“Ecology is the new theology. Big history is the new Genesis. Those who fail to understand that evidence is modern-day Scripture, and that the world we live in is an honorable world, betray God and humanity in the most egregious of ways.” WorldWayBigsHumanityFailingModernEvidenceScriptureTheologyBetrayEcologyHonorableGenesisModern Day Author:Michael Dowd
“Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood.” MenMindFactsEasyAtheismHe ManBearsHabitPerceptionEvidenceScriptureDoctrineSufficientFalsehoodPropositionsAccordTruthfulnessFallacyPrecipice Book:The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus Source: The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus
“The Scriptures bear ample and continuous evidence that the faith of the resurrection of the body lies in the faith that Jesus Christ died and rose again.” BodyLyingJesusChristBearsEvidenceJesus ChristDiedRoseScriptureResurrection Book:The Ineffable Glory: Thoughts on the Resurrection Source: The Ineffable Glory: Thoughts on the Resurrection
“There came a time in my life when I doubted the divinity of the Scriptures, and I resolved as a lawyer and a judge I would try the Book as I would try anything in the courtroom, taking evidence for and against. It was a long, serious and profound study and using the same principles of evidence in this religious matter as I always do in secular matters, I have come to the decision that the Bible is a supernatural Book, that it has come from God, and that the only safety for the human race is to follow its teachings.” TryingHumansLongBookMatterReligiousDecisionRacePrinciplesStudyTeachingSeriousJudgingEvidenceSafetyProfoundLawyerScriptureHuman RaceDivinitySecularDoubtedCourtroom Author:Salmon P. Chase
“Archaeological evidence provides significant help in interpreting the Gospels. In a sense, archaeology is an exegetical tool. To ignore the evidence of archaeology would be almost as irresponsible as making no appeal to the original text. The archaeological evidence is a vital component in the context of Scripture.” HelpingEvidenceScriptureSignificantArchaeology Author:Craig A. Evans
“Archaeology in general is the recovery and study of the material culture of past civilizations. Biblical archaeology is as an application of the science of archaeology to the field of biblical studies. Through the comparison and integration of Scripture with the evidence of history and culture derived from archaeology, new insights into the biblical context of people and events, and sometimes the interpretation of the text itself, are possible. In this way archaeology serves as a necessary tool for biblical exegesis and for apologetic concerns.” PeopleSometimesPastCultureStudyEvidenceConcernInsightScriptureRecoveryComparisonApplicationBiblicalIntegrationArchaeologyApologetic Author:Randall Price
“Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost every significant fact about us and our world wrong. Every scientific domain -- from cosmology to psychology to economics -- has superseded and surpassed the wisdom of Scripture. Everything of value that people get from religion can be had more honestly, without presuming anything on insufficient evidence. The rest is self-deception, set to music.” PeopleWorldBookSelfFactsValuesPsychologyEvidenceEconomicsHonestlyScriptureSignificantDeceptionCosmosOur WorldDomainSelf DeceptionCosmologyInsufficientImmensityPresuming Author:Sam Harris
“With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the human race; the evidence of all facts that have yet been established in Geology coincides with the records of Sacred History and Profane Tradition to confirm the conclusion that the existence of mankind can on no account be supposed to have taken its beginning before that time which is assigned to it in the Mosaic writings.” WritingHumansFactsScienceRaceExistenceTakenRecordsMankindLowsEvidenceTraditionAccountsSacredScriptureConclusionInstanceHuman RaceDeclarationAntiquityGeologyProfaneMosaics Author:William Buckland
“It is understandable how some people could give way to this kind of pervasive pessimism, but we speak of a gospel which brings good tidings of great joy and this must be reflected in our lives, if we are to be believable especially as we suggest to others that there is, in fact, not only a better way, but also the way. Scriptures that speak of man as a being who "might have joy" have more impact when falling from the lips or pens of men and women whose lives give fresh evidence of the validity of that scripture.” PeopleIfsMenWayGivingKindFactsMightJoyFallSpeakOur LivesEvidenceMen And WomenImpactLipsScripturePensPessimismBetter WaysValidityBelievableGreat JoyTidings Author:Neal A. Maxwell