Pious Ranking of Information Sources
Tim Chaffey and Jason Lisle explain how and why Scripture must take precedence over (theories about) nature in Christian scientific work….since the Bible has never been wrong about anything, and since it is the very Word of the One who knows everything, we must...Who Needs Red Bull? Piety Gives You Wings
Image: 3D visualization suggesting DNA, a free to use Unsplash image by user Braňo. Arthur T. Pierson describes how the duties of Christian piety, though at first burdensome, in the end bring delight, as wings empower flight. We are reminded once more of...
Can You Ace The SAT/GRE/LSAT/MCAT Using Random Mutations?
Image courtesy Han Braxmeier (released to public domain).Nancy M. Darrall, in her contribution to In Six Days, illustrates how random variation without intelligence-originated new information cannot yield evolution.DNA…is analogous to…paper and...
Pious Confidence
Edward F. Hills, in his Believing Bible Study, notes how Christian confidence should be grounded in faith, not faith grounded in Christian confidence.For many years the thinking of conservative Christians has been a house divided against itself, orthodox in some...
Pious Apologetics
Image courtesy ArmchairBuilder.com (Creative Commons license). Greg L. Bahnsen, in his Presuppositional Apologetics: Stated and Defended, offers insight on the properly pious Christian approach to apologetics.In Scripture, God requires Christian believers to subject...
Where Could You Affix The Warning Label For This One?
Norman Geisler and Frank Turek observe an inconsistency in U.S. lawmaking. On the one hand, use of government force to discourage smoking is deemed appropriate because studies find that smokers die, on average, seven years sooner than non-smokers. On the other hand,...
An Open System Gathers No Moss, Only Mess
Image: photo of moss on a rock in Yosemite, California, by Allan Chen, used under a Creative Commons (CC BY-ND 2.0) license. In the 1984 Baker edition of The Biblical Basis For Modern Science, author Henry M. Morris refutes the argument that earth’s being an...
The Impropriety, If Not Impiety, of Mysticism
Image: “life is a mystery” mug, a photo by Flickr user Cheryl, used under a Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) license. In The Fountainhead (1996 Signet paperback edition), Ayn Rand, atheist philosopher-novelist and widely known proponent of a godless and (to...
If It’s Nonsense, It’s Not Pious
Some suggest that pious Christian faith includes belief that the logically contradictory is true, such as in a divine realm beyond the laws of logic and all distinctions. In By Scripture Alone (2002 Trinity Foundation edition), W. Gary Crampton rejects this as impious...
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