Book Review: The Atheist’s Fatal Flaw

“The main argument against the existence of God has always been the ‘argument from evil'”, argues Richard Swinburne, a philosopher who has written numerous works defending the existence of God .

For atheists like Sam Harris:

The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil … is insurmountable. [1]

Based on this premise Norman Geisler and Daniel McCoy tackle this problem head on in The Atheist’s Fatal Flaw, published by Baker Books (available at Amazon).

For those familiar with Norman Geisler’s FatalFlawCoverwork, you may be wondering how this book differs from his previous book – Not Enough Faith to be an Atheist? Continue reading

Watson: On Responding to the Gospel (Part 2)

Richard Watson explores what makes the difference between those who accept the Gospel and those who reject it. See part 1 here.

By User:Mattes (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

By User:Mattes (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

In the last post we concluded with the question – what grace, if any, was given to an individual who rejected the Gospel? The following three options were given by Watson:

  1. no grace was given.
  2. grace sufficient to be saved was given.
  3. grace that was insufficient to be saved was given.

Watson continues by evaluating the impact of each answer. Continue reading

Philosophy’s Revenge on Science (Humor)

Our church has a Senior Seminar that we do each year. The goal is to prepare graduating high school seniors for the next phase in life and to grapple with living out their faith in a complex world. I am teaching the section on philosophy and logic.

Ted Talk: Stephen HawkingIt is always fun to come up with examples that can illustrate various forms of a logical argument. I call this one Philosophy’s Revenge. Continue reading