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Christopher Hitchens: My Response. Does God Exist? God vs. Science - God vs. Science by Maggie Shaver. God vs. Science A science professor begins his school year with a lecture to the students, "Let me explain the problem science has with religion. " The atheist professor of philosophy pauses before his class and then asks one of his new students to stand. "You're a Christian, aren't you, son? " "Yes sir," the student says. "So you believe in God? " "Is God good? " "Is God all-powerful? "Are you good or evil? " The professor grins knowingly. "Yes sir, I would. " "So you're good...! " "But why not say that? The student does not answer, so the professor continues. The student remains silent.

"No, you can't, can you? " "Let's start again, young fella. "Is Satan good? " "Then where does Satan come from? " "That's right. "Evil's everywhere, isn't it? "Yes. " So who created evil? " Again, the student has no answer. The student squirms on his feet. "So who created them? " The student does not answer again, so the professor repeats his question. The student's voice betrays him and cracks. "No sir. ProveThe Bible. Alister MxGrath. Welcome to the website of Alister McGrath, who will take up the Andreas Idreos Professorship of Science and Religion at Oxford University on 1 April 2014. After taking First Class Honours in Chemistry at Oxford University in 1975, I worked for several years in the Oxford laboratories of Professor G. K. Radda FRS, gaining a DPhil in 1978. I was then awarded First Class Honours in Theology at Oxford in 1978, and was awarded the Denyer and Johnson Prize for securing the best grades in the final examinations that year. 2014 Boyle Lecture The Boyle Lectures, delivered in the historic church of St Mary-le-Bow in the City of London, has become the United Kingdom’s premier annual public lecture in science and religion.

How I found God and peace with my atheist brother: PETER HITCHENS traces his journey back to Christianity. Updated: 14:25 GMT, 16 December 2011 During his teenage years and early 20s, Peter Hitchens lost his faith and rebelled against everything he had been brought up to believe in. Here, in a moving and thought-provoking account from his controversial new book, he describes his spiritual journey back to God - and the end of his feud with his brother I set fire to my Bible on the playing fields of my Cambridge boarding school one bright, windy spring afternoon in 1967. I was 15 years old. The book did not, as I had hoped, blaze fiercely and swiftly. Only after much blowing and encouragement did I manage to get it to ignite at all, and I was left with a disagreeable, half-charred mess.

Most of my small invited audience drifted away long before I had finished, disappointed by the anticlimax and the pettiness of the thing. It would be many years before I would feel a slight shiver of unease about my act of desecration. In truth, it was not much of a Bible. But this was my Year Zero. I am 58. Bethinking.org. The 16 Best Apologetics Podcasts. Over three years ago I posted my 16 Best Apologetics Podcasts. That list has changed a bit since then, updated twice along the way. Here's the new, updated list. (Previous version October 4, 2010; most recent update June 23, 2011). 1. Reasonable Faith - William Lane Craig - iTunes | Feed 2. Defenders - William Lane Craig - iTunes | Feed 3. And don't forget, you can podcast the audio from Apologetics 315 - get it.

Enjoy. Objections and Answers. Bible Views' Articles. Bible Questions Answered. Zola Levitt Ministries. How to recognize the messiah. How did the Old Testament instruct people to recognize God's promised messiah? As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene... No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.

His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life. 1 - Albert Einstein Jesus was a crackpot 3.1 Who or what is the Messiah? 1.) In order to prevent Christians or Jews or anyone else from reinterpreting ancient Israel's messianic expectations after-the-fact, it must be determined which parts of the Old Testament ancient Judaism agreed upon as pertaining to God's promised Anointed One. The Talmud asserts 'that Messiah must be the greatest of future prophets, as being nearest in spirit to our master Moses.'... 3.

His name has been called from old, Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, He who lives forever, the Anointed One, in whose days peace shall increase upon us. 4 4. 5. 6. Alister McGrath on Augustine and Darwinism. Scientist and theologian Alister McGrath has a new essay over at Christianity Today, "Augustine's Origin of Species. " Knowing how Augustine has often been co-opted by Darwinians as a proto-Darwinist, I came to this article rather skeptical. But I was delightfully surprised. McGrath notes that Augustine's dominant image of the natural world's relation to God is that of a "dormant seed. " As McGrath explains: God creates seeds, which will grow and develop at the right time. Using more technical language, Augustine asks his readers to think of the created order as containing divinely embedded causalities that emerge or evolve at a later stage. It is worth reflecting upon Augustine's analogy. ...any injection of teleology into evolutionary biology violates precisely the great advance of Darwin's theory: to explain the appearance of design by a purely materialistic process -- no deity required.

While McGrath uses the language of "evolution" in regard to Augustine, Malcolm Muggeridge's Jesus. JESUS by Malcolm Muggeridge "Jesus did not come into the world to found a Church but to proclaim a Kingdom - the two being by no means the same thing. " If Jesus chose Peter to be the rock on which his church was to be founded, thereby in effect nominating him to be the first of a long line of his Vicars on earth, there have been many mundane intruders into this spiritual domain, from the Emperor Constantine onwards. To those who like myself, rightly or wrongly, have become convinced that what is called 'Western civilization' is irretrievably over, and that another Dark Age is upon us, this seeming collapse of the Church is desolating.

We bemoan the passing of a liturgy in which we never participated, of high virtues which we never practiced, of an obedience we never accorded and an orthodoxy we never accepted and often ridiculed. I was hungry, and you gave me meat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in, and I was naked and you clothed me. Apologetics. GOD are you there. Dr. Erwin W. Lutzer - Listen to Running To Win Daily Radio Broadcasts, Christian Ministry Program.