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mid-week apologetics booster (11-20-2025)

Good Morning Friends,

Quote of the week:

To say that God does not exist is to say that out of all the things that do exist, God is not among them. But who can honestly make such a claim? To honestly make that claim a person must have complete and exhaustive knowledge of everything that does exist. And the only person who can honestly make that kind of claim is God-the very person the atheist is trying to deny! – Doug Powell

Now, here are your weekly links:

This bit of genealogy is fascinating. I checked it also with ChatGPT, but have not done the calculation myself, but it is apparently true that, using the genealogies and ages given in the Bible, Adam lived long enough to overlap with Noah’s father Lamech. Noah’s son Shem lived long enough to overlap with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Of course, just because they overlapped, that doesn’t mean for sure they knew each other, though they are technically “family”, since you can trace the lineage all the way back to Adam/Eve. So, maybe since they’re family, it might be more likely that they’d know each other? https://www.instagram.com/reels/DNv5OHH2KW6/
Join Frank on a fascinating survey of history from 1453 to the Pilgrim to Thanksgiving with historian Bill Federer. This episode for the Cross Examined podcast is packed with surprising historical data. It could give you some interesting things to talk about around the Thanksgiving table: https://subsplash.com/u/crossexamined/media/d/8mrcpnh-11-24-18
Why Does Frank Turek Call Peter Boghossian “The Atheist Charlie Kirk”? – YouTube – How do you have “impossible” conversations with people you disagree with? At the recent UC Berkeley TPUSA event, atheist philosopher Peter Boghossian breaks down how we can still have productive conversations in a divided culture.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbxuw7wR8b4
Climate Change | Jason Lisle – Is climate change real? If so, what is the cause? Is it caused by human activity? And can it be reversed? If so, should it be reversed? Many people have never stopped to consider these questions because they think they already know the answers to all of them. After all, we have been told that climate change is real, dangerous, caused by human activity, and that we should fight it by reducing our carbon footprint. But does science bear out such claims?: https://biblicalscienceinstitute.com/astronomy/climate-change/
Creation Moments – How certain are evolutionists of evolution? Of course, no believer in evolution is going to go on national television and say that he is not sure of evolution. However, within the scientific community, those who really know the facts don’t always sound so convinced of their arguments. The great philosopher of science, Dr. Karl Popper, wrote that Darwinism is not even a scientific theory because it cannot be tested. Even the prestigious British Museum of Natural History offered this admission on one of its displays. That admission created a scandal among American evolutionists. Dr. Colin Patterson, head of paleontology at the British Museum, was responsible for this display. He wrote in his book Evolution that evolution is simply a metaphysical system used to arrange scientific evidence. It is not a conclusion of science at all.: https://creationmoments.com/radio/broadcast-archive/todays-creation-moment/faith-christ-or-man/
Science Does NOT Disprove God-Scientists Mis-define God | Professor John Lennox – YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmSGwCcznKM
The date of Deuteronomy: lynch-pin of Old Testament criticism – The Gospel Coalition. This is important, because it attempts to answer the skeptical dating of Deuteronomy in this video (Full Family Tree from Adam) and this one too (Focused on Kings of Judah and Israel): https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/themelios/article/the-date-of-deuteronomy-linch-pin-of-old-testament-criticism/
Atheists: Why Doesn’t Faith Fix People? – YouTube – Do hypocritical Christians disprove Christianity? If believers act just as poorly as nonbelievers, does that mean the faith itself is false? Frank addresses this tough question from a Christian who’s been challenged by atheist peers-and shows why Christianity’s truth isn’t undone by human hypocrisy.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwKQ3gcTLUU
