Faith + Science Video Series: Winter 2012

Video 1 "Darwin on Trial" Dr. Phillip Johnson

Date:Thursday February 23rd

Time: 3-5pm

Venue: Bernath Auditorium

Dr. Johnson recently retired from the Law faculty at Berekley , and has authored many books on the topic of the Theory of Evolution. As an academic legal scholar, he is trained in reasoning and looking for flaws in argumentation, and he has found huge flaws in the assumptions underpinning the academy's uncritical support of Darwin's theory, specifically the neo-Darwinian synthesis, a tour de force debunking not only the pseudo-science, but the metaphysical commitments to materialism which are the real motivating factor in the censorship of criticism surrounding this controversial subject.

Video 2: The Physics of Faith by Dr. Chuck Missler

Date: Thursday March 1st

Time: 3-5pm approx

Venue: Bernath Auditorium

Missler ranges over Mathematics, General Relativty, Quantum Mechanics and more in an intriguing look at the nature of Physical reality, and concludes, along with many scientists, that our reality can be described as a digital simulation…….Leaving the question...who designed it?

Video 3: The Logic of Faith by Ravi Zacharias

Date: Thursday March 8th

Time: 3-5pm approx

Venue: Bernath Auditorium

Dr. Ravi Zacharias is the founder of the Oxford Christian Apologetics Institute at Oxford University. He has spoken throughout the world, and has been invited by numerous world leaders to give talks about Faith from various viewpoints. He presents an intellectual view of Christianity rarely covered in the mass media.

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Folks, do your college kids know that when it comes to faith, reason is on their side? ~Chuck Colson

In this BreakPoint commentary, Taking on the Spaghetti Monster, Chuck Colson talks about atheism, reason, Christianity, and Ratio Christi.

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I observe that you are very religious in all respects. For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD'  ~Acts 17:22,23

Faced with a decision of how to respond to the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers in Athens he could have chosen to ignore them or berate them. After all, they had just been calling him an "idle babbler" and a proclaimer of strange deities (17:18). Furthermore, Paul had already learned that he might not be well received by those to whom he proclaimed his message (17:5), His choice, however, was neither ignoring nor berating. Rather, he chose to engage with them. How? He found a point of intersection--"an altar with this inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD." From that point of intersection he reasoned with those in the midst of the Areopagus, explaining the true nature of God, making clear how humanity relates to God, and establishing the proof for the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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In a few weeks, atheists will be gathering in Washington, DC to celebrate reason (www.ReasonRally.com).  They believe they have a corner on the market - that any reasonable and honest person will hold their position that God does not exist.

I would like to point out what I see as the elephant in the room.  While atheists purport to champion reason, reason contradicts the foundational principal of their worldview.

Let me elaborate.

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This conference is presented by the C.S. Lewis society, and will be held at Calvary Baptist Church in Clearwater on Feb. 24th and 25th. It will focus on the physical and spiritual health implications of the discoveries that have been made about the "epigenetic software" that runs our cellular DNA. Michael Behe, a top leader in the intelligent design movement will be on hand at this conference, along with Rick Sternberg, a scientist featured in the movie "Expelled" . This is a great oportunity! The cost is $12 for adults, $5 for students ($17 and $9 respectively) to include lunch on Sat.

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Ratio Christi's next meeting will be held on Sun., Feb. 26th, at 8 PM in the Baptist Collegiate Ministries Building. See you there!

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On March 24th, in the National Mall, a number of atheist speakers and celebrities, including Richard Dawkins, Dan Barker, and P.Z. Myers will be holding a “Reason Rally” (www.reasonrally.com). While there isn’t much in the way of specifics about what will be said at the rally, one thing is clear - it is an attempt to raise the profile of secular values and encourage non-believers to be more outspoken in their non-belief..

A group of Christians will be present at the rally, hoping to engage the attendees in discussion. Details of this coordinated effort can be found at www.TrueReason.org. Also, a book will soon be published in response to the rally. Stay tuned!

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Wear your Apologetics T- shirts to Friday Meetings!

Latecomers to the club: If you want an Apologetics Club T- Shirt, Contact Mrs. Scribner no later than March 9. We need to get one more order to Mr. Cromwell for more T-shirts soon, and we'd rather do it as one order.

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During our second meeting of the semester, I made a mistake in my response to a visitor’s question.  Having had time to reflect on the situation, I realize I made a common mistake and feel that by sharing it, others may benefit.

Let me set the scene.

We had a coffee night at a public coffee shop.  It was intentionally an “open-air” meeting where we had no real agenda - just to chat as a group about whatever came up.  Early on, a student who was visiting our group for the first time asked about Christianity borrowing from Buddhism.  When he raised the issue, I knew I had heard of similar claims before and responded that while Buddhism predates Christianity as a religion, and while there may be some similarities, that Christianity had not borrowed from Buddhism.  I then went on to say that I was aware of some specific teachings that overlapped between the two philosophies, but that it is common knowledge that they were added into Buddhist teachings after Christianity came on the scene.

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I've written a guest post (for JW Wartick's site) on life on other planets. In summary, I compare the worldview thinking of life on other planets to the thinking from a more open perspective (ie, open to the possibility of theism).  Our current evidence leans far more towards theism than natrualism.  Take a look here.

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