Defending and Commending the Faith With Dr. Joe L. Mott, inviting the atheist, agnostic and skeptic to examine for themselves the evidence for the Christian faith

References: (1)The article “What is the difference between Christianity and Islam?” on the website gotquestions.org This is episode 133.

(1) ”I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist” by Norman Geisler and Frank Turek. (2) “River Out of Eden” by Richard Dawkins. (3) There are 3 main religions that believe in one God: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This is episode 132.

References: (1) “Creation Regained” by Albert Wolters. (2) “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist” by Norman Geisler and Frank Turek. (3) “The Universe Next Door” by James Sire. (4) “Total Truth” by Nancy Pearcy. (5) “Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers” by Christian Smith and Melinda Lundqui...

References: (1)Jean Astruc. (2) Johann Eichhorn the father of “higher criticism.” (3) “The Fingerprint of God” by Hugh Ross. (4) Astruc and Eichhorn made 4 basic mistakes. (5) In Hebrew there are 3 verb forms: the imperative, the perfect (which is a form of action that has been completed sometime in the past), and the imperfect (which is for action not yet complete). This i...

References: (1) “Genesis: God, Creation, and Destruction” by Dennis Prager. (2) The word “Genesis” is a Greek word, signifying origin or beginning. (3) Jesus’ view of marriage: one man with one woman, becoming one flesh, for one lifetime. (4) Inherent in the 2 verses, Genesis 1:28 and 2:24, is the conclusion that the proper place for sex is between a male and a female in marriage. (5) The structur...

References: (1) St. Thomas Aquinas. (2) “The Complete Works of Francis Schaeffer” 2nd edition, Vol. 1, p. 45. This is Episode 128.

References: (1) Francis Schaeffer’s books. (2) “Truth Decay” by Douglas Groothuis. (3) “Metaphysics” by Aristotle. (4) “Mere Christianity” by C. S. Lewis. (5) “Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview” by J. P. Moreland and William Lane Craig. (6) “Relativism” by Francis J. Beckwith and Gregory Koukl. This is Episode 127.

References: (1) 2022 George Barna Survey. (2) “Mere Christianity” by C. S. Lewis. (3) “The Best of A. W. Tozer” compiled by Warren Wiersbe. (4) Article on gotquestions.org entitled “Why do so many Christians not have a biblical worldview?” (5) I encourage you to make the choice to think biblically about everything. This is episode 125.

References: (1) George Barna’s 2022 Survey. (2) “A Sure Foundation” by Andrew Womack. (3) Islam says the Bible is corrupted except in verses that seem to support their theology. (4) “Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers” by Christian Smith with Melinda Lundquist Denton. (5) 2006 study by Fuller Seminary Survey analysis by Lillian Kwo...

References: (1) “The 10 Commandments of Progressive Christianity” by Michael Kruger. (2) “ A Toxic New Religion: Understanding the Postmodern, Neo-Marxist Faith that Seeks to Destroy the Judeo-Christian Culture of the West” by Scott D. Allen and Darrow L. Miller with Stan Guthrie. (3) Statics from the Pew Research Center in 2021. (4) “How to Talk with Skeptics”...

References: (1) “Another Gospel: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity” by Alisa Childers. (2) Blog “Preventing Grace with Anne Grace.” (3) “The 10 Commandments of Progressive Christianity” by Michael Kruger. (4) “If the Church Were Christian: Rediscovering the Values of Jesus” by Phillip Gulley. (5) “Christia...

References: (1) Article on YouTube entitled “What is social justice?” by Jonah Goldberg for Prager University. (2) Two different meanings of social justice: social justice A, biblical justice; and social justice B, that promoted by the political Left. (3) Biblical justice is conformity to the 10 Commandments, the Royal Law: “Love your neighbor as yourself,” and the Golden R...

References: (1) “Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity” by Alisa Childers. (2) “A Generous Orthodoxy” by Brian Maclaren. (3) A nonviolent Liberation Theology. (4)”Christianity and Liberalism” by J. Gresham Machen. (5) “The Ten Commandments of Progressive Christianity” by Michael Kruger. (6) A daily...

