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EXCELLENT READING:A Guide to Critical Thinking - Please study this first, it is most helpful as a primer!
10 Dangers of
Theistic Evolution
By Dr. Werner Gitt. There is a reason theistic
evolutionists who claim to be Christians are so weak on doctrine. This is your
soul;.... This is your soul on theistic evolution. Any questions?
143
"Bible Contradictions" and Their Solutions
By a trio of
non-"professional" but knowledgeable apologists.
Christianity and the
Birth of Science
Explores the relationship between Christianity and
science; good reading, along with articles on the same topic below.
Christianity as
the Causal Factor for Science
Recommended starter reading on the
relationship between science and religious/philosophical worldviews.
Christianity and
Technological Advance
From Impact #245, by Dr. T.V.
Varughese. If you like technology, appreciate the fact that without Jesus
Christ we'd likely be no farther advanced technologically than ancient Rome.
Creation,
Evolution and the Church
Why is Genesis so important? What makes
it foundational to Christianity?
Daniel - Written When?
EJB. Brief
summary of reasons arguing against the assumption of a late date for the book of
Daniel.
False Teachers - How
to Recognize and Confront Them
From the Apologetics Press web site,
July 96 issue of Reason and Revelation. (Disclaimer: AP's journal and my
web section of the same name are unrelated.)
God: Does He Exist?
By
Doug Sharp.
The Mere Consistency
of Signs and Creation
Impact #287, by linguist Dr. John
Oller.
Modern Scientific
Discoveries and Scriptural Teaching
Impact #219, by Dr.
Duane Gish. Did you know many of the foundational discoveries upon which modern
science is built, such as the principle of entropy and the laws of conservation,
are described in Scripture?
Naming
the Animals
By Russell Grigg. Could Adam have named all the animals
in one day?
Old Testament Apocrypha: Why Not in the Bible?
EJB.
Reliability
of Scripture Fact Sheet
Summit Ministries fact sheet. One-pager.
Scientific
Accuracies in the Bible
From Christian Apologetics and Research
Ministry. Think the Bible teaches a flat earth? Read on...
Biblical
Christian Worldview Fact Sheet
From Summit Ministries, good starter
reading.
Is Compromise a Route to Truth?
Compromise
is great for business negotiations and diplomacy. But it's a terrible way to
seek truth or go about developing a belief system for it relies on an
inconsistent mix of arguments; or no rational argument at all.
Did God Need Practice in Designing Life?
Theistic
evolutionists and progressive creationists often imply that God created humans
and other modern life little by little over vast spans of time. Why? This view
is simply a compromise attempt that takes atheistic evolutionary interpretations
of data and forces them into a weakly theistic mold, without biblical
warrant.
Eric's Rules of Evidence
Some
guidelines for sifting through competing claims and contradictory information.
A future paper will offer advice on sifting through material on the web - how do
you know what is probably accurate and what is bogus? The web is an excellent
way to spread information, but it can spread disinformation or misinformation
just as fast (faster if it is sensationalistic). So be on your guard, and don't
contribute to the problem (and may God guide me in that same advice!)
Logical Positivism and Scientism - More
Self-Referential Fallacies.
Scientism is common today. But is
such a brash view of "science" helpful?
Nothing is Absolute?
Or is it? This
commonly accepted statement is logically untrue.
Omnipotence - What Can't God Do?.
Disposes of a common class of objections against God based on a subtle,
careless misconception.
A Practical Model for
Integrating Science and Faith
Impact #255, by Dr. Stephen
Deckard. Explains the foundational role of faith, from which scientific data is
interpreted.
Stephen's Guide
to Logical Fallacies
A little more rigorous than the primer on logic
at the top of this page, good companion reading.
"That's Wrong!"
When
someone says what you've done or said is morally wrong, is that their opinion or
God's opinion? How to respond to attacks of moral judgment, even when
you've been caught in the wrong.
Why Believe in Truth?
According to
polls, 66% of Americans today say they don't believe in absolute truth. What's
wrong here? Why do so many people claim to disbelieve in truth?
Worldviews
Compared
From Summit Ministries. Do you have a consistent
worldview, or is it a hodgepodge you've passively picked up from various sources
through your life?
Answering Islam
Providing
answers to challenges by Muslims against Christianity. See also
Questioning Islam below.
Apparent Contradictions in the Koran
The
Christ of the New Age Movement
By Dr. Ron Rhodes. Part 1 of 2.
Evolution in Action
This is your
brain on evolution. Any questions?
The Jesus
of the New Age Movement
By Dr. Ron Rhodes, Part 2 of 2.
