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God and Evil

darryl — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:32:50 +0000

Jay Adams on reconciling God and evil. Simply this: God controls all things, even the existence and activity of evil. We must remove the word “allows” when speaking of God and evil. He doesn’t merely allow evil to occur. If …

If there is a God…

darryl — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:23:39 +0000

Another quote from Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis: What can you ever really know of other people’s souls—of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole creation you do know: and it is the only one …

Lewis on the atheist’s straw man

darryl — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:09:10 +0000

In Mere Christianity, Lewis warns about over simplifying Christianity (something some people who call themselves Christians sometimes do) and the straw man that Atheists often build from this. Very well then, atheism is too simple. And I will tell you …

Out of the Silent Planet

darryl — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:03:00 +0000

C. S. Lewis’ 1938 Sci-Fi novel Out of the Silent Planet chronicles the voyage of three men, two of whom are partnering for their own reasons and a lone philologist on a walking tour who happens to be in the …

C. S. Lewis’s conversion from atheism

darryl — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:18:46 +0000

C. S. Lewis traces his conversion story through his autobiography “Surprised by Joy” from his early childhood through to his conversion to Christ as an adult. As the story unfolds, he traces the “aesthetic experience” of “joy” as an experience that …

Playtime is over

darryl — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:20:37 +0000

Via Christian Apologetics. This is a good quote from William Lane Craig. Apologetics is note the lone answer to the difficulties facing the church (and I don’t think Craig would agree say it is), but certainly churches need to be …

Issues with Theistic evolution

darryl — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:52:52 +0000

I’ve previously expressed my reservations about theistic evolution. Recently, I was interested to hear some new reasoning against it in this interview with Jay Richards Jay Richards (who co-wrote the Privileged Planet) has recently edited a book (God and Evolution) …

Triablogue: What motivates science

darryl — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:46:48 +0000

Good post summarizing science and Christianity. In Christianity, greater intelligence produces lesser intelligence. In atheism, unintelligence produces intelligence. Which is more intrinsically interesting? Worth a read… Triablogue: What motivates science

Over half of NZers believe in psychics

darryl — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:07:58 +0000

Over half of NZers believe in psychics – National – NZ Herald News Interesting to see that there are still significant numbers of kiwis who believe that there is more to this world than the natural world. Which reminds me, …

Dawkins vs. Craig – a mismatch?

darryl — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:48:15 +0000

I was interested to read this post by Edward Feser regarding Dawkins “forgetting” he’d not debated William Lane Craig. One of the comments led to this post which defended Dawkins’ refusal to debate Craig. The argument from this author was …