This was a presentation we used along with \'How to choose your God\' in our Church youth Bible Study group. It presents a logical framework to understand the existence of God and how God reveals Himself thru creation, conscience, communication (over the ages) and ultimately thru Christ.
This was a presentation we used along with \'How to choose your God\' in our Church youth Bible Study group. It presents a logical framework to understand the existence of God and how God reveals Himself thru creation, conscience, communication (over the ages) and ultimately thru Christ.
Philosophical presentation about existence of God and against the existence of God,Problem of Evil,teleological argument,Empirical argument,North South University,God,Monotheist,Islam,Hinduism,Christianity,
Problem of evil, a part of philosophy. This will enable you to get full understanding of the arguments and solution of the concept.
For assistance, please refer to the document:
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Dr Owen Flanagan's presentation for the November 3, 2009, Southeastern Socratic meeting entitled God, Death and the Meaning of Life. For more information visit SoutheasternSocratic.com.
Philosophical presentation about existence of God and against the existence of God,Problem of Evil,teleological argument,Empirical argument,North South University,God,Monotheist,Islam,Hinduism,Christianity,
Problem of evil, a part of philosophy. This will enable you to get full understanding of the arguments and solution of the concept.
For assistance, please refer to the document:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U3YZt16awufw9YfRkrxMipU9HRISaiW8/view?usp=sharing
Dr Owen Flanagan's presentation for the November 3, 2009, Southeastern Socratic meeting entitled God, Death and the Meaning of Life. For more information visit SoutheasternSocratic.com.
This contains the entire 4-napkin health care series in one file. It makes more sense to read this one now than the others since it is the complete set all in one file.
How People Really Hold and Touch (their Phones)Steven Hoober
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Presented at ConveyUX in Seattle, 7 Feb 2014
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We are finally starting to think about how touchscreen devices really work, and design proper sized targets, think about touch as different from mouse selection, and to create common gesture libraries.
But despite this we still forget the user. Fingers and thumbs take up space, and cover the screen. Corners of screens have different accuracy than the center. It's time to re-evaluate what we think we know.
Steven reviews his ongoing research into how people actually interact with mobile devices, presents some new ideas on how we can design to avoid errors and take advantage of this new knowledge, and leaves you with 10 (relatively) simple steps to improve your touchscreen designs tomorrow.
Today we all live and work in the Internet Century, where technology is roiling the business landscape, and the pace of change is only accelerating.
In their new book How Google Works, Google Executive Chairman and ex-CEO Eric Schmidt and former SVP of Products Jonathan Rosenberg share the lessons they learned over the course of a decade running Google.
Covering topics including corporate culture, strategy, talent, decision-making, communication, innovation, and dealing with disruption, the authors illustrate management maxims with numerous insider anecdotes from Google’s history.
In an era when everything is speeding up, the best way for businesses to succeed is to attract smart-creative people and give them an environment where they can thrive at scale. How Google Works is a new book that explains how to do just that.
This is a visual preview of How Google Works. You can pick up a copy of the book at www.howgoogleworks.net
The Essentials of Apologetics - Why God (Part 1)?Robin Schumacher
This presentation presents the first of three core arguments for the existence of God and presents evidence for God being the beginning cause of the universe.
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Major Representatives of the Three Models
FIRST MODEL
Materialism
MATERIALISM/SCIENTISM/ATHEISM
The first ontological system we will view will be materialism (others may call this system scientism or even atheism). With each system we will first state the claim the system makes, next give the arguments in support of the claim, and last present some challenges to the claim.
Some people unfortunately get upset whenever their beliefs are challenged. Well, every system faces challenges...EVERY system. The question each person has to decide is whether or not the challenges actually defeat the claims. If the challengers are defeaters (something only YOU can determine), then you need to abandon that system and find one whose challengers are not defeaters.
THE MAJOR CLAIM OF MATERIALISM
The Claim
According to Encyclopedia Britannica, materialists/atheists make up between 2.4-3.8% of the world's population. According to materialists, matter and its component parts are all that essentially exist. This does not claim that matter exists (even the third model asserts that); rather it claims that matter including its component parts is the only thing which exists.
