CrossExamined Blog
Tackling today’s toughest questions, these posts explore topics on God, morality, science, and culture.
Whether you’re a skeptic or believer, each article challenges your worldview and sharpens your thinking. Engaging, thought-provoking, and unapologetic, this is a place to dig deeper and follow the truth wherever it leads.
Getting Over a Hump: Does the Lack of Camel Bones Disprove the Historicity of the Biblical Patriarchs?
DebatesIn a recent article published in the journal Tel Aviv, Drs. Erez Ben-Yosef and Lidar Sapir-Hen of Tel Aviv University’s Department of Archaeology and Near Eastern Cultures, believe that they have pin pointed the date of the domestication of camels in Israel. Their research is based primarily from data that they have collected from the […]
The Ken Ham vs. Bill Nye “Post-Debate” Round Up
1. Does Truth Exist?, 2. Does God Exist?, 3. Are Miracles Possible?, Atheism, Culture CrossExamined, DebatesJust as expected, the much anticipated and hyped debate between Kan Ham (CEO of Answers in Genesis) & Bill Nye (the “Science” Guy) sparked a “mini-blizzard” of blogs and articles from people on both sides of the debate (I guess this is just one more to add to the pile). If you happened to miss […]
Christians in the Super Bowl
Culture CrossExaminedHere’s a compilation of comments from Seahawks and Broncos who are Christians (or at least believers in God). Thought some of you might find this inspiring. (The major media only seems to carry such comments when it’s impossible not to– when they are made live.)
How to Reach Your Non-Christian Relatives this Christmas
CrossExaminedIt’s going to happen again this year. You’re going to get together with a bunch of people who would rather talk about anything but Jesus. What can you do to reach them? Face it. You’re probably not going to get them to accept Jesus by the end of dinner. A direct frontal assault with facts […]
Does Causality Apply Outside of Space and Time?
2. Does God Exist?, Atheism, Philosophy of ScienceDuring a radio debate I had with an atheist recently, I pointed out that the universe had a beginning and thus needs a cause. He responded by claiming that since there was no space or time prior to the creation event we shouldn’t appeal to the law of causality to claim that the creation event […]
“Eternity Has the Floor:” Another Look at Pascal’s Wager
1. Does Truth Exist?, 2. Does God Exist?, 3. Are Miracles Possible?, 4. Is the NT True?, Atheism, CrossExaminedSilent you stand before the altar of death! Life here and life after constitute an eternal conundrum; but its expiring spark awakens us to holy devotion and quiets every other voice except religion. Eternity has the floor. ~Alfred Nobel: read at his funeral (1896) The above words were spoken at Alfred Nobel’s funeral service in […]
Human Design Blindly Echoes Design in Nature
Debates, Theology and Christian ApologeticsScientists continually tell us that certain features found in nature are not “designed” but are the product of unguided evolutionary development. In his book The Blind Watchmaker biologist Richard Dawkins curiously has to remind his readers and warn them that some things in nature may appear designed when in fact they are not. He wrote […]
A Universe from Nothing? Dr. Krauss Explains Nothing
2. Does God Exist?, Atheism, Philosophy of Science, Theology and Christian ApologeticsIf Dr. Richard Dawkins is the atheist’s rock star of biology, Dr. Lawrence Krauss is the atheist’s rock star of physics (maybe only second to Stephen Hawking). An engaging speaker and winsome personality, Dr. Krauss is a theoretical physicist and professor at Arizona State University. In his book A Universe from Nothing, Krauss seeks to […]
A Titanic Failure: Never Learning from Our Past
1. Does Truth Exist?, 2. Does God Exist?, Atheism, CrossExamined, Culture CrossExamined, Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, Theology and Christian ApologeticsRulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this, – that peoples and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. ~ Georg Wilhelm F. Hegel, from his lectures, On the Philosophy of […]
A Not So Bright Future: Technology, Atheism & the Death of Man
1. Does Truth Exist?, 2. Does God Exist?, Atheism, CrossExamined, Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, Theology and Christian ApologeticsIt is widely believed that the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche ushered in the twentieth century with his famous phrase, “God is dead…”[1] Nietzsche himself died in 1900. Obviously, atheism didn’t start in the twentieth century with Nietzsche. In fact, he was the culmination (the pinnacle) of a long line of thinkers which reached back into […]
Three Apologetics Conferences Coming Soon
Theology and Christian ApologeticsYou have three outstanding opportunities to participate in apologetics conferences over the next several weeks. Your first opportunity is to join me, Doug Groothuis and Mary Jo Sharp online this Saturday, September 7, for the “Is Christianity Actually True?” conference put on by the C.S. Lewis Society of New Zealand. There will be time for […]
Archaeology, the Bible & the Great Dating Debate
4. Is the NT True?, CrossExamined, Philosophy of Science, Theology and Christian ApologeticsAn article posted by the Biblical Archaeology Society cites a recent report published in BASOR (the Bulletin for the American Schools of Oriental Research) which calls into question the dating of the Siloam Tunnel which was supposedly excavated during the reign of the biblical king, Hezekiah. According to references in the Old Testament (specifically 2 […]
How Will Same Sex Marriage Hurt You?
