Biblical Apologetics

John von Neumann, a Hungarian-American mathematician and polymath, was a lifelong secular agnostic. However, in the last eight months of his life, after being diagnosed with bone or pancreatic cancer, likely due to his work on the manhattan project, he called a priest to his side and expressed his belief in the existence of God. Some have speculated that this was a case of Pascal's wager, in which one chooses to believe in God in order to avoid the possibility of eternal damnation. Pascal's wager is a probabilistic argument for believing in God. It goes like this: if God does not exist, then there is no loss in believing in him. However, if God does exist, then there is a great gain to be had in believing in him, as one would avoid eternal damnation. Therefore, the wager says, it is more logical to believe in God than not to believe in him. There is no way to know for sure whether von Neumann's deathbed conversion was motivated by Pascal's wager. However, it...

In the first edition of his book On the Origin of Species , Charles Darwin wrote about the possibility of a bear evolving into a whale-like creature. He cited the example of a black bear that he had read about, which was seen swimming for hours with its mouth open, catching insects in the water. Darwin hypothesized that if this bear were to continue to live in a water-based environment, and if there were no other animals competing with it for food, then it could eventually evolve into a creature with a larger mouth and other adaptations that would allow it to live in the water full-time. He even went so far as to say that this creature could become "as monstrous as a whale." Darwin's theory was met with ridicule by many of his contemporaries, who pointed out that there were many anatomical and physiological differences between bears and whales that would make it very difficult for a bear to evolve into a whale-like creature. Darwin himself eventually came to a...

2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up. Isaiah 34:4 And all the host of heaven will wear away, And the sky will be rolled up like a scroll; All their hosts will also wither away As a leaf withers from the vine, Or as one withers from the fig tree. Revelation 20:11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away , and no place was found for them. The Big Rip is a hypothetical cosmological model concerning the ultimate fate of the universe, in which the matter of the universe, from stars and galaxies to atoms and subatomic particles, and even spacetime itself, is progressively torn apart by the expansion of the universe at a certain time in the future, until distances between particles will become infinite. The Big Rip is a possible outcome of the curre...

""I don't assume…I simply assume." "I simply accept what the deliverances of contemporary science are. Now, there doesn’t mean that I believe in them or defend them. I simply assume them." - WLC YouTube interview of William Lane Craig with Mike Lincona: Lincona: Let's shift to how you approach science. What is your philosophy of science, and how does it shape how you think about the integration of science and theology? WlC: I approach science with an open mind. I don't assume that the deliverances of contemporary science are correct, but I also don't dismiss them out of hand. I simply assume them and see if they can be reconciled with my biblical commitments. In the book Quest for Adam, I argue that there is no incompatibility between the full-blown theory of evolution of the human species and my biblical commitment to a universal human pair or progenitors. I do this by assuming the deliverances of modern science and then as...