Monthly Archives: January 2008

Atheism and Violence

Regarding “new atheists” who imagine a faith-less peaceful utopia: “One would think that, given their insistence that faith and violence are inextricably linked, these authors would be a bit more circumspect about their own rhetoric. As it happens, one does not have to read too far into these books to see an underlying advocacy of …

January 29, 2008 – 8:46 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism | Tagged , | Comments (69)

Richards and Hitchens Debate Intelligent Design at Stanford

I’m hoping it won’t be long before we can see this on video: last night’s debate between Jay Richards and Christopher HItchens on Intelligent Design. Stanford Daily Online reported on it, including this: Hitchens then requested the chance to ask Richards a question. “Do you believe Jesus Christ was born of a virgin?” he asked …

January 28, 2008 – 1:58 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Origins and Science | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (44)

Cumulative Case for the Resurrection

Here are 69 pages of evidences and reasoning on behalf of the historical truth of the resurrection. I just found out about it, so I haven’t had time to read it, but I’m sure it’s worth passing along: 1. A Cumulative Case for the Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth [PDF] — A draft of an …

January 28, 2008 – 6:56 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences | Tagged , | Comments (1)

New Support for Mobile Browsers

I’ve just installed software on this blog that is supposed to make it very mobile-friendly. I don’t have a mobile browser to test it on, so I would appreciate any reports you send me from yours, if you have one.

January 28, 2008 – 6:52 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Unfiled | Comments (3)

What Christ Does for Us, Part 9: The Cross, Again

In a series on what Christ does for us, one post on Christ’s cross and resurrection is hardly enough. I must linger a while longer. Ravi Zacharias once said (according to a friend of mine), “The only alternative to the cross is the trivialization of sin.” I’m sure he was speaking pastorally, to Bible believers, …

January 27, 2008 – 12:54 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , , , | Comments (6)

“What chores would Jesus do?” – Los Angeles Times

Interesting article: Moving in last January, they pledged to spend one year together, learning to become true followers of Christ. They would give generously, love unconditionally. They would exchange their middle-class ways for humility and simplicity, forgoing Hardee’s fries, new CDs, even the basic comfort of privacy. “The focus has to be on God and …

January 26, 2008 – 5:22 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Comments (1)

What Christ Does For Us, Part 8: Death and Resurrection

Jesus Christ lived on Earth and displayed a life of perfect love, trust, and worship. His example is incomparably great–and it’s unreachable. Part of the validation of the message of Christ is in its unique combination of reality and perfection in the character He displayed. The standard He set is strongly desirable–if being a person …

January 26, 2008 – 8:29 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1)

ROUSes found! No Kidding!

Rodents of Unusual Size: eight feet long, 1700 to 3000 pounds–really! But they lived a long time ago. (Never heard of ROUSes? You gotta watch The Princess Bride. You don’t know what you’re missing.)

January 26, 2008 – 6:43 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Just For Fun, Origins and Science | Comments (1)

Christian Carnival 208

Find the current Christian Carnival at Chasing the Wind. Snippets from some posts I found to be encouraging and interesting: At Life Nurturing Education, on finding strength in weakness: Power in weakness. Perfect sufficiency. Strength in grace. It all seems so backwards, yet these seeds do nourish my famished soul. Christ is my sufficiency. On …

January 24, 2008 – 9:43 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Miscellanea | Comments (2)

Waiting My Turn to Read The Design Matrix

The book arrived today–but somebunny else got there first! (The Design Matrix: A Consilience of Clues (2007) by Mike Gene.) (If you don’t get the point, then you haven’t been reading Mike Gene and friends at Telic Thoughts.)

January 23, 2008 – 6:56 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , , | Comments (3)