Results tagged “atheism”
Who Made God? (11/17/09 - 14 Comments)
Why should the Devil get all the good scientists? It sometimes seems that way, doesn't it? We hear of scientists like Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins and others who are acclaimed as being at the top of their field and almost inevitably it seems that they are atheists or otherwise committed to explaining the world in terms of Darwinian evolution. Occasionally we find a great dissenting mind, but then we discover that that person is...
The Greatest Show on Earth (10/13/09 - 26 Comments)
It has been a couple of years since Richard Dawkins' last major work, The God Delusion (my review). That book was a long-time fixture on the bestseller lists and served to establish Dawkins as the foremost spokesman for the New Atheists. Dawkins has long had two related emphases in his writing and speaking: the non-existence of God and the evidence in nature that evolution is responsible for all that exists. Where The God Delusion emphasized...
Ray Comfort on Responding to Atheists (02/02/09 - 14 Comments)
Ray Comfort is setting out on a blog tour to support his new book You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence but You Can't Make him Think. Knowing that many of the readers of this site are admirer's of Comfort, I decided to participate. I solicited questions from readers and here is one that Comfort was eager to respond to. I often respond to the questions/arguments posed by atheists not so much because I think...
Great Power and Great Stupidity (12/13/08 - 25 Comments)
It will come as no surprise to you that atheists are becoming increasingly militant in their stand against theism in general and Christianity in particular. This militancy is often taking the form of mock horror and dripping sarcasm. I find it valuable every now and again to read quotes like this one from Sam Harris, author of Letter to a Christian Nation. Why? Well, I suppose it helps me remember the old adage--the truth--that the...
Book Review - Atheism Remix (07/29/08 - 9 Comments)
As of January 1, 2008, Al Mohler was the author of one book, and it was an edited volume to which he contributed only a single chapter. By the time January 1, 2009 rolls around, Mohler will be the author of five books. The first, Culture Shift (my review), was published by Multnomah and offered biblical perspectives on cultural issues. The second, published by Crossway, is Atheism Remix: A Christian Confronts the New Atheists. In...
Book Review - I Don't Believe in Atheists (07/09/08 - 13 Comments)
I’m on vacation this week and today we’re heading across the border into the U.S. of A. to spend some time at the Buffalo Zoo. And, if we have some time left over, we’ll swing by Niagara Falls since we haven’t taken the kids to see that site in some time. Today I just wanted to post a short review I wrote quite a while ago but haven’t yet had opportunity to post. It’s a...
The Dawkins Letters (10/21/07 - 5 Comments)
(I apologize for all the book reviews - I've had a bunch stacked up here and wanted to clear out the queue! I suppose I shouldn't apologize, really, as these are all good books and I know someone will benefit from the reviews...) David Robertson, a Free Church of Scotland pastor who lives in Dundee, wanted there to be an intelligent Christian response to Richard Dawkins' bestselling The God Delusion. To that end he wrote...
Book Review - The God Delusion (07/27/07 - 49 Comments)
The atheistic literary pantheon is currently comprised of three men: Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. All three men have written bestselling books and all three have published their most recent efforts in the past year. While I have no reason to believe that they have planned their books to coincide thematically or chronologically, their books do resemble each other in several ways. All three men believe that religion is a blight on...
Review - Letter to a Christian Nation (07/22/07 - 5 Comments)
I found Letter to a Christian Nation a difficult book to read. It is, after all, a book whose purpose is to criticize one of the things I hold most dear--the church of Jesus Christ. While certainly deliberate and measured as these things go, it is still something of a rant against religion in general, Christianity in particular, and, at its narrowest focus, those who call themselves by the name of Christ (and hence, the...