From here.
Debate: William Lane Craig versus Victor J. Stenger
April 25, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
H/T to Wintery Knight.
Oregon State University (2010)
Pure. Demonic. Evil.
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Great interview with Prof. John Lennox
April 12, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
“There is no need at all to be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, of the Good News, because it fits with science and there are answers”
Justin Brierley meets Oxford maths professor and Christian apologist John Lennox
The Times newspaper recently labelled John Lennox as “Christianity’s new poster boy”. It’s a description Lennox greets with his infectious Irish chuckle, readily admitting he doesn’t exactly have the physique of a male pin-up.
How then, did the Oxford mathematician and philosopher of science earn the label? Because he fought Dawkins and won (according to many, at least). John Lennox isn’t just a good academic; he’s also an excellent communicator. Affable, fluent and with a smile in his eyes, he draws the listener in, an evangelist for both science and Christianity.
Read more here.
Professor John Lennox — The Word of God in Creation MP3s
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Lee Strobel: We’re on Cusp of Golden Era of Apologetics
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A must-read for budding and established apologists here:
All of these trends have awakened a sleeping giant – Christian apologetics, or the defense of the faith. We’re seeing apologetics books on the New York Times bestsellers list. Schools like Biola University and its Talbot School of Theology, which are leaders in apologetics, are filled to capacity. Denver Seminary is launching a new degree in Christian Apologetics and Ethics this fall. One organization is seeking to place apologists on 500 college campuses in the next five years.
WILLIAM LANE CRAIG: OUR CHURCHES HAVE DROPPED THE BALL…
January 18, 2012 by · 1 Comment
Here.
Other students I met with at Princeton were enrolled in a class taught by the New Testament critic Elaine Pagels which they nicknamed the “Faithbusters Class” because of its destructive effect on the faith of many Christian students. They had no way of knowing how far out of mainstream scholarship Prof. Pagels’ views on the Gnostic gospels are. It was a privilege to share with them grounds for the credibility of the New Testament witness to Jesus.
Their experience is not unusual. In high school and college Christian teenagers are intellectually assaulted with every manner of non-Christian worldview coupled with an overwhelming relativism. If parents are not intellectually engaged with their faith and do not have sound arguments for Christian theism and good answers to their children’s questions, then we are in real danger of losing our youth. It’s no longer enough to teach our children simply Bible stories; they need doctrine and apologetics. It’s hard to understand how people today can risk parenthood without having studied apologetics.
Unfortunately, our churches have also largely dropped the ball in this area. It’s insufficient for youth groups and Sunday school classes to focus on entertainment and simpering devotional thoughts. We’ve got to train our kids for war. We dare not send them out to public high school and university armed with rubber swords and plastic armor. The time for playing games is past.
– William Lane Craig
Craig is so right. The games need to stop. The training needs to start.
William Dembski Interview
January 16, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
Get it here: www.thebestschools.org/blog/2012/01/14/william-dembski-interview/
I love Dembski. He is an intellectual genius, and honest to the heart. With the persecution he has faced both inside and outside the church, he is also like a modern Galileo.
Happy Birthday, Dr. Hawking
January 11, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
From here.
Oh blast, we missed his 70th by a couple of days. Oh well, check out this video of “God and Stephen Hawking: Do the Laws of Physics Make God Unnecessary?” which was presented by Prof. John Lennox, Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, here in Seattle back in August. Lennox spoke at University Presbyterian Church, sponsored by Discovery Institute.
Christopher Hitchens, April 13, 1949 – December 15, 2011
December 16, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
New Atheist Christopher Hitchens has passed on.
Hitchens, who wrote for publications such as The Atlantic Monthly, Slate and Vanity Fair, rose to prominence for his divisive opinions, his unabashed atheism, his scorching critiques of popular figures like Mother Teresa Henry Kissinger, and, above all, his razor wit. (Reuters)
I personally admire Hitchens for having the guts to stand up for what he believed, even if I would disagree with him as his brother Peter Hitchens did (blog, Amazon book “The rage against God”).
Our condolences go out to his family.
From those I follow on Twitter…
- C Michael Patton: Christopher Hitchens died today. #verysad vnty.fr/vFD9TU Prayers are with his family and brother.
- Lee Strobel: Feeling grief at Christopher Hitchens’ death. I was among many who shared Christ with him; so sad he rejected Gospel.
- Douglas Wilson: How to think about the death of the outspoken atheist.
