Atheism

On a Christian podcast I listened to recently (which shall go unnamed), the speaker was lamenting the loss of "absolute truth" in our world. Postmodernism was to blame. But I wonder, perhaps, if that commentary is outdated by about...

Church people often ask me, "What's happening on college campuses these days? What are students like?" I usually start my reply at the macro level, and talk about atheism, because along with its softer cousin, agnosticism, it's the most...

Secular Humanism is the view that says values and meaning are rooted in human ability and potential rather than anything religious or divine. But can values and meaning actually be grounded on a purely human platform? After all, the...

In my prior post I told how well-known Humanist Bart Campolo pressed me on the question of how a nonChristian spouse could live with the indignity of being thought "worthy of hell" by a Christian spouse. I have to...

In my prior post I offered an affirmation and two brief explanations (from a Christian perspective) of Humanism. In this post I offer some observations that are more critical. Again, the claim of Humanists is that we can be good...

This is the fourth installment in my series on Secular Humanism (or simply Humanism), inside the larger series of "Notepad Apologetics." My prior post offered four critiques of Humanism. Theorizing about these matters is one thing but live interaction...

In my prior post, I asked how Christians should respond to the claim of Secular Humanism, embedded in the title of the popular book, Good Without God, by Harvard/MIT Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein. In the book Epstein names some...

  Are miracles possible? No, according to an atheist acquaintance of mine. Here's why: 1. Miracles are not repeatable events. Therefore they are not scientific. 2. For any supposed miracle, there is always, always a natural explanation, even if...

From my last post: Why think theism (belief in God) is a better explanation for the world than naturalism (athiesm)? Here's one reason. Naturalism struggles to explain the more subjective parts of life, such as consciousness, ethics, art, intention and...

In my prior post I mentioned that for many skeptics of religion, the starting point for all inquiry is naturalism. Nature is all there is. There is no God or gods or spiritual realm. And further: all events have a...