Recently, I saw an ad with a family stringing cranberries to make a garland and I thought of an analogy by the 20th century apologist, Cornelius Van Til. Van Til uses an analogy of beads on a string to explain how Christians makes sense of facts. I’ll explain his analogy, […]
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The Magical Mix of Atheism
The Christian philospher, Greg Bahnsen, once compared the atheist’s view of human origins to a cake-mix. Atheists speculate that a mysterious mixture of matter, energy, and time, combined with a dash of who-knows-what, produced life. They claim this magical event happened once and has never happened again. Of course, Dr. […]
Corn and Strawberries, A Lesson on Induction
“If God takes human dignity and freedom seriously, then when man decides to plant corn, he won’t bring up strawberries.”[1] I heard this quote in a lecture recently and I began to think of ways to help our children think more deeply as we plant seeds down into the soil […]