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A skeptic and seeker's guide for investigating religions and world-views through debate, interview, analysis, and discussion.



CONTENTS




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INTRODUCING ENCOUNTER




VOLUME 15

15.1 DANIEL PROPHESIES WHEN MESSIAH WILL APPEAR


15.2 JESUS’ FAILED PROPHECY?




VOLUME 14

14.1 JESUS’ RESURRECTION AND THE LOGIC OF MIRACLES: TWO VERY BRIEF ARGUMENTS




VOLUME 13

13.1 THE KALAM AND THE MISSING LAWNMOWER


13.2 SIMPLICITY, BRUTE FACTS, FINE-TUNING, AND THE MULTIVERSE; A PRELIMINARY LOOK AT THE ISSUES


13.3 DID ADAM AND EVE EXIST? DOES POPULATION GENETICS DISPROVE A FIRST COUPLE?




VOLUME 12

12.1 GOOD WITHOUT GOD? COMMENTS ON THE BOOK HUMAN SUFFERING AND THE EVIL OF RELIGION


HUMAN SUFFERING AND DIVINE FOREKNOWLEDGE: IF THERE ARE GOOD ANSWERS TO THE PROBLEM OF SUFFERING, HOW DO THEY ACCOUNT FOR DIVINE FOREKNOWLEDGE?




VOLUME 11

11.1 FLIRTING WITH UNIVERSALISM, RESOLVING THE PROBLEM OF AN ETERNAL HELL


11.2 THE BEST CURRENT SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE FOR GOD: GUTH, CRAIG, VILENKIN, & CARROLL ON THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE


11.3 THE ATHEIST PRAYER EXPERIMENT


11.4 AN ATHEIST’S ENCOUNTER WITH GOD




VOLUME 10

10.1 EINSTEIN’S RELIGION: WHY HAVE THE GREATEST SCIENTISTS BELIEVED IN GOD?


10.3 DAWKINS/LENNOX DEBATE, A Critique


10.4 ROSS/STENGER DEBATE, A Critique




VOLUME 9

THE CASE FOR FAITH BY LEE STROBEL: A Critique and Debate, Full PDF


9.1 THE PROBLEM OF EVIL: Part 1 of Doland/Jensen Debate


9.2 EVIDENTIAL VALUE OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE: Part 2 of Doland/Jensen Debate


9.2 (cont.) RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE AS EVIDENCE: Philosophers Michael Tooley and William Lane Craig Debate plus Discussion with Dr. Tooley (Following Doland/Jensen Debate)


9.3 DOES GOD CONDEMN HONEST UNBELIEVERS: Part 3 of Doland/Jensen Debate




VOLUME 8

8.1 LIVING TO DIE: WHAT IS LIFE WITHOUT GOD?


8.2 THE 36TH GOD: GYALSANG’S STORY, THE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY OF A SHERPA TIBETAN BUDDHIST


8.3 THE SIMPLICITY DEBATE: IS THEISM OR NATURALISM A SIMPLER EXPLANATION? TOOLEY/CRAIG DEBATE AND DISCUSSION WITH SWINBURNE AND TOOLEY


8.4 EVIL CHRISTIANS: DO EVIL AND FAILED CHRISTIANS DISPROVE CHRISTIANITY?

8.5 JIM MORRISON’S GRAVE: A STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS MEDITATION ON THE FOLLY OF DEAD-ROCK-STAR WORSHIP




VOLUME 7

TOOLEY/CRAIG DEBATE
(with discussion or commentary following. Note: plus (+) indicates arguments for theism or Christianity; minus (-) indicates against)

7.1 NOT LOOKING FOR GOD: A NEW AGE JOURNEY


7.2 THE HIDDENNESS OF GOD DEBATE: WILLIAM LANE CRAIG AND MICHAEL TOOLEY DEBATE FOLLOWED WITH A DISCUSSION WITH DR. TOOLEY




VOLUME 4

4.1 ASTRAL PROJECTION: A NEW AGE LEADER’S ENCOUNTER WITH TERROR




VOLUME 3

3.1 DANIEL’S PROPHECY OF THE SEVENTY WEEKS


3.2 CAN ANYONE BELIEVE IN GOD AFTER THE HOLOCAUST?


3.2 RESCUERS IN THE HOLOCAUST: DID RELIGIOUS BELIEF MAKE A DIFFERENCE?




VOLUME 1

1.1 A GOD SEEKER IN ETHIOPIA: WARRASA WANGE’S STORY





The following are articles from the original tabloid. Some of these may in time be added to this website.


