Apologetics
Defenses for Christianity against major worldviews and religions
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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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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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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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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
Apologetics Compendium 