God's Not Dead: Evidence for God in an Age of Uncertainty (32 page)

12
. Rick Warren,
The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
(Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2004).

13
. Lawrence M. Krauss,
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
(New York: Free Press, 2012), xii.

14
. David Robertson, letter 3. www.bethinking.org/science-christianity/introductory/the=dawkins-letters-3-respect.htm.

15
. Francis A. Schaeffer,
The Church Before the Watching World: A Practical Ecclesiology
(Downer’s Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1971), 29.

16
. Greg Graffin and Steve Olson,
Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God
(New York: HarperCollins, 2010), 4.

17
.
Richard Dawkins vs. John Lennox: The God Delusion Debate
, University of Alabama at Birmingham, October 3, 2007 (Birmingham: New Day Entertainment, 2007), DVD.

18
. Francis Schaeffer,
Escape from Reason
(Downer’s Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2006), 32.

19
. Christopher Tinker and Melvin Tinker, “Fifty Years On: The Legacy of Francis Schaeffer—An Apologetic for Post-Moderns,”
Churchman
119, no. 3, Autumn 2005, 208.

20
. Stephen Jay Gould, quoted in David Friend,
The Meaning of Life: Reflections in Words and Pictures on Why We Are Here
(New York: Little Brown, 1991), 33.

21
. “The True Core of the Jesus Myth: Christopher Hitchens @ FreedomFest,” YouTube, April 11, 2009, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMo5R5pLPBE.

22
. Richard Dawkins,
A Devil’s Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003), 23.

23
. Jonathan Wells, “Survival of Fakest,”
American Spectator
, December 2000 / January 2001.

24
.
Steven M. Stanley,
The New Evolutionary Timetable: Fossils, Genes, and the Origin of Species
(New York: Basic, 1981), 139.

25
. Stephen Jay Gould,
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1977), 57.

26
. Francis S. Collins,
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
(New York: Free Press, 2006), 138–39.

27
. Ann Gauger, Douglas Axe, and Casey Luskin,
Science and Human Origins
(Seattle: Discovery Institute, 2012).

28
. Ravi Zacharias,
Can Man Live Without God
(Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2004), 22.

29
. “What Is Speciesism?”
The Ethics of Speciesism
, BBC, http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/animals/rights/speciesism.shtml (accessed September 22, 2012).

30
. Peter Singer,
Animal Liberation
(1975; New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 173.

31
. Richard Dawkins, interview by Craig Ferguson,
Late Late Show
, RTC One [Irish television], September 18, 2009.

32
. Noam Chomsky,
Language and Mind
, 3rd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 59.

33
. Noam Chomsky,
New Horizons in the Study of Language and the Mind
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 92.

34
. Michael Denton,
Nature’s Destiny: How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe
(New York: Free Press, 2002), 241.

35
. Ibid., 239.

36
. Marcelo Gleiser, “We Are Unique” in John Brockman,
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
(New York: HarperCollins, 2012), 4.

37
. Harry G. Frankfurt, “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person,”
The Journal of Philosophy
, vol. 68, no. 1 (January 14, 1971), 5–7.

38
. Michael Tomasello, “How Are Humans Unique?”
New York Times
, May 25, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/magazine/25wwln-essay-t.html?_r=0 (accessed September 22, 2012).

39
. Merlin Donald,
A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2002), xiii.

40
. Gary Habermas and J. P. Moreland,
Beyond Death: Exploring the Evidence for Immortality
(Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2004).

41
. For a complete discussion of this and other examples, see Kevin
Favero,
Science of the Soul: Scientific Evidence of Human Souls
(Edina, MN: Beaver’s Pond Press, 2004).

42
. Saint Augustine,
Confessions,
Book 1, 21.

C
HAPTER
7: J
ESUS AND THE
R
ESURRECTION

1
. Josh McDowell,
More than a Carpenter
(1977; Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 2004), 54.

2
. Bart D. Ehrman,
Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth
(New York: HarperOne, 2012), 7.

