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Who Were the Nephilim? Part 2

In Genesis 6:1-4, we read that the sons of God took wives from the daughters of men.  The offspring were called Nephilim and became mighty men of renown.  In the previous article, we searched the Scriptures to see what they say about the “sons of God” and found that this term almost always refers to believers: human beings who trust in God for salvation and have been adopted into His family (e.g., Deuteronomy 14:1; Galatians 3:23; Ephesians 1:5).  Thus, we infer that the sons of God in Genesis 6:1-4 were believing men who married unbelieving women and whose children fell away from the faith.  However, some people have suggested that the “sons of God” in Genesis 6:1-4 were fallen angels.  Let us examine this view.

Who Were the Nephilim? Part 1

There is an intriguing account in Genesis 6:1-4 of “sons of God” marrying “daughters of men” and having children called Nephilim who became “mighty men” of renown.  This event took place shortly before the global Flood.  Some English versions translate the word Nephilim as “giants.”  Who were these mighty men?  And who were the sons of God?  These four little verses have resulted in a lot of controversy.  And Christians continue to debate what they mean.  Can we discover the identity of the sons of God and the Nephilim?

The Gospel

The term “gospel” means “good news.”  However, the good news can only be properly understood in light of the bad news.  The bad news is found in the history recorded in the book of Genesis – a history that many people now reject because they have been taught that neo-Darwinian evolution is the way life came about, contrary to the Genesis record.  We will see that such a belief is not compatible with the good news of Christ.  Thus, Christians must be prepared to expose the absurdity of particle-to-people evolution so that people can embrace true history and make sense of the Gospel.

Refuting Phillip Dennis’s Errors in Physics, ASC, and Philosophy – Part 11

In this final article of the series, we will examine some of the logical fallacies in Phillip Dennis’s latest attempt to refute the conventionality thesis of the physics of Einstein.

Refuting Phillip Dennis’s Errors in Physics, ASC, and Philosophy – Part 10

In this article, we continue to expose the errors in Phillip Dennis’s attempt to overthrow the conventionality thesis of the physics of Einstein.  We have already refuted Dennis’s antibiblical philosophy of presentism and shown it to be incompatible with relativistic physics and the Bible.  Here we refute several more of Dennis’s errors in physics, but we begin with something that Dennis actually got right.

Refuting Phillip Dennis’s Errors in Physics, ASC, and Philosophy – Part 9

In this article we expose and refute some of Phillip Dennis’s mistakes in physics in his latest attempt to overthrow the conventionality thesis of relativity.  Recall that the conventionality thesis is the position that the one-way speed of light is not a property of nature, but a stipulated convention by which a given observer judges whether two clocks separated by some distance are synchronized.  I showed in my first refutation of Dennis that he had arbitrarily assumed the ESC convention in his attempt to establish the ESC convention over ASC (Lisle 2024).  But this is the fallacy of begging the question.  I also showed in this same paper that the conventionality thesis follows logically from the relativity of simultaneity (Lisle 2024). 

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The Scopes Monkey Trial Centennial – Part 2

The Scopes Monkey Trial Centennial – Part 2

The Scopes trial of 1925 was a pivotal case for the teaching of evolution in public schools.  At that time the State of Tennessee did not permit the evolution of man from lower primates to be taught in state-funded schools according to the Butler Act.  Many other states had similar laws.  The ACLU sought to challenge the validity of this law by offering to defend anyone accused of violating it.  John Scopes agreed to be prosecuted.  From a legal perspective, the trial was about whether Scopes had violated the Butler Act.  But the defense attorney Clarence Darrow wanted to use this trial to discredit Christianity in general and creation in particular.  He secured the written testimony of eight experts on the science of evolution.  None of these were seen by the jury because the judge ruled that they were irrelevant to the legal issue of the trial.  We examined three of these expert testimonies in part 1 and found that their arguments have not aged well.  We here examine the testimonies of the remaining five experts.

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The Scopes Monkey Trial Centennial – Part 2

The Scopes Monkey Trial Centennial – Part 1

July 10, 2025, marked the 100th anniversary of the start of the famous “Scopes Monkey Trial,” in which John Scopes was accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.  The trial was the inspiration for the heavily fictionized play (and subsequent movies) Inherit the Wind.  The Scopes trial was considered a victory for the teaching of evolution in public schools.   But what actually happened at this trial?  Was the scientific evidence really a powerful refutation of biblical creation?  Would it stand up to modern scrutiny?

read more
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Metallicity: A Problem for Secular Cosmology

Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe.  It is the lightest element, consisting of one proton encircled by one electron.  About 91% of the atoms in the universe are hydrogen.  Helium is the next most abundant.  It is the second-lightest element, consisting of two protons and two neutrons in the nucleus, encircled by two electrons.  Helium constitutes just under 9% of the atoms in the universe.  All the remaining elements combined constitute less than 1%.  Astronomers refer to these heavier elements as metals.  In astronomy, a metal is any element with an atomic number higher than 2.  Note that this is different from the definition used by chemists.  In astronomy metals include elements like oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon.  Metals pose a serious challenge for advocates of the big bang and secular models of galaxy evolution.  But they are a feature and natural expectation of biblical creation.

