Impact Hour January 3, 2016

Paul Chamberlain:

• Bachelor of Religious Education (1978)

• Master of Divinity, Trinity International University (1981)

• Ph.D. in Philosophy, Marquette University (1990)

• Teaches at Trinity Western University (Christian Apologetics, Ethics and Philosophy of Religion)

• Director of TWU's Institute of Christian Apologetics

• Previously served as Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at TWU for ten years

• Canadian Executive Director of Ravi Zacharias Ministries

Paul Chamberlain:

• Why People Don’t Believe: Confronting Seven Challenges to Christian Faith. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2011.

• How To Talk About Good and Bad Without Getting Ugly: The Art of Moral Persuasion. Downers Grove: Intervarsity press, 2005.

• Whose Life Is It Anyway? Assessing Euthanasia and Other End-of-Life Issues. Norcross, Georgia: RZIM, 2002.

• Final Wishes: A Cautionary Tale About Death, Dignity, and Physician-Assisted Suicide. Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 2000.

• Can We Be Good Without God?: A Conversation about Truth, Morality, Culture and Other Things that Matter. Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 1996.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWnXqY0lWD0

Sep 13, 2011 Jim Cantelon interviews Paul Chamberlain about the seven challenges to the Christian faith, found in his latest book, "Why People Don't Believe."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWnXqY0lWD0

Why People Don’t Believe:

1. The Power of Religion

2. Reason To Fear

3. Religion and Violence: A Closer Look

4. Is Christianity Irrational and Devoid of Evidence?

5. Is Christianity Anti-Scientific?

6. Is Biblical Morality Appalling?

7. Living the Way Jesus Calls Us to Live

8. Christianity’s Gifts to the World

9. Is There a Way Forward? True Religion

Two Areas of Need:

• The need for people of faith to hear and truly understand the concerns and challenges raised against religion

• The need to engage in thoughtful and frank dialogue with those who raise such objections

Three Aims of The Book:

•Accurately represent the concerns and challenges raised against religious faith, particularly those against Christianity

•Respond to those challenges

• Examine the many god and humane contributions Christianity has made to the world throughout the past two thousand years

“New Critics of Religion”

Vs. Old Critics

• Sigmund Freud

• Karl Marx

• Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

• Madalyn Murray O’Hair

“New Critics of Religion”

• Sam Harris

• Richard Dawkins

• Daniel Dennett

The New Naysayers, Newsweek, September 11, 2006 http://www.newsweek.com/new-naysayers-109697

“New Critics of Religion”

• Carolyn Porco

The New Naysayers, Newsweek, September 11, 2006 http://www.newsweek.com/new-naysayers-109697

“New Critics of Religion”

Sam Harris

• American author, philosopher, and neuroscientist

• B.A. in philosophy (Stanford, 2006)

• Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience (UCLA, 2009)

• co-founder and chief executive of Project Reason

• critic of religion and proponent the "New Atheism“

• Experimented with the drug ecstasy

“New Critics of Religion”

Sam Harris

Publications:

• The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (2004).

• Letter to a Christian Nation (2006).

• The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (2010)

• Lying (2011)

• Free Will (2012)

• Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion (2014)

• Islam and the Future of Tolerance (2015)