How church history will help you defend the faith – Southern Equip – John of Damascus (676-749) is a model for how rich theology fuels Christian evangelism. The early centuries of the church saw Christianity threatened by a number of theological heresies: Gnosticism, Arianism, and Pelagianism, to name but three. While history never repeats itself exactly, the essence of many of these heresies has reappeared from time to time in the long history of Christianity. For instance, postmodernity’s interest in spirituality, though it rages against Christianity, has numerous similarities to the lengthy battle against Gnosticism that occupied the church during the second and third centuries. Knowledge of the way that Christians in the past defended the faith against Gnosticism would provide helpful ways of responding to postmodern spirituality today. Or what about the challenge, one of the greatest of today, posed by Islam’s attack on the Trinity and the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ?2 Broadly speaking, evangelicals are woefully inadequate in their ability to respond to such an attack, for they rarely hear sermons on the Trinity and the incarnation. Here, the Fathers can help us enormously, for in replying to the Arians and then later to the Muslims they hammered out the biblical details of these two key doctrines. Consider the way that the theologian John of Damascus, also known as John Damascene or Yanah ibn Masur, a biblically informed Christian, responded to Islam during the early period of Muslim expansion.: https://equip.sbts.edu/article/church-history-will-help-defend-faith/
The Consequences of Relativism – YouTube – Jon Noyes of Stand to Reason explains what happens when moral relativism is followed to its logical conclusion.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNufflDgTIQ
Alexander Vilenkin: “All the evidence we have says that the universe had a beginning” | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2023/01/25/alexander-vilenkin-all-the-evidence-we-have-says-that-the-universe-had-a-beginning-10/
Deepak Chopra vs Christian Apologist Debate (Chopra Loses) – YouTube – The most prominent teacher of mysticism and New Age philosophy in the West Deepak Chopra goes toe to toe in a debate with Christian apologist Greg Koukl on Lee Strobel’s show “Faith under Fire”. This episode called “The Future of Faith” aired in 2005. Chopra, who has written two books on the topic of Jesus, seems to be at loss for words as the well-researched Koukl keeps correcting him on his false view of Jesus, his false doctrine, and the historicity of the Gospels. Chopra’s Eastern/secular interpretation of Jesus does not seem to hold water when confronted with someone who teaches apologetics and defends the faith for a living.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meYHmFz33NE
Stephen Meyer: DNA and Information – Science Uprising Expert Interview – YouTube – In this bonus interview footage from Science Uprising, philosopher of science Stephen Meyer discusses DNA, biological information, and how the information encoded in DNA points to an intelligent cause. He appears in Science Uprising EP3 DNA: The Programmer. Is the software that runs life the result of accumulated copying errors? Or does it require a programmer? Be sure to visit https://scienceuprising.com/ to find more videos and explore related articles and books.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c9PaZzsqEg
What Ancestry DNA Kits Reveal About God, Our Past, and the Way Forward | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/what-ancestry-dna-kits-reveal-about-god-our-past-and-the-way-forward/
Judge Dismisses Satanic Temple’s Lawsuit Against Idaho Abortion Ban – LifeNews.com: https://www.lifenews.com/2025/11/13/federal-judge-dismisses-satanic-temples-lawsuit-against-idaho-abortion-ban/
Book Banning? Woke Forces Know All About That | Science and Culture Today: https://scienceandculture.com/2023/06/luskin-book-banning-woke-forces-know-all-about-that-they-practiced-on-us/
Is There Life in Space? | Creation Moments – There is as much evidence today for life on the moon or other planets as there was in 1836. As we explore those other planets of the solar system, the evidence grows that there is little hope that other life will be found in space. Evolutionists, of course, expect life to be found in space. They feel that if life evolved on earth, it certainly should have evolved elsewhere, too. At a popular conference on whether there is life in space, one of today’s most famous astronomers, Dr. Robert Jastrow, stated that the question was “essentially a religious controversy.”: https://creationmoments.com/radio/broadcast-archive/todays-creation-moment/is-there-life-in-space/
D James Kennedy Sermons Jesus Christ Myth or Messiah – YouTube – Dennis James Kennedy (November 3, 1930 – September 5, 2007), better known as D. James Kennedy, was an American pastor, evangelist, and Christian broadcaster. He founded the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he was senior pastor from 1960 until his death in 2007. Kennedy also founded Evangelism Explosion International…: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_z-taVoIlw
Is the Christian Faith Evidentially Reasonable? | Cold Case Christianity – The Bible repeatedly makes evidential claims. It offers eyewitness accounts of historical events that can be verified archaeologically, prophetically and even scientifically.: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/is-the-christian-faith-evidentially-reasonable/
