The Nothing That Came With Laws
Take the universe-from-nothing argument at full strength, then read the definition of nothing. It has fields, laws and an energy — which is the original question, one step back.
Take the universe-from-nothing argument at full strength, then read the definition of nothing. It has fields, laws and an energy — which is the original question, one step back.
Apologetics · Creation & Science — naturalism, materialism, and the argument that is always owed You have had this conversation.
The yucca moth deliberately pollinates the flower she lays her eggs in. The fig wasp dies inside the fig she fertilizes. A theory of paths owes us a path, and here the hardest step is always left out.
Religion poisons everything is the one New Atheist charge that lands. Concede the crimes, then ask what the accusation is standing on.
Materialism says nothing is for anything. Then it hands you a textbook that cannot be written without the word. Open
Darwinism finally got a laboratory test — twelve populations, thirty-five years, seventy-five thousand generations. Here is the result sheet, read without overstatement in either direction.
Apologetics · Intelligent Design — the inference, not the slogan An arson investigator walks into a burned-out warehouse, works for
The New Atheist move that never argues Christianity is false – it explains it instead. But an account of how a belief spread says nothing about whether it is true.
Ink means milk only because a mind reads it. Your thought needs no reader. Forty years of naturalist work on meaning has either smuggled in an interpreter or denied that meaning is real.
Russell’s orbiting teapot and the Flying Spaghetti Monster are very good jokes and very poor arguments. Here is exactly where the analogy breaks — and where it lands.
Apologetics · Naturalism — if matter is all there is, there is no one left to blame A man reads
A question Socrates asked 2,400 years ago is still the sharpest thing the New Atheists have. It deserves a real
Naturalism can describe what you believe. It cannot tell you what you owe. It is the line that ends the
Apologetics · Creation and Science — Intelligent Design “Intelligent design isn’t science.” That sentence ends more conversations than any argument
Pure mathematics invented centuries early keeps turning out to be what the cosmos was running on all along. Naturalism can admit the fact. It cannot make it unsurprising.
“I’m not claiming anything. I just lack a belief. The burden is yours.” You have heard it, and it usually
Ink on a page is just ink. So how did that sentence come to be about your mother? Pick up
The tautology charge against Darwinism fails, and Christians should stop using it. The sharper version of that objection survives scrutiny — here is how to ask it.
Apologetics · Answering the New Atheism You lay out the case as carefully as you know how. The universe had
What materialism cannot say about the man who did it There is a fact about your body that sounds like