Archive for the ‘Quotes’ Category

THE BEST EXPLANATION

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

The Christian worldview is not proven in one or two strokes, but is rather verified by appealing to a wide and compelling variety of converging arguments. Christianity is shown to be the best explanation for the origin and nature of the universe as well as the human condition and the facts of history.

Douglas Groothuis (The Denver Journal, vol. 2, 1999)

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SITTING THERE FOR CENTURIES

Monday, March 1st, 2010

For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.

Robert Jastrow (1925-2008), God and the Astronomers, p. 116 (1978)

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A BEAUTIFUL THING

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

CREATED FOR MAN TO LIVE IN

Friday, February 19th, 2010

We are, by astronomical standards, a pampered, cossetted, cherished group of creatures; our Darwinian claim to have done it all ourselves is as ridiculous and as charming as a baby’s brave efforts to stand on its own feet and refuse his mother’s hand. If the universe had not been made with the most exacting precision we could never have come into existence. It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in.

John A. O’Keefe (1916-2000) The Theological Impact of the New Cosmology, in Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers, 118 (as quoted in The Case for a Creator, by Lee Strobel)

THE HALLMARKS OF DESIGN

Monday, February 1st, 2010

 

If living things - things that we manifestly did not design ourselves - bear the hallmarks of design, if they exhibit a signature that would lead us to recognize intelligent activity in any other realm of experience, then perhaps it is time to rehabilitate this lost way of knowing and to rekindle our wonder in the intelligibility and design of nature that first inspired the scientific revolution.

Stephen Meyer, Ph.D., Signature in the Cell (2009)

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I WAS A CONVINCED ATHEIST

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

 

When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the central claims of Judeo-Christian theology are in fact true, that these claims are straightforward deductions of the laws of physics as we now understand them. I have been forced into these conclusions by the inexorable logic of my own special branch of physics.

Frank Tipler, Ph.D.The Physics of Immortality (1994)

THE ROAD TO HELL

Friday, January 15th, 2010

 

The safest road to hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. . . . The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather (for the devil).

C.S. Lewis (1888-1963), The Screwtape Letters

HE ASKS ONLY YOUR AVAILABILITY

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

 

God does not ask your ability or your inability. He asks only your availability.

Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001)

ALL MUST OFFER AN ANSWER

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

 

Let us remember that every worldview - not just Christianity’s - must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering…this is not just a problem distinctive to Christianity. It will not do for the challenger just to raise the question. This problem of evil is one to which we all must offer an answer, regardless of the belief system to which we subscribe.

Ravi Zacharias
 

CANNOT BE EXPLAINED BY NATURAL SELECTION

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Stephen C. Meyer’s Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design (HarperCollins) is a detailed account of the problem of how life came into existence from lifeless matter – something that had to happen before the process of biological evolution could begin. The controversy over Intelligent Design has so far focused mainly on whether the evolution of life since its beginnings can be explained entirely by natural selection and other non-purposive causes. Meyer takes up the prior question of how the immensely complex and exquisitely functional chemical structure of DNA, which cannot be explained by natural selection because it makes natural selection possible, could have originated without an intentional cause. He examines the history and present state of research on non-purposive chemical explanations of the origin of life, and argues that the available evidence offers no prospect of a credible naturalistic alternative to the hypothesis of an intentional cause. Meyer is a Christian, but atheists, and theists who believe God never intervenes in the natural world, will be instructed by his careful presentation of this fiendishly difficult problem.

Thomas Nagel, Ph.D.