APOLOGETICS AND APOSTOLIC CONTEXTUALIZATION — A BIBLIOGRAPHY Ashton, John. In Six Days. Sydney: New Holland, 1999. Austin, Steven. Catastrophes in Earth History. El Cajon: Institute for Creation Research, 1984. Behe, Michael. Darwin’s Black Box. New York: Touchstone, 1996. Brown, Walt. In the Beginning. Phoenix: Center for Scientific Creation, 1980. Dembski, William. The Design Revolution. Downers [...]
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-beginning with the IMPERSONAL SINGULARITY, there is no explanation for the COMPLEXITY OF THE UNIVERSE or the PERSONALITY OF MAN…no one has ever demonstrated how time plus chance, beginning with the impersonal, can produce the needed complexity of the universe, let alone the personality of man -therefore, an impersonal beginning explains neither the form of [...]
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Francis Schaeffer on the 1st amendment of the US Constitution: -when the 1st amendment was passed, it only had two purposes: (1) that there should be no established, national church for the united 13 states (2) that government should not impede or interfere with the free practice of religion -today the SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND [...]
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Francis Schaeffer on the importance of GENESIS 1-11 for the understanding of human life and history -if you remove a true, historic, space-time Fall, the answers do not exist…it is not only that historic, biblical Christianity as it stands in the stream of history is gone but EVERY ANSWER we possess in the area of [...]
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-in answer to WHY HAS OUR SOCIETY CHANGED, Francis Schaeffer made the following observation: -the answer is clear: the consensus of Western society no longer rests on a JUDEO-CHRISTIAN BASE but rather on a humanistic one which makes MAN THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS — it puts man, rather than God, at the center of [...]
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-in my bibliography I list all five volumes of THE WORKS OF FRANCIS SCHAEFFER — in my opinion, they should be required reading for any communicator of the Gospel in the 21st century — some of the things that Francis observes and recommends are dated, but the way that he engages the culture with Scripture [...]
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-probably the best book that I have come across in terms of apologetics regarding a young earth and a universal flood is by a mechanical engineer, Walt Brown — the title of his book is IN THE BEGINNING: COMPELLING EVIDENCE FOR CREATION AND THE FLOOD — I would BUY THIS BOOK IF I WERE YOU [...]
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-one of the best books that I have come across in terms of apologetics and a six-day creation is a book that I purchased in South Africa back in 2000 titled IN SIX DAYS: why 50 scientists choose to believe in creation — here are just a few notes from that excellent book: -flood stories…how [...]
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-the human brain contains 100,000,000,000 nerve cells connected by some 400,000 kilometers of nerve fibers…it is estimated that there are 100,000,000,000,000 connections between nerve cells in the human brain -how could such a complicated organ as the human brain develop by an unplanned process?
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-there are 100,000,000 light-sensitive cells in the HUMAN EYE that send information to the brain through some 1,000,000 nerve fibers of the optic nerve…in the brain this information is sorted into various components such as color, movement, form and depth — it is then analyzed and combined into an intelligent picture…this involves an extremely complex [...]
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-one of the best books that I have come across in terms of apologetics and a six-day creation is a book that I purchased in South Africa back in 2000 titled IN SIX DAYS: why 50 scientists choose to believe in creation — here are just a few notes from that excellent book: -there is [...]
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-according to a growing number of scientists, the LAWS and CONSTANTS of nature are so “finely-tuned,” and so many so-called “coincidences” have occurred to allow for the possibility of life on planet earth, the UNIVERSE MUST HAVE COME INTO EXISTENCE through intentional planning and intelligence -in fact, this “fine-tuning” is so pronounced, and “coincidences” are [...]
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-in my opinion, Michael Denton’s EVOLUTION: A THEORY IN CRISIS is the one book that should be read — here are just a few notes from his excellent book INTRODUCTION TO DARWIN -before Darwin, nature was fundamentally discontinuous in which all the major groups of organisms were unique and isolated and unlinked by transitional forms…species [...]
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-one of the core assumptions of HUMANISM is NATURALISM, which is the view of reality that NOTHING EXISTS EXCEPT NATURE and that NATURE comprises the WHOLE SHOW -according to naturalism, only MATTER EXISTS…this present universe did not get here because a SUPERNATURAL GOD created it, but because its present form JUST HAPPENED as a result [...]
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