
Creationism
In the midst of the debates — or wars — concerning the issues of creation and evolution, there is a tendency to over-generalize. Both sides often refer to the opposing side with the broad term of either “evolutionist” or “creationist.” And yet there exists within both...
Humility in the wrong place
“What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction, where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth;...
A gadget may be wonderful – but it’s just a gadget
Being iTuned day and night diminishes our humanity. It does not enhance it. I have very little of Mr Blake’s company, the wife of the poet William Blake is reputed to have told visitors. “He is always in Paradise.” When the artist George Richmond called on Blake,...
Richard Dawkins is either a fool or a coward for refusing to debate William Lane Craig
Finally, Richard Dawkins has given his reasons for refusing to debate the American theologian William Lane Craig. We have waited a long time for this. The invitation to discuss the existence of God at Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre was extended to Dawkins many months...
The Death of a (Former) Atheist — Antony Flew, 1923-2010
The death of Antony Flew brings an end to one of the most interesting lives in twentieth century philosophy. Throughout the last half of that century, Professor Flew was recognized as one of the most significant philosophical advocates of atheism, eventually writing...
Louis Pasteur
“Science brings men nearer to God”. “The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator”. This is what the notorious Louis Pasteur, a chemist and microbiologist, affirmed long time ago. What do you think about it? I would love to hear from...
You Can’t Friend Me, I Quit!
On Facebook’s fifth anniversary, a not-so-fond farewell. I was a late convert to Facebook, the social-networking site that turned five years old Wednesday. I joined about a year ago at age 47, swept up in the massive wave of people turning the corner to the back nine...
Everything is borrowed!
Sir John Robert Madejski (born Robert John Hurst on 28 April 1941 in Stoke-on-Trent) is an English businessman, with a raft of commercial interests, spanning property, broadcast media, hotels, restaurants, publishing and football. He changed his name when his...
Augustine: young earth creationist
Theistic evolutionists take Church Father out of context (Wikipedia.org) As his theology matured, Augustine abandoned his earlier allegorizations of Genesis that old-earth creationists and theistic evolutionists have latched onto in an attempt to justify adding deep...
What is the Gospel?
The Truth About Jesus There is a 2,000 year old truth about Jesus that may still need to be discovered in your life. The Bible informs us that we tragically exchange the truth of God for all kinds of substitutes (Romans 1:25). And yet, marvelously, the truth can win...
Science & Christianity
“Christianity is completely irrational and not testable. Without evidence why should I believe it?” Richard Dawkins is a world famous lecturer at Oxford University and a passionate defender of the theory of evolution. He’s also a committed atheist who once wrote a...
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?...
Is the Bible true?
Is the Bible true? The Da Vinci Code‘s “historian” Teabing declares emphatically that it is not. In the book he states, “Because Constantine upgraded Jesus’ status almost four centuries after Jesus’ death, thousands of documents already existed chronicling His life as...
Was Adam an historical person? And what difference does it make?
Does the Bible present Adam as an historical person, a man who actually lived at a certain point in history, the very first man and the father of all the members of the human race who followed after him? And if so, what is the theological significance of that fact?...
Creationism
In the midst of the debates — or wars — concerning the issues of creation and evolution, there is a tendency to over-generalize. Both sides often refer to the opposing side with the broad term of either “evolutionist” or “creationist.” And yet there exists within both...
Humility in the wrong place
“What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction, where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth;...
A gadget may be wonderful – but it’s just a gadget
Being iTuned day and night diminishes our humanity. It does not enhance it. I have very little of Mr Blake’s company, the wife of the poet William Blake is reputed to have told visitors. “He is always in Paradise.” When the artist George Richmond called on Blake,...
Richard Dawkins is either a fool or a coward for refusing to debate William Lane Craig
Finally, Richard Dawkins has given his reasons for refusing to debate the American theologian William Lane Craig. We have waited a long time for this. The invitation to discuss the existence of God at Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre was extended to Dawkins many months...
