I am going to release a series of introductory video lectures on Apologetics and Worldview. The lectures were given earlier this year to people whose ages ranged from about 15 to 70. I tried to be quite low-key and to strike a balance between a full-on presuppositional apologetics presentation and Christian worldview course. That means that I was not focused so much on just one or the other, but a blend of the two. I think it worked well sometimes …
Category: Apologetics
A review of Douglas Axe, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed, New York: HarperOne, 2016, 304 pages, hdbk. Readers of Stephen Meyer’s two important books, Signature in the Cell and Darwin’s Doubt, will know the name of Douglas Axe. Axe’s work on probability theory and gene folding feature quite prominently in those works. This book is a compliment to Meyer, but it is also a companion to William Dembski’s books like The Design Inference and No …
Book Review: The Case For Jesus: The Biblical and Historical Evidence for Christ, by Brant Pitre, New York: Image, 2016, 242 pages, hdbk. I suppose that the first thing I ought to say is that this is not The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel, nor is it related to the set of books spawned by it. This is a new work by a Professor at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans. Coming from the desk of a Roman Catholic …
What with pastoring a church, teaching a weekly theology course at another church, dealing with the joys of a new baby girl, and working on the new house I am finding myself with too little time on me hands. One of the things that is having to “give” is my beloved Telos Ministries. The present website needs an overhaul and the newsletters aren’t getting our as they should. Well, that’s life! To keep something going I have been releasing some …
The Telos YouTube Channel has 12 short videos about subjects to do with Christian Apologetics. These are casual informal introductions at about the college level. I do not enter into many details about the pros and cons of each position. My objective is much more humble. I just want to give a little food for thought about each of the topics covered. I hope you enjoy viewing. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xBfp8Z2lCA] More Videos in the Series: 11. What is Reason? …
Here are some of my posts on subjects related to science. Reviews The Territories of Science and Religion by Peter Harrison Darwin’s Doubt by Stephen Meyer The Devil’s Delusion by David Berlinski Articles Scientism Isn’t Science Scientism and Naturalism The Incoherence of Evolutionary Origins – Pt 1 The Incoherence of Evolutionary Origins – Pt 2 The Incoherence of Evolutionary Origins – Pt3 The Incoherence of Evolutionary Origins – Pt4 The Incoherence of Evolutionary Origins – Pt 5 The Incoherence of Evolutionary …
The Territories of Science and Religion by Peter Harrison, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015, 320 pages. The battle between Science and Religion has been presented to the wider public as a struggle between reason and superstition. In the present intellectual climate, where the ghosts of logical positivism have been far from exorcised from the corridors of scientific thinking, any countering of the reigning attitude is most welcome. The volume under review is an absorbing historical account of the way …
A follow up to Scientism isn’t Science Naturalism is defined by Stewart Goetz & Charles Taliaferro in this way: Naturalism – very roughly – may be defined as the philosophy that everything that exists is a part of nature and that there is no reality beyond or outside of nature. – Naturalism, 6 Something being “a part of nature” is here meant to exclude the supernatural. Naturalism then is opposed to supernaturalism. It is seeing all things as natural and …
Tough Questions about God and His Actions in the Old Testament by Walter C. Kaiser, Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2015, 176 pages, pbk God Almighty will always have to suffer the inquisitions of his rebellious creatures, at least until He sorts out the waywardness epidemic of creaturely independence which is the bequest of the presence of sin. It won’t do to answer these jibes with “God can do anything He likes”, we must be prepared to educate unbelievers about the justice …
Part One 2. The Place We All Stand: Everyone Stands within the Biblical Worldview When I say that we all stand within the biblical worldview, I know that I have some explaining to do. I want to say right away that I am not claiming that we all acknowledge this. In fact, the Bible says we act to suppress the knowledge of God. But it protrudes here and there since it must. For God must be already there in order …