Bill Pratt | October 29, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt A recurring misunderstanding I have seen in the intelligent design (ID) debate is the ignorance that many on the anti-ID side have of historical science. So, what is historical science and how is it different from the sciences which study currently operating phenomena? Philosopher of science Stephen Meyer lists four criteria [...]
Bill Pratt | October 27, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt I came across an interesting apologetics ministry at the National Conference on Christian Apologetics a couple weeks ago. It’s called The One Minute Apologist and the idea behind the ministry is to record short videos (usually a couple minutes) that tackle important apologetic issues. There are videos that deal with topics [...]
Bill Pratt | October 25, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt In the early centuries of Christianity, believers were mostly without complete written copies of the New Testament as we know it today. They may have possessed portions of it, but most Christians were taught doctrine orally. In order to focus on and remember what was important, the early church composed several [...]
Bill Pratt | October 21, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt One of the most common charges that intelligent design (ID) opponents hurl at ID theorists is that ID is not real science. They will say that a real scientific theory must be testable against the empirical world, must make predictions, must be falsifiable, must be explanatory by reference to natural law, [...]
Bill Pratt | October 20, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt For some reason, the plugin featuring the “share the knowledge” bookmarks at the bottom of each post has recently become incompatible with Feedburner. I’ve deactivated the plugin and now the feed is working again.
Bill Pratt | October 20, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Hello everyone. It seems that our Feedburner RSS feed service is broken and has been broken for about a week. We are working on fixing it and hope to have a remedy today or tomorrow. I’m sorry about this. We’ll keep you posted.
Bill Pratt | October 19, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Almost one year ago, I wrote a short blog post asking our readers to sign a document called the Manhattan Declaration. Why am I back again asking you to sign? Because we need more of you to participate. So far, the declaration has gathered 476,000 signatures – impressive, but not enough. [...]
Bill Pratt | October 14, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Today Darrell and I are off to the National Conference on Christian Apologetics, sponsored by Southern Evangelical Seminary. I’ve been to the conference many times over the past decade and have watched it grow from less than a thousand in attendance to over four thousand. Some of the speakers that will [...]
Bill Pratt | October 11, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt A common misunderstanding of the Book of Genesis is how chapters 1 and 2 are related. Specifically, chapter 1 claims that land animals were created before Adam (see Gen. 1:24-26), but chapter 2 seems to claim that Adam was created before land animals (see Gen. 2:19). Is it possible that these [...]
Bill Pratt | October 8, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Have you ever been arguing (holding a rational discourse where you are giving evidence to support your position) with someone and realized that they are not arguing against your position at all? Instead, they are arguing against a distorted or false version of your position. As I’ve discussed the beliefs of [...]
