EVOLUTION—Is it "The Greatest Show on Earth" as celebrated atheist author Richard Dawkins proclaims—or has it become a "Big Top Circus" paraded from town to town and school to school? Scientifically, both Creation and Evolution cannot be true. Quite simply, then, one of these belief systems is nothing more than a cruel "side show" perpetrated upon unsuspecting children and adults of all ages—while the other alone is meritorious of praise. Darwin and Dawkins both credit "natural selection" for the incredible diversity and complexity of life on earth. Can random chance processes explain the masterfully orchestrated performance of earth’s breathtaking complexity and unparalleled majesty? Due to the influence of biblical Christianity, evolution was once almost unanimously rejected by the entire Western world, especially by leading scientists, a fact easily documented by citing Christians who are still looked to as the founders of modern science. Isaac Newton gave us the most important scientific book ever written: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. Yet he wrote more about the Bible than about science. Robert Boyle is known as the first modern chemist and is credited with laying the foundation of modern chemistry. His book, The Skeptical Chymist was a cornerstone work of modern chemistry. He endowed a lecture series, "The Boyle Lectures" (ironically still carried on at Oxford University, where Dawkins held forth as professor), "for proving the Christian religion against notorious infidels." In his latest impeccably-researched volume, Dave Hunt skillfully dethrones the Darwinian imagination that has exalted itself against the knowledge of God—and in the process, reveals fatal flaws in the logic of both cosmic and secular humanism. But this myth-busting volume is not typical of Creationist literature in recent decades. It reaches far deeper than science can look, probing the heart and mind to provide soul-shaking answers to the questions of human destiny that have not only plagued atheists and skeptics, but even most Bible-believing Christians.
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Since 1973, Dave Hunt has steadfastly addressed the incursion, into Western culture and the church itself, of Eastern, psychological, mystic, and selfist philosophies, ecumenism, and other unbiblical teachings. At least 4 million copies of his books have been sold and have been translated into more than 50 languages. They include: The Cult Explosion, The God Makers, The New Spirituality, The Seduction of Christianity, Global Peace and the Rise of Antichrist, Occult Invasion, A Cup of Trembling, In Defense of the Faith, An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith, What Love Is This?, Countdown to the Second Coming, Seeking and Finding God, Honest Doubts, Judgment Day! Islam, Israel, and the Nations, and Yoga and the Body of Christ. For more than a decade, Dave challenged listeners weekly on the radio program Search the Scriptures daily, broadcast over 350 stations in the U.S. and worldwide via shortwave radio.
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Massive Evidence for the Creator: Dave Hunt's Magnum Opus,
This review is from: Cosmos, Creator and Human Destiny: Answering Darwin, Dawkins, and the New Atheists (Hardcover)
The skeptic Robert Ingersoll went to a museum and came upon a model of our solar system. As he was pondering the display that prompted his oohs and ahs, as his unceasing reiteration of how marvelous the planetary model appeared rolled out of his panting mouth, the museum curator came up to him. While both men were admiring the display, Ingersoll turned to the keeper and asked him, "Who made this wonderful model of our solar system?" The curator replied, "No one. It just appeared here in all its precision and glory, after billions of years, with time and chance acting upon matter, it just formed itself!" And that's the type of irrational deception Ingersoll and the new atheists adopt as they gaze upon the fine-tuned and marvelous cosmos: skeptics try to claim that it created itself by time and chance acting upon matter. But herein Dave Hunt exposes such atheistic nonsense."Cosmos, Creator and Human Destiny: Answering Darwin, Dawkins, and the New Atheists" is a huge (600+ pages) exposé of Darwin and Dawkins is Dave Hunt's magnum opus as he delivers a powerful refutation of Darwinian evolution, relativism, and the atheism of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens. Hunt offers countless evidential arguments and countless quotes from leading scientists and atheists as he dismantles the atheistic worldview. Chapters in "Cosmos, Creator and Human Destiny: Answering Darwin, Dawkins, and the New Atheists" by Dave Hunt include: - The Challenge of the Cosmos - The New Atheists' Speculative "Science" - Impassable Chasms, Impossible Cliffs - In the Beginning: The Question of Origins - What About the Big Bang? - From Big Bang to Life? - Descent Into Collective Madness? - Selfish Genes, Selfish People - The Riddle of "Life" - Consciousness, Conscience, and Morals - Against All