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When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the central claims of Judeo-Christian theology are in fact true, that these claims are straightforward deductions of [...]
The safest road to hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. . . . The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather (for the devil). C.S. Lewis (1888-1963), The Screwtape Letters
God does not ask your ability or your inability. He asks only your availability. Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001)
Let us remember that every worldview – not just Christianity’s – must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering…this is not just a problem distinctive to Christianity. It will not do for the challenger just to raise the question. This problem of evil is one to which we all must offer [...] Stephen C. Meyer’s Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design (HarperCollins) is a detailed account of the problem of how life came into existence from lifeless matter – something that had to happen before the process of biological evolution could begin. The controversy over Intelligent Design has so far focused [...] One of the most dangerous errors instilled into us by nineteenth-century progressive optimism is the idea that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface [...]
The odds against a universe like ours emerging out of something like the big bang are enormous… I think clearly there are religious implications whenever you start to discuss the origins of the universe. Stephen W. Hawking From Steven Hawking’s Universe, page 109 [...]
In 1992, the historian of science Frederic Burnham said the God Hypothesis “is now a more respectable hypothesis than at any time in the last one hundred years.” I’d go even further. More than just being respectable, I’d say that the God hypothesis is forceful enough to warrant a verdict that He’s alive and [...]
If I could wave a magic wand and get rid of either rape or religion, Harris explains, I would not hesitate to get rid of religion. (1) Sam Harris
The wonderful thing about God’s schoolroom is that we get to grade our own papers. You see, He doesn’t test us so He can learn how well we’re doing. He tests us so we can discover how well we’re doing. Charles Swindoll |
  
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