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The term comes from a medieval English philosopher and Franciscan monk named William of Ockham who held to the principle that “plurality should not be posited without necessity.â€1 In other words,one should avoid adding additional steps or parts to an explanation when fewer steps or parts would suffice as well or better. Occam's razor is sometimes called the law of parsimony, which means “the simpler the assumption, the more likely it is correct.†This principle was often used in medieval philosophy, and neither the name nor the idea originated with William, but he often made use of it in his work.
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Origin of Life and Species: Four Formulas by Darrel Kautz This is a reprint of a much older article. Darrel Kautz went home to the Lord in 1993.
The formulas given in this section are those often used by Prof. Wilder-Smith when lecturing on the differences between the creationist’s and the evolutionist’s views about the origin of life and species.
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The Place of Reason in Defending the Christian Faith; with ministry ideas regarding creation/evolution 32 pages. Published in 4 parts during 2012 and 2013
Part 1 What the Bible Teaches about Reason
Part 2 Scriptural Examples of Arguments from Reason
Part 3 Skeptics Exposed to the Gospel
Part 4 Ministry Considerations Regarding Creation
Appendix:Examples of Creation Arguments by WELS Authors
What then, is the proper place of reason in defending the Christian faith? What are proper and improper ways to defend the faith? Is there benefit in telling a Christian about the scientific problems with evolution? Is there benefit in telling an unbeliever about the scientific problems with evolution? This treatise addresses these questions from Scripture (the sole source of all true doctrine), shows supporting quotations from confessional Lutheran authors, looks at biblical examples where Jesus and his apostles used arguments from reason, and considers various ministry applications.
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If anyone should know the evidence for evolution, it should be Gould. In an article for Discover magazine, he offered three pieces of evidence for evolution. Despite his obvious scientific acumen, his arguments were not only philosophically illogical but contrary to the available evidence and his own writing.
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Critique of B.C. Johnson's Atheist Debater's Handbook. "While there will continue to be skeptical arguments against the possibility of divine design, this essay has shown that, despite the appeal to common sense, a large portion of skeptics' arguments simply have no logical appeal."
Review - Ben Stein's Expelled - No Intelligence Allowed
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Review - Ben Stein's Expelled - No Intelligence Allowed Review by Jeffrey Stueber
I still find this movie useful, but it must be considered when bracketed with some of the more critical sites I mention above. What this movie also reveals is that evolutionists would be wise to not appear on camera in a movie that is willing to ask whether evolution is really true.
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Review of Bill Maher's Religulous - Part 1 Review by Jeffrey Stueber
Around September of last year, there was an interesting occurrence in the world of media. The movieAn American Carol ridiculed the American left while the movie Religulous criticized religion - all religions. One could, if one wished, get theatrical whiplash after viewing this unique potpourri of left and right thought.
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Review of Bill Maher's Religulous - Part 2 Review by Jeffrey Stueber
Around September of last year, there was an interesting occurrence in the world of media. The movie An American Carol ridiculed the American left while the movie Religulous criticized religion - all religions. One could, if one wished, get theatrical whiplash after viewing this unique potpourri of left and right thought.
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A review of Breakfast and Your Health, an article in the February, 2005 issue of Harvard Men's Health Watch which is applicable for people of all ages and both genders.
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Review of Larry Witham's "By Design: Science and the Search for God" (San Francisco, Encounter Books, 2003)
Witham's book is a tremendous account of the scientific changes that drove evolutionist beliefs and the scientific finds that propelled theories of intelligent design. Hence, we find a dialogue between the two and it is no longer fashionable to speak of science as if it stands in opposition to religion. Science, it seems, confirms the theologian, and, as Witham points out, evolutionists no longer feels as certain about their victory over God as they did when Julian Huxley announced that Darwin had banished God from reality.
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Creationist Scientist and His Famous Computer Program
Review of an article in the 6/16/97 U.S. News & World Report.
Excerpt: "it was a pleasant surprise to see a major secular news magazine recently give an even-handed treatment to a creationist scientist from New Mexico. The June 16, 1997 U.S. News & World Report, in an article entitled "The Geophysics of God" gives an account of the work of one John Baumgardner. It seems that Baumgardner, "the world’s pre-eminent expert in the design of computer models for geophysical convection," created a powerful new computer program called Terra."
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John West, Darwin Day in America, and Benjamin Wiker, Darwinism in America Review by Jeffrey Stueber Published 2008
Excerpt: Those alien to these issues will be surprised at how prevalent evolutionism was before Darwin
Excerpt: This reasoning makes perfect sense in a Darwinian world. If we are merely programmed to act by our genes and environment, then free choice is a myth. Hence, we can cure people of their bad choices by finding what causes them to act like they do. When we change their environment they will act correctly.
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Books Creationists Should Own -David Stove’s Darwinian Fairytales; article by Jeffrey Stueber
Stueber writes: Evolution by natural selection, Stove says, is a general theory that applies to all species including humans, and if it is not true of humans it is not true. Stove is also blunt in noting that if Darwin’s theory were true, the human race would never exist and does so only because, contrary to Darwinian belief, cooperation was always stronger than competition.
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Review - Finding Darwin's God by Jeffrey Stueber Review of Kenneth Miller’s book, "Finding Darwin‘s God."
This book is a stern rebuke to the intelligent-design community, which is gaining headway among the educational establishment, fellow scientists, theologians, and many youth. Miller seeks to debunk I.D. and reaffirm naturalistic evolution while installing theistic evolution as God’s chosen method of creating.
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God's Wrath Against Mankind Review by Lloyd Tiegs (November-December, 1999)
Excerpt: "Siegbert W. Becker in his book, The Foolishness of God, in which he looks at Lutherans’ understanding of human reason states, 'It is not Christianity that needs to be made reasonable. It is reason that needs to be made Christian.'"
Views expressed in LSI Journal articles are those of the author or editor and not necessarily the view of LSI. Articles published in the LSI Journal have been committee reviewed for accuracy since 2010.
Dating Methods
Dinosaurs
Bill Nye Video
Ape to Man?
Noah's Flood
Fossils and Rocks
Natural Selection
Old Earth Creationism
