Bill Pratt | June 29, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt I recently heard another excellent podcast of Unbelievable? where apologist Os Guinness debated “atheist” Mary Warnock. I put “atheist” in quotation marks because of Warnock’s beliefs, which you will see are central to her positions on morality and public policy. Warnock insisted that she is a Christian because she regularly attends [...]
Bill Pratt | June 27, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Trick question! There isn’t one, despite what some people will tell you. You see, the issue of exactly how God brought forth life on earth is just not something that is part of the essential teachings of Christianity. What are the essential teachings of Christianity? Those doctrines that were elucidated by [...]
Bill Pratt | June 22, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt This is a familiar theme for long-time readers of the blog. I am deeply interested in where the scientific method can shed light and where its light begins to fade. For mankind, to know everything is to know all that really exists. If you think of everything that exists as falling [...]
Bill Pratt | June 20, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt There are fewer words that are more loaded with a negative connotation than fundamentalism. Generally when we hear that word, we have been trained by the media to react with either fear or disdain, or both. After all, fundamentalists are supposed to be ignorant and violent. To be a fundamentalist used [...]
Bill Pratt | June 17, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt A couple months ago I attended a debate between a Christian scholar and an atheist scholar at a local university. At the conclusion of the debate there was a Q and A session and one of the atheist students stood up and asked something like the following to the Christian scholar: [...]
Bill Pratt | June 15, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt The vast majority of us believe in some kind of supernatural realm, but more and more people are uncomfortable saying that one religion possesses more truth about the supernatural than others. We are becoming, in the US, a nation of religious pluralists. A popular mantra of the religious pluralist, according to [...]
Bill Pratt | June 13, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt For some secular, non-religious people, their hope is that religious people will some day be the minority, that mankind will finally grow out of this unfortunate phase of history. Religion may have helped our distant ancestors to explain where we came from, why we are here, why we have moral feelings, [...]
Bill Pratt | June 8, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt One of the most striking evidences for the Christian God is the uniqueness of man among all of the animals. God exalts in The Book of Genesis, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of [...]
Bill Pratt | June 6, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt I am not a political science expert, so I can’t say for sure how strong the link between socialism and atheism is. I’m sure some of you can think of examples of people you know who are atheist and not socialist or socialist and not atheist. For Fyodor Dostoyevsky, writing in [...]
Bill Pratt | June 3, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt We’re back to the recurring question of the role of faith, the will, and evidence. Those who believe in miracles frequently will point to evidence of specific miracles and say, “This is why I believe.” Those who disbelieve miracles will claim that there is no evidence and that they won’t believe [...]
