Great Christmas Gift — Proofs of God Translates Design Arguments for Young Students, Teenagers

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Sometimes the best way to learn is when you’re having fun and don’t even realize that you’re learning. Source
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Ever Thought You Could Change Someone’s Mind?

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Iain was a diehard atheist from the United Kingdom. "I absolutely knew that I would never believe in a creator. It was inconceivable to me," he recalls. Source
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Nothing New Under the Sun

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The inference to a First Cause has begun to percolate down to people who hold no prior allegiance to any of the world’s accredited religions. Source
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The Return to the God Paradigm

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The year 2021 witnessed the publication of three similarly but not identically themed books which all oppose the current evolutionary paradigm. Source
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Thanksgiving and the Frailty of Scientific Atheism 

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Our bioethicist colleague Wesley Smith had a very interesting and wide-ranging conversation with Stephen Meyer. Source
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Lessons Not Learned from the Evangelical Debate over Adam and Eve

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To his credit, William Lane Craig is among those evangelicals who have been willing to question arguments against Adam and Eve. Source
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Lessons from the Evangelical Debate About Adam and Eve

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The standard evolutionary account of human origins holds that our population has always been in the thousands and humanity did not descend from an initial pair. Source
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Traditional or Not? Assessing William Lane Craig’s Model on Adam and Eve

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I’m having trouble making sense of exactly what his model holds. And it seems I’m not alone. Source
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