From Edgar Andrews’ Who Made God?: Searching for a Theory of Everything. Andrews is Emeritus Professor of Materials at the University of London and an international expert on large molecules. His book is insightful, engaging, and light-hearted for a deep subject. It’s scientifically and philosophically astute. Andrews’ has no fear of the atheists, such as Richard Dawkins, who attempt to wield science as a weapon against theism.

…There is one answer to the question that atheists are happy to accept – the answer “We made God.”

…For the moment let me point out three small problems with the “We made God” hypothesis.

First, it falls into the very

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The documentary COLLISION pits leading atheist, political journalist and author Christopher Hitchens (“God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything”) against fellow author and evangelical theologian Pastor Douglas Wilson on a debate tour arguing the topic “Is Religion Good For The World?”. Lives and worldviews collide as Hitchens and Wilson wittily and passionately argue the timeless question, proving to be perfectly matched intellectual, philosophical, and cinematic rivals.

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I was first introduced to Malcolm Muggeridge through the teaching of Ravi Zacharias. Malcolm had a way of expressing the complication of culture in succinct and creative ways. The following is Malcolm’s caricature of the West’s ever-increasing nihilism and stands as a stark picture of a culture in a blind-hurry to become extinct:

…[I]t has become abundantly clear in the second half of the twentieth century that Western Man has decided to abolish himself. Having wearied of the struggle to be himself, he has created

    his own boredom out of his own affluence,
    his own impotence out of his own erotomania,
    his own vulnerability out of his own strength;

himself blowing the trumpet that brings the walls of his own city

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I am sure you have heard or seen advertisements for the movie, Angels and Demons. Angels and Demons took-in 48 million in its opening weekend ejecting Star-Trek to second place. I won’t spoil the premise of the movie for you, but suffice it to say that it involves a spiritual component that followers of Christ need to be aware of in order to not be shaken in their faith and to point people to Jesus.

It is to this end that Westminster Theological Seminary has sponsored a website outlining the claims made in the movie. The website is a fantastic tool and we encourage you to use it to equip your family and engage people in your …

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So first she tasted the porridge of the Great, Huge Bear, and that was too hot for her; and she said a bad word about that. And then she tasted the porridge of the Middle Bear, and that was too cold for her; and she said a bad word about that too. And then she went to the porridge of the Little, Small, Wee Bear, and tasted that;and that was neither too hot nor too cold, but just right; and she liked it so well she ate it all up…

Last week’s “God Question” about the existence of God got into some deep science that hopefully didn’t lose too many people. I wanted to follow up on that by

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Douglas Groothuis quotes evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin on the evolution-at-all-costs attitude present in much of modern science. Lewontin says,

We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes

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This week’s “God Question” is “Why do you believe God even exists?” In a bit of good timing, Stand to Reason has started posting some of Greg Koukl’s podcast commentary as YouTube videos, and one of the first asks the question, “Can God’s Existence Be Proved?”

Skip down to the video if you’d like, but before diving into this question it’s worth establishing what is meant by “proof,” at least in a philosophical sense:

1. You must have at least two premises and a conclusion.
2. The conclusion must logically follow from the premises.
3. Each premise must be true, or at least, more probable than the opposite.

Accept the Argument, or Say Something Silly: Your Choice

The trick is that someone who really …

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Remember this exchange from the 1984 movie Ghostbusters?

Q: Do you believe in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis?

A: Ah, if there’s a steady paycheck in it, I’ll believe anything you say.

It’s funny because, obviously, we don’t decide to believe things because of money. We believe things because we have good reasons to think that they are true.

I mean, if I told you I’d give you a million dollars if you would just believe that humans can fly, would that be enough to get you to believe it? You might say you believe it, but what if

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It was awfully thoughtful of Greg Koukl and J.P. Moreland to get together and do a radio interview while some of the ladies of Grace Fellowship were studying one of Dr. Moreland’s books. You can find the show here.

One of the things I particularly like about this interview is how it illustrates something Hugh reflected on a few months back. In the interview we see how they disagree in some key areas and yet do so without dismissing the value that each brings to God’s kingdom.

If you listen to Greg, you will quickly pick up two things… He is a compatibilist (a.k.a. a Calvinist) and he is deeply concerned about the popular teaching about hearing the voice of God in the

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A day after Greg’s visit, I’ve got a lot of stuff swirling around in my head that I’d like to write about; but, there is one thing that I want to get out while it’s fresh. During the Sunday morning service and the ensuing Q & A, Greg represented a defense of the problem of evil from a perspective known as compatibilism. This view maintains that the Bible pushes us into a position of affirming that God’s sovereignty and man’s freedom (i.e., responsibility) are both in play simultaneously and must be compatible–even if we cannot fully explain how that works out. I think Jonathan Edwards was one of the first to develop this idea in a philosophically rigorous way.

This …

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