Where is God when things go wrong?
John Blanchard
The official death toll resulting from the devastating earthquakes and tsunamis in the Indian Ocean a few months ago may never be known and their impact on the thinking of millions of people is beyond calculation.
For many without a biblical perspective, the almost instinctive reaction is to ask 'Where is God when things go wrong?'
Does God Believe in Atheists?
John Blanchard
Evangelical Press has just published what it is calling its 'Book of the year', a major treatment of atheism and agnosticism by Christian Ministries evangelist, John Blanchard. Entitled Does God believe in atheists? It traces the development of atheistic thinking from the 'Golden Age' of Greek philosophy to the present day. Here is an edited extract from the book's chapter on secular humanism.
The first article in Humanist Manifesto II includes the words: 'We find insufficient evidence for the existence of a supernatural'. This blunt dismissal of deity is underlined by a promotional leaflet issued by the International Humanist and Ethical Union and which 'presents the case for understanding the world without reference to a god', while in his recent book All in the mind Sir Ludovic Kennedy claims 'definitely to disprove the existence of God'.