Category: Convos, Observations, and Quotes
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Collision Gets A Bad Review
While I have had Collision for some time now and have watched parts of it, I did not get to sit down and soak up the entirety of the movie until today. In my opinion, it was rather well done and fills a gap in the world of apologetics by seeking to engage the layperson in a way other apologetic presentations cannot. Of course, others may have extremely different opinions.
Well known apologist Douglas Groothuis does not share my sentiments concerning the movie. He has written a less than positive review which may be found here – http://theconstructivecurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/11/colision-dvd-review.html Allow me …
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Just For Fun: How to drive punchy blokes up the wall
Chris: Nothing exists or God exists.
Chris: Something exists.
Chris: Therefore God exists.
Anon: Sorry, Chris?
Anonymous: chris, isn’t that logic a bit…….. flawed
Chris: What’s flawed about it?
Anonymous: If something exists God must exist?
Anonymous: this stems from “why is there something rather then nothing?”
Chris: No.
Chris: Where is that in what I wrote?
Anonymous: it sounds similiar, i apologize if I put words in your moutn.
Chris: Nothing to apologize for.
Anonymous: anyways, why would something existing necessitate the existence of God?
Chris: Because of the truth of the first premise.
Chris: Something = Not-Nothing
Anonymous: …
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Happy Reformation Day From Choosing Hats!
On October 31, 1517 Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses on the door of a church in Wittenberg and sparked the Protestant Reformation of which John Calvin was also a part.
“That there exists in the human minds and indeed by natural instinct, some sense of Deity, we hold to be beyond dispute, since God himself, to prevent any man from pretending ignorance, has endued all men with some idea of his Godhead, the memory of which he constantly renews and occasionally enlarges, that all to a man being aware that there is a God, and that he is their …
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An Extremely Enjoyable Apologetic Encounter
The debate was over but the air was still thick with tension. After shaking hands and chatting for a moment, my opponent and I attempted to step down from the platform we had been on but were blocked by a handful of people. After expressions of “thank you” and “you are welcome” to a few faculty members and an elderly lady asking us what we would do if the September 11th attacks were to happen where we lived my opponent and I parted company.
One of the first people to stop me on the floor to talk to me was …
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Our Source of Truth
I will say, from the outset, that this post will have political overtones – but only peripherally. I’m not much of a political pundit, but the recent election has served to show a very clear demarcation in worldviews – the subject addressed by this blog. My wife has a childhood friend that she’s kept up with, who tends very much toward a liberal viewpoint of Christianity, social issues, and moral issues. As I read her take on the election, I was a bit taken aback at a nominal Christian expressing such things about a man with such an obviously antithetical …
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Implicit Contradictions
Well, I haven’t made much progress with the “Militant Atheist” I spoke of the other day, but I have gotten him to contradict himself. It happened in another part of the same discussion thread, where he and I were basically trading insults (yes, I know – I shouldn’t even bother). Here is how the conversation went (btw, I changed his handle to “MA” to protect his identity):
MA: “The only standard that needs to be considered is the scientific method. If you can’t do it, then just admit it so I can quit wasting my time.”
BK: “If this is …