Bill Pratt | August 9, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Philosopher Peter Kreeft gives a brilliant overview of the argument from design in the audio below. The audio is excerpted from one of Kreeft’s podcasts where he lectures on five arguments for the existence of God. I beg you to set aside just 7 minutes to listen to this audio. You [...]
Bill Pratt | December 26, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Social Darwinism is the theory that persons, societies of people, and races develop and evolve in much the same way that biological organisms evolve due to natural selection. It is frequently described by the phrase, “survival of the fittest,” which was coined by British philosopher Herbert Spencer just a few years [...]
Bill Pratt | December 22, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt In the latest issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, Eilat Mazar reports that she has discovered a portion of Nehemiah’s Wall. These are the walls that were described in the book of Nehemiah in chapters 3 and 4. The wall was discovered as Mazar continued excavations of King David’s Palace. If this [...]
Bill Pratt | December 18, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt I am reading Pascal’s Pensees right now and couldn’t help but stop and record some of the wonderful quotes I’ve run across. With regard to the interaction between faith and reason, Pascal said: The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. With regard to the search for God: There [...]
Bill Pratt | December 16, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Clearly, yes He does. Many people express shock over the fact that God took human life in the great flood or that He commanded Israel to kill Canaanites. There are many other instances in the Bible where God either directly or indirectly takes lives. There is no getting around this fact. It makes us [...]
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 | 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 | September 22, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt If you actually know anything substantive about major world religions, you know the answer to this question is an emphatic “no.” The only people claiming that all religions are the same or that all religions are equally true are those people who know little to nothing about world religions, or who [...]
Bill Pratt | September 12, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt To be honest, we just don’t know. Let’s take a brief look at the evidence we have. First, we will summarize the evidence external to the actual words of Hebrews. According to D. Edmond Hiebert, there were three early church traditions about authorship. The tradition from Alexandria, Egypt held that the [...]
Bill Pratt | September 8, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt I sometimes hear skeptics say that they need extraordinary evidence to believe that Jesus rose from the dead. The reason they need extraordinary evidence, they claim, is that the resurrection is an extraordinary claim. It is true that the resurrection is an extraordinary claim, but there are many extraordinary claims made [...]
