44. Why would God make us so unintelligent?
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. ~ 1 Corinthians 3:19 The mind of God (assuming such a thing exists) is a truly incredible and incomprehensible thing. Not only is it able to...
View Article46. How did marsupials migrate from Noah’s Ark to Australia and the Americas?
Marsupials are similar to placental mammals, but differ in how they reproduce. Most marsupials lack a placenta, so they are unable to feed their offspring in the womb. Instead, after only a few days of...
View Article47. Can we “just know” that God exists?
I often hear believers say that they “just know” that God exists. This seemingly innate awareness of God’s existence can be used as grounds to override and dismiss any and all evidence to the contrary....
View Article56. Why did God create Satan?
For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. ~...
View Article57. What about Pascal’s Wager? Why risk going to hell?
Blaise Pascal was the seventeenth-century French philosopher and mathematician who famously argued that, in the absence of conclusive evidence, it was better to wager that God existed, since you had...
View Article61. Are we allowed to test God?
We all know we’re not supposed to test God, but why not? Without evidence, it’s difficult (if not impossible) to tell the difference between a real god and a fake one. Most Christians contend that God...
View Article63. If God can write on a wall, why can’t he write his own Bible?
Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote. — Daniel 5:5 According to Daniel...
View Article66. Why doesn’t sin carry natural consequences?
Had our world been created by a moral designer, we might expect evil actions to carry natural consequences, in much the same way that other actions carry negative consequences. For example, if we touch...
View Article67. Why doesn’t the Bible acknowledge microorganisms?
So much has been written by creationists and intelligent design proponents about the origin and complexity of single-celled organisms that one might assume the Bible was filled with references to them....
View Article68. Is God… evil?
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a...
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