Does Complex Speech Expression Demonstrate Human Exceptionalism?

Last fall the announcement that phosphine was discovered in Venus's upper atmosphere stunned internet science geeks.1 This announcement generated over 4,700 news stories around the……

Human Uniqueness

Life Signature in Venus's Atmosphere: Genuine or Not?

Last fall the announcement that phosphine was discovered in Venus's upper atmosphere stunned internet science geeks.1 This announcement generated over 4,700 news stories around the……

Meteors

Mammals: Designed to Serve and Please Humans

Adam Smith, who founded the discipline of modern economics, wrote in his book on the wealth of nations, "Nobody ever saw a dog make a……

Human Uniqueness

How Recent Tibetan Plateau Uplift Enhanced Vegetation

Considering Earth's long geological history, the Tibetan Plateau is a never-before-seen geographical feature (see figure). We are living during a unique time when a landmass……

Ecosystems

Divine Hiddenness: A Sender or Receiver Problem?

If the biblical God wants everyone to believe in him and potentially come into a saving relationship with him, then why does he seem-at least……

Apologetics

How to Respond to the Challenge That God Is Hidden

One of the reasons cited in favor of atheism and against the idea that the God of Christian theism exists is known as the "hiddenness……

God's Existence

Is God's "Hiddenness" a Rational Objection to Christianity?

One of the common claims that atheists make in objection to God's existence is that God is hidden. This "hiddenness of God" challenge may take……

God's Existence

Neighboring Faiths: A Review of Winfried Corduan's Timeless Book

Fifty years ago, if I wanted to carry on a serious dialogue and apologetic debate with Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian, and Muslim scholars I probably needed……

World Religions

Standing against the Tide

Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss, Christopher Hitchens, Michael Shermer, Victor J. Stenger. What do all these people have in common? They are all convinced that the……

Worldviews

Ethical Concerns with AI: Deepfakes

How would you respond to video footage of Richard Dawkins professing faith in Christ? Or one about Hugh Ross advocating for young-Earth creationism? Either situation……

Ethics

Can Artificial Intelligence Think Like a Human?

How close are we to developing machines that can understand and learn anything that humans can? Could such inventions eventually become self-conscious?…

Image of God

Is the Universe Closed?

Can our universe come from nothing? At least one prominent physicist, Lawrence Krauss, answers with a resounding "yes." In fact, he wrote a book titled……

Origin of the Universe

The Shroud of Turin, Part 2: An Examination of the Cloth

The Shroud of Turin contains the faint image of a man identical to the biblical descriptions of the crucified Jesus. Interest in the Shroud of……

Resurrection

The Shroud of Turin, Part 1: An Examination of the Man

In this post, we'll focus not on the Shroud of Turin's origins but rather on a medical description of the man whose image it bears,……

Resurrection

Avoiding Conspiratorial Thinking Requires Effort and Humility

The fall of humanity commenced with an assault on truth (Genesis 3:4-5), and for followers of Christ it may seem like the battle against truth……

Conspiracy Theories

Could the Tower of Babel Have Been in Yemen?

Genesis 11 relates the story of Noah's descendants after the ark grounded: And it came about, as they journeyed east, they found a plain in……

History