Category Archives: Apologetics

The Scientific Method is Not Alone

Posted on May 16, 2013 by John M. DeMassa

  In this final installment of investigating the claims of science, we arrive at a most under evaluated topic – the scientific method.  Most textbooks in science such as chemistry and physics pay a kind of homage to the “scientific method” – … Continue reading →

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Scientific Claims and Explanations

Posted on March 8, 2013 by John M. DeMassa

The artwork shown is somewhat strange looking.  What is it trying to communicate? (see below)  Scientists routinely deal with strange phenomenon and offer some kind of explanation for it.  When a scientist makes a claim such as “science shows that … Continue reading →

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Are All Scientific Claims Trustworthy? Let the Buyer Beware

Posted on March 6, 2013 by John M. DeMassa

Last time we looked at the claim “science shows that God does not exist”.  The author perhaps implies that all of science or scientists agree but popular polls suggest otherwise.  Why do many scientists in our modern-day still hang onto … Continue reading →

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The Song of Science?

Posted on March 1, 2013 by John M. DeMassa

In the book, God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist by Victor J Stenger a variety of findings are presented to support the title claim.  If true, believers ought to run for cover for their … Continue reading →

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The Chances of Information

Posted on January 21, 2013 by John M. DeMassa

Can a sequence of symbols that carry a message be the product of chance?  How random are rolls of dice (shown in the picture)?  These are deep philosophical and mathematical questions.  A general survey of these questions helps us to … Continue reading →

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Information Ain’t Cheap

Posted on January 17, 2013 by John M. DeMassa

According to the claims of several militant atheists God does not exist and more particularly God is not needed to account for the existence of the universe and all life.

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A Most Improbable Mountain?

Posted on January 9, 2013 by John M. DeMassa

  God is indeed in the crosshairs of a growing number of atheists.  At least one concept that challenges the “God hypothesis” is philosophical materialism, which holds that nature alone and its chemical and physical processes produced life.  A “Creator” … Continue reading →

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God in the Crosshairs: Does God Exist?

Posted on January 8, 2013 by John M. DeMassa

Why do you believe what you believe about God?  ‘Well, I just do’, some respond.  Equally short answers follow the question; Does God exist? ‘Sure!’ Perhaps there was a time when responses such as these might pacify the average inquisitor … Continue reading →

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Critically Thinking about Halloween?

Posted on November 7, 2012 by John M. DeMassa

The news of the day is undoubtedly the elections but if you live in the Northeast delayed Halloween celebrations are on many public school agendas this week.   

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Do Miracles Prove the Existence of God?

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Ray Pennoyer

I recently had a thought-provoking conversation with a good friend in which he questioned whether miracles (including biblical miracles) actually prove the existence of God. This led me to formulate the following thesis: Biblical miracles are never directed at the … Continue reading →

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