“Given the fact that human beings evolved from primates, as you asserted earlier, is there any a priori reason why a consistent evolutionist wouldn’t cheerfully agree that one race of human beings could certainly be lower on the evolutionary tree than the others? Any reason why, when we get to homo sapiens, magic suddenly intervenes …
Atheism As an Epistemic Hoot
“On your account I am one set of complex chemical reactions secreting something that I falsely believe to be arguments to another set of complext chemical reactions who falsely believes that he is reading them . . . if you apply reason and self-criticism to an atheistic examination of ethics, you should discover within ten …
Seriously Religitudinous
“For Christians, this is beside the point. We don’t believe religion is the answer. We believe Christ is the answer. When you combine religion with sinners, what you get is religious sin. And when you combine serious religion with sinners, what you get is serious religious sin. All this does is confirm one of the …
You Can’t Get Ten Pounds of Information
“Scientists who have their satellite dishes pointed toward the sky in the hope of hearing from intelligent life out there know how to distinguish incoming messages from background noise. Otherwise, there would be no point. We know what information looks like, and we know what kind of source it comes from. This is because information …
And With Our Guidons Flapping Smartly
“Of course, we were bound to get to the subject of evolution sooner or later . . . You think that creationists are bereft of any intellectual dignity whatever, and I agree with Malcolm Muggeridge that in retrospect evolution will be seen to have been one of the great jokes of history. Well, if your …
Logic Without Color or Weight
“Once you grant that the world works this way, anyone who comes bustling up to you with stories about men who came back from the dead is a prima facie nutjob. Simple. But you need to look at your closed-system-universe again and look more closely at the price tag this time. Not only is this …
Logic Without Color or Weight
“Once you grant that the world workds this way, anyone who comes bustling up to you with stories about men who came back from the dead is a prima facie nutjob. Simple. But you need to look at your closed-system-universe again and look more closely at the price tag this time. Not only is this …
The Book of Ibid
“Matthew is referring to both, quotes one, and gives the credit, according to their custom, to the major prophet [cf. Matt. 27:9-10; Zech. 11:12-13; Jer. 32:9]. Your objection here actually amounts to saying that Matthew should have followed the Chicago Manual of Style. But it would be just as valid for Matthew to claim that …
With God Slow on the Uptake
“Since the idea of divine impotence in effect un-gods God, not many of us have taken this route. But in this effeminate age, some professing Christians are now trying it, and they call their explanation the ‘openness of God.’ God troubleshoots as we go, but He actually does not do it very well. In this …
And Not All Bone Boxes Either
“Why do you halt between two opinions? Atheism not only casts doubt upon the idea of a benevolent God (which it certainly does) but it also destroys the very concept of benevolence itself. Benevolence is simply a chemical reaction that some organisms experience in their bone box” (Letter From a Christian Citizen, pp. 58-59).