Questioning Islam
Complements
the Answering Islam website
above, a debate site.
The
Qu'ran and the Bible in the Light of History and Science
By Dr.
Joseph Campbell. Several chapters on-line, and ordering information.
A Response to a Muslim's Attacks on Christianity
What is
Islam?
ChristianAnswers.Net Q&A page.
What is
Secular Humanism?
From Summit Ministries, at ChristianAnswers.Net.
The Bible and Evolution
Comments by
biologist/geologist John
Woodmorappe (an ex-Catholic) on the Pope's recent public statements
regarding evolution and the Christian faith.
Compromises and
Consequences: The Genesis Account
Impact #247, by Fred
Willson, M.S. Gives some historical examples of how compromise on Genesis has
been the beginning of the road to apostasy.
Is
Evolution Compatible With The Bible?
FAQ by Dr. Walt Brown.
The
Inspiration of Scripture
By Dr. Ron Rhodes.
Liberation
Theology
By Dr. Ron Rhodes. Several other articles on related
facets of humanistic theology also at this site.
Is
it Possible to Be a Christian and an Evolutionist?
By
Dr. Duane Gish,
from Creation Ex Nihilo, 11(4): 21-23.
Unlimited
Atonement
By Dr. Ron Rhodes, a Calvinist scholar who accepts
unlimited atonement.
The Compromise Road
From
Impact #177, by ICR President Dr. Henry Morris. Is compromising on
Genesis going to impress the intelligent pagan?
Creation Evangelism
From
Impact #163, by AIG President Ken Ham. Explains the foundational
importance of creation in the Gospel message. Without it, much evangelism is
like trying to explain the plot of a movie by starting in the middle. People
won't understand what is going on or why!
Cross-Cultural
Creation Evangelism
Impact #240, by missionary Dale Taylor.
An example of the application of creation evangelism in Mexico.
The Importance of
Creationism in Foreign Missions
Impact #158, by Dr. Henry
Morris.
The Power of the
Creation Message
Impact #284 by Bob and Cecilia Brown,
missionaries in Indonesia.
Strategies
for Dialoguing with Atheists
By Dr. Ron Rhodes.
Witnessing to
Jews
By Dr. Ron Rhodes.
Witnessing
to Liberals
By Dr. Ron Rhodes.
Adam and the Animals
Impact
#212, by Dr. Henry Morris. Does Genesis 1 and 2 contain two contradictory
accounts of creation? When translating purely human works we don't try to
translate so as to deliberately make contradictions appear where they weren't at
the beginning; we grant the assumption of basic intelligence to the original
author. Isn't it interesting how some anti-creationists won't do the same when
reading Genesis?
Church Leadership
From
ChristianAnswers.Net. When the Bible speaks of Elders being the husband of "one
wife," what does it mean?
Creation and the
Church Fathers
What did the early Church believe about Genesis?
From Impact #160, by Louis Lavallee, M.S., M.Div. See also Taylor &
van Bebber's rebuttal to Hugh Ross for further information on the early Church
teachings on Genesis.
Creation and the
Curse
Impact #272 by James Stambaugh, M.S., M.Div. What
happened when Adam and Eve sinned? Is God the source of evil and suffering in
the universe (Satanism) or is Satan and mankind to blame (Christianity)?
Creation
and Jehovah's Witnesses
By Robert Doolan, editor of Creation Ex
Nihilo; suggestions on how to communicate with JW's on the subject of
creation.
Creeds and the Six
Creation Days
See "Days of Genesis" articles below. From
Impact #235, by Louis Lavallee, M.S., M.Div.
The Days of
Creation: A Semantic Approach
By James Stambaugh, from
Creation Ex Nihilo
Technical Journal, 5(1): 70-74.
The Days of
Genesis
How long were they? This gives some biblical reasons why
they must have been approximately the same as regular days. Also see the
quikfact sheet on days of creation.
The Days of
Genesis #3
Is it beginning to sink in yet? :-)
A Day is Like a Thousand Years?
This
is one of the most quoted-out-of-context verses in the Bible. What does it
really say?
Does
the New Testament Support Genesis 1-11?
FAQ by Dr. Walt Brown.
Esotericism
and Biblical Interpretation
By Dr. Ron Rhodes.
The Events of Creation: Could it All Happen in Six Days?
The First Cause Argument and Self-Existence
Christians
and other theists argue that there must be a First Cause for the universe;
atheists respond by asking "What caused God (the First Cause)?" Is
this a valid question?
A
Flat Earth - Does the Bible Teach It?
Web version of "Who
Invented the Flat Earth?," by Ian Taylor, in Creation Ex Nihilo, 16(2):
48-49. See here
as well.
