Renowned atheist, journalist, and prominent liberal author, Christopher Hitchens, released a New York Times best seller in 2007 titled: God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Hitchens is one of several contemporary and atheistic apologists who promote science and rationalism as the answer that will bring ultimate good and freedom to mankind.

Probably not, especially if you are a young college student sitting under the complexity of different worldviews at your university or college.  Almost certainly not if you were raised as a Christian but were never taught why faith must come to bear with reason, or in fact why you believe what you believe.  And absolutely not if [...]

I was driving down the road a few days ago with my wife and I noticed a bright red bumper sticker on the back of a hybrid which said, “God is too big to fit into one religion!”  We ended up pulling into the same parking lot and to my dismay parked close together.  I [...]

Evil is not a theoretical problem for the atheist.  It is simply a dimension of the way the world is at its current state of evolution within the universe.  It could not have been different, so why complain?  Indeed, the reality of goodness is far more of a theoretical problem for atheism (i.e., much harder to explain). [...]

Step Four – Historical event (Jesus) Remember, each step thus far is a characteristic of every major religion; not so with step four. Only Christianity possesses step four. Visions, dreams, revelation, etc are found in religions such as Islam, Mormons, Hinduism, etc., but only Christianity rests on the reliability of an historical person. Step three [...]

With the close of the 18th Century, we began to see a new form of philosophy begin to shape.  Scientific questions were then a form of the current metaphysical branch of philosophy, known as natural philosophy, which sought answers through empirical knowledge (epistemology).  With the development of modern science and the birth of the scientific [...]