Bill Pratt | January 13, 2012
Post Author: Bill Pratt One of the most fascinating discoveries of modern science has been that the universe is finely tuned to support human life. Philosopher of science John Lennox, in his book God’s Undertaker, notes that “this perception on the part of scientists, that the universe has to be very precisely structured in order [...]
Bill Pratt | December 21, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Former atheist Richard Morgan describes his journey to Christianity in a fascinating article at The Christian Post. Morgan participated heavily in the Richard Dawkins website forums, but what he found there turned him away from atheism to Christianity. Here is an excerpt: More than the religious debate, it was his interest [...]
Bill Pratt | September 20, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt A typical accusation of atheists toward Christians is that we only believe what we believe because of blind faith. In other words, we have no rational reasons for believing in God or believing that Jesus died for our sins. The person who believes in fairies or unicorns is no different than [...]
Bill Pratt | September 6, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt A frequent refrain from skeptics of Christianity is that any time God is posited as the cause of just about anything, the Christian has committed the sin of “God of the gaps.” Philosopher John Lennox explains the sin as follows: “the introduction of a god or God is an evidence of [...]
Bill Pratt | August 19, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt In the first 2 posts of this series, I presented Richard Dawkins’ “answer” to the question “If There Is No God, Why Be Good?” At the end of part 2, I said that Dawkins did not actually answer the question, even though that’s what he led the reader to believe he [...]
Bill Pratt | August 17, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt In Dawkins’s next chapter, “The ‘Good’ Book and the Changing Moral Zeitgeist” he “exposes” the Bible’s moral commands to be largely immoral and hopelessly outdated. What the reader will find in this chapter is Dawkins riffing on how morally backward the Bible is. In fact, Dawkins concludes that “those who wish [...]
Bill Pratt | August 15, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt In Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion, there is a section entitled “If there is no God, why be good?” I eagerly devoured this section as I sincerely wanted to see what answer Dawkins would give. After all, he is the most prominent intellectual atheist in the world today, right? What did [...]
Bill Pratt | July 27, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt In the last chapter of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion, he introduces the metaphor of Middle World. The idea of Middle World is that the human sensory organs have only evolved in order to help humans survive in a world of medium-sized objects moving at relatively slow speeds (compared to the [...]
Bill Pratt | June 2, 2009
I read this over on GeoChristian’s Blog. It doesn’t advance the argument for Christianity at all, but I think it does give the reader some insight into the minds of the crop of new atheist writers who have been attacking Christianity for the last few years. Rev. Cwirla, in his review of the Charlotte Allen [...]
Bill Pratt | March 12, 2009
Yes, that’s exactly what he said in the movie, “Expelled.” As long as the intelligent designer isn’t God, Dawkins is happy. Check out the movie clip at Wintery Knight. It’s well worth the visit.