The Gap Theory
What
is the Gap Theory? Why is this compromise between atheistic/humanistic
uniformitarianism and the Bible unworkable and wrong? A very brief treatment.
(For MUCH greater detail, see Weston Fields' book Unformed and Unfilled,
listed in the bibliographies in the Creation Science section.)
The Gap
Theory - An Idea With Holes
By Dr. Henry Morris, in Creation Ex
Nihilo.
Genesis
Contradictions?
By Don Batten, M.Sc. Is there a contradiction in
the order of creation of animals and man?
Is
There a Large Gap of Time Between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2?
FAQ by Dr.
Walt Brown.
Noah's Flood: Was
it Global or Not?
Increasingly, people are claiming the Bible
doesn't really teach that the Cataclysm (the Greek NT term for the Flood)
covered the whole planet. But is this true?
Progressive
Creation?
Progressive Creation is the idea that God created, but
very slowly over billions of years. This new teaching is being agressively
promoted, like the local flood belief, by the Rossite cult.
Quikfact: Days of Creation
More data
regarding the correct interpretation of the word yom in Genesis 1.
Rightly
Interpreting the Bible
By Dr. Ron Rhodes.
Star Formation and
Genesis 1
From Impact #251, by James Stambaugh, M.L.S.,
M.Div. Did God create the stars on Day 1 of Creation and "reveal"
them on Day 4, as Rossites teach?
The 2Q Test
By EJB. Short essay
describing a simple two-point set of criteria I keep in mind when evaluating
historical claims.
Darwin
Meets Socrates: A Study in Question Begging
By Dr. Gary Colwell,
originally published in the Creation Research Society Quarterly, Sept.
1996 (33:2, p. 127).
Data, Theory
and Evolutionary Phenomena
By James Hofmann of California State
University. Published in Origins & Design. Is evolution a fact, a
theory, or what?
The End of
Materialist Science
By David Berlinski, published in the December 2,
1996 issue of Forbes magazine. Reproduced at this linked site by
permission.
How
Do We Know What We Know?
By Dr. Lane Lester; epistemology intro
written for the average person.
The Nature of Science
and Theories of Origins
Impact #262, by Dr. Duane Gish.
Parable of the
Candle
By Garth Wiebe. Is God deceitful if some geologists insist
on interpreting the earth as being billions of years old but it really isn't?
The
Rules of the Game
Defining science and the concept of creation. By
Dr. Carl Wieland, in Creation Ex Nihilo, 11(1): 47-50.
Scientific
Blinders
From Breakpoint by Chuck Colson. More on self-serving
misdefinitions of science to create a bogus "science-religion"
dichotomy.
Apologetics Press
Focuses
on creation science, reasoning, and Biblical teaching.
Christian
Literature
A collection of essays on famous Christian literature,
good, enjoyable, stimulating reading.
Reasoning
from the Scriptures
Excellent articles by Dr. Ron Rhodes.
Summit
Ministries
This organization specializes in helping people develop a
consistent Christian worldview. Check out their Worldview Fact Sheets and
social issues Fact Sheets.
Topics to come(eventually....): Science and religion: a false dichotomy and their real relationship (the pyramid of knowledge; religion>philosophy>facts "science"); why "anti-religious" people are absolutely right!; Sagan's "pale blue dot" - true of humanistic theism AND atheism; why you need to argue from your opponents presuppositions rather than your own to convince them; why the human mind (including "science," "reason," etc.) is epistemologically incompetent to judge the Bible one way or the other; a brief introduction to "Biblical naturalism"; equivocation fallacies; the "monolithic" fallacy; "anti-intellectualism" and "anti-science" ("Luddites") exposed as unworthy charges that tell more about the person making the charge than the target thereof; Dawkin's "virus of the mind" (religion: Dawkins & evolution a good example), and Lenin's "opiate of the people" (tie in with "anti-religious" essay above); the "progressive" fallacy ("outdated"); Quotations (needs work, I know); etc.
"The secular world may mock Christians as anti-intellectual know-nothings. But if current trends hold, Christians may one day be the only ones standing for real education." (Colson, Charles, A Dance With Deception (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1993), p. 30.)
"Consider the book LEAVING THE FOLD: TESTIMONIES OF FORMER FUNDAMENTALISTS. In reading these testimonies, all, or almost all, of the writers describe their earlier "faith" in Christ as a strictly emotional experience (such as feeling a rush of excitement when "going forward" at an evangelist's altar call). For this reason, I cannot help but doubt if these apostates were ever saved in the first place. (I am trying to be discerning, not judging)." (J.W. on CRSnet)
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