The darkest secret of science.
What are the darkest secrets of science? The above question was posed at a forum at Quora.com. Below is a copy and paste of my answer: The darkest secret of science is that the science of one age becomes the myth or pseudo-science of the next. Biologist Lynn Margulis, winner of the U.S. Presidential Medal for Science, put it best in…
Atheistic melts like the Wicked Witch
Materialism is the philosophy (in which atheism is almost always grounded) which states that the concept of God is absurd because everything is ultimately material in nature, and God is an immaterial entity. But philosopher Douglas Groothuis demonstrates how materialism melts when exposed to scrutiny, much as the Wicked Witch from the Wizard of OZ…
The case for God is not a case of the God of the gaps
“We don’t know how life came to exist, so let’s just give up and assume that God did it!” Atheists are fond of portraying theism as the God of the gaps, or a means of filling in gaps in current scientific knowledge. But, quite to the contrary, what we currently know about biology leads inexorably to…
The cause of the origin of the universe.
What is the cause of the origin of the universe? Perhaps every thinking person has pondered this question at some point. The natural universe (which includes the properties of space, time, matter, and energy) came into being at the cosmological event known as the Big Bang. Because it is a logical absurdity to suggest that…
Pop quiz: Can you identify the person in this passage?
Can you identify the person referred to in this passage? Can you guess what book of the New Testament this passage comes from? Scroll to the far bottom for answers: 3 He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces…