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19Jan 2024 by Post

Dallas Conference: Archaeology and the Life of Jesus

Archaeology, artifacts, Bible, Christianity, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Events, Faith & Science, history, Jerusalem, Jesus Christ, manuscripts, New Testament, paleontology, ruins

My presentation will explore archaeological discoveries illuminating a major event in the life of Jesus — his trial in Jerusalem. Source

19Jan 2024 by Post

How to Evangelize Mormons and Jehovah Witnesses | with Dr. Brady Blevins

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Podcast: Play in new window Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Email | TuneIn | RSS Knock, knock. Who’s there? If a Mormon or a Jehovah’s Witness comes to your door, what should you do and what should you say? As tempting as it may be, resist the urge to close the blinds and pretend you’re not home or even worse, slam the door in their faces. Evangelizing someone involved in a cult may seem hopeless, but what if God wants to use you (yes YOU!) to reach them with the TRUE Gospel? What are the “Do’s and Don’ts” of witnessing to members of the WatchTower Society and the so-called Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? That’s what we’re addressing in this week’s podcast as Frank interviews Dr.…

18Jan 2024 by Post

Peer Review May Be Beyond Reform

abortions, academic literature, Campbell’s Law, Carole Hooven, conflict of interest, Culture & Ethics, Cynthia Hudson Vitale, DEI, Discovery Institute, disinformation, Donald T. Campbell, evolutionary biologists, Fertility, Frontiers in Psychology, Goodhart’s Law, Harvard University, Laszlo Bencze, Leslie D. McIntosh, mental health, Mind Matters News, paleontology, peer reviewers, pregnancy, pro-life, retraction, Robert J. Marks, Walter Bradley Center

Harvard is going to have quite a job convincing the world that it is still serious about reality-based thinking, never mind peer review. Source

18Jan 2024 by Post

Sex Is a Spicy Problem for Evolutionary Theory

biologists, biology, Charles Darwin, complementarity, Evolution, evolutionary theory, flagellum, genotype, head, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, males, meiosis, middle piece, mitosis, modifications, Podcast, reproduction, sex, sexual reproduction, sperm cells

Could sex be the product of a gradual evolutionary process, one dictated by “numerous, successive, slight, modifications,” as Darwin himself put it? Source

17Jan 2024 by Post

Freethinking Cannot Be Darwinized

1984, Ahmed Shaheed, antiracists, Bertrand Russell, Big Brother, C.S. Lewis, causation, clinical psychology, Darwinian evolution, Enlightenment, Evolution, free speech, free will, George Orwell, J.P. Moreland, Keith Stanovich, law enforcement, mental fertility, mental immunity, mental integrity, mental privacy, Miracles (book), neuropsychology, Neuroscience & Mind, Nicholas Caputo, North Korea, nudging, Simon McCarthy-Jones, The Conversation, The Design Inference, theists, thought police, thoughtspeech, Timothy Stratton, Trinity College Dublin, United Nations, William Dembski, William Provine, Winston Ewert, Woodrow Wilson

An otherwise good essay on the human right to freedom of thought falls into a Darwinian trap of illogical causation. Source

16Jan 2024 by Post

Tackling the Top 5 Objections Young People Have to Christianity | with Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle – Part 2

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Podcast: Play in new window Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Email | TuneIn | RSS How can Christians defend the faith in light of today’s most common objections from young atheists and agnostics? America’s “best and brightest” have a bone to pick with God and the Christian worldview, which means evangelizing this demographic is of the utmost importance. But how can Christians effectively reach young people when factors like the problem of evil and the reality of suffering prohibit them from wanting to embrace theism? Back by popular demand, Cliffe and Stewart Knechtle of the popular YouTube channel, Give Me An Answer, return to share more insights on how they tackle today’s toughest philosophical questions from college and university students. Does the truth of Christianity…

15Jan 2024 by Post

“All Things Are Ordered to Their End”

Aristotle, breathing, causality, Charles Darwin, chemical reactions, Chemistry, chlorophyll, chloroplasts, earth, Faith & Science, final causality, heart, Inertia, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, momentum, Moon, physical constants, physics, rationality, science of purpose, teleology, telos, theologians, Thomas Aquinas

In that one simple phrase, St. Thomas Aquinas, the greatest Christian theologian of all time, echoed the fundamental teaching of Aristotle. Source

15Jan 2024 by Post

The Pulpit Apologist, Pt. 2

Apologetics, Bobby Conway, Christianity, Christianity Still Makes Sense, Gospel, James Sire, Local church, pastors, Practical Apologetics, Theology and Christian Apologetics

In my previous blog, I briefly unpacked five ways apologetic preaching can help the church navigate these challenging times, while also sharing four of eight points of what it looks like to apologetically equip our congregations today. In this post, I’ll briefly unpack points five through eight before concluding with a few final thoughts. That said, if we’re going to apologetically equip our churches, here’s how we can do that. Fifth, set an apologetic tone that is humble and refuse to be a bully from the pulpit. Sadly, many pastors have used this humility as an excuse to avoid apologetics altogether. But that would be throwing the baby out with the bath water. We can’t detach our pulpit presentation from our personal character. Apologetics in preaching is important, but we…

15Jan 2024 by Post

Fooled by Darwinism: A Scholar’s Cautionary Tale

ancient Greeks, Antony Flew, atheists, Bertrand Russell, crypto-animism, Darwinian materialism, Evolution, fatalism, geneticists, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, John Updike, Middle Ages, natural selection, Neil Thomas, paganism, paleontologists, Podcast, poetry, Richard Dawkins, skepticism, Taking Leave of Darwin, theistic humanism

Neil Thomas links the posturing of atheists Richard Dawkins and Bertrand Russell with the fatalism of poetry stretching back to the Middle Ages, and further. Source

12Jan 2024 by Post

Design Inference 2.0: FREE Webinar with Dembski and Ewert

Cambridge University Press, computer scientist, Evolution, Intelligent Design, mathematicians, mathematics, The Design Inference, webinar, William Dembski, Winston Ewert

Join mathematician William Dembski and computer scientist Winston Ewert as they discuss the significance of their new book and answer your questions. Source