Apprentice Owl Apologetics

                Quite a few people have been convinced by the mass media that more science and education are the answer to everything, but is it really? Science is quite good at what it does, but it does have limitations and areas that its hands cannot reach.                 Now as I have stated before, I am a scientist, or at least a graduate student of chemistry, whichever title you would like to apply. I have no delusions about the limitations of science and where it cannot possibly reach. There are those who will have their own definitions of science, and honestly it is rather overused in the United States at least. Science is a field where hypotheses can be repeatedly tested and proven or disproven. There are plenty of fields where science cannot carry out this rigorous testing and retesting, so I would not classify these fields as sciences. Take history for example, unless we figure out how to go back in time and verify events for ourselves, we are left with only the acc

Thought I should let you know that I have a facebook page of this blog up. Just search Thoughts on Christianity on facebook and my page is the one with an icon with a grayish ornate cross with a navy blue background. Currently at 22 likes to help identify the page further. God Bless and have a good night!

                While browsing Facebook earlier today, June 17, I found a photo on a page by the name of I ? Religion . While the page claims to be questioning religion, the page is run by an atheist who apparently will take any shot he can get at religion without even questioning what he is posting. If my words seem angry, they better be, because this so-called open-minded intellectual does the one thing that will set me off more than any other, and that is take scripture out of context to use for his own purposes. For the sake of argument to anyone who tries to be clever and use scripture to lead people astray, you aren’t being original! Satan himself has used scripture to try and tempt Jesus; it’s something we as Christians are supposed to be prepared to defend against! As my title says, this post will be a response to a picture that I found on his page titled “ You say… God Says...” .   This picture very carefully selects scripture and tries to make the Bible look like a fo

                Take a general consensus on the definition of the word faith the answer would probably be: “belief in something that you know is not true, or there is no proof”. This definition has been perpetrated by militant atheists who are trying to shore up their positions when they are mocking religious people to the point that it has a subset in the definition of Webster’s definition of faith. Well surely if this were the case religious people would have no case for God right? But what if the atheists have made a categorical mistake on the definition of the word that they are mocking? I would like to examine these questions and see if the general definition of faith holds up.                 One can start by looking at the latin root of the word faith, which is fides, which translates to “ to trust” . I don’t know about you, but I would view trust as something that is built up over time and has to be earned by proving oneself through previous actions so one can be trus

                Ask anyone today if there is a war between science and religion, and they will probably tell you that the black robed priests and the white lab coat wearing scientists have been at each other’s throats since the dawn of science. What people will not tell you is that many of our greatest scientists were actually philosophers and theologians first and scientists second. Isaac Newton, Blaise Pascal, and Robert Boyle are a few classical scientists who believed in God. Even our most esteemed Nobel Prize recipients are theists.                 Another point that I would like to touch on is the fact that much of the foundations of modern science were made in the church. Gregor Mendel was a priest in the church when he did his pea plant experiment that laid the ground work for modern genetics. When the big bang theory, proposed by Jesuit priest Georges Lemaitre started to gain traction, it was the atheist intellectuals who mocked this theory by calling it the big bang