The press (news media) is very good at covering big stories. News managers decide what stories are big enough to warrant extended coverage with multiple reporters bringing a wide variety of angles to the stories. Notice the words - "news managers decide." That's a key to understanding why the national press has decided not to cover the Gosnell trial as a BIG story. … [Read more...]
Science Killed the Christian God? – Part 3
Part 1 Part 2 History's Greatest Scientists were Christian? (pt.3) What can we learn as we look at the lives and scientific contributions of men such as Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, Leonardo Da Vinci, Francis Bacon, or Louis Pasteur? One of many things that we see is that the majority of the "Founding Fathers" of modern science were dedicated Christian Theists. These men … [Read more...]
The Mirage of Secular State Neutrality
Those wishing to strip religion from the public arena and ensure that it has no sway over any public policy or matters of government oftentimes point to various Nordic and European countries as models for how good things can be when faith has no public voice. They work hard at trying to produce facts on the higher education levels, lower crime rates, and other various … [Read more...]
Is Seeing Believing?
As an apologist I am constantly thinking through the evidence that surrounds my Christian faith. I’m always looking for ways to communicate the reasonableness and evidence for my belief in Jesus Christ. I want to explain that I have not made a blind leap into the abyss of nothingness so many have dubbed “faith.” Yet no matter how strongly I’m able to demonstrate the truth of … [Read more...]
The Search For Truth – Rationalism
In the ongoing effort to develop an Incarnational Apologetic to reach the post-modern person, it is important to understand four basic approaches in the search for truth. Rationalism Agnosticism Experientialism Pragmatism In this video post, I want to focus on Rationalism which is defined as follows: Rationalism is any system that stresses reason as the means of … [Read more...]
Desperate Human Beings: The Walking Dead and Ethics
“Horror is not a glimpse into someone’s dark imagination, but a bridge into corners of everyday life most of us would rather not think about.” - Tauriq Moosa ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Walking Dead and Philosophy brings together a number of philosophers and ethicists to analyze … [Read more...]
Who Is Your Daddy and What Does He Do? Part 2
Part 1 Another important fact and name of God is that of Creator. Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” God is the creator of all things and this is a very important concept to understand about God as it comes to the world today. Many people believe that God has not had a hand in our beginning. However, this idea is off base based on the very … [Read more...]
The Strange Story of Dr. Kermit Gosnell and the National Press (Part 2)
While the murder trial of abortion provider Dr. Kermit Gosnell is receiving a little more national media attention than when the trial began, the press is still missing the point of the story. Abortion is not an issue of the cleanliness of the clinic or the safety of the women undergoing the abortion or the qualifications of the people assisting Dr. Gosnell in performing … [Read more...]
The Secret Garden: The Book of Nature and Religious Pluralism
At any given time, I am reading a non-fiction book and a work of fiction literature. I never choose one based on the other, but occasionally I am surprised by a marked correlation between the two. That very thing happened to me over the past two weeks as I read The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett and The End of Christianity by William A. Dembski. … [Read more...]
Book Review: Has Christianity Failed You?
One of the major obstacles that I come against in defending the Christian worldview is simply a misunderstanding of the worldview. So many times people tell me that they reject Christianity based on one thing or another that Christianity teaches. In the vast majority of the cases people are rejecting something that is not Christian but they believe is Christian. In Has … [Read more...]