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.
Why Trust Reason if You’re an Atheist?
1. Does Truth Exist?, 2. Does God Exist?If you read the threads of several of the blog entries on this site, you will see both atheists and Christians charging one another with committing “logical fallacies.” The assumption both sides are making is that there is this objective realm of reason out there that: 1) we all have access to; 2) tells us […]
Is the Problem of Evil and Suffering Insurmountable?
2. Does God Exist?, Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, Theology and Christian ApologeticsSo how do Christians respond to this Epicurean question? Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If God can abolish evil, and God really wants to […]
What if the God of the Christians was real?
2. Does God Exist?, Culture CrossExaminedFrank will be back in the US anytime soon, so he’ll be taking back the helm shortly. So as he returns, I’d like to ask our Atheist fellow travelers in search of truth this question: Atheist readers, what if you were to suddenly find out tomorrow that the God of the Christian Evangelicals was real? I.e. that He HAD […]
Is the Supernatural Impossible?
3. Are Miracles Possible?Is the Supernatural Impossible? (Arthur C.) Clarke’s Third Law: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. When I talk to individuals who do not believe in God or even “a god,” often the first objection they provide to me is that it is not possible for supernatural events or miracles to take place. I’d […]
Does our Morality come from our DNA?
Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsDoes our Morality come from our DNA? Frank, is out of town for a week and has honored me by asking me to post a few blogs in his absence. My name is Neil Mammen, I consider myself a pop-apologist. I see my evening job as taking complex apologetic concepts, and simplifying it such that […]
Berlinski: An argument against Religion is an argument against Math
2. Does God Exist?David Berlinski, a secular Jew and author of The Devil’s Delusion (a great read, I might add), interviewed himself a couple of years ago here, and had this exchange with himself: … But why should we take seriously religious beliefs that are lacking in evidence? DB: We shouldn’t. But asking someone like Richard Dawkins about […]
Atheists: What Evidence Would You Need To See?
2. Does God Exist?There are several intelligents atheists and skeptics who have responded to posts on this blog in recent weeks. I appreciate the spirited and mostly respectful debate, as well as the contribution of several theists and Christians. I’d like to pose a question to the atheists and skeptics and ask everyone to comment. Here it is: […]
Who Really Commits the “God of the Gaps” Fallacy?
2. Does God Exist?, Atheism, Theology and Christian ApologeticsThe following is adapted from chapter 6 of I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist: The God-of-the-Gaps fallacy occurs when someone falsely believes that God caused the event when it really was caused by undiscovered natural phenomena. For example, people used to believe that lightning was caused directly by God. There was a gap […]
Obscuring Clear Statements with "Clarifications"
Culture CrossExaminedThomas Sowell continues his brilliant insights into the current presidential campaign. Speaking of Barack Obama’s comments on how average folk in small towns are “bitter” and “cling to guns or religion,” Sowell points out: In politics, the clearer a statement is, the more certain it is to be followed by a “clarification,” when people react adversely to what was […]
Forward this Column or Get Stuck on Stupid
College Events, Theology and Christian ApologeticsDr. Mike Adams is at it again talking about the work we’re doing here at CrossExamined.org: Forward this Column or Get Stuck on Stupid. Thanks Mike for making Christian Apologetics mainstream!
Is Intelligent Design Science? If not, Neither is Darwinism
CrossExaminedThe discussion on this blog has lately turned to the question of whether or not Intelligent Design is science (see comments on recent posts). To generate some more discussion, I offer the following post adapted from Chapter 6 of I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist: The Darwinists= claim that Intelligent Design is not science cannot be determined from science […]
Who Made God?
2. Does God Exist?The following is from I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist, pages 92-93: In light of all the evidence for a beginning of the space-time universe, the Beginner must be outside the space-time universe. When God is suggested as the Beginner, atheists are quick to ask the age-old question, “Then who made God? If everything […]
Google: Religious Pro-Lifers Need Not Apply
Culture CrossExaminedSeems like the Google we all love has some very one-sided rules when it comes to advertizing. While Google accepts ads in support of abortion, they don’t allow “abortion and religion-related content.” This is from the UK’s Daily Mail: [Google’s] Dublin-based advertising team replied: “At this time, Google policy does not permit the advertisement of websites that contain ‘abortion […]
Christians Beware: Intellectual Predators at College
CrossExaminedWhen it comes time for college, parents often think they’re sending their children off to a religiously-neutral site to learn objective facts about the real world. Unfortunately, they’re far more likely to drop their child into one of the most liberal, anti-Christian environments anywhere on American soil. That’s where some college professors act as intellectual predators, […]
"Designer Wouldn’t Have Done it that Way" Argument Backfires
CrossExaminedThe following is an excerpt from I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist (page 160-161): Darwinists have long argued that if a designer existed, he would have designed his creatures better. Stephen Jay Gould pointed this out in his book The Panda=s Thumb, where he cited the apparent sub-optimal design of a bony extrusion pandas […]
God and the Astronomers
2. Does God Exist?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsSince the post Darwinists Have a Lot of Explaining to Do asks atheists to offer causes for at least ten truths about reality, I thought I would present my perspective on each of those truths. We’ll start with the origin of the universe out of nothing. The following is an excerpt from I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist (p. 84) and follows […]
The Jesus Freak Resource Center
College Events, Culture CrossExaminedMore from the witty Mike Adams about our experience with the faculty at UNC Wilmington (I’m glad he has tenure– he doesn’t hold back at all. It’s like he’s from New Jersey!).
Darwinists Have a Lot of Explaining to Do
2. Does God Exist?There have been a couple of posts on this blog that have spurred quite a good discussion (see below: Atheists Have No Basis for Morality, and “Expelled” is a Must See: Freedom is the Victim). While there have been some good points made back and forth, it seems like we are getting down in the weeds […]
The Chancellor’s Dog Ate My Homework
College EventsClick here to read more from columnist Mike Adams about the intolerance of the UNC Wilmington administration. If Dr. Adams has his way, I will be going back to UNCW to contribute to the university’s three year “celebration” of Darwin.
Atheists Have No Basis for Morality
2. Does God Exist?, College Events, Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsMonday night at UNC Wilmington, despite no cooperation from the school (see my last post), just over 200 people showed up for part 1 of I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist. Several atheists asked questions– actually made statements– and struggled greatly when I asked them to offer some objective basis for morality from their atheistic worldview. They kept trying […]
UNC Won’t Allow Announcement of CrossExamined Seminar
College EventsMike Adams, popular Townhall.com columnist and my host for tonight’s I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist talk at UNC Wilmington, reveals the anti-Christian bias in that school’s administration here. They won’t even allow a post announcing the event on the the university’s “public” web bulletin board. So much for the people who are supposed to be champions of tolerance, free expression, […]