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Atheist Scientist tries to challenge Ravi Zacharias, INSTANTLY REGRETS IT!

Ravi Zacharias shuts down an Atheist scientist by bypassing his question regarding Human Free Will and God's Sovereignty and attacked the real problems with his worldview. He pointed out that the Bible has not been disproved by science and further arguing that determinism is just as much a controversy in science as it is in Christianity.  Dr Zacharias does not agree that our world is deterministic and I have a more compatibilistic view of Free Will. It seems to me that we do make decisions and do what we want but God does break in and changes things in our wills directly or indirectly if he wants to accomplish what he wants to do.

High Five of the Day - God and the Applicability of Mathematics | Reasonable Faith

In his recent debate with Dr Rosenberg,  William Lane Craig touched an argument for God's existence using the applicability of mathematics to the natural world. On the his website, Dr Craig was asked the questions:

Isn't it the case that mathematics could, and in my opinion does seem to be, just a useful fiction as you mentioned in your debate? You say something along the lines of "this wouldn't explain how nature seems to be written in the language of mathematics". Isn't it also the case that if mathematical concepts are useful fictions, then they would describe (accurately if well thought out) the universe as apprehended by our perceptions? Shouldn't we expect that our useful fictions would be useful precisely because they accurately describe our observations?
I have thought that perhaps I am missing the point of the argument though. Perhaps it is the case that you aren't saying God must exist because our useful fictions, particularly those of mathematics describing reality, would just be happy coincidence. Indeed, what kind of coincidence would it be that our tools were designed for the purpose they serve? Perhaps you are making the point that without God the universe wouldn't necessarily exhibit these extremely logical properties.
Maybe I'm just completely wrong headed on this. Could you please set me straight?

Read more: http://www.reasonablefaith.org/god-and-the-applicability-of-mathematics#ixzz2Ll8hldKh

Here is a quote from Dr William Lane Craig's Answer:

Your question is about the argument from the applicability of mathematics to the physical world. Question of the Week #277 is about the only place where I have reflected on this question, and I refer you there. Again, it was reading Rosenberg’s own book that prompted me to put this into the form of the theistic argument. For mathematics lies at the foundation of physics, at whose altar Rosenberg bows. Given his scientism (epistemological naturalism), he cannot dismiss applied mathematics as illusory. Rosenberg also emphasizes that naturalism simply cannot tolerate cosmic coincidences. But then what explanation can the naturalist offer for why mathematics is applicable to the physical world, that is to say, for why the physical world is imbued with the complex mathematical structure that physics discovers. Naturalism founders in this regard, whereas theism has an easy answer: God created the universe on the mathematical structure that He had in mind.

Read more: http://www.reasonablefaith.org/god-and-the-applicability-of-mathematics#ixzz2Ll4vYMXw

I think reading the full response is  a good idea. I have to say that I have often thought that the fact that we can use mathematics to model the universe is good evidence that there is a rational mind that not only brought the universe into being but holds it together. I've been fascinated by the fact that so many physical constants contain numbers and multiples of  Pi, 2, and 3. It seems beyond rationality to concluded this is just a coincidence not a fingerprint or a signature.

God and the Applicability of Mathematics | Reasonable Faith

Truthbomb Apologetics: Documentary- The Magician's Twin: C.S. Lewis and the Case against Scientism

Here is a great documentary talking about life and work of C.S. Lewis and how he predicted the rising reliance on science - treating it like a religion. I can see much of what he predicted has indeed become part of Western culture just as he warned. Scientism is not the same things as science. And if you think that science is the only kind of worthwhile knowledge and that it allows you to understand everything and nothing without it - you are in scientism. Just because you recognize the distinction does not mean you hate science.


Truthbomb Apologetics: Documentary- The Magician's Twin: C.S. Lewis and the Case against Scientism

“Science vs. Religion: What Scientists Really Think” - National Messianic Jewish | Examiner.com

Mariano has written a great essay about how silly it is to think that  science and religion must be at odds. As if it helps Atheism. It's not rational. It's not reasonable. It's not logical. Mariano begins:

It is fascinating to note that atheists boast that most (whatever that means) scientists are atheists. They then boast that scientific findings lend weight to atheism (whatever that means).
They appear to be un-skeptical (as is usual) that atheists would come to atheistic conclusions. They are (for some reason) convinced that these atheist scientists are unbiased and strictly truth seekers.

Read the rest of it at the following link.

“Science vs. Religion: What Scientists Really Think” - National Messianic Jewish | Examiner.com

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Scientism by Lee Strobel MP3 Audio - Apologetics 315

Brian Auten has done us a favor. He posted a lecture from Lee Strobel regarding the relationship between faith and science. You can listen to the lecture by following the link below to Apologetics 315.

Scientism by Lee Strobel MP3 Audio - Apologetics 315

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