3
. Naomi Schaefer Riley, “A Revelation: Civil Debate Over God’s Existance,”
Wall Street Journal
, October 12, 2007, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119214767015956720-search.html (accessed December 20, 2012).

4
.
Richard Dawkins vs. John Lennox: The God Delusion Debate
, University of Alabama at Birmingham, October 3, 2007 (Birmingham: New Day Entertainment, 2007), DVD.

5
. Richard Dawkins and John Lennox, debate, University Museum of Natural History, Oxford England, October 21, 2008.

6
. Ehrman,
Did Jesus Exist?
5–6.

7
. Tacitus,
Annals
15.44.

8
. Pliny,
Letters
2.10.

9
. Julius Africanus,
Chronography
18.1.

10
. Josephus,
Jewish Antiquities
20.9.

11
. Craig Blomberg,
The Historical Reliability of the Gospels
(Downer’s Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1987), 252–54.

12
. E. M. Blaiklock, quoted in Josh McDowell,
Skeptics Who Demanded a Verdict
(Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 1989), 85.

13
. Richard Gordon,
Image and Value in the Graeco-Roman World
(Aldershot, UK: Variorum, 1996), 96.

14
. Richard Carrier, “Kersey Graves and
The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors
,” Internet Infidels, http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/graves.html (accessed September 22, 2012).

15
. Craig S. Keener,
The Historical Jesus of the Gospels
(Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2009), 334–35.

16
. Bruce M. Metzger, “Mystery Religions and Early Christianity, in
Historical and Literary Studies
(Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1968), 11.

17
. Keener,
The Historical Jesus,
336.

18
. Ibid., 333.

19
. Tryggve N. D. Mettinger,
The Riddle of Resurrection: “Dying and Rising Gods” in the Ancient Near East
(London: Coronet, 2001), 7, 40–41.

20
. Dave Sterrett,
Why Trust Jesus? An Honest Look at Doubts, Plans, Hurts, Desires, Fears, Questions, and Pleasures
(Chicago: Moody, 2010), 141.

21
. Lee Strobel, YouTube video, http://www.youtube.com/watch–v=6WGDfNlp2as.

22
. William D. Edwards, Wesley J. Gabel, and Floyd E. Hosmer, “On the Physical Death of Jesus Christ,”
Journal of the American Medical Association
256, March 21, 1986.

23
. John A. T. Robinson, quoted by William Lane Craig, in Lee Strobel,
The Case for Christ: A Journalist’s Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus
(Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1998), 210.

24
. James D. Tabor,
The Jesus Dynasty: The Hidden History of Jesus, His Royal Family, and the Birth of Christianity
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006), 230.

25
. E. P. Sanders,
The Historical Figure of Jesus
(New York: Penguin Books, 1993), 279–80.

26
. Bart D. Ehrman,
The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings
, 3rd ed
.
(New York: Oxford University, 2004), 276.

27
. John Dominic Crossan and Jonathan L. Reed,
Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts
(San Francisco: HarperCollins, 2002), 298.

28
. Pinchas Lapide,
The Resurrection of Jesus: A Jewish Perspective
, trans. Wilhelm C. Linss (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1988), 125.

29
. James A. Francis,
One Solitary Life
(Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2005), 39. Mortimer J. Adler,
Great Ideas from the Great Books
(New York: Pocket, 1976), 274–75.

C
HAPTER
8: T
HE
W
ITNESS OF
S
CRIPTURE

1
. Immanuel Kant, quoted in Friedrich Paulsen,
Immanuel Kant: His Life and Doctrine
, trans. J. E. Creighton and Albert LeFevre (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1902), 48.

2
. Abraham Lincoln, quoted in
Washington Daily Morning Chronicle
, September 8, 1864.

3
. “The Great Isaiah Scroll,”
The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls
, http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/isaiah (accessed December 20, 2012).

4
. Wayne Grudem, C. John Collins, Thomas R. Schreiner, eds.,
Understanding Scripture: An Overview of the Bible’s Origin, Reliability, and Meaning
(Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012), 159.