Odds - The Overlooked, Irrefutible Proof - and more! Hunt quotes Erwin Schrödinger (Austrian theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize quantum mechanics): "[Science] knows nothing of . . . good or bad, God and eternity. . . . Whence came I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question. . . . Science has no answer to it." And the author supplies a quote from astrophysicist Sir Arthur S. Eddington: "Thus, in the physical world, what a body does and what a body ought to do are equivalent; but we are well aware of another domain where they are anything but equivalent.... There is a clear distinction between natural law, which must be obeyed, and moral law, which ought to be obeyed. Ought takes us outside of physics and chemistry." The Back Cover asks the questions: - Why are we here? - And where are we going? - Does science have an answer to these two most fundamental questions of human existence? - Can mankind determine and direct the future of life on earth purely by scientific means? Stephen Hawking adds: "Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? . . . It is difficult to discuss the beginning of the universe without mentioning the concept of God." Hunt shares this citation from Roger Penrose: "There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance. Some people take the view that the universe is simply there . . . and we happen by accident to find ourselves in this thing. . . . I think that there is something much deeper about . . . its existence, which we have little inkling of at the moment." The author notes that "Atheism, partnering with Darwinism, is the fastest growing non-political movement in the world today. It is Satan's master weapon in his battle with God. The world's leading atheist, Richard Dawkins, a former Oxford University professor, is atheism's loudest mouthpiece. His books regularly appear on the New York Times bestseller list. Becoming convinced of Darwinism at the age of fifteen turned him from a nominal Anglican into a fervent atheist. He has declared that "`A belief in God is not only stupid but wicked.'" Additionally Hunt states: "It is ... futile to search the DNA of man and animals for a missing link. Neither the skeletal structure nor the DNA has anything to do with who the person really is. The DNA of a chimpanzee is 96 percent like that of humans. This does not indicate any evolutionary connection between man and chimps as Francis Collins, a professing Christian recently appointed to head the National Institutes of Health, suggests. Even if the complete skeletons and DNA of Albert Einstein, Charles Dickens, and Ludwig van Beethoven could be discovered, would they hold the key to the genius of these men? Of course not! The real person is a nonphysical being living inside the physical body. This fact is indisputable." He adds: "As for your brain, it does not originate your thoughts. You are the thinker who will live on endlessly after the body lies rotting in the grave. Souls and spirits are not subject to the laws of physics and chemistry that govern our bodies. These facts bear serious consequences for each of us. What happens to the soul and spirit after death? Hebrews 9:27 states, `It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.' You can laugh your way into hell, but you can't laugh your way out." Moreover he writes: "The purpose of space probes, for example, is to find signs of water that might indicate how life could have had its inception somewhere outside of earth and then evolved. The goal, of course, is to show that man is not a unique creation but that there are similar intelligent beings scattered everywhere throughout the universe--and thus there is no need of a "god" to explain anything. Such speculation flies in the face of the law of biogenesis, which states that life only comes from life. Atheists want to avoid the question of origins. They talk about a sudden burst of energy that one critic named the "Big Bang," but they cannot tell us what energy is, where or why it was hiding, or why it suddenly showed itself in a cosmic explosion. Nor can they explain how life could spring forth from a universe that had experienced temperatures hotter than the interior of the hottest star. They can't tell us what life is or how it could be imparted to lifeless chemicals that the body comprises. Isn't it dishonest to talk about evolution without first of all facing certain foundational questions?" The leader of Berean Call then says: "Atheists are materialists. For them nothing exists except matter. Allegedly, man is no more than his physical body. The materialist thesis is easily disproved. Thoughts are not physical nor are ideas. Dictionaries and encyclopedias are filled with words for which there are no physical descriptions. What is the color of ethical? What does stupendous smell like? How much does remarkable weigh? Materialism is a stupid as well as a wicked philosophy. What is the texture of stupid, the sound of wicked, or the taste of philosophy, etc.?" TBC informs the reader: Outside of God's Word, there seems to be increasingly