Yale News: “The case of the over-tilting exoplanets” “The first planet Kepler spotted has finally been confirmed 10 years later: Astronomers had dismissed the exoplanet candidate as a false alarm” *** In my capacity as a highly-paid apologist (whose apologetic checks seem to have been lost in the mail for the past thirty-plus years or so), I regularly encounter two distinct but related atheist claims about religion and science: 1. Religious faith is... Read more
New Testament Notes 83-85
Luke 6:46-49 Compare Matthew 7:21-27 As I’ve mentioned before, one would be hard-pressed — frankly, I think it an impossible task — to construct an argument for the doctrine of salvation by grace alone, without works, from the four New Testament gospels. And this comment from Jesus, whether in its Lukan or its Matthean form, is clearly one of the gospel teachings that advocates of such a doctrine would need to overcome. I’m quite confident that they... Read more