5
. F. F. Bruce, “Galatian Problems. 4. The Date of the Epistle,”
Bulletin of the John Rylands Library Manchester
54.2 (Spring 1972): 251.

6
. Norman Geisler and Peter Bocchino,
Unshakable Foundations: Contemporary Answers to Crucial Questions about the Christian Faith
(Minneapolis: Bethany House, 2001), 257.

7
. Robert Stewart, ed.
The Reliability of the New Testament: Bart D. Ehrman and Daniel B. Wallace in Dialogue
, 33–34. Augsburg Fortress - A. Kindle Edition. Referencing Bruce M. Metzger and Bart D. Ehrman,
The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration
, 4th ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 126.

8
. Gleason Archer,
A Survey of Old Testament Introduction
, rev. ed. (Chicago: Moody, 1974), 25.

9
. Dan Brown,
The Da Vinci Code
(New York: Doubleday, 2003).

10
.
The Reliability of the New Testament: Bart D. Ehrman and Daniel B. Wallace in Dialogue
, 55.

11
. William Lane Craig, “Establishing the Gospels’ Reliability,”
Reasonable Faith
, April 5, 2010, http://www.reasonablefaith.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5711 (accessed September 23, 2012).

12
.
The Reliability of the New Testament: Bart D. Erhman and Daniel B. Wallace in Dialogue
, 39.

13
. Craig Blomberg,
The Historical Reliability of the Gospels
(Downer’s Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1987), 55–62.

14
. Ibid., 152–95.

15
. Ibid., 203–04.

16
. Sir William Ramsay,
The Bearing of Recent Discovery on the Trustworthiness of the New Testament
(1915; Grand Rapids: Baker, 1975), 89.

17
. Craig Keener,
The Historical Jesus of the Gospels
(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012), 85–94 and Colin Hemer,
Book of Acts in the Setting of Hellenistic History
(Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1990).

18
. Blomberg,
Historical Reliability of the Gospels
, 206.

19
. K. A. Kitchen,
On the Reliability of the Old Testament
(Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2003).

20
. For detailed discussion, see Harold Koenig,
The Healing Power of Faith: How Belief and Prayer Can Help You Triumph Over Disease
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001).

C
HAPTER
9: T
HE
G
RACE
E
FFECT

1
. Bart D. Ehrman,
God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question—Why We Suffer
(New York: HarperColliins, 2008), 128.

2
. Rodney Stark,
The Rise of Christianity: How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries
(Princeton: Princeton University, 1996), 211.

3
. Will Durant,
Caesar and Christ: A History of Roman Civilization from Their Beginnings to A.D. 325
(1944; New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972), 652.

4
. Michael Green,
Thirty Years That Changed the World: The Book of Acts for Today
(1993; Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2004), 7.

5
. D. James Kennedy and Jerry Newcombe,
What If Jesus Had Never Been Born? The Positive Impact of Christianity in History
, rev. ed. (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2001), 9.

6
. Christopher Hitchens, interview by Dennis Miller,
The Dennis Miller Show
, Westwood One, October 30, 2009.

7
. William Lane Craig, debate with Christopher Hitchens, Biola University, La Mirada, California, April 4, 2009, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KBx4vvlbZ8.

8
. Luke Muehlhauser, “The Craig-Hitchens Debate,”
Common Sense Atheism
, April 4, 2009, http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=1230 (accessed September 23, 2012).

9
. Larry Alex Taunton,
The Grace Effect: How the Power of One Life Can Reverse the Corruption of Unbelief
(Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2011), xii.

10
. Ibid., 22.

11
. Kennedy and Newcombe,
What If Jesus Had Never Been Born?
27.

12
. Stark,
Rise of Christianity
, 105.

13
. Kennedy and Newcombe,
What If Jesus Had Never Been Born?
12.

14
. Stark,
Rise of Christianity
, 124–28.