I once had a friend ask me that if God exists, why doesn’t he do something to make that fact obvious to everybody. (His suggested miracle that would finally prove God’s existence beyond any doubt was to change the skin color of the president.) On one level, this question is Read more…
How many times have you heard an atheist say that they would be happy to believe in God, but nobody has presented him with sufficient evidence for God’s existence? We could at this point launch into a historical case for the resurrection of Jesus or some other standard argument for Read more…
I’d never heard of Anthony Magnabosco before, but I saw this on Twitter and am thrilled to interact with a question that opens up possibilities for discussion rather than shutting them down. Here’s what I would say: The first thing you have to understand about this question from the Christian Read more…
Alex O’Connor, aka the Cosmic Skeptic, has a few questions for God in this video. I don’t think he believes there are any answers to these questions, but I thought I would supply some anyway… Why would God make the vast majority of the universe completely uninhabitable? And to that Read more…
This is a response to part of Yuriy Stasyuk’s blog post about the atheist view of death in which he details “six reasons eternal life would inevitably become hell.” It’s a thoughtful post, and I would encourage everyone to take the time to read it before you read my response Read more…
From my twitter feed this morning: The first thing to notice about this is that, as with most things said by the New Atheists, it’s an emotional appeal. This is not a rational, logical objection to the coherence of Christian and Jewish theology. He’s not saying that our theology is Read more…
One of the problems with the common assertion that science is the best way to decide between various worldviews, is that the same people who say that will also insist that science must be methodologically naturalistic. That is, when conducting science, only natural causes for phenomena can be considered. Put like Read more…