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Denying the Trinity – Part 2

Denying the Trinity – Part 2

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. 

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Denying the Trinity – Part 2

Denying the Trinity

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. 

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The Nature of the Unbeliever

The Nature of the Unbeliever

As Christians, we love people and desire for them to be saved.  We pray for their salvation, we share the Gospel with them, and we urge them to repent of sin and trust in Christ.  And we try to remove intellectual stumbling blocks.  But many Christians often make a critical mistake: they assume that what the unbeliever says about himself and his beliefs is true.  They assume that the unbeliever has correctly evaluated his own beliefs and has truthfully stated them.  After all, who could know a person’s beliefs better than the person himself?  The answer is God.  The Lord knows the hearts of men better than they know themselves; this would have to be the case since God is all-knowing (Jeremiah 17:9-10).  Furthermore, God has stated in His Word that unbelievers are self-deceived and do not truthfully report what is in their hearts.  A failure to recognize this lies at the heart of many unbiblical approaches in defending the faith.

read more
Climate Change

Climate Change

Is climate change real?  If so, what is the cause?  Is it caused by human activity?  And can it be reversed?  If so, should it be reversed?  Many people have never stopped to consider these questions because they think they already know the answers to all of them.  After all, we have been told that climate change is real, dangerous, caused by human activity, and that we should fight it by reducing our carbon footprint.  But does science bear out such claims?  Most importantly, what does the Bible teach on this topic?

read more
The Scopes Monkey Trial Centennial – Part 2

The Scopes Monkey Trial Centennial – Part 2

The Scopes trial of 1925 was a pivotal case for the teaching of evolution in public schools.  At that time the State of Tennessee did not permit the evolution of man from lower primates to be taught in state-funded schools according to the Butler Act.  Many other states had similar laws.  The ACLU sought to challenge the validity of this law by offering to defend anyone accused of violating it.  John Scopes agreed to be prosecuted.  From a legal perspective, the trial was about whether Scopes had violated the Butler Act.  But the defense attorney Clarence Darrow wanted to use this trial to discredit Christianity in general and creation in particular.  He secured the written testimony of eight experts on the science of evolution.  None of these were seen by the jury because the judge ruled that they were irrelevant to the legal issue of the trial.  We examined three of these expert testimonies in part 1 and found that their arguments have not aged well.  We here examine the testimonies of the remaining five experts.

read more
The Scopes Monkey Trial Centennial – Part 1

The Scopes Monkey Trial Centennial – Part 1

July 10, 2025, marked the 100th anniversary of the start of the famous “Scopes Monkey Trial,” in which John Scopes was accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.  The trial was the inspiration for the heavily fictionized play (and subsequent movies) Inherit the Wind.  The Scopes trial was considered a victory for the teaching of evolution in public schools.   But what actually happened at this trial?  Was the scientific evidence really a powerful refutation of biblical creation?  Would it stand up to modern scrutiny?

read more
Metallicity: A Problem for Secular Cosmology

Metallicity: A Problem for Secular Cosmology

Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe.  It is the lightest element, consisting of one proton encircled by one electron.  About 91% of the atoms in the universe are hydrogen.  Helium is the next most abundant.  It is the second-lightest element, consisting of two protons and two neutrons in the nucleus, encircled by two electrons.  Helium constitutes just under 9% of the atoms in the universe.  All the remaining elements combined constitute less than 1%.  Astronomers refer to these heavier elements as metals.  In astronomy, a metal is any element with an atomic number higher than 2.  Note that this is different from the definition used by chemists.  In astronomy metals include elements like oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon.  Metals pose a serious challenge for advocates of the big bang and secular models of galaxy evolution.  But they are a feature and natural expectation of biblical creation.

read more
Denying the Trinity – Part 2

Denying the Trinity – Part 2

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. 

read more
Denying the Trinity

Denying the Trinity

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. 

read more
The Nature of the Unbeliever

The Nature of the Unbeliever

As Christians, we love people and desire for them to be saved.  We pray for their salvation, we share the Gospel with them, and we urge them to repent of sin and trust in Christ.  And we try to remove intellectual stumbling blocks.  But many Christians often make a critical mistake: they assume that what the unbeliever says about himself and his beliefs is true.  They assume that the unbeliever has correctly evaluated his own beliefs and has truthfully stated them.  After all, who could know a person’s beliefs better than the person himself?  The answer is God.  The Lord knows the hearts of men better than they know themselves; this would have to be the case since God is all-knowing (Jeremiah 17:9-10).  Furthermore, God has stated in His Word that unbelievers are self-deceived and do not truthfully report what is in their hearts.  A failure to recognize this lies at the heart of many unbiblical approaches in defending the faith.

read more
Climate Change

Climate Change

Is climate change real?  If so, what is the cause?  Is it caused by human activity?  And can it be reversed?  If so, should it be reversed?  Many people have never stopped to consider these questions because they think they already know the answers to all of them.  After all, we have been told that climate change is real, dangerous, caused by human activity, and that we should fight it by reducing our carbon footprint.  But does science bear out such claims?  Most importantly, what does the Bible teach on this topic?

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