Truth in Advertising: Damaging the Cause of Science-Part 2
By: Dr. John Ankerberg, Dr. John Weldon; ©2000 “Poisoning the well” is a logical fallacy which means to attempt to refute an argument beforehand by discrediting the source of the evidence. In this article Drs. Ankerberg and Weldon give quotes from various sources that indicate this is a wide-spread practice among supporters of the evolutionary…
Truth in Advertising: Damaging the Cause of Science-Part 3
By: Dr. John Ankerberg, Dr. John Weldon; ©2000 A third distortion frequently used in the arguments against creation is assuming that creationists cannot possibly be good scientists. Read quotes from leading educators and journals about the problems they claim this will cause. Truth in Advertising—Part Three (from Darwin’s Leap of Faith, Harvest House, 1998) Distortion…
Free Will
By: Dr. Norman Geisler; ©2000 Dr. Geisler explains three categories of human choice and explores the implications arguments and objections to each. Contents 1 Introduction 2 Determinism 2.1 Response to Determinism 3 Indeterminism 3.1 Arguments for indeterminism 3.2 Critique of Indeterminacy 4 Self-Determinism 4.1 Arguments for Self-determinism 4.2 Objections to Self-determinism 5 Notes Introduction…
Mantras and Mandalas
By: Dr. John Ankerberg, Dr. John Weldon; ©2000 This excerpt from their Encyclopedia of New Age Beliefs defines terms and explains how mantras and mandalas fit into many new age practices. Contents 1 Mantras and Mandalas 2 INFO AT A GLANCE 2.1 Introduction and Influence 2.2 Relation to Paganism 2.3 Cosmic Symbolism 3 NOTES Mantras…
Religious Science and New Thought
By: Dave Hunt; ©2000 Dave Hunt shows the relationship between religion, science and new age thought, and how they have combined to form some of the more recent “religious” movements in this country and around the world, even infiltrating the church. Contents 1 Religious Science and New Thought 2 New Thought—Forerunner of the New Age…
Gnosticism
By: Dr. Norman Geisler; ©2000 What is gnosticism? What do they believe? Are there modern day gnostics, or was this only a first-century problem? Dr. Geisler explains. (from the Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics, Baker, 1999) Contents 1 Introduction 2 Early Sources 3 Leaders 4 Teachings 5 Evaluation 6 Notes Introduction The Gnostics followed a…
The New Ten Commandments – The Georgia Guidestones
By: Carl Teichrib; ©2000 The New Age comes to North Georgia in the form of what has been called the Georgia Guidestones, a group of granite monoliths, similar to Stonehenge, on which are written ten “commandments” to encourage New Age goals. The New Ten Commandments: The Georgia Guidestones On the highest point in Elbert county…
New Age Medicine – The Nature of the Cures
By: Dr. John Ankerberg, Dr. John Weldon; ©2000 Many people claim that new age medicine “works.” In this article Drs. Ankerberg and Weldon detail three reasons why it can seem to work, yet still be either ineffective or downright dangerous. Contents 1 New Age Medicine: The Nature of the Cures 2 The Time Factor 3…
New Age Medicine – Caveat Emptor
By: Dr. John Ankerberg, Dr. John Weldon; ©2000 Drs. Ankerberg and Weldon list 12 cautions, or Caveats, which consumers should look out for if they are investigating an alternative medical treatment. New Age Medicine: Caveat Emptor (excerpted from Encyclopedia of New Age Beliefs, Harvest House, 1996) PRINCIPLES OF DISCERNMENT: How can a person tell whether…
Infusing Some Humanity into Disney’s “Inspector Gadget”
By: Dr. Ted Baehr; ©2000 Dr. Baehr writes: “Inspector Gadget is a comedy with a thousand moving parts that uses a vast array of gizmos to help good overcome evil. However, it was the human aspects of the story that the filmmakers really wanted to infuse into their movie.” Contents 1 BEHIND THE SCENES: INFUSING…
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