Characteristics of MaterialismEthical Systems Produced by MaterialismAccording to Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, the famous French existentialists of the mid 20th century, there is no absolute standard of right and wrong, therefore, a person cannot speak of right in any true sense of the word. See also Richard Rorty (Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature) who claims that right and wrong don’t exist because our brain is only purely chemical, with the synapses firing off electrical impulses, thereby providing no real basis for absolute morality.
Survival of the fittest: the strong wins, that is, the development of the Uebermensch, that is, Superman (Nietzsche). If you take people out of the equation, you will see that this dominates the rest of the universe (this will be one of Nietzsche’s arguments in Beyond Good and Evil). The fittest may be the fittest intellectually or physically or emotionally/psychologically. But the fittest or the strongest is going to win and should win.
Modern Versions: Although materialists (secular humanists) reject the belief that God exists, many materialists today claim that man is valuable and possesses certain rights, such as right to health, a decent standard of living, and education. As a result, ethics should be based upon what is best for society as a whole. Altruism: showing a disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others; unselfishness.
Epistemological Claim by Some Materialists
Some materialists, especially Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Bertrand Russell, assert the supremacy of reason in dealing with knowledge. Coupling reason with an absolute certain belief in the existence of matter, these have claimed that God does not exist. They are following in the train of Bertrand Russell, a prominent British materialist of ...
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The short answer is Yes, according to Biblical context you will go to Hell, but thats the easy answer..I would be remiss if I did not take a moment to share the following.
If you consider yourself an atheist with a sincere interest in truth, there are several things about Christianity that's critical to understand. This article will solely deal with the biblical Christian faith which I subscribe to personally, and since this question is a biblical one I submit the following.
The Essentials of Apologetics - Why Christianity (Part 1)?Robin Schumacher
This presentation examines the problem of evil in the world and looks at how to reconcile the concept of an all-powerful and loving God with the reality of evil.
This presentation examines the moral argument for God and presents evidence that shows if God does not exist, then neither do objective moral values and duties.
This presentation presents the second of three core arguments for the existence of God and presents evidence for God being the intelligent cause of the universe.
This is a presentation I created for my teenage daughter who was telling me she wanted to be different, make a statement, etc. So I thought it would be good to show her that she can indeed be different, but in a very positive way.
The Chakra System in our body - A Portal to Interdimensional Consciousness.pptxBharat Technology
each chakra is studied in greater detail, several steps have been included to
strengthen your personal intention to open each chakra more fully. These are designed
to draw forth the highest benefit for your spiritual growth.
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way.pptxCelso Napoleon
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way
SBs – Sunday Bible School
Adult Bible Lessons 2nd quarter 2024 CPAD
MAGAZINE: THE CAREER THAT IS PROPOSED TO US: The Path of Salvation, Holiness and Perseverance to Reach Heaven
Commentator: Pastor Osiel Gomes
Presentation: Missionary Celso Napoleon
Renewed in Grace
In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
The PBHP DYC ~ Reflections on The Dhamma (English).pptxOH TEIK BIN
A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 – 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
The texts are in English.
For the Video with audio narration, comments and texts in English, please check out the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF2g_43NEa0
Homily: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Sunday 2024.docxJames Knipper
Countless volumes have been written trying to explain the mystery of three persons in one true God, leaving us to resort to metaphors such as the three-leaf clover to try to comprehend the Divinity. Many of us grew up with the quintessential pyramidal Trinity structure of God at the top and Son and Spirit in opposite corners. But what if we looked at this ‘mystery’ from a different perspective? What if we shifted our language of God as a being towards the concept of God as love? What if we focused more on the relationship within the Trinity versus the persons of the Trinity? What if stopped looking at God as a noun…and instead considered God as a verb? Check it out…
The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
Our monthly newsletter is available to read online. We hope you will join us each Sunday in person for our worship service. Make sure to subscribe and follow us on YouTube and social media.
What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
We will learn what Anime is and see what a Christian should consider before watching anime movies? We will also learn a little bit of Shintoism religion and hentai (the craze of internet pornography today).
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The Impossibility of Atheism’s Truth Claim
“An affirmative existential
proposition can be
proved, but a negative
existential proposition –
one that denies the
existence of some thing –
cannot be proved.”