References: (1) "Evolutionary Thought in America" by a group of scholars. (2) According to William James, truth is the "cash value" of an idea. If it pays off, then pragmatists call it true. (3) "Evolution: A Theory in Crisis" by Michael Denton. (4) Darwinism is based on naturalism. Naturalism eventually leads to nihilism and that ultimately means that nothing has any...

References: (1) “Evolution: A Theory in Crisis” by Michael Denton. (2) Ernst Haeckel’s fake embryo sequences. (3) The battle between creation and Darwinism is really a small skirmish in a much greater war. (4) For more than a century there has been a shift in the worldview of the Western culture. It has been a shift away from a worldview that was at least vaguely Christian toward...

References: (1) A famous evolutionary argument dates back to 1860. Thomas Huxley engaged in a debate with the theologian Samuel Wilberforce. Huxley said that 6 monkeys, poking randomly on typewriters, and given millions of years, could write all the books in the British Museum. (2) I gave an argument by Gerald Schroeder that refuted that argument. (3) Nihilism is self-defeating. (4) The history of...

References: (1) “Icons of Evolution” by Jonathan Wells. (2) “The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith” edited by William Dembski, Casey Luskin, and Joseph M. Holden. (3) An article “Evolution’s Erratic Pace” by Stephen Jay Gould in Natural History, 1977. (4) An article “Conflicts Between Darwin and Paleontology” by David Raup in Field Museu...

References: (1) “Miracles” by C. S. Lewis. (2)”Can Science Explain Everything?” by John Lennox. (3) “On the Origin of Species” by Charles Darwin. (4) “Darwin’s Doubt” by Stephen C. Meyer. (5) “Return of the God Hypothesis by Stephen C. Meyer. (6) “Christian Apologetics” by Douglas Groothuis. This is Episode 115.

References: (1) “The Design Inference” by William Dembski. (2)The multiverse hypothesis was invoked by the materialistic community to avoid a Designer. That hypothesis is blatantly ad hoc, lacks experimental data, and it appears not to be able to be falsified. (3) The contest of origins features 2 opposing points of view: (a) A Creator and Designer is responsible for the origin of life...

References: (1) “The Trouble with Physics” by Lee Smolin. (2) Stephen Hawking. (3) We live in a Goldilocks universe that is just right. (4) Michael Strauss. (5) Alvin Plantinga. (6) “The Design Inference” by William Dembski. This is Episode 113.

References: (1) “Natural Theology” by William Paley. (2) Fine-tuning. (3) “The Blind Watchmaker” by Richard Dawkins. (4) “The God Delusion” by Richard Dawkins. (5) If anyone makes a truth claim and does not offer evidence for that truth claim, then it is reduced to a mere opinion. (6) “The Design Inference” by William Dembski. (7) Dembski’s exp...

References. (1) William Paley’s design argument. (2) The Miller-Urey experiment. (3) By the time of the Darwinian centennial in 1959, the evolutionists hoped that the materialistic story of life’s origin was at last within reach. (4) But this grand hope was premature. (5) But what was still unsolved was where the information contained in DNA came from in the first place. (6) Stephen Me...

References: (1) Article “The Protoplasm and the Gene” by Harmke Kammings. (2) The “pond of primordial soup” theory of the origin of life theory developed from ideas by Charles Darwin, Aleksandr Oparin, and J. B. S. Haldane. (3) The Miller-Urey experiment. (4) Transpermia. (5) “Chance and Necessity” by Jacques Monod. (6) “Signature of the Cell” by Ste...

References: (1) Early in the Christian era, theologians began referring to nature as a book. (2) Leading scientists — like Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, and others — began to referring to nature as a clock or more generally as a machine. (3) Also some began to characterize the natural world as a law-governed realm and sought to discover the “laws of nature.” (4) “Scienc...

References: (1) Religious Need Argument. (2) An article published in the Catholic journal “First Things” by Stephen Meyer. This is Episode 108.