Darrell | September 29, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Post Author: Darrell Recently, I have been studying the Eastern Orthodox tradition of Christianity, and quite honestly, I have found it to be a very intriguing faith. They have a rich history and their faith is filled with traditions that hark back to the early Church. Their approach to the Christian life [...]
Bill Pratt | September 27, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt A study has just been released where researchers have shown how wind could have parted the Red Sea. Researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado have found a location in the Nile River’s ancient delta where an east wind — blowing at 63 mph for [...]
Bill Pratt | September 25, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt A couple months ago, we featured a 7 minute audio clip from philosopher Peter Kreeft’s lecture on arguments for God’s existence. For this post, we are presenting an additional clip from the lecture – this time on the first cause argument for God’s existence. Again, Kreeft does a wonderful job simplifying [...]
Bill Pratt | September 22, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt I was discussing Hawking’s recent book with a regular blog commenter who mentioned that Hawking’s ideas on the creation of the universe were new and that he hadn’t had time to look into them. This got me thinking about whether Hawking really was on to some new formulation of physics that [...]
Darrell | September 20, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Post Author: Darrell Five Point Calvinism is commonly referred to by the acronym TULIP. The “T” in TULIP stands for Total Depravity. Theopedia defines it as follows: “[E]very person born into the world is morally corrupt, enslaved to sin and is, apart from the grace of God, utterly unable to choose to follow God [...]
Bill Pratt | September 17, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt We don’t have a serious problem on our blog with commenters calling each other names. I have had to delete very few comments because someone crossed over the line of good taste. Every once in a while, though, people forget their manners and start hurling accusations at each other. When someone [...]
Bill Pratt | September 15, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt In Stephen Hawking’s latest book, The Grand Design (I haven’t read it yet, but I have read Hawking’s introduction and pre-release interviews), he offers explanations as to why our universe exists and why there is such incredible fine tuning in our universe to support advanced life on earth. His answer seems [...]
Bill Pratt | September 13, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Over the past couple years of blogging, one of the most common areas of confusion in the blog comments has been about the relationship between logic and God. Did God create logic like he created humans? Did logic exist before God, so that God is subject to logic? Can’t God do [...]
Bill Pratt | September 10, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt The scientists at Reasons to Believe have always argued that finding advanced life on other planets is extremely improbable, considering the hundreds of conditions that must be simultaneously met for a planet to support advanced life. Earth is quite unique in this regard. When I’ve mentioned this to friends and family, [...]
Bill Pratt | September 8, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Although I have written negatively of the overall theme and message of Avatar, there is an interesting analogy of the Incarnation of Christ that can be taken from the film. I heard this analogy in a podcast by William Lane Craig, and I think it may help some people understand this [...]
