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Says the Madman: “Humanity Is Dead, and We Are Its Murderers”

“Whither is humanity? cried the Madman. I will tell you. We have killed it. We are its murderers! But how could we do this? Are we not plunging continually? How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?” When Friedrich Nietzsche’s Madman told the world, ”God is dead, and we are his murderers,” it was as if …

January 24, 2012 – 5:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Worldviews | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (71)

Richard Dawkins’ Anti-Scientific Hypocrisy

In honor of Richard Dawkins’ refusal to debate William Lane Craig tomorrow, I’m re-posting a piece I wrote for the Newport News Daily Press early in 2007, highlighting his hypocritical willingness to ignore science when it suits his purpose. This article was also published at BreakPoint. Richard Dawkins’ book The God Delusion has been a …

October 24, 2011 – 3:29 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Origins and Science | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (6)

“If You Don’t Want God, You’d Better Have a Multiverse”

Late in 2008 Discover Magazine published an article that contains one of the clearest reasons any scientist has ever stated for favoring multiverse theory. I believe my blog entry on it is worth re-posting (with some edits/updates). Follow it to the end for the key statement, and then ask yourself: is he reasoning from science …

February 22, 2011 – 9:30 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , | Comments (47)

Only Natural

Did you know there were two tin woodmen in Oz? Probably not–the second one appears for the first time in this short snippet of a story. Only Natural “He thought it was a curse. I saw it differently. You probably remember his story–how he fell in love with a certain girl, who happened to be …

December 18, 2010 – 7:26 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, New Atheism | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1)

The Essential Missing Prologue To All Apologetics

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Arrogant Christianity?

The practice of Christian apologetics faces a new and mostly unrecognized hurdle. Although this hurdle’s pieces and parts are familiar to apologists and worldview thinkers, few have recognized their full implications. It is the new fundamental obstacle to listeners’ and readers’ saying “yes” to Jesus Christ and to Christianity, so much so that for many …

December 13, 2010 – 11:41 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, Postmodernism/ Relativism, Thinking Christianly | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (14)

Christians and Gay-Rights Advocates: Hatred or Humanity?

This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series To Treat One Another As Humans

I have just completed a short series on gay-rights advocates and Christians treating one another as humans. The first several titles I used in that series did not make clear what the topic was, so I’m appending this as a topic-title page. To Treat One Another As Humans: Urging gay-rights advocates to be consistent in …

December 10, 2010 – 7:24 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Thinking Christianly: Ten Essential Aspects

This entry is part 1 of 14 in the series Basic Discipleship of the Mind

My blog’s title is not so much about how I view myself but about what I hope to encourage: Christians thinking. Some writers have used the term “thinking Christianly” to describe this process: thinking well, thinking deeply, and thinking in accordance with the truth of God revealed through Jesus Christ. Today I’m starting a series …

January 25, 2010 – 11:58 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Thinking Christianly | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (4)

The Beauty of Jesus Christ

God is good, and his goodness is shown more clearly in Jesus Christ than in any other way. This is a strong beauty in Jesus Christ. “Beauty” is not a word we generally apply to men, but this post (redated and reposted here) was originally an introduction to a series I did some time ago …

May 2, 2009 – 9:19 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences, The Faith | Tagged , | Comments (1)