Bill Pratt | July 29, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt One of the most abused words in the English language is the word faith. For skeptics, faith is believing in something despite reason. For some religious folks, faith is simply the expression of positive emotions toward God. Others claim faith is purely intellectual. Can we more rigorously define what faith is? [...]
Bill Pratt | July 27, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt The earliest existing painting (seen above) portraying a biblical scene was found in a building called the House of the Physician in the ruins of the city of Pompeii, a city destroyed in AD 79 by Mount Vesuvius. The painting is a striking rendition of the scene from 1 Kings 3 [...]
Bill Pratt | July 21, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt That is the popular view among materialists (those who deny the existence of anything but the material world). They beg us look at the sheer immensity of the universe and then look at the tininess of the human race in contrast. The idea that man is special, that man holds a [...]
Bill Pratt | July 19, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Since the Fall, we know why people choose evil – we are all born with original sin that saturates our soul. The Fall, however, does not explain why Adam and Eve, or even Satan, used their free will to choose evil, to reject God. This question may never be answered this [...]
Bill Pratt | July 17, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt I’ve been reading Donald Prothero’s book Evolution, which is a book meant to show how powerful the evidence for evolution is. Prothero, a professor of geology, certainly seems to know a lot about fossils, but he seems to know remarkably little about intelligent design (ID), a theory he maligns early in [...]
Bill Pratt | July 13, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt In the last post, we talked about how equivocal God-talk is self-defeating and how univocal God-talk lowers God to the level of a finite being. The only solution seems to be analogous God-talk. So how does analogous God-talk work? Analogous God-talk ultimately tells us what God is like, but it does [...]
Bill Pratt | July 10, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Recently some of my skeptical friends who frequently comment on the blog raised a very important issue: how do we use language when talking about God? Is God so transcendent that our words communicate nothing about him? Is the Christian God so “other” that words completely fail us? There seem to [...]
Bill Pratt | July 7, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Researchers report that there is a correlation between how much time kids spend in front of video games and television, and their ability to focus in school. Here is an excerpt from the article: Elementary school-age and college-age participants who exceed two hours per day of screen time are as much [...]
Bill Pratt | July 4, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Everything around us is changing, moving from one state to another in time. My son was less than 5 feet tall two years ago, and now he is greater than 5 feet tall. The grass in my yard is growing every week so that I have to cut it. The paint [...]
Bill Pratt | July 1, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt You may recall that in January of this year, we posted about the California Science Center, a public institution, reneging on the screening of a pro-intelligent design (ID) movie. The Discovery Institute, a pro-ID organization, filed a lawsuit when the Science Center refused to turn over all documents related to the [...]
