Apprentice Owl Apologetics

               I have to give a shout out to the indirect inspiration from this post, I saw a comment while looking at social media and this question popped up on Capturing Christianity’s page. I wanted to try and tackle this question myself. Christians argue that we have objective moral values and duties (see the moral argument for God’s existence), yet Christians have debates over what is moral to do in certain situations. Just look at social media for proof of this statement. If we have to debate over what is moral because the objective moral duty is not obvious, does that make morality subjective? I want to explore this question with this post.               We can look at this like we do scientific theories. There are plenty of competing theories about aspects of reality, but we do not say that science is subjective. We all have the notion that one theory will eventually win...

               When I get into discussions online with atheists and agnostics, typically I run into objections of the like that I do not have any evidence for God. What they typically mean by that is that they will only accept scientifically verifiable evidence for the existence of God. Not only can we provide one massive piece of scientific evidence for the existence of God in the form of the big bang theory, I want to demonstrate today that scientific evidence is not the only form of evidence that we consider in our day to day lives, and that non-theists move the goal posts of their usual day to day reasoning skills to deny an otherwise reasonable case for the existence of God.               I want to start off by talking about the 4 gospels at the beginning of the New Testament. These gospels are accounts written by 4 of the disciples of Christ. These are written as eyewitness...

              I just became a new dad, and I have been working to re-establish my rhythm in my life while taking care of my baby girl. While looking at her one night, I was hit with an old argument that I have seen some thoughts about how humanity, and planet earth, are so insignificantly small with respect to the universe, that religion has to be false because it is human-centric. I wanted to take a minute and think about that size qualifier. Just because someone/something is small relative to something else, or the universe, does that make that someone/something unimportant? Absolutely not, and we can demonstrate this through anecdotal evidence and scientific evidence.               Anyone who has had a child of their own can tell you, and now I can, that having that baby just shifted almost all of your priorities lower down and placed that baby at the very top, just short of my r...

               Recently, the high profile Christian comedian John Crist came out and admitted to having inappropriate relationships with women. This included trading sexual favors for tickets, sexting fans, and other accusations. This is a tragic event, and I pray for peace and healing for all parties. These types of events lead to a couple of responses, with people distancing themselves from John, people condemning him, and some coming to John’s side to show that he has apologized and that he deserves forgiveness. My question to pose and think about today is this, what should we do when high profile Christians mess up?               We could take this question in a couple of directions, and consider two different groups of people. The first being church officials, such as youth ministers, your pastor, all the way to the pope (if you are a Catholic). What do we do when they make ...

               Two men that I knew in high school have passed away this year. One had a tragic motorcycle accident, and the other one lost a hard fight against leukemia. Being in our late 20’s, I’m sure neither person was expecting to lose their life, and it’s possible that they did not consider what happens after they are gone in terms of the possibility of an afterlife. Since we went to high school in small town Texas, one could assume both men were Christians (and commit the genetic fallacy while we were at it), but that is beside the point of this post. Some of you may have put off the questions of what happens after we die, thinking that religion is for the old or that you will get to it tomorrow. The reality is that no one is guaranteed tomorrow, and that we should have our house in order asap. Have you considered the possibility of the existence of God and an afterlife? Have you considered the evidence for God? You may have heard of P...

                 This post is a response to a classic meme that we have all probably seen. We have seen the posts from popular atheist and anti-Christian forums that post this meme that goes something like this “There have been thousands of gods throughout human civilization, but don’t worry, only yours is the real one.” At first glance, this statement may hold some water, but when we take a look closer, we see that they are throwing out the baby with the bath water, so to speak. The meme tries to discredit Christianity because there are so many false religions out there. Really what they should be asking is, “how can Christianity claim to be true when other religions claim they have the exclusive truth?” What I want to do is to take a look at these questions and show how we can know that not only Christianity is true, but how we can see how other worldviews fail under the same criteria.         ...

                   I wanted to do a short little essay on why I think the Bible is not a science textbook, and why I think that is ok. We have plenty of sciences being studied that do not stir up much controversy among the religious communities, but we do have this supposed showdown over scripture vs evolution. The Bible was written not to communicate the mechanisms behind the operation of life and the universe, but to talk about the divine inspiration of humanity, the nature of our fallen state as humans separated by God, the wonderful love and mercy that God has on us by sacrificing his only son to restore the God-human relationship, and the ultimate destiny of mankind should they choose the gift of salvation offered by Jesus or reject it.               Now, I do hold my doctorate in Chemistry, and I teach university courses in Chemistry and I advocate that science an...