November 2020

The Propriety of Allowing Science to Illuminate Scripture

13 Comments / Apologetic Method, Genesis 1-11, Probability Theory, Science and Faith / jmclatchie

The “young earth” teaching introduces an unnecessary and erroneous tension between Scripture and science that has confused many and I have personally met many people who have turned aside from their faith due to what they see as the impossible challenge of trying to reconcile that understanding of Scripture with the clear scientific evidence. They end up being neither ‘old’ or ‘young’ earth and worst of all not believing that God is the Creator at all.

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Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence? Assessing Carl Sagan’s Dictum

6 Comments / Philosophy, Probability Theory / jmclatchie

So confident was David Hume about this principle that he said, humble man that he was, “I flatter myself that I have discovered an argument…which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and consequently, will be useful as long as the world endures.”

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Grappling with Divine Hiddenness: Why Does God Not Make His Existence More Obvious?

5 Comments / Divine Hiddenness, Existence of God, Philosophy / jmclatchie

One of the most challenging objections to the existence of God is the problem of divine hiddenness. Closely related to the problem of evil, the problem of divine hiddenness asks “Where is God?”; “Why doesn’t God make His existence more obvious?”; “Why does God leave any room for doubt?”

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The Evidential Value of 1 Corinthians 15:3-8 to the Case for the Resurrection

3 Comments / Bart Ehrman, Biblical Reliability, Critics of Christianity, Evidence for the Resurrection / jmclatchie

The text is of evidential value given that it allows us to establish, in harmony with other independent lines of evidence, that the resurrection claim goes back to the apostolic eyewitnesses themselves.

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JONATHAN MCLATCHIE

The Propriety of Allowing Science to Illuminate Scripture

Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence? Assessing Carl Sagan’s Dictum

Grappling with Divine Hiddenness: Why Does God Not Make His Existence More Obvious?

The Evidential Value of 1 Corinthians 15:3-8 to the Case for the Resurrection

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