- Dr. Mortimer Adler
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The First / Foremost Problem of Atheism
When a negative existential truth claim is put forward, the one
making the claim has shot themselves not in the foot, but in the
head. Unless the person can be in all places of the entire
universe at the same time, they have no way of confirming that
whatever they claim does not exist, in fact, does not exist. This is
conundrum the atheist finds him/herself in.
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Atheism Takes One Step Back
Recognizing their predicament, atheists such as Richard
Dawkins counter such an argument by saying that, while they
cannot prove a flying spaghetti monster does not exist, it is highly
improbable such a thing actually exists, so the wiser intellectual
position to hold is one that says such a thing does not exist.
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Two Problems with “FSM” Argument
1. First, comparing God with a flying
spaghetti monster commits the logical
error of faulty analogy.
2. Second, just because something is
improbable does not rule out its
existence. For example, all scientists
admit that humanity’s very existence is
inordinately improbable. Scientific
scholars acknowledge that it is against all
mathematical odds that all of the
universe’s cosmic constants and
biological mechanisms necessary for life
would come to be. And yet, humanity
does exist.
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The Real Question…
The question is not whether the existence of God is improbable,
but rather is there logical, reasonable evidence that moves one
toward a conclusion that God exists.
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Atheism Takes Another Step Back
Atheists answer that question negatively, so the next
move they make is to take another step back and say
that God “probably” does not exist.
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Problem Number Two
The seriousness of a truth claim dictates
the amount of evidence necessary to
support it. The atheist truth claim carries
with it enormous, irreparable and eternal
consequences if it is wrong. That being the
case, it is intellectually and morally
incumbent upon the atheist to produce
weighty and overriding evidence to
support his/her position, but they provide
nothing to substantiate their limp assertion
that God “probably” does not exist.
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Problem Number Two
Atheism simply cannot meet the test for evidence for the seriousness of the
truth claim it makes. Instead, using a supposed argument from silence, the
atheist and those whom he/she convinces of their position slide into death
with their fingers crossed hoping they do not face the unpleasant reality that
eternity is an awfully long time to be wrong.
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Why Science?
After the events of 9/11, a branch of atheism – militant atheism (sometimes
referred to as hatetheism) – aggressively rose up and demanded that
society must get rid of all religion. Rather than focusing on religious
extremists who use religion to justify violent and murderous actions, the
militant atheists lumped all peoples of faith into the same basic bucket and
labeled religion as a whole dangerous.
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Why Science?
But the question facing the militant
atheists was, “How will we get rid of
religion?” The apparent agreement was
to use science as its bedrock and tool to
replace the need for religion. This tactic
is nothing new and was the same
position put forward by Thomas Huxley in
the 1800’s when he sought to install
scientists as the new priests for
humankind. This “faith” in science is not
science at all, but scientism, which says
that science and science alone is the
singular way to discover truth.
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Scientism is self-refuting
The statement “We should only believe what can be scientifically
proven” itself cannot be scientifically proven (because it is a
philosophical statement), and so based on its own criteria, it
should be rejected.
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Scientism Ignores Valid Epistemology
Scientism ignores other much-respected
and used methods for obtaining knowledge.
For example, the legal/forensic/historical
method of discovering truth is used every
day and is very well respected. The legal
method does not ignore testimony or facts
because they are not empirically
reproducible or testable. By a process of
elimination and corroboration, the legal
method allows history and testimony to
speak for itself until a verdict is reached
beyond a reasonable doubt and the balance
of probability is achieved.
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Scientism is a moral disaster
Militant atheism asserts that if religion can be banished, then humankind
will have peace and harmony. But even a cursory look backwards at history
since the Enlightenment says otherwise. Instead of resulting in peace, the
Enlightenment ushered in one secular bloody revolution after another
climaxing in the twentieth century, which produced the largest mass grave
in history.
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Scientism is a moral disaster
Ironically, one of atheism’s
chief heralds – Nietzsche –
predicted (correctly) that,
because he and others had
supposedly killed God in the
nineteenth century, the
twentieth century would be
the bloodiest ever.
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Real Science Points Toward a Creator
The death of the steady state theory and the near
universal acceptance that the universe as we know it
exploded out of nothing into existence (cf. Genesis 1:1)
points to a transcendent cause.
