Refuting Phillip Dennis’s Errors in Physics, ASC, and Philosophy – Part 1

by | Sep 26, 2025 | Astronomy, Physics, Refuting the Critics

This article series will be very important for those interested in the distant starlight issue.  Secular astronomers claim that the light from the most distant galaxies has taken billions of years to reach Earth.  We can see these galaxies in our most powerful telescopes.  Many people conclude from this that the universe must be billions of years old, and therefore that the biblical description of creation is false.  But the notion that light takes billions of years to get from distant galaxies to Earth is predicated upon a particular modern convention of how we choose to define the timing of distant events. 

Denying the Trinity – Part 2

by | Mar 7, 2025 | Apologetics, Refuting the Critics, Theology

We have been examining the claims of Liam, who denies the Trinity in general and who, in particular, denies that Jesus is God.  This ultimately is not an intellectual exercise but a spiritual one.  It is only by the power of the Holy Spirit that a person can declare with conviction that Jesus is Yahweh – the Lord.  1 Corinthians 12:3b states, “And no one can say, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ except by the Holy Spirit.”  Furthermore, confessing Jesus as Lord is a requirement for salvation (Romans 10:9-13), for there is no Savior besides the one and only Yahweh (Isaiah 43:11).  Therefore, if Jesus is not Yahweh, then neither can He be your Savior. 

Denying the Trinity

by | Feb 21, 2025 | Refuting the Critics, Theology

Our feedback this week comes from someone we’ll call “Liam.”  He rejects the Trinity and specifically rejects that Jesus is God and that the Holy Spirit is a Person of the triune God.  The interesting thing about Liam’s response is that most of his arguments were already refuted in the very articles he’s criticizing.  It always seems strange to me when a person responds to a refutation of their argument by simply repeating the argument.  For example, there is the fallacy of claiming that the Holy Spirit isn’t a Person of the Trinity because in many instances only the Father and Son are mentioned in a greeting.  That is the fallacy of the argument from silence as I demonstrated earlier.  But there were a couple of new arguments that will be addressed here and in the next article. 

A Refutation of Phillip Dennis’s Claims Regarding Alleged Inconsistencies in ASC

by | Jul 13, 2024 | Physics, Refuting the Critics

Did Phillip Dennis actually disprove the conventionality thesis (Dennis 2024)?  Did he really prove at long last what physicists over the last century have been unable to do – to establish that the one-way speed of light in any given direction must be the same as the round-trip speed of light?  Did he find any genuine inconsistency with the Anisotropic Synchrony Convention (ASC) and the young universe model upon which it is based?  Well, no to all of the above…. We show below that when the full synchrony-independent equations are used, they do not support Dennis’s conclusion but rather the opposite.  Furthermore, we will demonstrate several critical errors in Dennis’s analysis and show that several of his claims are incompatible with the physics of relativity.

Was Paul an Apostle?

by | Jan 19, 2024 | Refuting the Critics

We receive all sorts of interesting messages here at the Biblical Science Institute.  This one came in some time ago from someone we’ll call “Simon.”  Simon seems to deny that the New Testament books authored by Paul are Scripture.  Let’s examine Simon’s reasoning.