How to Get Through When They Don’t Want to Listen
My name is Kathy Vohs, and I’m a graduate of Southern Evangelical Seminary (MA – Apologetics). I will be speaking at the National Conference on Christian Apologetics in Charlotte, NC on Oct. 13-15, 2016. My topic is “How to Get Through When They Don’t Want to Listen.” In 1 Peter 3:15, Peter admonishes us to “always […]
Diagnosing Doubt: How to Stop Wasting Time Answering the Wrong Questions
Like a hyper little dog that piddles on the carpet, apologists can become notoriously overexcited when putting newly learned knowledge into practice. The moment Jesus’ existence is even remotely questioned, we are there with 37 blogposts detailing every extra-biblical reference to Jesus known to academia. This kind of knowledge is important; I wouldn’t be an […]
Structure of Dinosaur Collagen and the Age of the Earth.
This fall I will be presenting at the 2016 National Conference on Christian Apologetics. My two topics are “The Cell’s Design” and “Dinosaur Blood and the Age of the Earth.” One of the most provocative pieces of evidence young-earth creationists cite for a 6,000- to 10,000-year-old Earth is the discovery of soft-tissue remains in a […]
Reasoning, Data Interpretation, and Storytelling
My name is Anjeanette “AJ” Roberts, and I am a research scholar at Reasons to Believe in Covina, California. As a PhD molecular biologist and Christian apologist, I often contemplate the integration of science and Christian theology. I have found that many of the stories we tell as we interpret scientific data are driven not […]
Hitler’s Religion: Christian Apologetics Faces the Hitler Question
Was Hitler and the mass murder he brought about caused by secularization, or, on the contrary, was Christianity responsible for the Holocaust? As I demonstrate in my forthcoming book, Hitler’s Religion (November 2016), this subject arouses intense passions in debates over religion and atheism. In 2010 Richard Dawkins became livid after Pope Benedict XVI praised […]
A Fundamental Problem With The Presuppositionalism of Cornelius Van Til
By, David Haines Cornelius Van Til was, without a doubt, one of the most influential apologists of the Neo-Calvinist movement of the twentieth century. Van Til received his philosophical training under W. H. Jellema at Calvin College (a gifted philosopher who had received his training under well-known English Idealists such as Josiah Royce, F. H. […]