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“Scientism” asserts that the only things we can know are things that can be tested scientifically. Scientism comes in two forms: Strong scientism is self-refuting because the assertion that “we can only know things that can be tested scientifically”, cannot itself be tested scientifically and therefore we cannot know it.…
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A single human’s DNA has 875 megabytes of data . . . which is equivalent to 106 volumes of Encyclopedia Britannica. Geneticist Guillaume Riesen explains it here. It’s important to understand that this 875 megabytes of data is “functional” information with specified complexity, as opposed to “Shannon” information (named after…
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Dr. Stephen Meyer, PhD from Cambridge, is an expert in information theory. Functional information, as opposed to random information, necessitates the prior existence of an intelligent mind. In the first video, he describes how “functional” information, such as found in DNA, requires intelligence. In the second 10-min video he explains…
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Effective Apologetics is part science but mostly an art. An apologist must not only be knowledgeable but also an artist in how he wields that knowledge. There is no “magic bullet” argument that works every time. There is no template that says do A, then B and then C .…
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By Bob Pratico Ironically, one of the charges against the early church during the multiple persecutions by the Roman Empire was that of “atheism” because the Christians had abandoned the pagan gods. In 112 A.D., Pliny the Younger, then Roman governor of Bithynia, wrote the Emperor Trajan seeking counsel on…
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