The Death of a (Former) Atheist — Antony Flew, 1923-2010
The death of Antony Flew brings an end to one of the most interesting lives in twentieth century philosophy. Throughout the last half of that century, Professor Flew was recognized as one of the most significant philosophical advocates of atheism, eventually writing...
Louis Pasteur
“Science brings men nearer to God”. “The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator”. This is what the notorious Louis Pasteur, a chemist and microbiologist, affirmed long time ago. What do you think about it? I would love to hear from...
You Can’t Friend Me, I Quit!
On Facebook’s fifth anniversary, a not-so-fond farewell. I was a late convert to Facebook, the social-networking site that turned five years old Wednesday. I joined about a year ago at age 47, swept up in the massive wave of people turning the corner to the back nine...
Everything is borrowed!
Sir John Robert Madejski (born Robert John Hurst on 28 April 1941 in Stoke-on-Trent) is an English businessman, with a raft of commercial interests, spanning property, broadcast media, hotels, restaurants, publishing and football. He changed his name when his...
Augustine: young earth creationist
Theistic evolutionists take Church Father out of context (Wikipedia.org) As his theology matured, Augustine abandoned his earlier allegorizations of Genesis that old-earth creationists and theistic evolutionists have latched onto in an attempt to justify adding deep...
What is the Gospel?
The Truth About Jesus There is a 2,000 year old truth about Jesus that may still need to be discovered in your life. The Bible informs us that we tragically exchange the truth of God for all kinds of substitutes (Romans 1:25). And yet, marvelously, the truth can win...
Science & Christianity
“Christianity is completely irrational and not testable. Without evidence why should I believe it?” Richard Dawkins is a world famous lecturer at Oxford University and a passionate defender of the theory of evolution. He’s also a committed atheist who once wrote a...
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?...
Is the Bible true?
Is the Bible true? The Da Vinci Code‘s “historian” Teabing declares emphatically that it is not. In the book he states, “Because Constantine upgraded Jesus’ status almost four centuries after Jesus’ death, thousands of documents already existed chronicling His life as...
Was Adam an historical person? And what difference does it make?
Does the Bible present Adam as an historical person, a man who actually lived at a certain point in history, the very first man and the father of all the members of the human race who followed after him? And if so, what is the theological significance of that fact?...
Creationism
In the midst of the debates — or wars — concerning the issues of creation and evolution, there is a tendency to over-generalize. Both sides often refer to the opposing side with the broad term of either “evolutionist” or “creationist.” And yet there exists within both...
Humility in the wrong place
“What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction, where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth;...
A gadget may be wonderful – but it’s just a gadget
Being iTuned day and night diminishes our humanity. It does not enhance it. I have very little of Mr Blake’s company, the wife of the poet William Blake is reputed to have told visitors. “He is always in Paradise.” When the artist George Richmond called on Blake,...
Richard Dawkins is either a fool or a coward for refusing to debate William Lane Craig
Finally, Richard Dawkins has given his reasons for refusing to debate the American theologian William Lane Craig. We have waited a long time for this. The invitation to discuss the existence of God at Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre was extended to Dawkins many months...
The Death of a (Former) Atheist — Antony Flew, 1923-2010
The death of Antony Flew brings an end to one of the most interesting lives in twentieth century philosophy. Throughout the last half of that century, Professor Flew was recognized as one of the most significant philosophical advocates of atheism, eventually writing...
Louis Pasteur
“Science brings men nearer to God”. “The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator”. This is what the notorious Louis Pasteur, a chemist and microbiologist, affirmed long time ago. What do you think about it? I would love to hear from...
You Can’t Friend Me, I Quit!
On Facebook’s fifth anniversary, a not-so-fond farewell. I was a late convert to Facebook, the social-networking site that turned five years old Wednesday. I joined about a year ago at age 47, swept up in the massive wave of people turning the corner to the back nine...
Everything is borrowed!
Sir John Robert Madejski (born Robert John Hurst on 28 April 1941 in Stoke-on-Trent) is an English businessman, with a raft of commercial interests, spanning property, broadcast media, hotels, restaurants, publishing and football. He changed his name when his...