Human Life Is a Statistical Improbability

In A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson marvels at what makes up human life:

No one really knows, but there may be as many as a million types ...

Atheist Unable to Meet Christian's Challenge

In the 19th century Charles Bradlaugh, a prominent atheist, challenged a Christian man to debate the validity of the claims of Christianity. The Christian ...

"Minority Report" Writer on Reality

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."

—Philip K. Dick, science fiction author, writer of the summer ...

Witness Greater Than Reason

God has given enough reason in this world to make faith a most reasonable thing. But he has left out enough to make it impossible to live by reason alone. ...

Purpose of Pain

In The Case For Faith, Lee Strobel records a dialogue between himself and author/philosopher Peter Kreeft:

"How can a mere finite human be sure that ...

Fathers Protect

Have you ever wondered whether a giant asteroid might hit our planet, like the one that may have wiped out the dinosaurs on earth?

The planet Jupiter "is ...

Justice without God?

In Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis offers one philosophical explanation for the existence of God:

In the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist—in ...

Hopeless Death of Carl Sagan

Jerry Adler writes in Newsweek:

[Carl] Sagan was fascinated by the phenomenon that educated adults, with the wonders of science manifest all around them, ...

The Wrong Tools

God is not discoverable or demonstrable by purely scientific means, unfortunately for the scientific minded. But that really proves nothing. It simply ...

God Cannot Be Grasped

God cannot be grasped by the mind. If he could be grasped, he would not be God.