Moral arguments for God’s existence feature a rich history—from John Henry Newman to Immanuel Kant, from A. E. Taylor to Hastings Rashdall, from William Sorley…
What follows is a two-part, succinct, aerial view of a moral argument for God’s existence. We begin with the natural assumption that there are moral…
Complexity as design: Irreducible complexity The irreducible complexity argument states that some things are as simple as they could possibly be and still function. As…
Last week, someone left the following comment on my blog post, “How Secular Family Values Stack Up: A Response”: “This is your interpretation of Christianity,…
Among the leaders of the anti-theist movement today, few are professional scientists. Most leading atheists have been poets, philosophers, journalists, politicians, novelists, playwrights, dictators, or…
Scientists have come to understand the universe as having a great deal of precision. In fact, the degree of precision is so great that to…
Miracles are essential to the historic Christian faith. If Jesus Christ was not God incarnate, and if Jesus did not rise bodily from the grave,…
Many non-scientists believe this myth. In reality, science poses more problems for atheism than it does for theism. What would scientific evidence against God be?…
How can Christians believe in a God they can’t see? Actually, there are several ways He makes His presence known. While none of these will…
Why is there something rather than nothing? This is the famous question of philosopher G.W.F. von Leibniz, whose cosmological argument took a slightly different approach…
Have you ever been in a situation where you knew that what you were about to do was wrong? Maybe you lied to your parents….
In the 13th century, Thomas Aquinas gave three forms of the cosmological argument in his Summa Theologica as a part of his “five ways” of proving the…
A few summers ago, I spoke at a camp in California. Topics for the week included intelligent design, the reliability of Scripture, and the historical…
The Kalam argument tries to show that the universe is not eternal, that it have to have a beginning. This argument was first formulated by…
On Dec. 2, 2015, a mass shooting by two terrorists killed 14 people in California’s Inland Regional Center. Three years earlier, a gunman forced his…
This is a widely held belief, but if it were true there wouldn’t be so many scientists who are Christians. Science and religion are not…