Your argument repeatedly moves between questions that must be distinguished: how human beings acquired moral feelings, whether moral judgments are objectively true, why anyone is morally obligated to obey them, whether evolutionary explanations establish metaphysical naturalism, and whether the God revealed in Scripture exists.

A theory can line up with parts of the Bible and still not be a theory the Bible actually teaches. That difference matters whenever Christians attempt to connect Scripture with astronomy, geology, or paleontology. A familiar pattern shows up repeatedly in modern discussions of Genesis. A reader grants the standard scientific chronology at the front end: billions of years for the universe, billions of years for Earth, and vast epochs of biological history long before humanity appears. Turning then to Genesis 1, the operative question becomes where that chronology can be placed.

Three claims get merged in almost every argument from evil. "I do not see God." "I cannot explain why God permits this." "There is no God." The first two are reports about the speaker. Only the third is a claim about reality, and only the third carries a burden of proof. This article follows a recent exchange with an atheist and the replies it drew. It sorts the arguments into what each one establishes and what it does not.

When a theory fits the Bible, does that mean the Bible teaches it? Imagine walking into a room and finding a thousand puzzle pieces scattered across a table. You begin fitting them together. Some pieces clearly belong because of their shape or color. After a while, you have several sections of a picture. Eventually you may have assembled most of it. But when you finish, one question remains: how do you know you have the right picture? The usual answer is simple. You look at the picture on the box.

Why a theory can fit the Bible without being taught by the Bible Imagine walking into your kitchen and finding a broken glass on the floor with water spread across the tile. Your mind immediately starts building a story. Maybe the cat jumped onto the counter, knocked the glass down, and ran away. That story may fit every fact you can see, but the broken glass does not prove the cat did it. Someone else may have dropped it, or the glass may have fallen for another reason.

Someone posted online that religious leaders are hiding a huge secret: that you're secretly a god, and the universe is a kind of hologram, and you're the "still point" holding it together. They backed this up with: A computer program with real, correct math in it (using things called quaternions, which are a real type of number system used in video games and robotics).

A response to S. C. Sayles on The Gates of Awakening This piece responds to S. C. Sayles' review, "A Logos-Centred Critique of The Gates of Awakening." I have not seen the original paper by Erydir Ceisiwr and Lumos Aureon. What I say about it is limited to what Sayles reports.

In an Academia.edu post, Lumos Aureon claims religious leaders have hidden your “divine decreed sovereignty.” The post says you are an immortal observer inside a holographic universe. Its proof arrives in a rush: the UN flag, Mount Hermon, 33 vertebrae, Freemasonry, ancient sages, and a papal mitre. That rush is the method. Before one link can be checked, ten more appear.

Why the Zealot Theory Does Not Fit the Whole Bible Some Bible teachers say the beast of Revelation 13 was already here. They argue that the beast was not a future Antichrist. They say it was Zealot-led Israel during the Jewish war against Rome from AD 66 to 70. Damien F. Mackey presents this view in his article Beast of Revelation 13. He relies heavily on the work of Adam Maarschalk and M. Booker.

A friend recently sent me a long, careful argument for reading Genesis 1 as evidence of a pre-Adamic age, one in which Satan ruled and ruined an earlier earth before God's six-day creation week restored it. He built the case out of real texts: Isaiah 14, Ezekiel 28, Job 38, Luke 10:18, Revelation 12, and a set of striking numerical patterns in the Genesis 5 genealogies. It is a serious argument, made by a serious reader, and it deserves a serious answer rather than a dismissal. I want to walk through that answer here, because the questions underneath it, what the firmament actually is, what "without form and void" actually means, and whether Scripture ever hands us a chronology for Satan's fall, come up again and again in these conversations. Getting them right matters more than winning a particular exchange.

A Universal Negative Wearing a Lab Coat What a comment thread about evolution taught me about a rule everybody wants to apply to somebody else A workshop I'm running this month is built around one tool: a five-question test. What is observed. What is inferred. What assumptions enter the argument. Is the proposed cause sufficient. What would falsify the claim. I built it to stop people from treating a worldview like a lab reading. I did not expect the clearest violation of my own rule to show up in the comment thread before the workshop even started.

Confused by the similarities between the Rastafari flag and the LGBT Pride flag? Discover the history and meanings behind the red, gold, green, and black.

You would hope that something as serious as endometriosis could be treated by a gynecologist. However, we are all wrong. Gynecologists are amazing for taking care of pregnancy, baby deliveries, help with STDs, and more. But they are not qualified to make the suggestion of endometriosis, nor are some of them capable of telling you that you need to see a specialist for it. I hope this enlightens the reader on why endometriosis can’t be treated by gynecologists.

Let's talk about food intolerances. What are the main intolerances do we see come up when starting BLW? What are some reactions you may see come up immediately or over time? Read more to find out!

Meaning matters in education. The more personal context there is to new information the more likely it is to be remembered.

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Atheist Strikes Again… Vic, your comment illustrates the exact problem the workshop is trying to name. You stopped reading Jerry Coyne because he "likes philosophy," which you call by definition the same as religion. Then you replaced argument with ten unsourced one-line paraphrases. That's not the alternative to weak reasoning. It's an example of it.

I made a comment on YouTube about the false teachings of the Trinity. melmerc_sjn responded by saying… “You are ignoring the fact that John 1 explains how NOTHING was made without God the Son, aka JESUS, the Word of God. The Trinity is present from the first three verses of Genesis.” Then I responded by saying, “John 1 does not teach that a second divine person called “God the Son” created the world. That title never appears in Scripture. The Bible says “the Son of God,” referring to God manifested in genuine human flesh.

We are constantly told that “history repeats itself.” But history can’t literally repeat itself. Every moment in history has different people, different governments, different technology, different economic situations, different circumstances. What we really observe are repeated patterns of human behavior. Centuries apart, people still respond to fear, ambition, humiliation, prosperity, greed, faith, tribal allegiance and the yearning for security in startlingly familiar ways. History is always in flux, but human nature evolves much more slowly. It is frequently believed that “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” This phrase is typically credited to Mark Twain; however, there is no evidence that Twain ever said these precise words.

The Voice That Wasn’t God When we are young, passion can feel like truth. Lust can feel like love. Hormones can feel like destiny. Desire can become so strong that we mistake it for the voice of God. But not every feeling is guidance. Not every open door is from God.