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Science Corner: “It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it.”

February 27, 2019 by Andy Walsh No Comments

Backlit profile of Sherlock Holmes statue

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth”–surely a familiar quote to anyone who has spent time with Sherlock Holmes.

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Filed Under: Science and Faith Tagged With: evidence, improbability, probability theory, science, science corner

Faith and Reason Part 4: Locke

December 9, 2018 by Mark Hansard No Comments

An important part to Locke’s project concerned epistemology, a branch of philosophy that defines knowledge. Epistemology deals with questions such as “What is knowledge, and how do we know when we have it?”

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Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: epistemology, evidence, faith, faith and reason, faith and reason series, John Locke, knowledge, nicholas wolterstorff, propositional logic, Revelation

Faith and Reason, Part 3: Aquinas

September 23, 2018 by Mark Hansard No Comments

Scholars who study Aquinas are divided about whether he believed that some propositions about God, for example, statements about his existence, can be adjudicated through reason alone, or whether they also require faith.

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Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: evidence, faith, faith and reason, faith and reason series, thomas aquinas, will

Getting started with “How Faith Is Like Skydiving” (Excerpt)

May 2, 2014 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

Many books on apologetics do well with the arguments, but have little on how to present them. Faith Is Like Skydiving combines reason with rhetoric, clarity with intellectual depth. It provides a vast array of arguments and a host of images to make those arguments clear and compelling. Intellectually sound and amazingly practical, this terrific book […]

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Filed Under: Books, Christ and the Academy, Quotes Tagged With: apologetics, dialogue, evangelism, evidence, excerpt, faith, Faith is Like Skydiving, fideism, intervarsity press, Rick Mattson, seekers, skepticism, skeptics, skydiving

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