One Christian Thought

It really makes me sad that the believability of miracles is even a subject in and of itself which Christians have to respond to. The major reason I'm against intellectually dismissing the supernatural is at the end of this post, because first I need to explain why I think doing so is just downright unreasonable. I can do that, so I appreciate this opportunity God has given me to support Him using the material He supplied by working through other people, even though in my opinion philosophical naturalism would be funny if no one believed it.  That's right -- philosophical naturalism. The enemy of religious faith. It's the belief that the world is governed by, and only by , natural law, no matter what. There are two arguments against miracles dealt with in this post. One is that they cannot happen because they are an occurrence which does not accord with the completely absolute laws of nature. Sometimes scientists can view miraculous claims as an insult to their profession b...

I have read a lot of quotes from Paul Davies in many books. He is a "renowned physicist at Arizona State University," (1) "Templeton Laureate and prominent physicist," (2) and was dubbed by former leading atheist Antony Flew as "arguably the most influential contemporary expositor of modern science." (3) The Evidence for God in the Universe “The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture,” writes physicist Freeman Dyson, “the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense knew we were coming.” (4) Agnostic physicist Robert Jastrow of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies calls the life-permitting constants of the universe “the most theistic result ever to come out of science.” (5) Nobel Prize winning astronomer Donald Page of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Science calculated that given all of the possible ways in which the constants could have obtained in a Big Bang, the odds of getting a universe capable of...