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 [...]
Bill Pratt | November 30, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Ever since I became an evangelical believer in Christ, about 12 years ago, I have noticed that there is uneasiness among my evangelical brothers and sisters with certain fields of science. This uneasiness, I quickly learned, has much to do with the age of the universe and the origins of mankind. [...]
Bill Pratt | November 1, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Continuing from the first post on this topic, we will look at two more methods that physicists and astronomers use to determine the age of the universe. Again, this information has been gathered from Hugh Ross’ A Matter of Days. The third method physicists use to calculate the age of the [...]
Bill Pratt | October 29, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Some in the evangelical community dismiss the science that shows the universe is old (almost 14 billion years), and I think partly because they never considered the reasons why scientists make this claim. I am not a physicist or an astronomer, but I am an electrical engineer, so I had to [...]
