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MUST-LISTEN: J.P. Moreland lecture on Christianity and science

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I found the lectures here at Apologetics 315. These are GOOD. He covers a lot and you’ll get a lot of interesting stuff to think about. This is actually a great lecture – the old J.P. Moreland back in fine form. He’s going over a ton of arguments for theism from science. I’ve counted SIX so far, so this is a really good lecture, and perfect for beginners.

    • The full MP3 audio is here.

      He doesn’t talk about habitability at the galactic, stellar, or planetary level, though.

      I am a little busy mailing out everyone’s gifts today! I apologize for the light blogging. Please go and read just a few chapters of that Dalrymple book that I posted yesterday if you need something to read, or check out these round-ups:

      More from Neil Simpson: Another reason it is hard to stay in the Methodist church

      Neil Simpson is a methodist??? How is that even possible?

      Mailing these gifts will only take a few hours, and then I’m on vacation until January 4th!!! I promise I will write a ton then. I’m also working on an application for the Droid platform, but it’s a secret.

      I’m giving away this stuff to people this year:

      • Unlocking the Mystery of Life DVD
      • Icons of Evolution DVD
      • The Privileged Planet DVD
      • Darwin’s Dilemma DVD
      • Signature in the Cell book
      • The William Lane Craig vs Christopher Hitchens debate DVD
      • Money, Greed and God book
      • Greer-Heard Forums from 2005 and 2009
      • and other specific things they asked for

      If you guys are giving away apologetics gifts, please write your ideas in the comments. I did gift exchanges with atheists, so now I have atheist books to read! Bleh! I only want to read atheists in debates, because listening to them blab without rebuttal is very annoying.

      News

      New books of interest to Christian apologists

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      These might strike your fancy:

      • God Is Great, God is Good: Why Believing in God Is Reasonable and Responsible,
        by William Lane Craig and Chad Meister (InterVarsity Press, 2009)
      • God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades,
        by Rodney Stark (HarperOne, 2009)
      • Hitler’s Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress,
        by Richard Weikart (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
      • Life After Death: The Evidence,
        by Dinesh D’Souza (Regnery Press, 2009)
      • Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem,
        by Jay W. Richards (HarperOne, 2009)
      • The Recalcitrant Imago Dei: Human Persons and the Failure of Naturalism,
        by J.P. Moreland (SCM Press, 2009)
      • Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design,
        by Stephen C. Meyer (HarperOne, 2009)

      Rodney Stark is an agnostic, but he does a good job of telling the truth about the history of Christianity. If you want to see a good book added to this list, leave it in the comments and I’ll take a look.

      Oh, by the way, check out this quiz that The Way the Ball Bounces found from Apologetics.net.

      Podcasts

      How corroborative near-death experiences falsify atheism

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      Over at Apologetics 315, Brian Auten has linked to this podcast from Dr. Gary Habermas. The lecture was delivered to the students and faculty at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in 2003.

      Habermas goes through several examples of corroborative near-death experiences written up in peer-reviewed medical journals. This is scary! And if it’s true that we have non-physical minds that can exist outside the body, then materialism is false, and atheism is disproved again.

      The MP3 podcast is here. (72 minutes)

      There are two cases that you should really know about, and you can read about them in this London Times article.

      Excerpt:

      There are thousands of reports of OBEs but the two most famous cases are Pam Reynolds and Maria’s Tennis Shoe. Reynolds, an American singer, watched and later reported on with remarkable accuracy the top of her own skull being removed by surgeons before she moved into a bright glowing realm. But it was Reynolds’s account of the surgical implements used and the words spoken in the theatre that make the case so intriguing.

      Maria, meanwhile, underwent cardiac arrest in 1977. She floated out of her body, drifted round the hospital and noticed a tennis shoe on a window sill. It was later found to be exactly where she said it was. The shoe was said to be invisible from the ground and not in any location where Maria could have seen it. Such stories suggest that OBEs should be scientifically verifiable.

      Sleep tight, atheists! I’m sure there’s nothing to these stories… nothing at all!

      Mu hu ha ha haaaaa!

      Note: I would not use this argument in a debate. But I do find it interesting and I am open-minded. I haven’t decided whether these are real or not, although I am a substance dualist and believe in a real non-material soul that survives the body. If anyone has a solid NDE story, send it to me.