Culture CrossExamined, Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsIf you think that push for same sex marriage and so-called “non-discrimination” laws are all about love and tolerance, you couldn’t be more wrong. A decision out of the New Mexico Supreme Court this week couldn’t be more intolerant and un-American. According to the court, a Christian photographer violated a New Mexico non-discrimination law by […]
Does God Exist? Craig vs. Millican
2. Does God Exist?, Atheism, DebatesDr. William Lane Craig is probably the best debater for evangelical Christianity today. Rarely do Craig’s opponents address his arguments, much less provide coherent refutations. Dr. Peter Millican at least attempts to refute Craig’s arguments directly. This makes for a very spirited exchange. For those of you who may not have time to watch the […]
Evolution vs. God
CrossExaminedRay Comfort has recently put out several provocative, informative and entertaining half hour videos. His latest called Evolution vs. God asks some top evolutionists to offer evidence for their view (included in this production is P.Z. Myers, one of the more aggressive proponents of macro-evolution). Their responses may surprise you! It is certainly true that […]
Darwin’s Doubt
2. Does God Exist?, Philosophy of ScienceDarwin’s Doubt, the brand new New York Times bestseller by Cambridge-trained Ph.D., Stephen Meyer, is creating a major scientific controversy. Darwinists don’t like it. Meyer writes about the complex history of new life forms in an easy to understand narrative style. He takes the reader on a journey from Darwin to today while trying to […]
Top 100 Universities Go with Liberal Graduation Speakers
College Events, Theology and Christian ApologeticsMost of our top universities continue their liberal learning right through the graduation ceremony. Todd Starnes provides a complete listing of university graduation speakers from Harvard on down. This despite the fact that many of these universities were founded by Christians on Christianity. For example, Harvard, whose namesake was clergyman John Harvard, was founded to […]
Playing Fast and Loose with the Facts: How Ken Miller Misrepresented Phil Johnson
CrossExaminedAn old debate, featuring Dr. Kenneth Miller and Dr. Paul Nelson, has found its way onto YouTube. The debate took place at the time of the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial in Pennsylvania in 2005. Moderated by Sally Satel at the American Enterprise Institute, it focuses on the question of teaching evolutionary theory and intelligent design in science […]
An Atheist Asks About Morality, Cosmology and Hell
2. Does God Exist?, Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsAt the University of Dallas last month, a polite atheist (Carter) had four major questions/objections to my “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist” presentation. Our nine minute exchange covered the following questions/objections: Your moral law argument is offensive because by it you are asserting that atheists can’t be moral. Why are you […]
Why Do the Innocent Suffer?
4. Is the NT True?The only completely innocent person in the history of humanity suffered for a greater good– the salvation of you and me. Trust in Him this resurrection day. If you never choose to do so, God will not force you into Heaven against your will. He will respect your choice and leave you alone, apart from […]
Did the Disciples Lie about Jesus’ Resurrection?
4. Is the NT True?Easter season is upon us and it is almost certain that some newspapers, magazine articles, documentaries, etc…will seek to discredit the resurrection of Christ or imply that Jesus’ disciples “made up” the resurrection. How do we respond? How should we respond? Did Jesus’ disciples conspire together to say that Jesus had risen from the dead, […]