The Unmoved Mover exists and this Artificer of artificers is the King of Kings and the Lord of lords—The Holy One, Yahweh. Completely saturated in this reality, I have determined that a pursuit of truth is the only right thing for me to do with my life. Amidst this realization, I have found there to be a great need to decontaminate and purge those things that are, many times, candid, misguiding and detrimental to the pursuit and revelation of God—first to me and my family then to fellow believers and those who aren’t yet aware of their need for God. Therefore, I have commenced a serious and profound expedition into the methodologies and applications of Christian apologetics.

I was training to be a hydrologist through academics and research from 2018 to 2022. For a short, but intense, two semesters, I attended Virginia Tech as graduate student for the Virginia Water Resources Research Center in the Forestry Department. My field work and research were oriented toward the understanding of various impacts of coal mining on headwater streams in the Appalachian Mountains. However, as my family needs evolved, I decided to withdraw myself from that program to focus on family. During this time, I was greatly convicted that I was studying the wrong subject, at the wrong institution, but I was not meant to forsake the sciences or give up on pursuing higher education. Considering my peripheral interests in philosophy, history, and political science, it was obvious that at the foci of my academic pursuits was Christian apologetics. Hence, my enrollment into the M.A. of Christian Apologetics program at Liberty University.

Without realizing it, my start into apologetics was onset during my undergraduate studies by the various apparent incompatibilities between science and theology, or the way I saw it—those scientific laws and principles versus my relationship with God. For instance, how is it the Earth is 4.5 billion year old according to modern geological measures while biblical creationist insist in a young, 6,000 year old Earth according to historical genealogies in Scripture? Other instances that busied my mind were the problems of origin of life, design in nature, fine-tuning, the Rare Earth Theory, etc. I recall that I’d often explain to folks while evangelizing that there must be a way to bridge—to reconcile—science and relationship with God; that physics and chemistry were God’s medium to paint creation as we see it now; that science is not disconnected from God, but a method to reveal His nature, at least in part.

I am beyond pleased to find that I’m not alone in this thinking, nor am I among the first to fathom such ideas. William Paley, for example, a late 18th century apologist and theologian, sought to parallel science and theology in his Natural Theology. Although teleological arguments for the existence of God utilizing natural evidence was the thing that drew me to apologetics in the first place, the great volume and breadth of work accomplished from Paul to Augustine, to Aquinas to Paley, to Kierkegaard to Lennox, arouses my excitement for this field in general. My faith for my God has enhanced because of this endeavor.

Although I hope my equipment in apologetics and the products thereof will edify both believers and non-believers to draw nearer to the Holy One, it is crucial to yield to the Spirit and trust His work in the hearts of others. There is no argument keen enough to replicate the transforming work of God in a person. I pray that God will guide my endeavors and use them as a plow, or seed, or water, for the harvest.