VOLUME 8


SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE FOR A DESIGNER OF THE UNIVERSE: REASON #33 (OF 123)

NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE, THE DARK SIDE


VOLUME 7


TOOLEY/CRAIG DEBATE
(with discussion or commentary following. Note: plus (+) indicates arguments for theism or Christianity; minus (-) indicates against)
  • Part 1: Cosmological Argument (+)
  • Science, Magic, and Miracles
  • Part 5: The Default Argument (-)
  • Part 6: The Argument from Objective Moral Values (+)
  • Part 7: The Argument from Minds (-)
  • Part 8: The Fine-Tuning Argument (+)
  • Part 9: The Argument from Evil (-)
  • Part 10: The Argument for Jesus' Resurrection (+)
  • Part 11: The Case against Christianity (-)
  • Part 12: The Problem of Hell (-)



VOLUME 6


DEBATE WITH ANTONY FLEW: “DIVINE JUSTICE?” IS BELIEF IN AN ETERNAL HELL THE DEATH-BLOW TO CHRISTIANITY?

“WOULD WE HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO COMMIT OUR LIVES IF WE BELIEVED GOD DOES EXIST”

“CAN WE LIVE WITHOUT GOD?”



VOLUME 5

BETWEEN THE EARTH AND MOON: A NATIVE MEXICAN SHAMAN RETURNS FROM THE DEAD . . . TO TELL WHAT HE SAW

GOD AND EVIL: LETTER TO AN OLD COLLEGE PROF

EINSTEIN AND THE CHURCH

GREAT MOMENTS IN SCIENCE, or THE DEVOLUTION OF AN IDEA

“WHY I AM NOT A CHRISTIAN”


VOLUME 4

BERTRAND RUSSELL MEETS HIS MAKER: QUOTES FROM THE FAMOUS AGNOSTIC SHOW HOW SUCH AN ENCOUNTER MIGHT APPEAR.

RICHARD DAWKINS: INTERVIEW: “DID DARWIN MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR ATHEISM?”

THE ARGUMENT AGAINST NATURALISM FROM HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS



VOLUME 3

THE HISTORICAL EVIDENCE THAT JESUS IS THE MESSIAH:

THE RESURRECTION EVIDENCE

OTHER MESSIANIC PROPHECY

DEBATE: TRADITIONAL JEWISH VS MESSIANIC JEWISH DEBATE: IS JESUS THE JEWISH MESSIAH?



VOLUME 2


WHEN MUSLIMS CALL ON ALLAH: TRUE LIFE STORIES BUT UNEXPECTED ENDINGS.

A LEADING MUSLIM SCHOLAR
DEBATES CHRISTIANITY
  • Should We Just Seek God for the Truth?
  • Does the Qur'an Confirm the New Testament? Part 1
  • Hebrew Prophecies of a Dying Messiah?
  • Can God Accept Us without Atonement?
  • Evidence that the Qur'an does not deny Isa's death or resurrection
  • Miller's argument that the New Testament does not affirm Jesus' deity.
  • Faith
  • The Quran's view of the New Testament: Miller's response
  • The evidence for Islam
  • Miller's disproof of the Bible as revelation
  • Persuasion by the sword?
  • The problem of the wars of Islam
  • "Jesus, the only way to God," Miller's response
  • Miller's argument against Jesus' death and resurrection

THE EVIDENCE FOR ISA’S (JESUS’) DEATH AND RESURRECTION
(With special consideration of Muslim objections)



VOLUME 1

ULTIMATE ENCOUNTER; A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY OF A MASTER OF MYSTICISM AND THE OCCULT

TIBETAN BUDDHISM: AN INTERVIEW WITH ROBIN KORMAN

A BUDDHIST CRITIQUE OF THEISM AND RESPONSE

WORLD VIEW DIALOGUE

“THE EAST, NO EXIT” A REVIEW OF A CHAPTER FROM THE DUST OF DEATH BY OS GUINNESS


If the image at the beginning of this page is not available on your display, this is a picture of blindfolded masses being led with chains by individuals holding symbols and signs indicating, variously, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, secularism, Christianity, and Taoism, and by extension any other religion or ideology. The text reads:
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It comes through peer pressure, sometimes it comes from an esteemed college professor, . . . perhaps we’ve been taught it since youth. However we might come to uncritically accept a world-view, if we fail to search out the truth for ourselves and seek the truth from God, if we do not consider the evidence in whatever form it may come, then we allow others to dictate to us that which we must believe—and in a realm far more important than any other we could ever consider.


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