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Real Science Points Toward a Creator
The confirmation of specified complexity like DNA that in
a single strand contains digital information equivalent to
600,000 pages of intelligence and is mathematically
identical to a language points to an intelligent source.
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The Irony of Science and God
“It is rather ironical that in the
sixteenth century some people
resisted advance in science
because it seemed to threaten
belief in God; whereas in the
twentieth century scientific
models of a beginning were
resisted because they might
increase the plausibility of belief
in God.”
- Dr. John Lennox
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Atheism’s False Dilemma
Atheism’s position on science commits the
logical fallacy of the false dilemma.
Atheism demands that a person choose
between science and God, where in fact,
no such division need occur. Such a
requirement can be likened to a person
being forced to choose between:
1. The laws of internal combustion
2. Henry Ford,
as to why a car exists. The fact is the two
choices are not contradictory, but
complementary.
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Atheism’s False Dilemma
The atheist misses the important
difference between agency
(Henry Ford) and mechanism
(internal combustion).
In the same way, God is the
intelligent agency and efficient
cause behind everything, with his
natural laws and mechanisms
carrying out His intentions to
produce His desired end result.
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The Conclusion of Atheism & Science
In the end, the atheist cannot rely on science to disprove the existence of a
transcendent Creator and is forced into the admission that atheism itself is
not a fact, but instead a belief system that relies on faith.
The real clash is not between science and religion but between the
atheistic/naturalistic and the theistic worldviews.
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Atheism and Faith
This being the case, the atheistic worldview must address two fatal
mistakes it makes regarding the concept of faith: (1) that faith is only a
religious concept; (2) that faith means believing in something where there
is no evidence.
Neither is true…
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Atheism and Faith
“I am an atheist. My
attitude is not based on
science, but rather on faith.
. . . The absence of a
Creator, the non-existence
of God is my childhood
faith, my adult belief,
unshakable and holy.”
- George Klein
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Faith in Everyday Life
As to faith being defined as a belief that lacks evidence, nothing could be
further from the truth. Science has faith in logic, mathematics, natural laws,
and the intelligibility of the universe and believes all such things are firm
and will never change. People also act on faith every day from meals they
eat in restaurants, medicine they take from doctors, and marriages they
participate in with their spouse.
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Faith as defined in The Bible
In the Bible’s New Testament, the word “pistis” is used for “faith”. It is a
noun that comes from the verb “peitho”, which means “to be persuaded”.
The best lexicons (e.g. BDAG) show the meaning of “pistis”, to be: “a state
of believing on the basis of the reliability of the one trusted, “trust,
confidence”, “that which evokes trust”, “reliability, fidelity pertaining to being
worthy of belief or trust”.
In other words, the idea that faith means blind belief in the face of opposing
evidence is foreign in Scripture.
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Conclusion – Two Possible Realities
In conclusion, then, both atheism and theism make statements on faith that
concern ultimate reality. Both must refer back to something that is eternal
because each recognizes that everything that exists depends upon and
owes its existence ultimately to something other than itself.
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The Atheist Reality – an Eternal Universe
To the atheist, that ultimate reality is an eternal universe where only physical
matter exists. Atheism’s struggle is to explain how the universe is eternal
when all scientific discovery shows it had a beginning.
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The Atheist Reality Check
Atheism must confront a key issue
with their ultimate reality. Science says
that an effect always represents it
cause in essence. Therefore, atheism
must answer how an impersonal, non-
conscious, meaningless, purposeless,
and amoral universe accidentally
created personal, conscious, moral
beings who are obsessed with
meaning and purpose.
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The Theist Reality – A Better Answer
The theist has no such problem because it holds that a personal,
conscious, purposeful, intelligent, moral, eternal God created beings in His
likeness and established the universe and its laws to govern their
existence.
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The Reality of God
“The heavens are telling of the
glory of God; and their expanse
is declaring the work of His
hands. Day to day pours forth
speech, and night to night
reveals knowledge. There is no
speech, nor are there words;
their voice is not heard”
(Psalm 19:1–3)
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In the End – Two Choices
“There are not many options –
essentially just two. Either
human intelligence ultimately
owes its origin to mindless
matter; or there is a Creator. It is
strange that some people claim
that it is their intelligence that
leads them to prefer the first to
the second.”
- Dr. John Lennox