NOTE: Ten years ago I did this book analysis on “The God Delusion” on my old blog. Then four years ago I revised it and put it up on this blog, resurrecting orthodoxy. Somehow in the process, I failed to put up Part 11–Only today, a good 4 years later did someone notice! And so,…
It was about ten years ago that I decided to read the “big three” writers of the New Atheist Movement: Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion, Sam Harris’ The End of Faith, and Christopher Hitchens’ god is not Great. I was teaching Worldview at a small Christian high school at that time, and I felt it…
A couple of days ago, I wrote a response to Wayne Rossiter’s critique to Part 4 of my series in which I addressed Ken Ham’s attempt to address the Theodicy question (i.e. How can one reconcile the idea of a good and loving God with the reality of suffering and death in this world?). In…
Truth be told, I cannot remember a time when someone ever wrote a critique to one of my blog posts on their blog. Well, that has now happened with Wayne Rossiter’s critique on his blog of my thoughts on suffering and death. Needless to say, a response to his critique is in order. Enjoy. A…
We now come to my final post on the topic of Ken Ham’s book, How Could a Loving God?, in which he attempts to address the topic of suffering and death. In my first three posts, I gave an overview and critique of Ham’s answer. In a nutshell, the problem with Ham’s YECist answer to…
Ken Ham’s book, How Could a Loving God? addresses the topic of theodicy: how can one reconcile the idea of a loving God when there is so much suffering and death in the world? In my previous two posts, I have given a brief overview of each chapter in his book and have critiqued the…
In his book, How Could a Loving God? Ken Ham attempts to give what he feels are biblical answers to the problem of suffering and death in the world. In my last post, I provided a brief overview of the book and a critique of chapter 1. In this post, I will take a look…
This week I am going to look at Ken Ham’s book, How Could a Loving God?: Powerful Answers on Suffering. It is a relatively short book (192 pages) that Ham wrote back in 2007 on the topic of suffering—namely, that age-old question, “How could there be a loving God if there is so much suffering…
We now come to the end of my critique of Dan Barker’s book, Mere Morality. In all honesty, it hasn’t been a fun series to write—it wasn’t because Barker’s arguments were challenging or even offensive. Rather, it was because his arguments were simply pedantic and rather childish. Simply put, after awhile, writing, “No, that is…
We are moving on to yet another post about Dan Barker’s book, Mere Morality. As I said in the previous post, the second half of Barker’s book really just amounts to agenda-driven rants based on decontextualized passages from the Bible. Therefore, the rest of this book-review series is going to be a simple process of…