God is the best explanation for why we can trust our own minds, and naturalism completely undercuts itself

Here’s a form of a narrative you’ll hear increasingly commonly in the popular media and, often, scientific authorities. It goes something like this: The first life forms began when the necessary organic materials came together and began to sustain themselves and reproduce. Over billions of years, these organisms adapted and evolved to survive in their ever-changing environment, eventually acquiring a […]

God is the best explanation for the fine-tuning of the universe for life

“The more I examine the universe, and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the Universe in some sense must have known we were coming.“ – Physicist Freeman Dyson “A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super-intellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology.” – Astronomer Fred Hoyle As modern […]

God is the best explanation for objective moral values and duties (the moral argument)

We might not agree on all moral truths. One person might think sex outside of marriage is wrong, another person might think it’s right. One person might think it’s okay to drink alcohol, another might think it’s wrong. We might not agree on exactly what is morally right or morally wrong, but nearly all of us can agree on this: […]

God is the best explanation for why anything exists at all (the argument from contingency)

Why is there something rather than nothing? It’s the most foundational question you can ask about existence. Why does anything exist at all? Every single thing that exists in this universe — every atom, every star, every person, every mountain, every animal — it is possible for that thing not to exist. So too, there is no law of logic […]

God is the best explanation for the beginning of the universe (the kalam cosmological argument)

Welcome to the first of several posts on making the case for God’s existence and involvement in the world, and in our lives personally. In this series, I want to discuss human experience and observation from many different fields, and how God is the best explanation for it all. This is a more hard-science-themed post, and a few others will […]