Bill Pratt | January 21, 2013
Post Author: Bill Pratt So many people complain that God, if he exists, is a tyrant who expects too much of human beings. To ask that we trust only his Son for salvation is unfair and exclusive. How do Christians respond to these accusations? Pastor R. C. Sproul once spoke about God’s fairness in his [...]
Bill Pratt | June 6, 2012
Post Author: Bill Pratt In a recent USA Today article, the headline read “Scientist: Evolution debate will soon be history.” The first line of the article is, “Noted paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history.” What do we make of this article? The first thought that should come to your mind [...]
Bill Pratt | May 23, 2012
Post Author: Bill Pratt There seems to be a lot of confusion over the word nothing, when scientists and philosophers are talking cosmology. Philosophers, when speaking about the origin of the universe, will ask questions like, “Why is there something rather than nothing?” or ”Did the universe come from nothing?” When philosophers ask these questions, they have a [...]
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 | December 23, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Many journalists confuse the Intelligent Design (ID) movement with young earth creationism. Some of this confusion is nothing more than intellectual laziness, but some of it is caused by ID opponents repeating the assertion over and over again as a rhetorical strategy. Here is an interview excerpt from Thomas Lessl, a [...]
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 | 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 [...]
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 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 | December 14, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt GeoChristian posted an update on Kent Hovind (Dr. Dino), a well-known young earth creationist who is serving jail time for tax evasion. I once saw Hovind on the John Ankerberg Show and thought he was extremely rude to Hugh Ross, whom he was debating. If you are interested in Hovind and what [...]
