Old Earth, Flood Geology, Local Flood, & Uniformitarianism

Last updated on: May 10, 2017 at 5:55 pm By Dave Armstrong

Was the Grand Canyon formed from one deposit after Noah’s Flood? Photograph by Antoine Taveneaux (4-24-11) [Wikimedia Commons / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license] *** (5-25-04; many defunct links removed and new ones added: 5-10-17) *** I will list a host of links to articles explaining the evidences which (I believe) form a compelling refutation of flood geology and a young earth. This constitutes my response to Kevin Rice’s friendly, probing and challenging questions and criticisms, along with... Read more

Reply to Muslim Apologist Shabir Ally on Trinitarianism

Last updated on: May 9, 2017 at 5:59 pm By Dave Armstrong

Dave Armstrong at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem; Dome of the Rock (the third holiest spot in Islam) in the background (October 2014) *** (5-14-04) *** Critique of the full text of the paper, Was Jesus Perfect God and Perfect Man at the Same Time? (from the web page, Islam Answers Back). Mr. Ally’s words will be in blue. *** According to Orthodox Christian belief, Jesus was perfect man and perfect God at the same time. This belief is necessary... Read more

Review of “The Book of Non-Contradiction” (Phillip Campbell)

Last updated on: May 9, 2017 at 8:08 pm By Dave Armstrong

[Amazon image] *** The full title of this book is, The Book of Non-Contradiction: Harmonizing the Scriptures (Grass Lake, Michigan: Cruachan Hill Press, 2017). ***** Phillip Campbell has provided a very valuable service for Christians, in this defense of the inspiration of Scripture, in terms of showing how alleged biblical contradictions really aren’t contradictions at all. Having done a great deal of work in this area, myself, as a professional Catholic apologist, I know how prevalent such criticisms are: especially, these days,... Read more

Dialogue on Sheol / Hades & the Rich Man and Lazarus

Last updated on: May 9, 2017 at 1:50 am By Dave Armstrong

vs. Baptist “Grubb” The Descent into Hell (1568), by Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] *** (2-28-08) *** Grubb’s words will be in blue. The first comment I responded to (in green) was from fellow Catholic Keith Rickert, Jr. * * * * * How did God ultimately deal with the rebellion of his children? Did He give us some sort of cosmic spanking? Quite the opposite. He lowered himself. He appealed to our hearts, He tried to... Read more

Debate: How Pro-Life is the Republican Party (Esp. the Leadership)?

Last updated on: May 8, 2017 at 3:45 pm By Dave Armstrong

Embryo: 9-10 weeks. Photograph by “lunar caustic” (12-20-07) [Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 license] ***** Someone put up a meme that read: “Dems: Worshiping Moloch While Pretending Not to Worship Mammon / GOP: Worshiping Mammon While Pretending Not to Worship Moloch.” ***** It’s silly to claim that the GOP is pretending to be pro-life, seeing that it has brought about numerous restrictions on abortion at the state level, thus leading to saving tens of thousands of babies. And how and why could... Read more

The Rapture End-Times Scenario: Catholic Refutations

Last updated on: June 3, 2017 at 12:31 pm By Dave Armstrong

Image by Ivan Cujic [Pexels.com / CC0 public domain] ***** See the following articles and audio files (Carl Olson is the man!): *** Five Myths About the Rapture (Carl E. Olson) Lahaying the Rapture on Thick (Carl E. Olson) Recycled Rapture (Carl E. Olson) No Rapture for Rome: The Anti-Catholics behind the Best-selling Left Behind Books (Carl E. Olson) Rapture Claptrap (review of Paul Thigpen’s book, The Rapture Trap by Carl E. Olson) The Rapture Trap: A... Read more

Dialogue on the Crusades, the Inquisition[s], & Slavery

Last updated on: May 6, 2017 at 5:59 pm By Dave Armstrong

Fernando Niño de Guevara, Grand Inquisitor of Spain, 1600-02, by El Greco (1541-1614) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] *** (1998; Addendum added on 11-2-03) *** The following is from my Apologetics/Ecumenism discussion list. My opponents’ words will be in blue: * * * There is a fairly obvious example of a moral teaching that the church, from the apostles onward, got stunningly wrong, and which was not corrected by Christendom until the mid-19th century. I refer to slavery. This is factually... Read more

The Crusades: a Lot Like World War II (Mark Shea)

Last updated on: May 6, 2017 at 5:58 pm By Dave Armstrong

Photograph by “blitzmaerker” (June 2016) [Pixabay / CC0 public domain] *** The following exchanges took place on Steve Ray’s public bulletin board, on 28-29 February 2000. The words of a person (“Walt”) who vigorously disagreed with Mark will be in blue. Words of other persons will be in green. *** [originally edited and uploaded on 17 March 2000, from public list posts, with the permission of Mark Shea] ***** How does one defend Catholicism in view of the Crusades and... Read more

Is Christianity Unfalsifiable? Is Empiricism the Only True Knowledge?

Last updated on: May 6, 2017 at 3:06 pm By Dave Armstrong

Photograph by JD Hancock (5-17-09) [Flickr / CC BY 2.0 license] *** “daniel” wrote underneath my post, Cause of the Big Bang: Atheist Geologist Challenged: ***** Science is a matter of falsifiable evidence. Religious views are non-falsifiable. They are two fields of differing worlds using approaches of different vocabulary and idioms. Philosophically, Western theological proofs are good examples of the non-falsifiable kind; no one can disprove them. One last significant point: the fields of the sciences are open to development and change... Read more

Dialogue on Samuel Appearing to Saul (Witch of Endor)

Last updated on: May 7, 2017 at 6:36 pm By Dave Armstrong

The Shade of Samuel Invoked by Saul (1857), by Nikiforovich Dmitry Martynov (1826-1889) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] *** This is an exchange on my paper, Dialogue: Rich Man’s Prayer to Abraham (Lk 16) & Invocation of Saints. John E. Taylor is a Presbyterian friend of mine (OPC), whom I know “in real life.” His words will be in blue. ***** Much can be said but I’ll be brief. 1) The rich man could see Abraham, and vice versa. We have no indication... Read more

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