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By Candace Jackson On a daily basis, I hear that Christians are judgmental and are not at all tolerant. But I think that the problem is largely a result of a misunderstanding of what it means to be tolerant in our culture. To clarify terms, philosophers distinguish classical tolerance from a modern understanding of [...] By Niall Firth It sounds like something straight out of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. But, in a chilling echo of the computer Hal from the iconic film, scientists have developed robots that are able to deceive humans and even hide from their enemies. An experiment by researchers at the Georgia Institute of [...]
By Charles Colson Ten years ago, then-president Clinton told Americans that mapping the human genome would “revolutionize the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of most, if not all, human diseases.” But as the New York Times reported recently, a decade after the mapping of the human genome, the “genetic map [has yielded] few new cures.” [...]
By Jay Richards, Ph.D. It’s the question that will never go away: Are we alone in the universe? These days, when most people ask that question, they’re not asking whether God or angels exists, but whether there is life—intelligent life—on a planet other than Earth. Just a few decades ago, many scientists believed there [...]
By Fazale Rana, Ph.D. I know how to use a computer, but truth be told, I really don’t know how a computer works. New research by Yale University scientists gives me a better understanding. These scientists show that the Linux computer operating system (OS) functions like the genome of the bacterium E. coli.1 (For [...]
By Dan Grossenbach For the third time this week, someone said to me, “I’m not really a religious person,” so I’d like to respond to what might be a common misunderstanding of the Christian religion. It made me wonder how a “religious” person is different from a regular person. If these three friends represented [...]
By A.N. Wilson By nature a doubting Thomas, I should have distrusted the symptoms when I underwent a “conversion experience” 20 years ago. Something was happening which was out of character – the inner glow of complete certainty, the heady sense of being at one with the great tide of fellow non-believers. For my [...]
The English author Henry Fielding once remarked that the “greatest things in the world are subject to the greatest abuse; and religion is no exception to the instance.” We’ve all seen news headlines of those who profess to follow God are caught taking people’s well intended money and using it to finance their own luxurious lifestyle. We’ve seen preachers that appear more [...] By Kenneth Samples Part 3 of 12 To the non-Christian it may appear at first glance that Christians are hopelessly divided on a number of doctrinal issues. These theological differences certainly extend to the controversial topic of eschatology (the study of last or future things). However, a closer inspection of the views held by [...]
By Kyle Deming The Argument from Nonbelef (or, the Argument from Divine Hiddenness) is commonly considered by non-theists to be a persuasive argument against the existence of God. More particularly, the Argument from Nonbelief targets the Christian God, who possesses the characteristics of omnibenevolence and omnipotence. As such, it is critical for Christians to [...] |
  
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