ExChristian.Net Has Been X’d, part 10

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The End Of Christianity

Mathematician and philosopher William A. Dembski is publishing a new book entitled, The End Of Christianity: Finding A Good God In An Evil World due to be released on November 1, 2009 AD.



The following information is from Amazon’s product description:

Theodicy attempts to resolve how a good God and evil world can coexist. The neo-atheist view in this debate has dominated recent bestseller lists through books like The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins), God Is Not Great (Christopher Hitchens), and The End of Faith (Samuel Harris). And their popularity illuminates a changing mental environment wherein people are asking harder questions about divine goodness. Surprisingly, these books please intelligent design champion William Dembski, because “They would be unnecessary if Christianity were not again a live issue.”

Entering the conversation, Dembski’s provocative The End of Christianity embraces the challenge to formulate a theodicy that is both faithful to Christian orthodoxy and credible to the new mental environment. He writes to make peace with three claims:

(1) God by wisdom created the world out of nothing.

(2) God exercises particular providence in the world.

(3) All evil in the world ultimately traces back to human sin.

In the process, Dembski brings the reader to a fresh understanding of what “the end (result) of Christianity” really means: the radical realignment of our thinking so that we see God’s goodness in creation despite the distorting effects of sin in our hearts and evil in the world.

Endorsements:

"The End of Christianity towers over the others in profundity and quality . . . I have read very few books with its deep of insight, breadth of scholarly interaction, and significance. From now on, no one who is working on a Christian treatment of the problem of evil can afford to neglect this book."

—J. P. Moreland, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Biola University and author of The God Question

A thought-provoking and well-worth reading book by a brilliant evangelical thinker on the perennial and puzzling problem of how to explain physical evil in the world before the Fall. I could not put it down. It has so much intellectually stimulating material in it.

—Norman Geisler

"Believers have badly needed the kind of compelling case for biblical theodicy provided in Dr. Dembski's new book-grounded, as it is, not in traditional philosophical arguments (often not merely obtuse but irrelevant in today's scientific climate), but in intelligent design, of which Dr. Dembski is the world's foremost academic proponent."

—John Warwick Montgomery

"William Dembski is a first-rate scholar who has focused his attention on the perennial challenge to Christianity: Why does God allow such evil and cruelty in the world? While staying well within the bounds of Christian orthodoxy, Dembski offers fresh insights that can truly be described as groundbreaking. Whether you end up embracing his solution or not, The End of Christianity is a book all Christians-and even non-Christians-need to wrestle with. We enthusiastically recommend it."

—Josh and Sean McDowell, co-authors of Evidence for the Resurrection and More Than A Carpenter

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ExChristian.Net Has Been X’d, part 9

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Will Richard Dawkins Debate Stephen Meyer?, part 1

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ExChristian.Net Has Been X’d, part 8

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Atheist Revisionist History and Washington, D.C.’s Capitol Visitor Center

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ExChristian.Net Has Been X’d, part 7

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Too Sexy for My Theology? On the New Atheist Obsession with Sex

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ExChristian.Net Has Been X’d, part 6

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Moscow Patriarchate and Sergianism - Adaptation to Soviet / Communist Atheism

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ExChristian.Net Has Been X’d, part 5

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Ardi, Our Uncommon Ancestor?

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ExChristian.Net Has Been X’d, part 4

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Daniel Dennett - Belief in Belief

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ExChristian.Net Has Been X’d, part 3

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William Provine – Heavy on Inference But Light on Implication

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Debate 101: the Schooling of Dan Barker

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ExChristian.Net Has Been X’d, part 2

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“The Wedgie” Document – Censor Turek, Praise Darwin

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ExChristian.Net Has Been X’d, part 1

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Get Your Free Copy of “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”

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Lewis Wolpert - Still a Child at Heart

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Can Christians Be Freethinkers?

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Twits, Tweets and Twitter

Well, I have gone and done it:

I am now a Twit who Tweets on Twitter.

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Evilbible - the Polemical Saga Continues, part 5 of 5

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UPDATE: Ex-Christian.Net

Atheism is Dead’s next series will begin on Sat 26th.

We will be considering the comments, questions, assertions, fallacies and general belligerence which came about as a result of ongoing discussions with Ex-Christian.Net Find the relevant posts here.
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Christopher Hitchens’ Bestiary

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Evilbible - the Polemical Saga Continues, part 4 of 5

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“Contending with Christianity's Critics: Answering New Atheists and Other Objectors” by William Lane Craig, Paul Copan, et al.

Of interest to some may also be in the book, Contending with Christianity's Critics: Answering New Atheists and Other Objectors.



