There’s Probably No Dawkins

American philosopher, debater and Christian apologist William Lane Craig has been getting attention for Richard Dawkins‘ refusal to debate him. Craig’s Oxford debate has been publicised with a bus campaign stating ‘There’s probably no Dawkins‘. It’s a funny and clever riff on the atheist bus campaign, and good publicity for William Lane Craig’s Reasonable Faith debate tour. Dawkins is […]

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Comparing Assumptions: Can we know that we know?

Or, Is materialism an optical illusion? (Apologies for the delay in my blog posts on Creation and Evolution – my netbook was stolen when thieves broke into my house recently, which has set back some of my writing and blogging.) In this post, I’m going to compare a Christian worldview and a materialistic worldview, and […]

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Creation and Evolution: Starting Points

If you’re not a Christian, or haven’t encountered Creationism before, the idea that the universe was in fact created by God in six days around 6000 years ago probably strikes you just as mad as believing that the Earth is flat. Richard Dawkins finds Creationism incomprehensible. In his review of Blueprints Solving the Mystery of […]

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God and secularism

Continuing my thoughts on faith and politics… Tom Price over on his blog A Better Hope asks some Worldview Level Questions About Secular Democracy: Hazel Blears said, ‘We live in a secular democracy.’ But does she live in an ‘outside, inside’ ? Let me explain. The concept of secular democracy that she has articulated, has […]

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I’m a secular humanist, apparently

So says the website of Worldview Weekend, on a scale of “Communist/Marxist/Socialist/Secular Humanist Worldview Thinker” to “Strong Biblical Worldview Thinker”! According to Worldview Weekend, some of the “Correct Answers” for someone with a “Biblical worldview” that I failed to give included: Strongly Agreeing with the statement “All forms of government-sponsored socialism stifle economic growth and […]

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