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When two Christian professors disagree
It is easy for a Christian student to take a position when atheists and skeptics attack the Lord Jesus Christ and the Bible in the classroom. A more difficult situation is when two professors who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ take radically different views about important issues in various fields of study. How should a Christian student handle this situation in the classroom? Our guest contributor Professor Chimere-Dan clarifies the question. There are two types of scholars defined by the genuineness Read more [...]
How Do I Begin to Know? The Question Every Student Asks
New and old students ask honest questions and expect honest answers from professors that affect the way they approach different courses in college and their practical lives. We tasked our guest contributor Professor Dan Chimere-Dan to answer in exactly 300 words one of the basic questions that students ask about their disciplines. It is not a surprise that this question does not bother many people in ordinary life. We assume the answer. We take it for granted that we are humans and therefore must Read more [...]
Laws of physics and nature are God’s laws
On a Christian perspective of physics. The laws of physics and all other laws of nature are the laws of God. Regrettably many professors subscribe actively or passively to worldviews with logical incoherence that is apparent in their bad philosophy and misrepresentations of God and the laws of nature. This is their basis for dismissing God as the creator of the universe and assigning unwarranted ultimate authority to scientific explanations. Here are three popular errors by most outspoken atheists Read more [...]
God and mathematics
In One, Two, Three: Absolutely Elementary Mathematics, David’s Berlinski’s style is as commendable as in his other scientific writings. David Klinghoffer posts a very good short comment on this intriguing introduction to the history and philosophy of basic mathematics. It remains a surprise that many scholars in maths and other numerical sciences are reluctant to acknowledging God in the glory of numbers. As Chimere-Dan notes in Facing Intellectual Giants, in order to engage honestly in mathematics Read more [...]
A note on a Christian approach to knowledge
Every scholar is faced with a basic challenge of locating a starting point of knowledge. How do we ground our thinking in all disciplines and subjects? A starting point in this sense is more than concepts, working assumptions, worldviews, theories or perspectives. It would be some all-embracing point that shapes all of these and gives them meaning and direction within the realities of human existence. You will most likely encounter this subject in the form of theories of knowledge or epistemology Read more [...]
Famous scientists in a historical perspective
Student like clear, accurate but short answers to complex questions and issues. This chart of famous scientists in a historical perspective by George W. Benthien is a very good example. It helps us to see who came after who, and possibly who read who as a background to their ideas and works. Read more [...]
First Impressions in College
This is the first article in a series of articles addressing practical issues in studying at university as a believer in Christ. i. Not everything is as scary as it seems The intellectual environment, the formats of instruction, the patterns of discourse, the pedigree of professors and your presumed inabilities are among the many powerful first impressions in college. Workloads appear almost impossible for you to handle. Some professors use formal language that is complicated and sometimes intimidating Read more [...]
