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.
The Religion in Science
2. Does God Exist?, Theology and Christian ApologeticsIf current Big Bang cosmology is correct (and the evidence is very good that it is) then the entire space-time universe exploded into being out of nothing (see previous posts God and the Astronomers and Who Made God? ). Therefore, the Cause of the universe would seem to have these attributes: · spaceless because it […]
Gay Marriage: Even Liberals Know It’s Bad
Culture CrossExamined, Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsThis is my column that is running today at TownHall.com. I’ll post more on this later because 800 words is not enough to cover this very controversial topic. Why not legalize same-sex marriage? Who could it possibly hurt? Children and the rest of society. That’s the conclusion of David Blankenhorn, who is anything but an […]
The Altar of Freedom
CrossExaminedAs we remember those who have paid the ultimate price to defend our country, I think a letter from President Abraham Lincoln will help us feel the impact of what Memorial Day really means to those who have lost loved ones. On November 21, 1864, President Lincoln wrote these words to Mrs. Lydia Bixby of […]
Why Does the State Endorse Marriage?
Culture CrossExamined, Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsFollowing the California Supreme Court decision last week, I posed four questions about Same-Sex Marriage that have generated quite a lot of discussion. It seems many people are operating on emotion rather than reason on this issue. Most of us know and like homosexuals, and that can cloud our reasoning. One of the cloudy areas is the […]
Four Questions about Same-Sex Marriage
Culture CrossExamined, Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsNow that the California Supreme Court has usurped the will of the people by striking down their democratically-decided law, there is sure to be a debate over the next few months about the merits of Same-Sex Marriage. The issue may even make it to the ballot box in November in the form of a California Constitutional […]
CIA: Your Chance to Make an Impact with Christian Apologetics
1. Does Truth Exist?, 2. Does God Exist?, 3. Are Miracles Possible?, 4. Is the NT True?, College Events, Theology and Christian ApologeticsIf you have some expertise in the area of Christian Apologetics, we are looking for instructors to help us take I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist to students and churches around the country. Greg Koukl and Brett Kunkle of Stand to Reason, and Jason Reed of Southern Evangelical Seminary will join me, Frank […]
Atheists: What kind of God would you accept?
2. Does God Exist?Recently I posed a question to our fellow truth seekers who are atheists, and we had a great response and good dialog. It let us understand a lot of the feelings and reasons for either accepting or not accepting the God of the Christians if He was real. So here’s another question in the same […]
Suffering and Evil: Can God do anything?
1. Does Truth Exist?, 2. Does God Exist?, 3. Are Miracles Possible?, Legislating Morality, Culture & PoliticsCan God do Anything? Can he create a stone so big that he cannot move it? Part 1 In a response to one of our readers, I said that God cannot do anything. The reader responded? “Then what about Miracles.” In another post an atheist reader said: “… God can suspend the law of gravity. […]
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 […]