AMDD’s Blog

Blessings I sat across from my wife on our sectional sofa. She held our newborn son gently on her chest. His eyes were closed and cheeks smushed in a milk-induced stupor. Tears streamed slowly down her cheeks as she started to speak, “I just don’t know what to do. I’m stressed about the baby. I’m…
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John Lennox is a “must-see” for anyone struggling to justify their faith. His training as a professor of mathematics makes him uniquely qualified to tangle with some of the most brilliant minds atheism can bring to bear. The strategies used in his debates with Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens should serve as models for the…
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Recap This week, another Christian, whose opinion I hold with the utmost respect, raised a question regarding my line of logic concerning the emergence of life on Earth. He pointed out that a lot of the Christian argument against the spontaneous, undirected, rise of life mistakenly follows this line of thought: 1: X is a…
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The Apostle Paul in Context If asked to justify their faith, some Christians point to Anselm’s ontological argument, others to objective morality, but most serious Christians always come back to a singular event – the Apostle Paul and his Damascus Road conversion. In his book, Paul: A Biography, author N.T. Wright shows that this was much…
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Recap Based on some of the feedback from last week’s, “No Religion”: America’s Fastest Growing Religion – Part 1”, I think I need to be more clear about my reasons for writing this post. 40% of American Millennials identify as “No Religion”[1]. 89% of these Millennials believe that life evolved undirected[2]. In other words, they…
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Edward Feser’s book, Aquinas: A Beginners Guide, serves as an edifying introduction to the saint’s “Five Ways” theses for defending God’s existence. Feser does a superb job of simplifying Aquinas, a saint whose work is notoriously hard to comprehend. He goes to great pains to ensure that everyone – from the seasoned “Thomist” to the complete…
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As I noted in an earlier blog post, “no religion” is outpacing Christianity as one of America’s fastest-growing religions. In a recent Pew Research poll, 40% of Millennials identify as “unaffiliated”[1]. I can almost hear some of you screaming at your phones now, “Atheism is not a religion! Atheists believe in nothing, ergo “no religion”.…
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Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design is a scholastic attempt at defending intelligent design as a theory worthy of inclusion within the halls of academia. The foundation of Dr. Stephen C Meyer’s argument lies with the information contained within the DNA molecule. Dr. Meyer argues that, like a computer program,…
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For 3 straight years, life expectancy rates across the US have declined – not because of worse medical care or a Coronavirus-like plague. No, they have dropped because of a dramatic increase suicide, opioid overdoses, and alcohol-related diseases. These are often referred to as “deaths of despair”. Google “US Life Expectancy drop”. You’ll find articles…
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Often derided, St. Anselm’s original ontological argument is not so easily dismissed.