I had the opportunity to be in Dallas, TX a few weeks ago to witness the total solar eclipse. Though heavy cloud coverage threatened to obscure the whole thing, thankfully, the clouds parted about an hour before first contact and the sky remained clear throughout the eclipse event. And it was even more incredible than […]
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I recently had the opportunity to take my family, along with some close family friends, to visit Washington, D.C. And interestingly, the same question was posed in two different places that we visited: What makes us human? One place was the Museum of Natural History and the other was the Museum of the Bible. Though
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Stephen Hawking once said, “I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God.” Although Hawking may not have been intentionally invoking the popular problem-solving principle known as Ockham’s razor, he does invoke the concept. It has also influenced other atheists to reduce their defense of atheism down to this “simplest explanation” idea. But is
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In1687, Isaac Newton published Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy). It has been referred to as the single most influential book on physics. Within that text, Newton expounds on nearly all the essential concepts of physics, including explanations of the laws of motion and the theory of gravity. Isaac Newton was the first to develop
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Christians are frequently asked by unbelievers to “prove” that God exists. While many Christians know from experience the truth of God’s existence, it is difficult to offer those experiences as proof of God to a skeptic and a scoffer. They are typically demanding proof be given through some kind of scientific way. While many Christians
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As a calculus teacher, I have found that many times my students don’t always struggle with the calculus concepts but struggle with concepts from lower-level math that should have been mastered prior to calculus. Oftentimes their mistakes aren’t in taking an integral or finding a derivative but in simplifying a radical or combining fractions. There
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In our world today where it seems change is the only constant thing or maybe where it seems things are spinning out of control, there is still the constancy and order of the universe. While it’s probably not something that is given much thought, no matter what craziness happens in the world, gravity is still
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So often we reduce the words of Jesus down to the happy platitudes that fit nicely on a wall plaque. They tend to focus on His words of love and mercy, things that certainly embody who Jesus is. Those are great reminders of the compassion of Jesus, but if we limit our understanding of Jesus
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For centuries there has appeared at first glance to be a conflict between science and religion. Do the planets revolve around the earth or the sun? Is the earth flat or is it a sphere? Do animals reproduce according to their kind or can they evolve into different kinds? However, when we take a closer
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There either is a God or there is not a God. There is no in between. There is not a kind-of, sort-of, maybe God. But how could we ever know if this God does or does not exist? Atheists would say there is no God. Theists would say there is a God. Agnostics would say
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