Author: Adam Lee

The Case for a Creator, Chapter 5 Back in chapter 2, Strobel claimed that he would be interviewing “authorities in various scientific disciplines about the most current findings in their fields” [p.28]. How has this promise played out so far? Up till now, he’s interviewed Jonathan Wells – who has a legitimate degree in biology,…

Over the past two weeks, an individual calling himself Steve Leone has attempted to leave about half a dozen variations of the following comment on my thread about the “miracle” of Fatima: “Oh yeah? Well, how did three illiterate Portuguese peasant children know that some strange atmospheric phenomenon was going to appear in the sky…

Among the writers who oppose the New Atheists, one common theme in their criticism is that we’re too optimistic about the possibility of human progress. For example, take this essay by Terry Eagleton attacking Richard Dawkins, in which the sneering condescension drips from every word: It thus comes as no surprise that Dawkins turns out…

Central to nearly every branch of Christianity is the notion of original sin – the belief that humans in some sense start out corrupted, that sinfulness is our default state. The apostle Paul expresses this idea in verses like these from Romans: “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by…

The Case for a Creator, Chapter 5 Chapter 5 is about the Big Bang and the cosmological argument, and we’ll get to those. But I wanted to begin by highlighting an incredible, and telling, statement by Strobel in the opening paragraphs of the chapter. It seemed to me that the beginning of everything was a…

Hello Quixote, Considering your last letter to me was some time ago, I apologize for the lateness of my reply. To tell the truth, this was the hardest one for me to write. It’s not that I couldn’t think of anything to say. Much the opposite: If I had said everything I wanted to say,…

One of the most common Christian beliefs, and the one most often appealed to in order to explain why evil exists, is that human beings have free will to make choices that are not in God’s control. God doesn’t want robots, the argument goes, nor mindless puppets programmed to sing his praises. He desires genuine…

It’s a sad day when you read stories like this from the city where the renowned Library of Alexandria once stood: Along the miles of crowded beachfront in Egypt’s second city, women in bathing suits are nowhere in sight. On Alexandria’s breeze-blown shores, they all wear long-sleeve shirts and ankle-length black caftans topped by head…

The Case for a Creator, Chapter 4 In the last section of his interview with Stephen Meyer, Lee Strobel brings up the dysteleological argument, asking how intelligent design can account for the faults and imperfections in the natural world that would seem to cast doubt on the wisdom or benevolence of the designer. He begins…

The next time you hear Christians complaining about being persecuted in America, remember this story. You probably know Hemant Mehta, author of the blog Friendly Atheist. What you may not know, and what I didn’t know, is that by day he’s a math teacher at a public high school in Illinois. And it seems that…