Apprentice Owl Apologetics

                In the state of Texas, there has been a showdown occurring over what should be taught in the classrooms. Specifically the issue is over the teaching of evolution in the classroom. The people on the committee apparently have little to no scientific background, yet they are the ones making the decision over what we will dictate to our children as science. These committee members are trying to eliminate any talk of evolution from our classrooms and are trying to put in alternatives in place of this subject. What I would like to do is give my perspective on what should be taught in our classrooms.                 Despite how ignorant these people are appearing to be when it comes to the subject of evolution, I understand their intentions on trying to eliminate the subject from textbooks. These people are afraid that their children will read on evolution and leave the faith that they are in. A common misconception of evolution, and science in general, is that it pro

                To follow my last post on miracles, the topic of prophecy is very closely tied in with the topic of the supernatural becoming part of the natural. I’ll stay with the same style as the same post and give the dictionary definition of the word prophecy. In this case from Merriam-Webster: “The inspired utterance of a prophet, the function or vocation of a prophet, the inspired declaration of divine will or purpose, or a prediction of something to come.” Unfortunately, prophecy seems to have been shelved with parlor tricks with psychic readings and divinations. What I would like to do is try to bring back the credibility of prophecy, maybe not in the so-called modern day prophets, but definitely in the prophets and prophecies of the Old and New Testaments of the Bible.                 Throughout the Old Testament are prophecies that were fulfilled either immediately or there were prophecies that remained unfulfilled for hundreds of years. There were the interpretati

                Before I get started, I guess the definition of miracle could be stated, since the word can be used for many different situations. From the Merriam-Webster website, the three definitions of miracle are as follows: an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs, an extremely outstanding or unusual event, thing, or accomplishment, and a divinely natural phenomenon experience humanly as the fulfillment of spiritual law. Some will argue against miracles because they would appear to be violations of the laws of nature, but are miracles, in the divine sense, really violations of the laws of nature?                 Suppose I had a box or drawer in my apartment that I deposited one-hundred dollars per day for a week. I come and check the contents of the box after a week, so I am imagining a total of seven hundred dollars in the box, and I find fifty dollars left in the box. Do I automatically assume that the laws of arithmetic have been broken,