Bill Pratt | December 29, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Some statements about the world are objectively true, meaning they are true for all people, places, and times, regardless of whether anyone actually believes the statements. Other statements about the world are subjective, meaning they merely refer to a person’s preferences or tastes. An objective statement would be: “The sum of [...]
Bill Pratt | May 16, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Re-post from Feb 2010 The use of the scientific method as a way of learning about the natural world has yielded fantastic technologies and discoveries over the last few hundred years. Nobody can doubt the power of the scientific method – collecting data, developing hypotheses about that data, and then testing [...]
Bill Pratt | April 19, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Continuing from part 1, below are 5 more reasons you should doubt a scientific consensus, taken from Jay Richards’ article on the topic. 8. When the subject matter seems, by its nature, to resist consensus. An an engineer, this point has always bothered me about both evolution and climate change. Richards [...]
Bill Pratt | April 18, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Lately on the blog I’ve had some people question why I side with the majority of experts on some issues and not with others. I had never really thought about this before, but then I ran across an article written by Jay Richards, entitled, “When to Doubt a Scientific ‘Consensus’“. Richards [...]
Bill Pratt | February 23, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt One of the most common accusations hurled at Christians is arrogance. If Christians believe that only they are right about who God is, that is arrogant. Usually, but not always, I hear this accusation from atheists. They say something like, “If you think that the Christian God is the only true [...]
Bill Pratt | October 22, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Darrell and I were talking today about people who claim that one interpretation of Scripture can be no better than another. Or, put another way, we can’t know what the correct interpretation of Scripture is, so we shouldn’t debate it. To each his own interpretation. My sense is that people who [...]
Bill Pratt | March 11, 2009
Philosopher Ken Samples, in a recent “New Reasons to Believe” (Vol 1 , No 1) publication, argues that naturalistic evolution cannot explain how human beings can have true beliefs about anything. Naturalistic evolution posits that there only exists the material, natural world around us. Everything that exists is the result of random, material processes working [...]
Darrell | December 29, 2008
All truth is relative! You can’t know the truth! That’s true for you but not for me! These are some of the most popular statements that float around our modern society. Talk to any college or university student and you are likely to hear something similar. They seem to make truth out to be like [...]
