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Signs are abounding that something of a spiritual rebirth is gathering strength in the West, especially the U.S. and the U.K., and, according to Justin Brierley, and one of the prompts of this renewal, ironically, is the decline of the once-prominent New Atheism movement. “While it started in about 2005, I noticed that the conversation…
Read MoreMost folks educated in recent decades were taught — and it’s quite likely that the vast majority still believe — that there is nothing that makes up reality other than the material world of atoms, molecules, energy and motion. There is no spirit, nothing that is not matter in motion, measurable and without non-material significance.…
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Elephants never forget because they are extremely intelligent. Carthaginian General Hannibal crossed the Alps with a bunch of war elephants that he then used to confront the Roman Legion. There would be no circus without elephants. Those three statements likely exhaust what most people know about this giant. But there is something else about elephants…
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That’s the headline on a display ad a bunch of congressional aides in both parties will be challenged by today in this week’s edition of the CNCT Newsletter. It’s the latest installment of HillFaith’s continuing series of one-minute videos asking challenging questions for all of us. Here’s the ad: And here’s the link to the…
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Former reporter Lee Strobel is the author of “The Case for Christ” and multiple successor volumes that describe his exhaustive assessment of the historical, archeological, literary, medical, scientific and logical evidence for Christianity. The most important part of Strobel’s investigation focused on the evidence for the literal resurrection of Jesus Christ. Such emphasis makes imminent…
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A central issue in the continuing debate between advocates of Evolutionary Naturalism (EN) and those pointing to Intelligent Design (ID) is that of “irreducible complexity,” or the dilemma of necessarily multi-sequential development. Put simply, the issue is EN posits development of changes in life forms come about through step-by-step adaption as those that contribute to…
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You may never have wondered how the honey bee tells the other honey bees in the nest where to find the latest supply of food, but you should have because therein lies another fascinating that points to the necessity of a creator. As Kyle Butt of the Apologetics Press explains in the following short video,…
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Consider Paul the Apostle. In a work in which numerous characters stand out — Moses, Joshua, David, Solomon, Samson, Gideon, among many others — his name, exceeded only by that of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, rises above all the others. Two millennia after his four missionary journeys had spread Christianity far and wide in…
Read More“Where do natural laws originate” was not likely the first question on your mind this morning as you gazed into the mirror, washed the sleep out of your eyes, and contemplated your breakfast choices. But what would you say if that question was posed to you later in the day by a colleague during the…
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