Dawkins: “It looks designed, but it’s an illusion. You think it’s designed, but you’re deluded. As if my book, The God Delusion, isn’t a dead giveaway…”
Category: Scripture and Culture
“Who Designed the Designer?”: the mixing categories fallacy
If “who baked the baker,” “who cooked the cook,” or “who wrote the writer” aren’t valid questions, then Dawkins’s question about the Designer is seriously illogical.
A Believing Atheist: The Speculative Dawkins Theory of the Origin of Life
Liquid water is a necessary condition for life as we know it, but it is far from sufficient. Life still has to originate in the water, and…… Read more “A Believing Atheist: The Speculative Dawkins Theory of the Origin of Life”
God as infinite regress: Darwinian evolution and the “designer God” argument
Placing God in infinite regress isn’t as easy for an evolutionist as it sounds.
Literalists need not worry: reconciling Jesus genealogies in Matthew and Luke
But there are many unsophisticated Christians out there who think it absolutely is necessarily so — who take the Bible very seriously indeed as a literal and…… Read more “Literalists need not worry: reconciling Jesus genealogies in Matthew and Luke”
Defending the Gospels of Matthew and Luke: A Response to Richard Dawkins
When the gospels were written, many years after Jesus’ death, nobody knew where he was born. But an Old Testament prophecy (Micah 5:2) had led Jews to…… Read more “Defending the Gospels of Matthew and Luke: A Response to Richard Dawkins”
Why Science Cannot Comment on God
The theologian Alister McGrath makes it the central point of his book Dawkins’ God: Genes, Memes and the Origin of Life. Indeed, after his admirably fair summary…… Read more “Why Science Cannot Comment on God”
Coming out of the Physical? Why Minds, Emotions, and Moral Values argue against Atheism
Julian Baggini explains in Atheism: A Very Short Introduction the meaning of an atheist’s commitment to naturalism: “What most atheists do believe is that although there is only…… Read more “Coming out of the Physical? Why Minds, Emotions, and Moral Values argue against Atheism”
Divine Revelation: Going Where Naturalism and Science Cannot (Matthew 1:18-25)
Subject: “Divine Revelation: Going Where Naturalism and Science Cannot (Matthew 1:18-25) PDF print file: Divine Revelation_ Going Where Naturalism and Science Cannot (Matthew 1_18-25) I said…… Read more “Divine Revelation: Going Where Naturalism and Science Cannot (Matthew 1:18-25)”
The Ravi Zacharias Scandal and Honorary Degrees: Looking Forward
The Ravi Zacharias scandal we’ve been talking about here over the last several days at The Essential Church has taken a new turn: after much anticipation,…… Read more “The Ravi Zacharias Scandal and Honorary Degrees: Looking Forward”
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