Apologetics and Evidence

There have been so many technological advancements in the last few centuries. I think of foam cement , plastic bottle houses, theological ideas, scientific debates, archaeological connections, not to mention electronic technology, etc. The industrial revolution, for instance, changed the way products are made and the mass production of widgets and Spacely Sprockets means that everyone can have one. The internet allows the lightning fast communication of not only news, but also ideas and technology. Every generation in the past has marveled at how they have noticed the pace of change in their own time, but myself growing up with the internet (late Gen X), I can honestly say that because of the internet, times are changing at a pace the world has never before experienced. The internet has reached the world with new Ideas and has made much of it act as though the world is only made up of first world culture. All this data that I absorb gets me thinking about Matthew 24 . As he ...

Life is precious... In researching for leading a discussion on the nature of the soul and the mind/body problem,  I remember reading an article on flashes of light at the moment of fertilization of an egg by a sperm. Please check out this brief video clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-vfTQQZ5W0 There is a correlation with zinc and light at the moment of fertilization which researchers are calling a "zinc firework," which is quite literally a flash of light. I think this is extraordinary for several reasons. The Bible Describes God as Light In 1 John 1:5-7, the Bible says,  “This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.”  It is interesti...