A recent book by E. Calvin Beisner entitled Where Garden Meets Wilderness: Evangelical Entry into the Environmental Debate gave me the idea for this post (you can hear Beisner talk on the environment here). There are at least three possible views when it comes to...
Joe over at the Evangelical Outpost has a nice post on the biblical view of capital punishment. In it are two ideas that I had not previously considered, but I like Joe’s take on it.
Jay Richards – did physics kill God? (Stephen Hawking) INTRO 1. For the materialist, the fundamental and foundational source is the universe… Carl Sagan said ‘the universe is all there is, was, or will be.’ >> But the cosmos is NOT eternal A. Three strikes...
Wm Craig – 7 evidences for God 1. Why does anything exist? (Cosmological argument) A. Contingency argument 1. Everything that exists has an explanation for its existence, either necessary or contingent a. The universe used to be thought as eternally and self existent. Now we...
In a stunning press release, Intelligent Design group The Group for Order and Design In Science (GODIS) has proposed that the structure of the HIV virus could not have arisen by natural processes, and was therefore engineered. “Our calculations are quite revealing,” stated Rex Numero,...
Wm Craig – 7 evidences for God 1. Why does anything exist? (Cosmological argument) A. Contingency argument 1. Everything that exists has an explanation for its existence, either necessary or contingent a. The universe used to be thought as eternally and self existent. Now we...
Frank Beckwith – no god, no good A. Natural rights 1. Our rights wrt other citizens 2. Natural law tells us what things have value outside of relationships to others >> atheist got no songs by steve Martin >> a case for the crusades by...
Conference Day 2 / Session 2 JP Morland – The existence of the soul A. Xianity is a spiritual religion 1. It claims a religious realm, including god, angels, souls both animal and human 2. B. Preliminary Notions 1. The law of...
