Posts by Mark Tapscott
Why Easter is All About the Single Most Important Fact in History
How would you respond were you asked: what is the single most important fact in all of human history? Rome fell? Roland died so Charlemagne could defeat the Saracens? The printing press? The U.S. Constitution? America beat the Nazis to the atomic bomb? Those and many more facts have each arguably changed the course of…
Read MoreCONSIDER THIS: Four Proofs for the Resurrection of Jesus
Today is Good Friday, the day 2,000 years ago that Jesus Christ was tried and convicted in a kangaroo court in Jerusalem, tortured by Roman soldiers, then nailed to a cross by them and left to die. But on Sunday, the tomb in which Jesus had been buried was empty and that’s when the most…
Read MoreThis Timeline Forever Changed The Easter Resurrection Debate
Easter is right around the corner, so there will be more than the usual attention paid in the media and elsewhere to the debate about whether Jesus actually was literally resurrected from the dead three days after being crucified, or was it merely something imagined — or manufactured — by His disciples. Professor Gary Habermas…
Read MoreSo You Think 98 Percent Of Our DNA Is Evolutionary ‘Junk’
Actually, no, it’s not. Here’s how we know this:
Read MoreTESTIMONIES: An Atheist’s Intense Hatred of God Is Softened and Changed by Christian Love
Mike Arnold was a child when his family’s home caught fire. In the ensuing blaze, he survived by jumping out of a second-story window but his two brothers both died, one of smoke inhalation and the other of severe burns over 90 percent of his body. Mike became a devout, convinced and bitter atheist, filled…
Read MoreHILL STAFF NEWS: Great Advice for Seeking a New Job on the Hill
There are more than 10,000 employees working for Congress on Capitol Hill and elsewhere as aides to individual senators, representatives and committees. For anybody interested in public service, politics and government, being “on the Hill” can be literally nirvana. So what if you are looking for your first job on the Hill, or you have been…
Read MoreIRREDUCIBLE MIND: You Can’t See or Hold It but You Know You’ve Got One
Much of the conventional wisdom in the scientific and academic spaces holds that reality is made up solely of the natural or material universe. If it’s not natural or material, it doesn’t exist. That means, among much else, there is no such thing as the supernatural or non-material. But what about your mind, your consciousness? …
Read MoreIRREDUCIBLE MIND (Part 5): How Can Someone With Partial or No Brain Have Consciousness?
There has been a raft of Near-Death Experiences (NDE) reported in recent decades and those reports have generated a growing body of clinical analyses seeking to account for them that directly challenge the idea that consciousness is created by our brains. It’s not just from NDEs, however, from which significant evidence that consciousness does not…
Read MoreIRREDUCIBLE MIND (Part 4): And Then There’s Quantum Biology
You’ve no doubt heard of Quantum Mechanics (QM), but did you know there is a growing field of scientific inquiry that applies QM to biology? Naturally, it is otherwise known as Quantum Biology (QB) and it appears to explain a lot that traditional biology can’t. Things like how birds that migrate back and forth over…
Read MoreIRREDUCIBLE MIND (Part 3): Why Materialists Can’t Fully Explain Consciousness
Imagine for a moment that you have the unique ability to scan the left-hand page of an open book with your left eye and the right-hand page with your right eye. Would that be amazing? Believe it or not, Kim Peek, the man on whom the 1988 movie “Rain Man” was based, could do that.…
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