In 2002 Scientific American published a lengthy article challenging numerous, supposedly ‘popular’ creationist arguments.
But how well do the responses stand up to scrutiny?
Apologetics
Apologetics is the intellectual defense of the Christian Faith.
Philosophy, Science, Logic, the trustworthiness of the Bible, and more, all fall under the banner of apologetics.
How do we know God exists?
What is the evidence that God is real?
What is the evidence that the Bible is true?
What are the arguments for or against God’s existence?
Does the Bible contain contradictions?
What about science, does it confirm or contradict the Bible?
Why Atheism Fails
What is atheism?
If you ask an atheist this question most often they will carefully explain to you that atheism is ‘a lack of belief in God’.
They’re very sensitive about this.
A lack of belief is not the same thing as non-belief. To claim God ‘does not exist’ is an absolute statement, and one which is virtually impossible to prove deductively.
So the atheist will simply say they ‘lack belief’ and will say this is mostly because of a ‘lack of sufficient evidence’ (agnosticism).
Some atheists are happy to flat-out deny the existence of God and explicitly deny He exists, but most do not.
In practise however, virtually all atheists live life as if God does not exist and harbour a characteristic antagonism towards religious belief.
Apologetics
Apologetics
Apologetics is the subject of, or the practise of understanding the reasons for why Christianity is true, and what the evidence is (whether philosophical, theological, historical, scientific, etc.) that Christianity is true.
Apologetics
The word “apologetics” derives from the Greek word apologia, which was originally used of a speech of defense or an answer given in reply.
via Bible.org
Pretty simple really. Another way of thinking about it is as a ‘reasoned defense’ of Christianity.
Atheism and science: 10 unscientific ideas atheists believe
Atheists don’t have blind faith, this is just for silly fundamentalist Christians and creationists. Atheism and science go hand in hand.
Or so they would like you to think.
The truth is atheists claim to believe in science, but they actually believe…
An Introduction to Creationism
What Is Creationism?
Creationism or, Biblical Creationism, states that God created the world from nothing in six days as stated in Genesis chapter 1.
According to Christians the Bible is the divinely inspired Word of God, the one and only God who exists outside of time (because He created time).
Of course it’s no secret that within Christianity there are many different interpretations of the Bible and what it says.
But in general if you’re a Christian then, hopefully, you believe the Bible is true.
That means the whole Bible, including the very first part. This should not really be a particularly controversial thing right?
What’s wrong with Christians believing in their own Bible?
Non-Christian Websites Rank Highest When Searching for ‘What is Creationism?’
What is Creationism?
This question is one of the top 50 most searched for questions in the category of religion and theology today.
And yet if you search for this phrase on Google, anti-Christian or secular explanations will dominate your search results.
5 Powerful Reasons To Believe In The Christian God
Introduction
“I don’t believe in God, or religion, or any of that stuff because there’s no evidence for God!”
How many times have you heard that one?
Well, that’s about all the introduction that today’s post needs. Here are five powerful pieces of evidence to believe in the Christian God.
‘Thinking Atheist’ Top Ten Creationist Arguments Debunked… Debunked
In 2009 YouTube channel ‘The thinking atheist’ published a video titled:
“Top Ten Creationist Arguments”
In the video with the generic ‘mr clever scientist’ voiceover, they go through ten arguments commonly used by creationists and offer a short response to each about why they are wrong and basically why Christians are silly people desperately clutching to a belief in the magical sky daddy.
A while back I published an article 10 signs you’re an unquestioning Christian (Debunked). I thought it was time I did some more house cleaning.
Apologetics and the Gender Gap: Why Men Hate Going to Church and Why it Matters
Introduction
When I was a new Christian, I noticed something off, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. There was something going on and I knew it had something to with men. First of all, I noticed there is a gender gap in the Church.
But there was other things too.
The way the Bible was presented in any church I’ve been to since I was a child just didn’t… eh. As an adult I’ve noticed that often only one side of the Bible is presented… the nice side.
Creation and Conspiracy Theories: 8 ‘anti-science’ ideas and what Creationists think
The cover of the National Geographic magazine 2015 issue shown above describes some common anti-science conspiracy theories, but it also lumps creationism in too.
Creationism often gets lumped in with many anti-science conspiracy theories. But is that really fair?
Here I compare 8 conspiracy theories with creationism and see how closely they really stack up.
God, Suffering and the Problem of Evil: An Introduction
There is suffering everywhere. Why does God allow so much suffering? This is known as the ‘problem of evil’ or the ‘problem of suffering’, both revolve around the same basic idea. How can God be real, and be so good, when the world if full of suffering and evil?
It’s an age old question.
This post is my humble attempt to answer that question…
Ten Signs Debunked
This post is debunking a very popular, and old, meme that has been circulating the internet for a long time and is titled “ten signs you are an unquestioning Christian”.
There’s a lot of misinformation out there about Christianity and Creation. Actually there’s a lot of misinformation out there about everything.
I can’t remember how I came across this anonymous placard. I just know that I’ve held onto it for years. I figured that one day if I happen to do something like say, start a blog, I would go through it point by point and explain why it was hogwash.
So that’s what I’ve done.