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. “Authority” by David Martin Lloyd-Jones. 2. According to the Bible, man was created in God’s image (Gen. 1:27). Part of that image makes man a moral being. 3. The Bible, containing God’s revealed moral will in His Law and commandments, becomes His revelation to the followers of Christ. As such, the Bible becomes our source of morality. 4. The ability to reaso...

References: 1. “Mere Christianity” by C. S. Lewis. 2. “The Abolition of Man” by C. S. Lewis. 3. This Someone or Some Thing cannot give what it does not possess. 4. “On Guard” by William Lane Craig. 5. Hindu practice of “suttee” and the Chinese custom of crippling women women for life by tightly binding their feet from childhood to resemble lotus blos...

References: 1. “Is Everything Permitted?” by Mark Linville. 2. Another child of atheism — a self-defeating morality, moral subjectivism. 3. “Right and Wrong as a Clue to the Meaning of the Universe,” chapter 1 of book 1 in “Mere Christianity” by C. S. Lewis. 4. The Moral Law in Christianity. 5. The Golden Rule. 6. In Chapter 4 of book 1 in “Mere Chri...

References: 1. “Can Man Live Without God” by Ravi Zacharias. 2. 3 tests for truth: rational, factual, livable. 3. “Stealing From God” by Frank Turek. 4. Moral subjectivism. 5. “Relativism: Feet Planted Firmly in Mid-Air” by Francis Beckeith and Gregory Koukl. 6. The history of the Moral Argument can be traced back to Immanuel Kant. 7. Kant said, “Two thing...

References: 1. Millions of deaths caused by regimes run by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot in the 20th century. 2. Fyodor Dostoevsky . 3. “River Out of Eden” by Richard Dawkins. 4. Atheism ultimately leads to nihilism which is self-defeating. 5. Naturalism is the most popular form of atheism. 6. Kai Nielsen believes we can have ethics without God. 7. “The God Delusion” by...

References: 1. Atheism leads to nihilism. 2. Nihilism is self-defeating. 3. Atheism is traveling on a road built by God all the while saying that theism is a dead-end street. 4. “Stealing From God” by Frank Turek. 5. The millions of deaths by the communist’s regimes of Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Edi Amin, and Fidel Castro in the 20th century add a further testament to the reality of t...

References: 1. Sigmund Freud claimed that God is an illusion because belief in God is based on wish fulfillment. 2. Freud has confused a wish and a need. 3. “The Language of God” by Francis Collins. 4. “Words” by Jean-Paul Sartre. 5. “The Rebel” by Albert Camus. 6.”Pensees” by Blaise Pascal. 7. “True Reason” by Tom Gilson and Carson Weitn...

References: 1. “On Guard” by William Lane Craig. 2. “The Fall of Atheism” by Norman Geisler, a YouTube video. 3. “C. S. Lewis and 8 Reasons for Believing in Objective Morality” by Stephen S. Jordan on the web site moralapoligetics. com. 4. Moral relativism is false. 5. Morality is built into each individual because we are made in God’s image and God has gi...

References 1. “Abolition of Man” by C.S. Lewis. 2. Golden Rule. 3. Sigmund Freud. 4. “The Question of God” by Armand M. Nichloli. 5. Immanuel Kant “the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.” 6. Story from “Treasury of Inspiration” by Herbert V. Prochnow. 7. Challenge: Know the Shepherd This is episode 74.

References 1. Fyodor Dostoevsky. 2. David Eagleman. 3. Proprioception sense. 4. You can’t find moral values in a test tube. 5. How can an unintelligent, amoral, senseless mass of matter give to human beings something it does not have? 6. Some cultures love their neighbors and others eat them. 7. Morality is not about popularity. 8. Subjective morality applies to the subject only. It is not b...

References 1. Never judge a worldview by its abuses. On the other hand, be very critical of any worldview if their immoral actions are entirely consistent with what they teach. 2. “Answering Atheism” by Trent Horn (2013). 3. Absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence. 4. A new design argument. 5. The article “Design and the Anthropic Fine-Tuning of the Universe&rd...

References 1. The implications of a universe with no God: no meaning, nihilism, no morality, no purpose. 2. “River out of Eden” by Richard Dawkins. 3. David Berlinsky says from 1914-1945 more than 200 million deaths were attributable to atheistic governments. 4. “ The Design Inference” by William A. Dembski. This is episode 71.