The Origin of the Sexes | Answers in Genesis – How is it then possible that such different and complex organs, which fit one another in every morphological and physiological detail, could have evolved suddenly? Sexual reproduction is only possible when both sexes have fully functional reproductive organs at the same time.: https://answersingenesis.org/human-evolution/origins/23-the-origin-of-the-sexes-ob3/
Ben Shapiro on the impossibility of the incarnation of the Messiah within Jewish thought – THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM: https://chab123.wordpress.com/2022/07/17/ben-shapiro-on-the-impossibility-of-the-incarnation-of-the-messiah-within-jewish-thought/
The Rosetta Stone, SETI, and the Existence of God | Come Reason’s Apologetics Notes – If the identification of a message system proves there is a mind at work, and DNA is an information-rich message system, then it follows that DNA must have come from a mind. That’s the inescapable conclusion from the premises that precede it. Message systems come from minds, DNA is a message system, so DNA must have come from a mind. Good science has revealed this to us.: https://apologetics-notes.comereason.org/2014/10/the-rosetta-stone-seti-and-existence-of.html
Christians are hypocrites and that makes Christianity false. So, Whattaya Do? Ask a question: Is the truth about Jesus and Christianity contingent on its followers? In other words, do the actions of hypocritical people change the facts about Christianity? The simple answer to that question is NO! The moral inability or hypocritical living of people has no bearing on the truth of Christianity, however it does have a bearing on its reputation. The followers of Jesus are to be loving, truthful, humble, patient, kind, meek, gentle and respectful. : https://www.newyorkapologetics.com/christians-are-hypocrites-whattaya-do/
Would You Trade Eternal Life For A Ferrari? The False Gospel of Prosperity Theology – AlbertMohler.com: https://albertmohler.com/2019/05/03/would-you-trade-eternal-life-for-a-ferrari-the-false-gospel-of-prosperity-theology
3 intelligent former atheists who became Christians because of the Moral Argument | Is Jesus Alive?: https://isjesusalive.com/moral-argument/
Pop Science Site Enlists the Peppered Moth to Attack Religion | Science and Culture Today: https://scienceandculture.com/2025/11/pop-science-site-enlists-the-peppered-moth-to-attack-religion/
Persuasion – the Centre Piece of Effective Evangelism – bethinking.org – Persuasion is a pivotal word in understanding evangelism, but it has for a long time been overlooked. I have been to countless training sessions and read numerous books on evangelism, where neither the word nor even the idea has been mentioned at all. Even a Dictionary of Apologetics and an Encyclopedia of Apologetics on my shelves do not have entries under the word. Yet, if you take persuasion out of evangelism, you are left with unpersuasive evangelism. Some thirty years ago, I heard a famous and influential English evangelist put it like this: A man won by an argument is at the mercy of a better argument. Instead, we must bring people into an experience of Christ. I wasn’t quick witted enough to point out that a person won by an experience is at the mercy of a better experience! However, his viewpoint was widely shared and highlighted a subjective and relative approach to truth. It was very post-modern.: https://www.bethinking.org/apologetics/persuasion-the-centre-piece-of-effective-evangelism
Did Nicaea Really Create the Bible? There is no historical basis for the idea that Nicaea established the canon and created the Bible.: https://textandcanon.org/the-council-of-nicea-and-the-biblical-canon/
What If I Don’t Enjoy the Christian Life? A Letter to Young Men | Desiring God: https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/what-if-i-dont-enjoy-the-christian-life
A list of objections to the multiverse theory that you should know | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2025/11/18/a-list-of-objections-to-the-multiverse-theory-that-you-should-know/
Refuting Evolution Chapter 11 | Creation.com – Evolutionists say, ‘One of the so-called “problems” of evolution-sexuality-can easily be explained.’: https://creation.com/en/articles/refuting-evolution-2-chapter-11-argument-evolution-of-sex
LEE STROBEL – The Case for Christ – YouTube – a talk from 2018 – Lee Strobel spent two years of his life studying, researching, learning everything he could in order to disprove the resurrection and deity of Christ. What he found instead changed his life forever. – This week, Lee Strobel takes us through the four main points he found that shifted his mind and heart about the truth surrounding the resurrection of Jesus.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67uj2qvQi_k

I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end He will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; I myself will see Him with my own eyes –I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me! Job 19:25-27

Blessings to you all