Confronting Christianity by 2019

Author:2019
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: REL067030/REL030000/REL070000
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2019-04-29T00:00:00+00:00

1. Alex Rosenberg, The Atheist’s Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without the Illusions (New York: Norton, 2011), viii.

2. Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (New York: Penguin, 2018), 394.

3. Richard Dawkins, River out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (New York: Basic Books, 1996), 133.

4. Daniel Hastings, “Exploring True Life,” The Veritas Forum (video), June 28, 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGmNPWsR7_I.

5. David L. Chandler, “In Search of New Ways of Producing Nanomaterials: Kong’s Research Focuses on How to Make and Control Novel Forms of Thin-Film Carbon,” MIT News, May 9, 2012, http://news.mit.edu/2012/profile-kong-0509.

6. Andrew G. Gosler, “Surprise and the Value of Life,” in Real Scientists, Real Faith, ed. R. J. Berry (Oxford: Monarch, 2009), 182.

7. Russell Cowburn, “Nanotechnology, Creation and God,” TEDxStHelier (video), August 27, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=UepCFseK_os.

8. Francis Bacon, “Of Atheism,” in The Essays (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986), 107.

9. While places of higher education outside medieval Europe are sometimes referred to as “universities,” historian Jacques Verger argues that they were not properly so. See Verger, “Patterns,” in A History of the University in Europe, vol. 1, Universities in the Middle Ages, ed. Hilde de Ridder-Symoens (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 35.

10. Harvard’s motto, for example, is Veritas Christo et Ecclasiae, “Truth—for Christ and the Church.”

11. Hans Halvorson, “Why Methodological Naturalism,” in The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism, ed. Kelly James Clark (Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016), 142.

12. As MIT philosopher and atheist Alex Byrne observes, “You can consistently hold atheism together with the idea that science tells you virtually nothing about the nature of reality, or any view you like about morality, or human nature, or anything else.” Alex Byrne, “Is Atheism a Worldview?,” The Veritas Forum (video), September 19, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeynhmPHqB4.

13. Elaine Howard Ecklund, Science vs. Religion: What Scientists Really Think (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 149.

14. Galileo’s case was further hindered by the fact that in his Dialogue concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632), he put the pope’s concerns about the heliocentric model in the mouth of Simplicio, who was, in the rest of the Dialogue, almost always speaking for the losing side.

15. St. Augustine, The Literal Meaning of Genesis (1.19.39), trans. John Hammond Taylor (New York: Paulist Press, 1982), 43.

16. Augustine, Literal Meaning of Genesis, 43.

17. “I cannot doubt,” wrote Faraday, excitedly, “that a glorious discovery in natural knowledge, and the wisdom and power of God in the creation, is awaiting our age, and that we may not only hope to see it, but even be honoured to help in obtaining the victory over present ignorance and future knowledge.” Bence Jones, The Life and Letters of Faraday, vol. 2 (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1870), 385.

18. See, for example, this prayer by James Clark Maxwell: “Almighty God, Who hast created man in Thine own image, and made him a living soul that he might seek after Thee, and have dominion over Thy creatures, teach us to study the works of Thy hands, that we may subdue the earth to our use, and strengthen the reason for Thy service; And so to receive Thy blessed Word that we may believe on Him whom Thou hast sent to give us the knowledge of salvation and the remission of our sins.

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