The book’s contents are as follows:

PART 1 THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

Dawkins's Delusion—by William Lane Craig

At Home in the Multiverse?—by James Daniel Sinclair

Confronting Naturalism: The Argument from Reason—by Victor Reppert

Belief in God: A Trick of Our Brain?—by Michael J. Murray

The Moral Poverty of Evolutionary Naturalism—by Mark D. Linville

Dawkins's Best Argument Against God's Existence—by Gregory E. Ganssle

PART 2 THE JESUS OF HISTORY

Criteria for the Gospels' Authenticity—by Robert H. Stein

Jesus the Seer—by Ben Witherington III

The Resurrection of Jesus Time Line—by Gary R. Habermas

How Scholars Fabricate Jesus—by Craig A. Evans

How Badly Did the Early Scribes Corrupt the New Testament? An Examination of Bart Ehrman's Claims—by Daniel B. Wallace

Who Did Jesus Think He Was? —by Michael J. Wilkins

PART 3 THE COHERENCE OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE

The Coherence of Theism—by Charles Taliaferro and Elsa J. Marty

Is the Trinity a Logical Blunder? God as Three and One—by Paul Copan

Did God Become a Jew? A Defense of the Incarnation—by Paul Copan

Dostoyevsky, Woody Allen, and the Doctrine of Penal Substitution—by Steve L. Porter

Hell: Getting What's Good My Own Way—by Stewart Goetz

What Does God Know? The Problems of Open Theism—by David P. Hunt

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Atheist Alogic – The Flunking of Craig James, George Francis & PZ Myers

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Evilbible - the Polemical Saga Continues, part 3 of 5

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Dan Barker’s FANG Turn Out to Be a Milk Tooth

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Christian Apologetics – “5-Minute Apologetics for Today: 365 Quick Answers to Key Questions” by Ron Rhodes

Ron Rhodes’ new book on Christian apologetics is entitled “5-Minute Apologetics for Today: 365 Quick Answers to Key Questions.” Having spend the weekend hanging out with him I felt compelled to mention it as it will surely be well worth reading.

Following is a description:

From Amazon.com:

Christians sometimes come across objections about the Bible they don’t know how to answer, and they don’t know where to look or whom they should ask. Believers can also get confused about doctrine, not having the knowledge or background to recognize unbiblical teaching. Bible scholar Ron Rhodes addresses many questions surrounding Christianity on topics such as…

atheistic objections to Christianity

evolution vs. creationism

alleged contradictions or general accusations concerning the Bible

answering the claims of cults about biblical doctrine

relativism vs. absolute truth

ethical issues such as abortion and divorce

This book of short, one-page answers on 365 of the most frequently asked questions can greatly increase readers’ level of discernment in critical areas in just minutes a day. Busy people can boost their understanding of the Bible at their own pace by browsing topics of interest or by reading a topic a day.

Other books by Ron Rhodes:



“Reasoning from the Scriptures with…” series:















“10 Most Important Things…” series:












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Darwin’s Dilemma

Today, hot on the heals of Darwin - Voyage That Shook The World, a new documentary is being released entitled “Darwin’s Dilemma.”

The documentary,

…explores one of the great mysteries in the history of life: The geologically-sudden appearance of dozens of major complex animal types in the fossil record without any trace of the gradual transitional steps Charles Darwin had predicted. Frequently described as “the Cambrian Explosion,” the development of these new animal types required a massive increase in genetic information. “The big question that the Cambrian Explosion poses is where does all that new information come from?”

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Evilbible - the Polemical Saga Continues, part 2 of 5

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On Natural Laws and Miracles

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Evilbible - the Polemical Saga Continues, part 1 of 5

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The Wedgie Document – Corroborating Documentation

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FYI: New Series on EvilBible.com

We will be taking a break from the “A Murder of Atheists” series in order to deal with a more pressing issue.

Thus, on Sunday 13th we will begin a series in which I present responses to various question, comments, assertions and fallacies that have been aimed at me regarding evilbible.com
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A Murder of Atheists, part 4

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The Desperation of the Deicidal, Memetic Eugenics and the Evolutionary Watchmen, part 2 of 2

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A Murder of Atheists, part 3

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The Desperation of the Deicidal, Memetic Eugenics and the Evolutionary Watchmen, part 1 of 2

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A Murder of Atheists, part 2

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Christopher Hitchens – The Atheopic Principle

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A Murder of Atheists, part 1

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Questioning Camp Quest

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Dan Barker and the Alien Rape Voyeurs, part 7 of 7

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Richard Dawkins - The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

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Dan Barker and the Alien Rape Voyeurs, part 6 of 7

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