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A brief history of fake atheist history.
Whether or not there exists such a thing as “fake news” (as Donald Trump suggests), there definitely exists such a thing as fake history. One particularly pernicious piece of fake history is the story that there exists a conflict between science and Christianity. This core tenet of atheist propaganda is perpetuated on the internet by…
Read More...Self-deception and atheism
Why do so many scientists believe that life resulted from unintelligent natural processes if such is not the case? The short answer is that self-deception is a powerful force in human psychology. But the capacity for a group of people to deceive itself is actually much greater than the capacity of an individual to deceive…
Read More...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…
Read More...Without Christianity, There Would Be No Modern Science
Contrary to popular belief that Christianity serves to hinder science, Christianity provides the underlying conceptual framework upon which science is built.
Read More...Why everyone is religious…or rather, nobody.
In the course of day-to-day conversation, virtually everyone has heard someone make the statement, “I am not religious,” in order to convey a lack of affiliation with theistic belief systems such as Christianity. But one can only doubt Christianity from the vantage point of another belief system, because everyone needs a belief system in order to make sense of one’s experience.
Read More...Secular myth: Science and God are competing explanations.
Secular myth: “Science and God are competing explanations for such things as the origin of life and the origin of the universe. There is no need to cite God as an explanation, since science explains such things without the need for God.” Reality: This commonplace atheist reasoning commits what is known in philosophy as a category error because…
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