27Sep 2024 by Post

Top 10 Philosophical Challenges Christian Students Face at Secular Universities with Dr. Owen Anderson

Christian Apologetics, Christianity, Dr. Frank Turek, Dr. Owen Anderson, philosophy, Podcast, religion, theology
Every college student faces difficult situations, but Christian students at secular universities often encounter unique challenges designed to dismantle their faith. How can these students (and Christians everywhere) stay strong and defend their beliefs in environments that are hostile to their worldview? A few episodes ago, Frank sat down with Arizona State University Professor Dr. Owen Anderson, who is currently in litigation with the university due to discrimination against his Christian faith. This week, he’s back with an update and to share the 10 biggest philosophical challenges Christian students should prepare for in college. Together, Frank and Owen tackle questions like: Are Christian students being targeted by their professors? Is pragmatism the standard for truth? How should Bible-believing Christians understand the concept of true happiness? Why is it important for Christians to…
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27Sep 2024 by Post

Ten Philosophical Challenges Christian Students Face at Secular University

activism, Biblical Worldview, college, Higher Education, Leftism, Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, LGBTQ, Owen Anderson, philosophy, Progressivism, radicalism, university
The Christian student who attends a secular university will encounter very recognizable challenges to his/her Christian faith. As a professor who has taught in a secular university for 24 years, attended faculty meetings where professors discuss how to deconstruct the faith of Christian students, and seen firsthand the animosity administrators have toward Christianity, I am giving you an inside look at the workings of the secular university. Did God Really Say . . . ? I have outlined these ten challenges to illustrate the original temptation in order to show that they follow a similar strategy and that little has changed. “Did God really say? . . . You will not surely die” (Gen. 3:1). God knows the day you eat you will be as God knowing good and evil.…
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27Sep 2024 by Post

Fossil Friday: When Paleontologists Let Turtles Fly

crest, Darren Naish, Darwinism, David Unwin, England, Evolution, flying reptiles, Fossil Friday (series), fossil recod, Intelligent Design, Kallokibotion bajadiz, Mark Norell, Mark Witten, misidentifications, neo-Darwinian evolution, Nicholas Fraser, paleontology, pseudoscience, pterosaur, Rhamphorhynchoidea, Romania, Stephen Brusatte, Thalassodromeus sethi, Thalassodromus sebesensis, Transylvania, Triassic period, vampires
Do such misidentifications and interpretational problems show that Darwinism is false and intelligent design is true? Of course not. Source
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26Sep 2024 by Post

My Briar Patch: Notes of a Country Doctor 

Biologic Revolution, Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Fox, briar patch, cancer, Daniel Witt, Francis Crick, geocentrism, heliocentrism, Intelligent Design, Jacques Monod, James Watson, John Searle, mechanistic consensus, Medicine, painting, piano, planets, René Descartes, science of purpose, scientific atheism, Stuart Kauffman, telos, The Song of the South, The Undying Soul, UC Berkeley, University of California at San Francisco
It took me about twenty years after medical school to break free of the intellectual "comfort" afforded by the mechanistic consensus. Source
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25Sep 2024 by Post

How The After Party Curriculum Is Sowing Political Confusion in the Church

After Party Curriculum, Apologetics, Christianity, Curtis Chang, David French, Democrat, freedom of religion, Gospel, Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, Natasha Crain, NatashaCrain.com, Politics, Progressivism, RINO, Russel Moore, separation of church and state
For those who haven’t heard of it, The After Party (TAP) is a small group curriculum and corresponding book that is being heavily promoted this election year to individuals, churches, and Christian institutions (such as colleges) to counter the “dangerous trend” of evangelicals having their political identity formed by “partisan forces, not by true Biblical faith.” What is The After Party Curriculum? The curriculum was developed by David French (New York Times columnist), Russell Moore (Editor-in-Chief of Christianity Today), and Curtis Chang. Fewer people are familiar with Chang than with French and Moore, but for context, his most notable project was called “Christians and the Vaccine,” through which he led a national effort to convince Covid vaccine-resistant evangelicals that their “anxiety, distrust of institutions, and political polarization” was threatening the vaccine’s potential for “healing…
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25Sep 2024 by Post

Three Bad Arguments for Euthanasia

Apologetics, assisted suicide, bioethics, ChristianConcern.com, euthanasia, Gospel, imago Dei, Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, mercy killing, Sanctity of Life, Sean Redfearn
Polling sometimes suggests that the UK public is in favor of ‘assisted dying.’ This is an illusion, caused in many cases by people not knowing what ‘assisted dying is.’ A recent poll showed that only 42% of the public understood what ‘assisted dying’ refers to, with 10% thinking it meant hospice-type care and 42% believing it meant stopping treatment. There is no legal or ethical mandate that a terminally ill person must be kept alive “at all costs.” There is, however, a major difference between withdrawing medical treatment and thereby allowing a patient to die of his or her own medical condition and intentionally ending a patient’s life. What Is Euthanasia? Euthanasia (as well as assisted suicide) is most basically understood as the lethal dose of drugs to deliberately end…
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24Sep 2024 by Post

Open Borders: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? | with Hedieh Mirahmadi

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How do you express concerns about illegal immigration without sounding like a racist? And is it irrational to be Islamophobic? Speaking out against open border policies can get you canceled, but should that fear outweigh the risks of unvetted, undocumented immigrants flooding into the country? Is the real goal of unchecked immigration to weaken Christianity? If so, can Christians and Conservatives do anything in an attempt to sustain the infrastructure of America before it’s too late? Picking up right where they left off in the last podcast, Frank and Hedieh Mirahmadi continue their discussion about the potential destruction that the West is facing in light of mass immigration and the rise of radical Islam. How could America do a better job of vetting people from Muslim countries? Why is the far…
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24Sep 2024 by Post

In Our World, Multiple Levels of Intelligent Design

animals, atheists, beehive, biochemistry, bird’s nest, Canceled Science, Christianity, classroom, clouds, dumb luck, eric hedin, Faith & Science, faith and science, functionality, George MacDonald, Grand Canyon, human race, Intelligent Design, laws of nature, leaves, Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, rain, Robert Falconer, spiders's web, Taj Mahal
We find higher genres of design that cannot be explained by appealing to the actions of natural forces and laws of nature. Source
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22Sep 2024 by Post

Decade-Long Study of Water Fleas Found No Evidence of Darwinian Evolution

"survival of the fittest", amoebas, Arizona State University, Complexity, Culture, Daniel Dennett, Daphnia, Daphnia pulex, Darwinian evolution, environment, Evolution, genetic drift, genome, humans, Intelligent Design, Michael Lynch, microcrustaceans, mind, natural selection, random mutations, school systems, subtlety, water fleas
After many generations, water fleas showed no evidence of changing genetically to adapt to their environment, as the theory would predict. Source
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