Bill Pratt | February 11, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Most atheists appeal to the process of Darwinian evolution as the source of our moral instincts, but this idea poses some intriguing questions. What if humankind had evolved in different circumstances, in different environments? One could imagine a different set of moral instincts having developed in humans. What about other animals? [...]
Bill Pratt | February 9, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt On atheism, there is no guarantee that evil will ever be punished or that good will ever be rewarded. Philosopher William Lane Craig quotes Richard Wurmbrand’s comments on the state torturers in Soviet prisons who understood this all too well: The cruelty of atheism is hard to believe when man has [...]
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 | October 27, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt I came across an interesting apologetics ministry at the National Conference on Christian Apologetics a couple weeks ago. It’s called The One Minute Apologist and the idea behind the ministry is to record short videos (usually a couple minutes) that tackle important apologetic issues. There are videos that deal with topics [...]
Bill Pratt | September 8, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Although I have written negatively of the overall theme and message of Avatar, there is an interesting analogy of the Incarnation of Christ that can be taken from the film. I heard this analogy in a podcast by William Lane Craig, and I think it may help some people understand this [...]
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 1, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Southern Evangelical Seminary is hosting their annual apologetics conference on Nov. 13 and 14 in Charlotte, NC. The conference will feature speakers such as William Lane Craig, Chuck Colson, Dinesh D’Souza, Greg Koukl, Gary Habermas, Hank Hanegraaff, and Peter Kreeft (click here for the full speaker list). These men are all [...]
Bill Pratt | August 3, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt I have been having an interesting discussion with a gentleman on the issue of the empty tomb. We’ve touched on some of the evidence, but I decided to present a brief synopsis of William Lane Craig’s arguments for the empty tomb (from Jesus under Fire). Here goes! The historical credibility of [...]
Bill Pratt | July 19, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Certainly the appearance of design in the natural world makes a strong case for the existence of a super-intelligent being, but I’m getting ahead of myself. Many people look at the world around them and marvel at its functionality and complexity. A common reaction to the functionality and complexity of the [...]
Bill Pratt | February 1, 2009
First, when one reflects on morality, there are certain objective moral facts that seem to be obvious; these facts can be known by intuition. According to ethicist Greg Koukl, “Philosophers call this kind of knowing a priori knowledge (literally, ‘from what is prior’), that which one knows prior to sense experience.” There are clear-cut actions [...]
