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Introduction Although William Paley’s teleological argument for the existence of God is now two-hundred twenty-two years old, advances in the theory of intelligent design invigorate his idea that an “intelligent author”[1] indeed exists. To further validate Paley’s argument from design, it will be beneficial to explore discrepancies in neo-Darwinian evolution by natural selection. However,
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I believe that as we live, we unintentionally demonstrate actions that are prophetic in nature. For example, I once was bent on felling a gigantic, fruitless apple tree in the backyard of my old house (over a thirty-inch diameter!). I thought it would be fun and adventurous to cut it down with an axe
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Disclaimer I must begin with a sort of disclaimer for which I think it’s worth exceeding the word count for this project. To this point, I am ignorant to intimate details of world religions outside of Christianity. I took an online world religions class once upon a time while deployed to the Pacific but
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Consider me precipitously rebuked as I assimilate Soren Kierkegaard’s apologetics against human reason. Have I stooped from the actual reality that God is (as in YHWH)[1] and that everything engineered by creation must be for the purpose of gratifying the Maker? Why then do I place so much value in logic? We value what our
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Introduction Terms like supernatural and miracle are used in a variety of ways, often colloquialized or else reduced to illusions and events of improbability, respectively. For Christians, however, these terms are defined otherwise and are considered profoundly essential to the core fundamentals of their beliefs. Therefore, value exists in expounding upon these concepts to develop
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The Elephant—What is Simple Religious Pluralism? A group of blind men approach and grasp at an object without knowing the thing was an elephant. One man, feeling across the elephant’s side, believed the object to be a wall. Grabbing a hold of the trunk, another man thought the thing to be a snake. And the
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History repeats itself. That’s why Acts 17 (an almost 2,000 year-old text) sounds so familiar. Generally, people (at least in the western world or worlds where industry and technology have grown in the past few generations) have never not known what it’s like to not have the privilege or luxury of skipping all the arguments
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Introduction It is in human nature to derive inspiration from nature. Take, for example, the restoring feeling of awe one may experience when observing the aurora borealis on a clear, starry night or enjoying a grand view of the mighty mountains of Grand Teton.1 Or consider tendencies toward biomimicry in architecture and engineering2, and the
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Why do we engage in apologetics? As I learn more about Christian apologetics, it becomes clear that this philosophy and its methodologies have at least two distinct major, practical purposes: 1) to strengthen my relationship with God, and 2) to strengthen the relationship between others (including non-believers) and God. And there are other minor sub-facets
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Apologetics Compendium 