On this episode of the Apologetics.com Radio show, Dr. Harry Edwards leads a discussion on a general overview of the Protestant Reformation in 1517 and some of the ideas and practices that resulted from it. Jon Noyes and Jason Gallagher join in studio for a conversation around this important and significant historical event. [...]
On this episode of the Apologetics.com, Dr. Harry Edwards, Dr. Jacob Daniel, and Lenny Esposito discuss the primary role imagination plays in the art and science of defending the truth claims of Christianity to a culture that lacks the plausibility structure that allows for God's existence. Dr. Paul Gould in his book "Cultural [...]
One of the reasons today's society has a tough time believing in God is because it has lost its ability to imagine the idea of transcendence, something beyond the natural world. For the skeptic nothing exists beyond the five senses. If it cannot be directly observed or tested in the lab, it does not [...]
It has been several months now since my professor friend and I met for coffee at one of the coffee shops at Biola University. I often reflect on that sobering moment. We chatted about the latest goings on in culture as reflected in news outlets and social media, lamenting the fact that Evangelicalism today [...]
Steven Pinker in The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature argues that the popular idea that human beings are born sans innate properties is fallacious. Related concepts such as the Noble Savage and Ghost in the Machine fall under the same misunderstood categories that must be corrected. Pinker offers at least three [...]
Here’s a fun one. JTB is an acronym affectionately known among philosophers as Justified True Belief. It is a theory of knowledge that claims for anyone to know anything one must believe something as true and have good justification for it. For example, I have a belief that I am writing in English. Evaluating [...]
