Tag Archives: Christianity and Science
Beware of Nice People!
In the 1960s Yale social psychologist Stanley Milgram carried out an experiment to measure the willingness of participants to obey authority figures. The basic idea was to see how far the participant (in the role of a teacher) would go in administering electric shocks to a stranger (in the role of a learner who was actually an actor pretending to receive the shocks), when ordered to do so by the experimenter.
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Tagged Christianity and Science, Popologetics, Sin
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Some Short Articles in Defence of Easter
The Christian faith is profoundly rational. The Cross answers our deepest moral and existential needs. The case for the resurrection of Jesus Christ depends on various well-supported facts: that Jesus’ followers believed that they had seen him alive again; that they believed he had been resurrected; and that his tomb was empty a few days after his death.
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Posted in Christian Theology, Historical Jesus, Quick Thoughts
Tagged "Leap of Faith" (Not), Apologetics, Christianity and Science, Gospel Centred Apologetics, Miracles, New Atheism, Resurrection
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