Easy Wins or Baby and Bathwater

Friday, April 29th, 2011 by Dan Carrington posted in Christian Living | Comments Off

Recently I had one of those strange moments. I had seen something that made me think that it was not something that I would do. What it was isn't important. What is important is that the reason I felt that I wouldn't do the same was because it wasn't a very "Christian" thing to do. Immediately after that thought, it occurred to me that if were to mention that to someone, they might respond with something ...

Double Standards

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011 by Dan Carrington posted in Apologetics | Comments Off

It always is fascinating to me when people will try to refute a theistic claim and then turn around and make a claim based on the very logic they are trying to use to refute the other's claim. An example of this came up during a recent debate with Dr. William Lane Craig and Dr. Lawrence Krauss. The topic of the debate was "Is there Evidence for God?" It seemed to me, while listening to the ...

The Truth – Works Both Ways

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 by Dan Carrington posted in Apologetics | 2 Comments »

The truth has an interesting characteristic about it. If something is true, you can generally work the idea backward or forward and it just works. Let's take a simple math problem, for example. If you add together 2 + 3, you get 5. Now, if you work it backwards and start at 5 and subtract 3, you end up back at 2. Most math teachers will tell their students that this is a good way ...

What About the Alternatives?

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011 by Dan Carrington posted in Apologetics | Comments Off

There are many arguments for the existence of God. Many of the best philosophers in the marketplace today will use various cosmological arguments, teleological arguments (arguments from design) and moral arguments among others. A common tactic from non-believers is to post some alternative explanation and claim that this eliminates the necessity of belief in God. These alternatives can often seem like  very powerful arguments against the Christian faith. It is not without certain problems, however. Before I ...