Bill Pratt | December 22, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt On March 24, 2010, Christian philosopher William Lane Craig debated agnostic philosopher Michael Tooley about whether God exists. I attended the debate and thought I would share a summary with you. Craig opened with 5 well-known arguments for the existence of God (some of which we’ve presented on TQA in the [...]
Bill Pratt | June 24, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Christians believe that a supernatural being can be reasoned to by working backward from effect to cause. We observe ourselves and we observe the world around us (those are the effects) and we reason that a supernatural cause is the best explanation for the things we observe. This is how almost [...]
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 | 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 3, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Many skeptics of Christianity claim that the existence of evil in the world proves that a good God cannot exist. I believe this viewpoint is exactly backwards. If you truly believe that there is evil in the world, then you must believe that there is good in the world as well. [...]
Bill Pratt | September 19, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Have you ever noticed that the most important questions in life cannot be conclusively answered by the scientific method of empirical observation and experimentation? We can use science to study the weather, to create wireless communication, to study the respiratory systems of whales, to better see the stars, to learn about [...]
Bill Pratt | September 6, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Yesterday, I posted on the issue of free will and God’s knowledge of of human free acts in the future. This is an area the church has grappled with for centuries. But how do other major worldviews deal with this issue? Most atheists think they can avoid the issue by denying [...]
Bill Pratt | August 25, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Critics of Christianity and of religion, in general, like to take a page from Sigmund Freud and accuse believers of forming their beliefs for purely psychological reasons. Freud held that believers are projecting their need for a father figure on God. God is merely a psychological projection of the ideal father. [...]
Bill Pratt | July 15, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Only if the skeptic is open to the existence of a God who can intervene in the affairs of the world. I have discussed the historical reliability of the New Testament with many skeptics over the years. The skeptics I typically speak to inevitably dismiss or downplay much of the historical [...]
Bill Pratt | July 4, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Apologist and author Bill Foster has just written a new book entitled Meet the Skeptic. I was unfamiliar with Bill before reading this book, which was given to me by one of our church staff. I have read a truckload of books on apologetics, so I was a little bit dubious that there [...]