- Albert Mohler: The point about Christopher Hitchens is not that he died of unbelief, but that his unbelief is all that matters now. Unspeakably sad.
- Rick Warren: My friend Christopher Hitchens has died. I loved & prayed for him constantly & grieve his loss. He knows the Truth now.
- Joe Fleener: Christopher Hitchens has died. Let’s pray for his family & those who he’s influenced that they may repent & trust Christ.
- Larry Taunton: I am truly saddened to hear that my friend and debating opponent Christopher Hitchens has passed away. Our thoughts are with his family.
- Hugh Hewitt: I am at a loss of what to say about Christopher Hitchens except that he was towards me and my audience unfailingly gracious –and dazzling.
A small book by Hitchens and friend Doug Wilson is available here:
Just received an email from an atheist religionsucks@webtv.net
December 16, 2011 by · 1 Comment
The email contained the usual Dawkins-esque diatribe about religion (yawn) and mocking my friend Rabbi Maverick. I wrote a reply (below) and sent it to both the atheist “Neil C. Reinhardt” and the Maverick, but ironically after telling me how much smarter atheists are then religious people, his email bounced !!!
Well, here is my reply anyways:
Neil (cc: Moshe the Maverick),
I consider atheism to be the least intellectual of the positions you note. Face it dude, your guys keep losing the debates, and as for the gutless pathetic Dawkins, well he won’t even front up with Craig. He should wear a skirt !
You seem to forget that many atheists are (yawn) just doing what their parents did. I did, until I converted from atheism to Christianity.
It should also be remembered that the millions killed last century were killed in the name of atheism. Yeah, the blowhard atheist ignoramuses will go on about Hitler being a Christian, but this just shows their intellectual dishonesty. See Professor Richard Weikhart‘s book “From Darwin to Hitler” for example.
As for criminals — yeah right — you probably have no idea what a Christian even is. Of course American culture hardly gives Christianity a good name does it? And the American church in general appears to be about as sick and in need of a doctor as any church in the world is.
I concede the point about leaders. The simple reality is that it is hard to be both a committed Christian and a dedicated leader. There are only 24 hours in the day here in New Zealand and it is hard to be good at many things. Also, many of us have families that we are very committed to. And you guys have set up a nice secular priesthood, copying the Roman Catholic Church that you all despise so much (I don’t like the RCC either FWIW).
Best regards,
CA
New Scientific Visualization Out of Yale: From Conception to Birth
December 10, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
From here.
For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.
(Psalm 139:13-16 ESV)
Frank Turek Interview with William Lane Craig
November 10, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
From here.
Frank Turek interviews William Lane Craig at Southern Evangelical Seminary’s National Conference on Christian Apologetics. Dr. Craig speaks on his experience with the Reasonable Faith tour in the UK.
Historian: Fool or coward? For Dawkins, that is not an easy choice
October 22, 2011 by · 1 Comment
From here.
Further to “Dawkins speaks: Why he won’t debate William Lane Craig … Craig advocates “ genocide”
In “Richard Dawkins is either a fool or a coward for refusing to debate William Lane Craig” (The Telegraph, October 21, 2011), historian Tim Stanley offers,
He likes to pick fights either with dunces (like the deliciously silly and obviously gay Ted Haggard) or with incredibly nice old Christians with no fire in their belly (like Rowan Williams). Dawkins has gotten away with his illiterate, angry schtick for so many years because his opponents have been so woolly. This is a damning indictment not only of him, but of the clerical establishment of Great Britain. But this time, he understood that he was up against a pro. In America, evangelicals have to compete in a vibrant, competitive marketplace of different denominations. That breeds the very guile and theatricality that are so sorely lacking among the Anglican clergy. In Craig, Dawkins met his match. Like Jonah, he was confronted by the truth and he ran away.
Stanley provides critical context for Craig’s treatment of Old Testament slaughters.
Craig’s purpose in writing this piece is to unravel the paradox of a moral Bible that also includes lashings of apparently random violence. Craig stresses that these passages of the Bible are difficult for us to read because we are not of the age in which they are written – they are just as alien to us as Beowulf or the Iliad. That’s because Christian society has been shaped by the rules of life outlined in the New Testament, not in the section of The Bible in which this massacre occurs. Far from using this passage to celebrate the slaughter of heathen, Craig is making the point that the revelation of God’s justice has changed over time.
Which is pretty much the standard view.
It’s hard to figure out why Dawkins, who holds forth regularly on religion, would not know that. Or …
William Lane Craig UK tour (coming soon…)
September 17, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
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