Bill Pratt | February 13, 2013
Post Author: Bill Pratt A common refrain among secularists is that as science advances, the need for religion continues to diminish, and eventually the need will disappear altogether. After all, the argument goes, the only reason religion exists is to answer questions for which science has yet to provide answers. Once all those questions are [...]
Bill Pratt | February 11, 2013
Post Author: Bill Pratt In every human institution, there are individuals who are at the top because of their athleticism, charisma, intelligence, personality, or physical appearance. The people who aren’t at the top often look up to those leaders, admire them, and in some cases, worship them. This phenomena takes place regardless of the particular [...]
Bill Pratt | February 8, 2013
Post Author: Bill Pratt Most secularists would laugh at this question, but not one. I ran across an article written a few years ago (thanks to the link provided by J. Warner Wallace) by an atheist, John D. Steinrucken, that goes beyond acknowledging the debt secularists owes Christianity. He actually castigates those secularists who attack Christianity [...]
Bill Pratt | November 29, 2012
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 5, 2012
Post Author: Bill Pratt That is the title of an interview with author Justin Barrett in the June 2012 issue of Christianity Today. Barrett recently released a book, titled Born Believers: The Science of Children’s Religious Belief, which “builds upon previous research on cognitive development to show that children naturally intuit design—and a Designer—when exposed to [...]
Bill Pratt | July 2, 2012
Post Author: Bill Pratt In Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian, Russell quotes the famed philosopher John Stuart Mill writing about his father’s road to atheism. The quote is instructive for Christians as it gives a small glimpse into the world of a famed atheist. My father [says John Stuart Mill], educated in [...]
Bill Pratt | June 15, 2012
Post Author: Bill Pratt I have previously written a post on why all religions cannot be true, but I wanted to revisit this topic and add another perspective. Religions are commonly composed of three parts: code, cult, and creed. Code is the moral code that a religion teaches. For Christianity, it would include “love your [...]
Bill Pratt | June 8, 2012
Post Author: Bill Pratt There are many worldviews out there to choose from: Christianity, Islam, secular humanism, New Age spiritualism, and so on. Since choosing a worldview is perhaps one of the most important things a person must do, it is highly important that we have a trustworthy method to evaluate the options. Our worldview colors the [...]
Bill Pratt | December 26, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Four times in the past year I have heard the following kind of statement from atheists: “Religious people are dangerous because they think they have answers to ultimate questions.” Twice these comments were uttered by personal friends of mine, and twice I heard them expressed by atheists in debates that I [...]
Bill Pratt | July 18, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt In a recent post, we discussed the fact that whenever a person makes something or someone their highest love in place of God, divisiveness occurs. Tim Keller, in stark fashion, also shows us what the other negative effects of placing our faith in these God substitutes can be. Here is an [...]
