Bill Pratt | September 26, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Many people in our western civilization are optimistic that things are always getting better. If we continue to invest in education, if we produce more advanced technology, and if we push scientific understanding as far as it can go, then we will eventually reach a paradise on earth. This paradise is [...]
Bill Pratt | September 23, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt In part 1 of this series Philosopher Edward Feser demonstrated that reason, not faith, brings us all the way to the conclusion that Jesus is divine. Once we arrive here, where do we go? Feser explains: Suppose you know through purely rational arguments that there is a God, that He raised [...]
Bill Pratt | September 20, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt A typical accusation of atheists toward Christians is that we only believe what we believe because of blind faith. In other words, we have no rational reasons for believing in God or believing that Jesus died for our sins. The person who believes in fairies or unicorns is no different than [...]
Bill Pratt | September 15, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Very few people ever think about why science works; they just take it for granted. Some of the great scientists, however, have wondered about this question. Philosopher John Lennox, in his book God’s Undertaker, quotes Albert Einstein’s ruminations on the question of why the universe is comprehensible: You find it strange [...]
Bill Pratt | September 12, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt OK, those of you who have never thought about Aristotle and don’t even know what the word metaphysics means are probably already yawning, but hang on for a minute. Briefly, why should you care about Aristotle? Because the medieval Christian theologians (Thomas Aquinas being the most brilliant example) built their conceptions [...]
Bill Pratt | September 6, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt A frequent refrain from skeptics of Christianity is that any time God is posited as the cause of just about anything, the Christian has committed the sin of “God of the gaps.” Philosopher John Lennox explains the sin as follows: “the introduction of a god or God is an evidence of [...]
Bill Pratt | September 2, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Some skeptics of Christianity are known to argue that the great success of science revealing the physical mechanisms of the universe should lead us to conclude that the God hypothesis is totally unnecessary. Science will ultimately reveal the laws of nature, and once we know these laws, the need for God [...]
