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Lessons from Blaise Pascal - Reasons to Believe

“Whatever one’s religious beliefs, Pascal teaches that all individuals have to make a choice between faith in some reality beyond themselves or a life without belief. But a life without belief is also a choice, and in Pascal’s view, a bad bet.” - The Conversation

“ ‘The real problem isn’t people. It’s the reward structure on social platforms’…. the incentives for scientists to publish and for journals to attract readers, jargon and other features of scientific publishing — can also contribute” - Axios

“We had an interesting conversation about his article which surveyed the history of Christian attitudes towards medicine and its practice….What should we think about medicine from a Christian point of view?” - P&D

“Jason Blakely is professor of political science at Pepperdine University and has written a book, We Built Reality: How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power, that is likely to perturb some, gratify others, but interest almost everyone.” - Acton

“as I will demonstrate, all young earth creationist scientists incorporate, and this is really important, modified evolutionary ideas, even if its ever so slight, into their creationist frameworks, and AiG is no exception.” - Ken Coulson

“Even if this pseudo-scientific meme were true, it is rarely stated or received as a mere fact. Instead, it is used to imply things about human beings: that we are the sum of our DNA” - Breakpoint

“the Big Bang never tells us where it all comes from. If you want to know how the Universe was actually created, you need something else, something more.” - Big Think

“Coulson is offering a new mature creation apologetic that basically says that God has only ever used ‘natural’ processes to create, but during creation week he sped up those processes.” - AiG

"According to most theories of cosmology, galaxies formed from small clouds of stars and dust that gradually increased in size. In the early universe, the story goes, matter came together slowly. But that doesn’t account for the massive size of the newly identified objects." - Smithsonian

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