Bridge 8 and animator James Hutson have created six two-minute animations on various aspects of critical thinking. The videos are designed for kids ages 8 to 10 but are also useful for grown-ups who might want an introduction to the basics of logic and the scientific method, as well as to psychological missteps like confirmation bias and the Gambler’s Fallacy.
Read more »By: Jason|01 August, 2011|Categories: Books|Tags: anti-intellectualism . christology . evangelical mind . Evangelicalism . life of the mind . mark noll . Reason . scandal of the evangelical mind . scholarship
Few sentences have had as great an impact on evangelicalism in the late twentieth century than the opening of Mark Noll’s 1994 book, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. “The scandal of the evangelical mind,” he wrote, “is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.” For many, the book was a wake-up call to the anti-intellectualism of the…
Read more »By: Jason|12 May, 2010|Categories: About|Tags: arguments . Faith . God's existence . Kenneth Samples . Reason . Theistic Arguments
Kenneth Samples, apologist at Reasons to Believe, offers a cumulative case for the existence of God and for the reasonableness of Christian faith.
Read more »By: Stuart|27 April, 2010|Categories: Philosophy of Religion|Tags: agnosticism . Argument . atheism . christopher hitchens . debate . God . presumption of atheism . Reason . Reasonable Faith . Reggie Finlay . theism
Atheism has traditionally been defined as the belief that God does not exist. In recent years there has re-defining of the term to be merely a “psychological state of being without a belief in God.” Has the so-called Atheist really escaped the need to make arguments to justify their position?
Read more »By: Stuart|22 March, 2010|Categories: Philosophy of Religion|Tags: Anthropological argument . Argument . Augustine . C. S. Lewis . Christianised Anthropological Thought . existential . God-shaped vacuum . Logic . Natural Theology . Reason . Stacie Orrico . Tom Hanks
In this post a specific anthropological argument for God’s existence is stated and defended, and then examined if it is a good and convincing argument.
Read more »Author and literary critic, Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), on the new modesty.
Read more »Today I’ll be looking at where we discover theological information and how we evaluate it. To illustrate I’ll be using the four-legged chair you are sitting on.
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