by Karlo Broussard | Nov 25, 2024 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
We all know from experience that an acorn develops into an oak tree. It’s as if the mature oak shapes or molds the acorn’s growing activity, influencing the acorn to act in one way rather than some other way—say, developing into a banana tree. And the fact that an...
by Karlo Broussard | Sep 20, 2024 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
St. Thomas Aquinas’s Five Ways are well-known paths we can take to prove that God exists. The first way of the five argues from motion. Imagine a stone that’s being moved by a stick in my hand. There’s nothing about the stone itself that explains its motion. It’s in...
by Karlo Broussard | Sep 2, 2024 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
One reason why skeptics don’t believe in the God of the Bible, the argument goes, is that he’s a slayer of the innocent. As one example, Exodus 12:29 reads, “The Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt.” So, the question becomes, how can God be all-good and...
by Karlo Broussard | Nov 21, 2023 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
Scientism rears its ugly head again: Scientism is the philosophical worldview that states only the methods of modern science can give us real knowledge. This is clear from the meme: science is the only one that gives us knowledge that the black cat is in the dark...
by Karlo Broussard | Jun 7, 2023 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
Imagine if someone with a decent platform got on Youtube or Twitter and said, “I think we’re overly focused on a rational approach to COVID-19 issues and vaccines. We should pay more attention to our emotions about these things.” What sort of response would there be?...