few books that merit small-group study these days--but in a world increasingly hostile to the truth that "sets one free" and which may be "clearly seen," Cosmos is one of those you'll want to read, share, and prayerfully consider using for your home, church, or college/career study group. ------ see the dynamic new book that offers powerful proof for God's Existence: Truth, Knowledge and the Reason for God: The Defense of the Rational Assurance of Christianity ------------ I would adjoin: Madalyn Murray O'Hair, on the night of her consecration to the faith of atheism, shook her fists at the sky and declared to heaven, "I do not believe in you." If God did not exist, who was she shaking her fist at? The famous nineteenth century skeptic Ingersoll delivered a speech that attempted to prove that God did not exist. He rambled on and on with his reasons why he did not believe in God. At the end of the lecture, he challenged God to strike him dead if He exists. Nothing happened and Ingersoll left with great satisfaction. After he left an atheist asked a Christian, "Didn't Ingersoll prove something tonight?" Her reply was memorable. "Yes, he did," she answered, "He proved that God isn't taking orders from an atheist tonight." Of course, a couple years later, God did honor his request, when Ingersoll died like every man. God does live. Atheists lash out at God and thus become fools. Scoffing has been a tool of the truth suppressing atheists. The Bible announces: "The fool says in his heart there is no God." It is nonsense to say that God doesn't exist. If there is no God, we are all just molecules in motion, and we have no sense and no mind; we are just the random firing of chemicals in the brain. If our minds are composed of only physical matter, then our thoughts cannot be trusted, including the thought of atheism. This is self-impaling and illogical, thus atheism falls under its own weight. Yes, I personally begin many of apologetic encounters with the form: "p presupposes q" and I do not affirm that one who starts his argument for theism with the premise "p implies q" offers the proper form inasmuch as all men must begin with some a priori assumptions within sound or unsound argument forms. I know that Hunt's Deductive and Inductive arguments are powerful and very persuasive whereas most men in the West have rational pre-commitments to evidential means to discern and defend truth. I enjoy reading them and deploying them to help non-believers discover the truth found in the God of the Bible. The examination of... Read more ›
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Dave Hunt's Cosmos, Creator & Human Destiny,
This review is from: Cosmos, Creator and Human Destiny: Answering Darwin, Dawkins, and the New Atheists (Hardcover)
Cosmos, Creator & Human Destiny, has really helped understand the limitations of historical (and speculative)science that pretends to be able to explain accurately the past, on the basis of evolutionary hypothesis exclusively. The fact that thoughts do not originate from the brain, that matter cannot help appreciate things like colours, beauty, sense of justice or guilt, could only mean that these abilities must come from somewhere else. Dave Hunt has carefully shown that the matter couldn't just have originated from nowhere! In fact, when considering the big bang hypothesis, one is left with the unanswered question as to where could possibly the initial energy necessary for the big bang have originated from in the first place. Also, it is impossible to imagine that the complexity of life and order in nature could have just came about by chance, as a result of a chaotic explosion! This author deserves a great respect for his courage to address in such a brilliant way one of the biggest issues of our modern time and its ultimate consequences. A Such book was long overdue and it is a must that every serious and honest inquirer should have on his book shelf. Anyone interested in understanding the hot debate on creation/ evolution would find this book very helpful. But it takes a great deal of courage and honesty to recognise the facts; One should avoid saying:"Do not confuse me with the facts, I have made up my mind"!
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A must-read for anyone interested in answers to life's most important questions,
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This review is from: Cosmos, Creator and Human Destiny: Answering Darwin, Dawkins, and the New Atheists (Hardcover)
Dave Hunt is brilliant. I've read several of his books, and they never disappoint. In Cosmos, Hunt completely dismantles evolution and atheism. With clear and compelling logic, he shows how the evidence does not - and cannot - point toward the conclusions the new atheists, like Richard Dawkins, somehow reach. There is some repetition that probably isn't necessary; the points are driven home quite strongly without it - but otherwise its a very solid, very helpful book. I will regularly refer to it when having discussion with my atheist friends.
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