Articles for tag: Francis Collins

October 26, 2013

By Brian Mavis Robert was born a perfectly healthy boy. But as his first birthday approached, his mom noticed he wasn”t progressing in his development like he had before. In fact, she was afraid he was regressing. Robert”s parents took him to see several doctors, but none of them knew what was happening to Robert. After a few more months, Robert had become completely limp, even to the point of not showing facial expressions. He became entirely unresponsive. Over the past 10 years, Robert”s parents have taken him to dozens of specialists at the best hospitals in the country. They

January 25, 2009

Christian Standard

Apologetics & Worldview

The Lessons of Atheism

By David Fiensy One might well ask, “How can atheism teach Christians anything?” After all, atheists do not even have the basic starting point correct. Yet atheism holds a fascination for many people in the Western world right now, and that is the reason Christians need to think about it. This is the era of the so-called “new atheism.” This movement has spawned an in-your-face, aggressive, and even rude attitude. Even the titles of some of the books demonstrate the authors” aggression””The God Delusion and God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, for instance. Yet people seem drawn to

December 7, 2008

Christian Standard

Book Reviews Reviews

FROM MY BOOKSHELF: In God”s Defense

By LeRoy Lawson “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,” the very obviously alive Mark Twain loved to quip. Reporting on God”s death has also been exaggerated. In1966, for example, Time blackened its April 8 cover to feature the death of God. Theologians like William Hamilton and Thomas J. J. Altizer had gravely delivered the eulogy in learned disquisitions. God would be missed, but we could manage without him, they assured us. Now in the 21st century along come Sam Harris (Letter to a Christian Nation), Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion), Daniel Dennett (A Natural Phenomenon), and Christopher Hitchens