I look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. --Nicene Creed Stephen Hawking, physicist and author of A Brief History of Time, recently had this to say about the notions of heaven and eternal life: I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its …
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Ken Ham is an Evangelical Christian and is perhaps the world's most prominent anti-evolutionist and advocate of young-Earth creationism. Richard Dawkins, author of the best-selling book The God Delusion, is perhaps the world's most prominent proselytizer for atheism. The two men are worlds apart on a number of important issues, but they seem to be …
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An atheist writer has an entry on her blog today about The GeoChristian (see Skepchick: Genesis and Geology). She obviously has more readers than I do, and she has sent them in droves to click on "Myth" on my Understanding Genesis 1 poll. Skepchick started her blog entry by saying some nice things about me …
Timothy Keller, in chapter nine of The Reason for God, discusses the origin of human rights. Do humans intrinsically have unalienable rights, or are these rights something that we have arbitrarily come up with? Keller outlines three possible answers to this question, following Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz: Human rights come from God. God has …
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The American Humanist Association is launching an ad campaign, urging us all to "Consider Humanism." This campaign uses a familiar atheist technique: Focus on the evils done in the name of religion; ignore the evils done by atheists. The graphics I've seen have this format: What some believe -- a verse from the Bible or …
When Stephen Hawking writes a book, people pay attention. His latest volume, The Grand Design, coauthored by Leonard Mlodinow, has made a media splash because Hawking, who used "god language" in his earlier works, has come to the conclusion that there is no need for any sort of god to explain the origin of the …
A common misconception among skeptics is that Christians are narrow-minded and ignorant, and that skeptics and atheists are open-minded "free thinkers." Perhaps these generalizations are true in some cases, but it was my pleasure Sunday morning to spend an hour with a group of fifteen Christians who certainly don't fit the narrow-minded stereotype. Yesterday at …
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From "Saved by an Atheist" by Rob Moll, who returned to faith in Christ in part through reading The Plague by Albert Camus: Yet the biggest influence on my spiritual journey was the novels and philosophy of Albert Camus, a French existentialist of the 1940s and '50s—and an atheist. C. S. Lewis warned, "A young …
A car at work has this bumper sticker: Ummmm... I think it has been over 300 years since anyone was burned at the stake in this country (a very unfortunate event in U.S. history). Since that time, mixing of politics and religion has led to some rather positive historical developments, such as the abolition of …
I'm sort of caught between the young-Earth creationists on one side and the militant Dawkinsites on the other. I love them both: the YECs are my dear brothers and sisters in Christ, and Jesus loves the atheists, so I do too. There are a couple of interesting conversations going on on some of my older …
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From ThinkGeek.com: Flavorless Nihilist Mints. Sigh. Life is without meaning. It is bleak, empty, and anything we assign value to is completely false. We could say, for instance, that these Nihilist Mints symbolize that blankness of meaning, but then that would be a contradiction as we would be saying that Nihilist Mints mean something. They …
Perhaps Richard Dawkins and the "new atheists" are to atheism as young-Earth creationists are to Christianity. Some atheists find the new atheists to be rather embarrassing. Here are some quotes from a Marxist---and from what I can tell, atheist---literary critic by the name of Terry Eagleton: "Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge …
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From Albert Mohler: Richard Dawkins Jumps The Shark. News out of Great Britain indicates that Richard Dawkins, perhaps the world's most famous living atheist, is setting up a summer camp intended to help children and teenagers adopt atheism. As The Times [London] reports: "Give Richard Dawkins a child for a week's summer camp and he will …
Rev. Cwirla, in his review of the Charlotte Allen article on atheism that I linked to in my previous post, summarizes the new atheist (Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris, Dennett, Myers, et al.) arguments as follows: 1. The existence of God can't be proven scientifically, therefore there is no God. 2. Religious people do bad things, therefore …
From the LA Times: Atheists: No God, no reason, just whining, by Charlotte Allen Subtitle: Superstar atheists are motivated by anger -- and boohoo victimhood. Here are a few quotes: I can't stand atheists -- but it's not because they don't believe in God. It's because they're crashing bores. Other people, most recently the British …
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I've had a number of good comments in the past month on the following posts. Feel free to join in. Dr. Dino still in prison -- I consider the teachings of Kent Hovind ("Dr. Dino") to be anti-apologetics that has no place in our churches and Christian schools. Not everyone agrees. Augustine and Darwin -- …
Atheist philosopher Michael Ruse rips into the best-selling author of The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins: "It is not that the atheists are having a field day because of the brilliance and novelty of their thinking. Frankly --- and I speak here as a nonbeliever myself, pretty atheistic about Christianity and skeptical about all theological claims …
Some of the vocal "new atheists, " such as Richard Dawkins (author of The God Delusion) like to refer to themselves as "Brights." Not everyone thinks these guys are all that bright, at least when it comes to their arguments against Christianity and theism. Dawkin's arguments against theism have been criticized as being amateurish and …
"Materialist atheism is not merely an arid creed, but totally irrational." -- A.N. Wilson, former atheist Writer A.N. Wilson had a "Damascus Road" conversion to atheism, and then a slow climb back to Christianity. His conversion back to Christianity was based on: Historical apologetics -- the reality of the empty tomb; the perseverance of the …
"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.'" -- Psalm 14:1 (NIV) I believe that atheism is foolish. I read statements by the prominent "new atheists" like Hitchens and Dawkins and think, "how silly." Whether their arguments are philosophical, historical, or ethical, I find them to be far from sufficient to explain away …
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