Did God Give Adam and Eve Enough Information to Make an “Informed Decision”?

Adam, Apologetics, Christianity, Eve, free will, garden of eden, Gospel, Hillary Ferrer, MamaBearApologetics.com, morality, original sin, Theology and Christian Apologetics
In my previous post, I partially answered the question, “Why did God create the tree in the first place?” This question is a big one for little minds to wrap themselves around. For a child, creating the tree in the first place sounds like God was just asking for trouble. For the hardened skeptic, it sounds like God tricked us into needing a Savior by creating the means for us to sin in the first place. I argued in my previous post that this objection does not hold true when you examine it in the context of a loving relationship. For both love and relationship to exist, there must be free-will. For free-will to exist, there must be legitimate means to choose otherwise. God made it as easy as possible for…
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Be Worthy of the Bullet That Charlie Kirk Took For You — Why Independence Day? with Steve Deace PLUS Q&A

Capitol Tour, Charlie Kirk, Christian Apologetics, Christianity, Dr. Frank Turek, God and America, Independence Day, Mike Johnson, morality, philosophy, Podcast, religion, Steve Deace, theology
How do you take a BIG idea like the importance of Independence Day and make it accessible for young readers without watering down the truth? Look no further than Steve Deace and his new book, ‘Why Independence Day? America is Great Because God is Good‘. Steve recently joined Frank on his recent tour of the U.S. Capitol with Speaker Mike Johnson and shares some of his biggest takeaways while answering questions like: How did Steve get started in radio? How does Steve jokingly explain the difference between reformed and charismatic Christians? Is there a Nefarious 2 in the works? What inspired Steve to write a series of children books? What does Steve mean when he says, “Be worthy of the bullet that Charlie Kirk took for you.”? Then, later in…
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Günter Bechly and the “Species Pair” Problem

A Biologist’s View, African elephants, Asian elephants, Bible, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, chimps, classes, computers, creations, Darwinism, designs, Evolution, Evolution after Darwin, explosions, fossil record, Genesis, George Gaylord Simpson, Gorilla gorilla, Günter Bechly, Homo sapiens, human exceptionalism, humans, Intelligent Design, Jean Rostand, orders, paleontology, Pan paniscus, phyla, software, species pair problem, theists, TimeTree.org, University of Chicago Press
Asian elephants (like the one at the top of this page) and their African counterparts apparently diverged about 8 million years ago. Source
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We Are Not Alone? No, We Never Were

Age of Disclosure, aliens, Bible, Budd Hopkins, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, demonology, Department of Defense, Disclosure Day, Eddy Weiss, extraterrestrial life, Ezekiel, Faith & Science, filmmakers, fundamentalism, Genesis, Lee Roy Gaitan, Luis Elizondo, Michael Heiser, Perelandra, Planetology, Ransom Trilogy, religion, Sheldon Vanauken, Space Trilogy, Steven Spielberg, Supreme Being, Texas, theology, trauma, UFOlogy, Venus
C. S. Lewis was always game for a chat about God and aliens, as recalled by his protégé Sheldon Vanauken. Source
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When “Too Christian” Becomes a Metric: A Case Study in Academic Double Standards

academia, anti-Christian bias, Apologetics, Christianity, DrOwenAnderson.substack.com, Gospel, Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, Owen Anderson, performance review, persecution
Although I am a tenured full professor of philosophy at ASU, I am still required to complete an annual review of my work each year (as the name suggests). At most universities, faculty evaluations are supposed to be straightforward. At Arizona State University, where I teach, we use an objective rubric. Faculty are evaluated annually in three categories: research, teaching, and service. Each activity earns points, and those points correspond to a score from 1 to 5. A 3 means you met expectations. A 1 or 2 means you’ll need to draw up a plan for change with the school’s director and then prove you succeeded in the next annual review. A 4 means you exceeded expectations and a 5 means you achieved excellence. It is very nice to have…
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When Nancy Pearcey Walked Away from Christianity

Atheism, Christianity, Eastern spirituality, Ex-Skeptic (podcast), faith, Faith & Science, family, human beings, human dignity, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, interviews, Jana Harmon, Love Thy Body, marriage, morality, Nancy Pearcey, Podcast, reality, relativism, religion, scientific materialism, society, The Toxic War on Masculinity, Total Truth, truth, Worldview
On a new episode of ID the Future, we’re sharing a conversation with author, speaker, and professor Nancy Pearcey that originally aired on the eX-skeptic Podcast. Before Pearcey became one of the leading Christian voices engaging questions about worldview, intelligent design, evolution, and scientific materialism, she walked away from Christianity altogether. In this candid interview, Pearcey reflects on her journey through atheism, relativism, and Eastern spirituality before ultimately rediscovering Christianity as a worldview capable of explaining both reality and human dignity. Over the years, Pearcey has contributed significantly to discussions surrounding Darwinism, scientism, and intelligent design through influential books like Total Truth, Love Thy Body, and The Toxic War on Masculinity. Her work challenges reductionistic views of human beings and explores how scientific materialism shapes Read More › Source
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Journal Advocates “Terminal Sedation” for People Committing Suicide by Self-Starving

antipsychotics, assisted suicide, bioethicists, bioethics, Bioethics (journal), confusion, decision‐making, dehydration, distress, doctors, encouragement, euthanasia, fluids, HIV, Medicine, palliating doctor, patients, physicians, professional journals, refractory delirium, self-starvation, Suffering, suicide, suicide assistance, syringes, terminal sedation, voluntary stop eating and drinking, VSED
Articles in professional journals are a means of constructing future public policy and people need to be warned. Source
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How Do 86 Civilizations Reveal That This is Our Last Stand? Blowtorch Truth with Seth Gruber

abortion, Christian Apologetics, Christianity, Culture War, Dr. Frank Turek, morality, philosophy, Podcast, religion, Seth Gruber, Sexual Sin, The Last Stand, theology
Is the greatest danger to Western civilization the hostility of the world, or the forgetfulness of the Church? Many Christians don’t realize that the same evils that haunted our Christian forefathers still exist today–abortion and sexual sin. Seth Gruber, founder of The White Rose Resistance, is a leading voice in the pro-life movement and joins Frank to expose the chilling realities of America’s obsession with its false idols, while urging the Church to rise and lead the charge on the front lines of our cultural war through his new project, ‘The Last Stand‘. Join Seth and Frank as they ignite the airwaves with their “blowtorch of truth” and answer questions like: Why does Seth say that this is a “Last Stand” moment for the West? When and why did the…
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Past-Eternal Loop Quantum Cosmology Gets the Bounce

Abhay Ashtekar, Aron Wall, beginning, Big Bang, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin, bounce, conformal cyclic cosmology, cosmic aeons, cosmic inflation, cosmology, cyclic cosmologies, entropy, flatness problem, geodesics, gravity, horizon problem, Kinney-Stein proof, Kinney-Stein result, loop quantum cosmology, Martin Bojowald, mechanism, Mithani-Vilenkin instability, Mithani-Vilenkin instability proof, Penrose-Hawking singularity theorems, physics, quantum effects, quantum singularity theorem, quantum-geometric bounce, Roger Penrose, scientific reasoning, Second Law of Thermodynamics, singularity theorems, Tolman entropy problem, universe
Oscillating universes have been discussed in philosophy from time immemorial and in mathematical cosmology for over one hundred years. Source
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I Want to Write a Book About Intelligent Design. What Should I Do?

AuthorROI.com, Authors, biology, Books, Center for Science and Culture, Chemistry, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, Discovery Society, earth sciences, editors, edits, Faith & Science, faith and science, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design and Evolution in a Nutshell, library, Marketing, mathematics, Money, publishers, readers, Return of the God Hypothesis, Science and Culture Today, Seattle, self-publishing, Smith Tower, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, The Design Inference, The Farm at the Center of the Universe, Unsolicited Books, Vladmir Nabokov
The books that filled these shelves, arranged in no special order, came from anywhere and everywhere around the globe. Source
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