Faith Well Grounded

I'm a pretty boring, geeky guy. Along with my Bible study, devotional, and prescribed reading, I do a lot of reading in support of my apologetics interests. Yesterday and today I started and finished "The Screwtape Letters", by CS Lewis. It is more or less an apologetic fiction work (or maybe better described as theo-fiction), and I can't even describe what a blessing it was to me-- and what it will continue to be in the future. I HIGHLY recommend it if you enjoy reading, or even if you don't.

"The problem with Christianity is not that it has been tried and found wanting, but that it has been found difficult, and left untried." -- G. K. Chesterton

I pray that he would give you, according to his glorious riches, strength in your inner being and power through his Spirit, and that Christ would make his home in your hearts through faith. Then, having been rooted and grounded in love, you will be able to understand, along with all the saints, what is wide, long, high, and deep- that is, you will know the love of Christ, which goes far beyond knowledge, and will be filled with all the fullness of God.

I’ve written quite a bit heretofore about modern science and naturalism’s failures to either recognize or admit to the implications of the modern scientific support for various arguments for God—specifically the cosmological and teleological arguments for God. With the implications of modern science, it is a good time to be a Christian apologist and/or philosopher.

Continued from A defense of science

I think it important to take science back to the invariable root question of cosmology, especially since this root question is at the heart of what makes science possible. Science is the process of finding out “what is the cause of the effect I am studying?” The Laws of Causation are the very foundation of our scientific methodology. If we throw away the ideal that every cause needs a sufficient effect, then we have thrown away the ability to apply the scientific discipline.

I've been musing on my blog posts of late, and it's fairly obvious through interaction and comments (thanks to e-dogg for his interaction) that I've been on a tangent that misrepresents my original intent in many of my posts. My posts on scientific matters pretty much began here. It was a comparison of the faith inherent in both science and apologetics/Christianity. Those that followed were interested in pointing out the faith involved with science.

Space rocks...

I'm often asked if I'm a creationist. And I'm always surprized by the question. I'll clarify. If you are talking to a Christian, you are talking to a creationist. Every Christian should believe that God created everything.

But the term "creationist" seems to have been exclusively attached to "recent-creationists", or "young-Earth-creationists". There is the possibility that God created the Universe eons ago, and then created Adam intact as a mature human. It's not just a question of evolution vs. a young Earth.

I've been blogging on the faith inherent in science. This is the equivalent to intellectual suicide in the eyes of some. It's called an error of equivocation. But I must strongly disagree. There are literal parallels between the faith of the theologian and the faith of many in the scientific community. A look at some of their statements reveals the fact.

I’m linking to an article by Philip Johnson that highlights this fact. Of immediate interest to my subject matter, Johnson comments/quotes:

This is the next installment dealing with the double-standards between science and theism-- specifically the faith allowed in the former as opposed to the latter.

I was over at "Stand to Reason" today (the link is on my blog roll), and they have a very well-written response to the NewsWeek discussion hosting Rick Warren and Sam Harris. Melinda points out many specific instances where Mr. Harris misrepresents Christianity in his evaluation of it. Now, we all know how easy it is to beat up on the "straw man", and in my opinion the need to build such a straw man is an indication of a weak position.