Presuppositions

Presuppositions Topics

• Responding to Protestors’ Propaganda

Articles About Presuppositions

• Magazine Article

  Do Creationists Change?

  

  Sept. 2, 2018 from Answers Magazine

  If creationists are unwilling to change their basic beliefs, does that mean they’re not true scientists?

• In-Depth Article

  Dangers of the Hebrew Roots Movement

  

  March 17, 2018 from Answers in Depth

  This article describes the nature of the Hebrew Roots Movement and challenges those who have been influenced by its teachings.

• Science—Worldview Neutral?

  May 21, 2016 from Answers Update

  Can science be studied neutrally, without committing to any worldview?

• A Fresh Look at Human-Chimp DNA Similarity

  Dec. 30, 2015

  Creationist scientists Drs. Tomkins and Bergman came up with an overall DNA similarity between humans and chimps of around 81%—quite a difference!

• In-Depth Article

  Pardon Me, Your Presuppositions Are Showing

  

  Jan. 3, 2015 from Answers in Depth

  News to Know covered many topics in 2014, but, really, there’s nothing new under the sun when it comes to countering evolutionist claims.

• Magazine Department Article

  Avoid Raising Little Legalists

  Jan. 1, 2015 from Answers Magazine

  Our fallen nature often leads us astray from true obedience into the ditch of rule-keeping.

• Magazine Department Article

  Same Facts, But Different Views

  July 1, 2013 from Answers Magazine

  We live in the same world and examine the same facts, but we have different views about the past. Why?

• Mollusks’ Ever-“Evolving” Nervous Systems

  Sept. 24, 2011 from News to Know

  Rearranged evolutionary tree puts the brains on the bottom.

• Magazine Article

  Life’s Toughest Questions

  

  July 24, 2011 from Answers Magazine

  A number of Christians, along with their worldly counterparts, seem more than happy to live with cognitive dissonance.

• Ancient Enzymes

  April 16, 2011 from News to Know

  Laboratory reconstruction of ancient enzymes has suggested that these enzymes are remarkably similar to enzymes in modern creatures and purportedly indicate what conditions were on the early earth.

• Magazine Department Article

  Science “So Called”

  Oct. 1, 2008 from Answers Magazine

  We can easily be seduced by false ideas masquerading as truth.

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• Feedback Article

  Is Any Scientific Research Free from Presuppositions?

  July 11, 2008 from Feedback

  As evidence of the growing “popularity” of Answers Research Journal (ARJ), the June 2008 issue of The Journal of Young Investigators (JYI) featured an article on ARJ entitled “Science for Christians.”

• Feedback Article

  Making “Sense” of It

  July 4, 2008 from Feedback

  The Bible gives us a reason to trust our senses, but don’t we need our senses to read the Bible? Dr. Jason Lisle, AiG–U.S., tackles this question and more in this week’s feedback.

• Feedback Article

  Call for Help

  May 23, 2008 from Feedback

  When discussing creation/evolution on forums, do the “facts” speak for themselves? Or is there something else to keep in mind? Dr. Georgia Purdom, AiG–U.S., answers a call for help.

• Feedback Article

  Just Show the “Evidence”

  May 16, 2008 from Feedback

  A visitor to the Creation Museum is disappointed that the Creation Museum presents a presuppositional approach. Dr. Lisle, AiG–U.S., explains the rationale.

• New Scientist Brings up Old Arguments

  May 8, 2008

  In an attempt to discredit the Bible, New Scientist tells us that God’s Word is full of errors. The question is: how did the article pass editorial review?

• Is Free Will an Illusion?

  April 19, 2008 from News to Know

  It appears free will is an illusion, report researchers this week in Nature Neuroscience.

• First Creature on Earth Significantly More Complex

  April 12, 2008

  Might a new scientific find be so “shocking” to scientists because it goes against the predictions of evolutionary history?

• Feedback Article

  Is Science Enough?

  Jan. 11, 2008 from Feedback

  Is presuppositional apologetics as effective in witnessing as providing more scientific analysis? What is the proper balance?

• Feedback Article

  Are Scientists Really Biased by their Presuppositions?

  July 13, 2007 from Feedback

  Presuppositions are things you take for granted: like your own existence, the reliability of your memory, your continued personal identity, moral laws, laws of logic, induction, and many others.

• Feedback Article

  What Do We Mean by “Human Reasoning”?

  July 6, 2007 from Feedback

  Do you guys honestly have an exhibit that puts the biblical, 6-day creation under the heading ‘God's Word,’ and a description of evolution under the heading ‘Human Reasoning?'

• Rallying for Reason?

  May 30, 2007 from Responding to Protestors’ Propaganda

  The efforts of protestors played a part in helping the Creation Museum’s opening be more publicized than we expected.

• Feedback Article

  Presuppositions?

  March 30, 2007 from Feedback

  This week we respond to 2 negative feedbacks from A, and are responding to both of them in succession. As usual, each feedback is listed in its entirety, followed by a response.

• Flying "Squirrel" Disrupts Evolutionary Timeline

  Dec. 16, 2006

  Researchers discover a mammal, similar to a flying squirrel, that evolved "too soon."

• Magazine Article

  What’s Your Worldview?

  

  May 2, 2006 from Answers Magazine

  What is a worldview? A worldview comprises one's collection of presuppositions, convictions and values from which a person tries to understand and make sense out of the world and life.

• Feedback Article

  The Evidence Doesn’t Speak for Itself

  Nov. 25, 2005 from Feedback

  Bodie Hodge responds to Steve from the USA regarding evidence and presuppositions.

• A Newspaper with No Purpose

  Sept. 3, 2005

  Monbiot’s article was filled with the usual ill-informed and insulting invective against Christian things that some of us have come to expect from the "Guardian" newspaper.

• Magazine Article

  Missing? or Misinterpreted?

  March 1, 2004, pp. 22–23

  ‘Facts’ by themselves are essentially meaningless—they all need to be interpreted within a particular philosophical framework.

• Running Out of Puff

  March 31, 2003

  One of the ways scientists work is to build models, based upon their presuppositions concerning the past, to explain (interpret) the evidence of the present.

• The “Evidence” for a Biblical Worldview

  Nov. 13, 2000

  Most of us are familiar to some degree with Leonardo da Vinci the artist and his famous paintings such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.

• Feedback Article

  Science Should not be Subservient to an Ideology

  June 27, 2000 from Feedback

  AIG responds to a critic who who argues science shold be free from ideology.

• The Great Dinosaur Mystery Solved! Object Lesson 2

  Jan. 1, 2000

  In order to understand what really happened, we need to view these animals through “Biblical glasses.”

• The Parable of the Candle

  May 21, 1998

  Chris and Lucy entered a building looking for Manuel.

• Magazine Article

  Pseudo-Science in Your Daily Paper

  March 1, 1994, pp. 16–17

  Under the heading ‘Opinion’ in the London Daily Telegraph (DT), Dr H. Cronin voiced her admiration for Darwin while castigating young-earth creationism as a fringe fad.’

• Magazine Article

  It’s All in How You See Things—The Primates

  Aug. 1, 1980, pp. 17–18

  Most people committed to an idea often fail to see the difference between the observations and the interpretations they make of those observations.

• Magazine Article

  It’s All in the Way We See Things

  July 1, 1979, pp. 4–5

  This series of articles is designed to overcome the problem many people have when they study or read biology.