Sometimes, the final minutes of a person’s life are priceless, determining their eternal destiny.
Lessons from the Last Hours of a Person's Life
Sometimes three things come together to form a moment of infinite importance for eternity. The final hours of a person’s life coupled with the hand of God quietly working behind the scenes, and the third ingredient is one of God’s sons or daughters ready to step into that moment.
When someone asks me why God allows COVID 19 ...
Before we should expect an answer to why God allowed COVID 19, it can be helpful to reflect on who we are actually dealing with when we wish to know why God allows this or that.
The Meaning of Life: The Love You Were Made For and Have Always Wanted
Although we have often thought we could find happiness in joy in this life, what we have really always wanted is God —the one who is the origin of happiness and joy.
Why the "Universe from Nothing" is a Non-Starter
Why the idea that “nothing” caused the universe to come into existence, does not work.
On the Death of a Child
Thoughts on the question, “Why does God allow children to die?”
Is Christmas a Pagan Holiday? Four Points to Consider
Recently some Christians have joined those who are anti-Christian to argue we should not celebrate Christmas. Strangely, the pagans oppose Christmas because it celebrates the birth of Christ, but the Christians oppose Christmas because they believe it is a pagan holiday! Here are four points to consider.
J.D. Unwin and Why Sexual Morality May be Far More Important than You Ever Thought
Oxford social anthropologist J.D. Unwin discovered that when a highly developed culture undergoes an increase in sexual freedom, a collapse of that culture follows within three generations. The historical data reveals this pattern with “monotonous” regularity.
What Does it Mean to be Human? Part 3--Free Will
Free will is the ability to make meaningful decisions that are not merely determined by chemistry and physics, nor anything other than oneself, and for any decision, you could have decided differently.
The Destruction of the Canaanites: Why God *Must Sometimes Destroy Civilizations and Cultures
If we grant the atheist’s premise that God cannot permit gratuitous evil in this world, then what happens when a culture or an entire civilization becomes a gratuitous evil?
Why We Have No Idea What God Should Allow
Every event, no matter how small, causes an exponentially increasing number of consequences, spreading to countless causal chains in future history to the end of time. The result it that we are in no position at all to judge what God should, and should not, allow.
Why this scientist believes intelligent design was required for biological life
Science is now in a position to analyze effects to see if they test positive for requiring intelligence to produce. Applying that scientific method to biological life reveals that the fingerprints of intelligence are all over the genomes of life.
Finding healing in the face of overwhelming grief
Although I have found many excellent online resources for coping with grief, almost none of them mention what I have found to be the two most important things that have been enormously helpful for me.
Why a Perfectly Just God Will Seem Unjust
Since we judge other people according to our own sense of justice, when we disagree with another person’s sense of justice, they will appear unjust to us. If our sense of justice is not perfect, we are likely to disagree with some aspects of perfect justice. Therefore, a perfectly just God will seem unjust to us.
Why evil and injustice point to the existence of God
Just as it makes no sense to talk about a high crime rate if there are no laws to break, in the same way we cannot take evil and injustice seriously unless there is some ultimate standard of beauty and goodness that is being violated.
What Does it Mean to be Human?: Part 2 - Vastly more than you can imagine
You have been created to be entrusted in eternity with enormous capabilities, in a world beyond anything that has entered the heart of humanity to imagine.
What Does it Mean to be Human?: Part 1 -- Implications of thinking you own your body
If you say, “this is my body”, then who and what is the “me” that owns it? The implications are massive.
Faith and Science: Part III -- Fantasy in modern science
How science fiction and fantasy have crept into modern science.
Faith and Science: Part II -- Inferential science ... what can go wrong?
As a scientist, I am often dismayed at the naive faith in science that I see in the general public, including Christian leaders, in their tacit assumption that if there is tension between science and faith, it is faith that must be questioned. In reality, the inductive inferences of science must be examined just as critically as interpretations of scripture.
Faith and Science: Part I -- Experimental science and implications for faith in science and God
Although experimental science poses no challenge to faith in God, it does send a strong warning to those who feel that faith in science trumps faith in God.