References 1. “Stealing From God” by Frank Turek. 2. The interaction between Ravi Zacharias and a student from Nottingham mentioned in Episode 69. 3. The failure of typical argument against God using that evil exists. 4. A restatement of a valid form of argument that agrees with what theism claims. 5. Why God would allow evil to exist? 6. Does God use suffering purposefully? 7. “...

References 1. “Making Sense Out of Suffering” by Peter Kreeft. 2. “Can Man Live Without God” by Ravi Zacharias. 3. “Mind and Cosmos” by Thomas Nagle. 4. “There Is a God” by Anthony Flew. 5. “The Wonder of the World” by Roy Abraham Varghese. This is episode 69.

References 1. “Five Ways” by Thomas Aquinas. 2. “Handbook of Christian Apologetics” by Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli. 3. “20 Compelling Evidences that God Exists” by Kenneth Boa and Robert Bowman Jr. 4. “Two Dozen (or so) Arguments for God” by Alvin Plantinga. 5. “Five Proofs of the Existence of God” by Ed Feser. 6. The Problem of Evil....

References: 1. “Signature if the Cell” and “Return of the God Hypothesis” by Stephen Meyer. 2. “Dawkins’ Delusion” by William Lane Craig in the books “True Reason” and “Contending with Christianity’s Critics.” 3. Silly logic question: Who designed the designer? 4. Fallacy of False Analogy. 5. “The Design Hypothesis” by William Demski. 6. Strike 3 against the Boeing 747 gambit. 7. Song by Steve Gre...

References: 1. God is a term in the conclusion not mentioned in the 6 statements of the argument. 2. The 6 statements are not truth claims. 3. The 6 statements do not include an implication. 4. “Being Logical” by D. Q. McInerny. 5. Genetic Fallacy. 6. “Dawkins’ Best Argument Against God’s Existence” by Gregory E. Ganssle — an article in “Contending with Christianity’s Critics” edited by Paul Copan...

References:  1. “Mind and Cosmos” by Thomas Nagle.  2. No effect is ever greater or superior to its cause.  3. Evolutionists attempt to make effects greater than their causes when they claim that life comes from non-living matter, organized complexity from chaos, personality from impersonal forces, consciousness from unconscious matter, etc.  4. To disagree with the...

References:  1. “Return of the God Hypothesis” by Stephen C. Meyer.  2. The core tenets of evolution.  3. “The God Delusion” by Richard Dawkins.  4. “Contending with Christianity’s Critics” edited by Paul Copan and William Lane Craig.  5. “True Reason” edited by Tom Gilson and Carson Weitnauer.  6. “Stealing...

References:  1. “The Intelligent Universe” by Fred Hoyle.  2. “What’s So Great About Christianity” by Dinesh D’Souza.  3. Principle of mediocrity.  4. “God: The Failed Hypothesis” by Victor Stenger.  5. “The Anthropic Cosmological Principle” by John Barrow and Frank Tipler.  6. “Just Six Numbers”...

References:  1. “Reflections on the Existence of God” by Richard Simmons III.  2. The Ultimate Boeing 747 Gambit.  3. “The Intelligent Universe” by Fred Hoyle.  4. Occam’s Razor. This is episode 62.

References:  1. “The Blind Watchmaker” by Richard Dawkins (1986).  2. “River Out of Eden” by Richard Dawkins (1995).  3. “The God Delusion” by Richard Dawkins (2006).  4. “Counterfeit World” by Daniel F. Galauye.  5. The Ultimate Boeing 747 gambit.  6. “The Intelligent Universe” by Fred Hoyle (1983).  7....

References:  1. “The God Delusion” by Richard Dawkins.  2. A critique of “The God Delusion” by Alistar McGrath on web.physics.wustl.edu.  3. “The Selfish Gene” by Richard Dawkins.  4. Alistar McGrath has 3 PhDs from Oxford.  5. “Dawkins’ God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life” by Alistar McGrath.  6. Thomas Aqu...

References:  1. Article by Quentin Smith in Philosophy of Science, vol. 55, 1988, pp. 39-57.  2. “The God Delusion” by Richard Dawkins, p. 77.  3. Craig’s rebuttal of Dawkins objection to the Kalam argument  is in “Come Let Us Reason” edited by Paul Copan and William Lane Craig and appears in the article “Objections So Bad I Couldn’t Ha...

References:  1. “Five Proofs for the Existence of God” by Ed Feser.  2. “Come Let Us Reason” edited by Paul Copan and William Lane Craig.  3. “Christian Apologetics” by Norman Geisler.  4. “Who Made God” by Ravi Zacharias and Norman Geisler.  5. God of the gaps argument.  6. Question-begging.  7. Fallacy of Composit...