Category: APOLOGETICS

DOES GOD HAVE A DARK SIDE?

DOES GOD HAVE A DARK SIDE?

If there is a God, why do so many bad things happen? Is God really everything we want to think he is...or is he something altogether different? More specifically, is there a "dark side" to the God of the Bible? The concept of the "dark side" of George Lucas' "Force" in Star Wars is compelling in … Continue reading DOES GOD HAVE A DARK SIDE?

PHOTOSYNTHESIS: FACT AND FICTION

PHOTOSYNTHESIS: FACT AND FICTION

Have you ever hugged a tree? I'm not going to suggest you should, but perhaps it's time for some of us to give trees and plants-and their origins-a lot more thought than we have up until now... A few months ago I shared with you a discussion I heard by a panel of very learned … Continue reading PHOTOSYNTHESIS: FACT AND FICTION

EX-ING THE EXPERTS

EX-ING THE EXPERTS

I've had it with "experts", of all shapes and sizes...it's time to exorcise them from my view of the world entirely! For a large part of my life I've had an inbuilt distrust for "experts" in the secular world. You know-the ones who "must be right" because they went to X university and appeared on … Continue reading EX-ING THE EXPERTS

CREATION AND THE NARROW WAY

CREATION AND THE NARROW WAY

Have you been intimidated into thinking that if you were to confess to believing that God created, you would be the odd one out, and the object of universal scorn and derision? A Gallup poll conducted In May of 2012 found that in the United States forty-six percent of Americans hold the view that God … Continue reading CREATION AND THE NARROW WAY

THE OPIATE OF THE MASSES

THE OPIATE OF THE MASSES

A regular charge made by people wanting us all to abandon our principles, our morals, our faith and our hope in God is that "religion is the opiate of the people", one of Marx's little nuggets of wisdom (irony intended). The charge is (and always was) aimed squarely at the Christian world. It's rarely aimed … Continue reading THE OPIATE OF THE MASSES