51018.1 Endnotes Is Jesus Coming Back?

Is Jesus Coming Back?

  1. Acts 1:10, 11.
  2. Matthew 24:27-31.
  3. Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian (New York: Touchstone, 1957), 16.
  4. 2 Peter 3:4, NLT.
  5. Matthew 25:13.
  6. Matthew 24:3-14.
  7. Matthew 24:3-51.
  8. Luke 21:28.
  9. Titus 2:13.
  10. 2 Peter 3:8-9.
  11. Matthew 24:14.
  12. Matthew 16:13-17; Luke 4:16-21; 7:19-23.
  13. Matthew 24:1-2; Luke 13:34-35; 19:41-44; 21:20-24.
  14. Matthew 12:40; 17:22-23.
  15. Quoted in Josh McDowell, The New Evidence That Demands A Verdict(Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1999), 12.
  16. Peter Stoner, Science Speaks (Chicago: Moody Press, 1958.), 97-110.
  17. Matthew 24:1-14; Mark 13:1-37; Luke 21:5-38.
  18. Quoted in http://kloposmasm.wordpress.com/.
  19. http://www.ligonier.org/learn/devotionals/return-christ/.
  20. Quoted in McDowell, 209.
  21. Peter Steinfels, “Jesus Died—And Then What Happened?” New York Times, April 3, 1988.
  22. Zechariah 14:4.
  23. Leviticus 16:2, 29-30.
  24. Zechariah 14:1-4.
  25. Ezekiel 36:24, NLT.
  26. Los Angeles Times, front page, May 27, 1967.
  27. Zechariah 12:3.
  28. Revelation 1:7.
  29. Zechariah 12:10.
  30. 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17.
  31. Titus 2:13.
  32. Revelation 21:3-15.
  33. C. S. Lewis, “Predictions of the Second Coming,” quoted in: http://www.atkinsmarketingsolutions.com/wp/2011/05/21/rapture-marketing-c-s-lewis-end-of-the-world-predictions/
  34. Luke 12:35-40.
  35. Matthew 25:1-13.
  36. Matthew 7:21-23, NASB.
  37. Matthew 7:22-23, NASB.
  38. John 1:12.
  39. Revelation 20:11-15.
  40. Revelation 22:12, NIV.
  41. Revelation 22:20.
  42. Ibid.

51019.1 Endnotes Is Jesus Relevant Today?

Why Jesus: Is Jesus Relevant Today?

  1. O: The Oprah Magazine, “Oprah talks to Madonna,” (January, 2004), 120.
  2. Quoted in Josh McDowell, The Resurrection Factor (San Bernardino, CA: Here’s Life Publ., 1981), 1.
  3. Quoted in William R. Bright, “Jesus and the Intellectual” (San Bernardino, CA: Here’s Life Publ., 1968), 33.
  4. Quoted in Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2002), 17.
  5. Quoted in Michka Assayas, Bono in Conversation (New York: Riverhead Books, 2005), 203.
  6. Soren Kierkegarrd, Philosophical Fragments, trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985), 26-28.
  7. C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (San Francisco: Harper, 2001), 160.
  8. Ray C. Stedman, God’s Loving Word (Grand Rapids, MI: Discovery House, 1993), 50.
  9. Quoted in Assayas, 204.
  10. R. C. Sproul, Reason to Believe (Grand Rapids, MI: Lamplighter, 1982), 44.
  11. New Testament, John 3:16
  12. Ibid., John 1:12
  13. Old Testament, Isaiah 59:2
  14. New Testament, Romans 5:8
  15. Assayas, Ibid.
  16. Ravi Zacharias, Jesus among Other Gods (Nashville: Word, 2000), 158.
  17. Martha T. Moore and Dennis Cauchon, “Delay Meant Death on 9/11,” USA Today, Sept. 3, 2002, 1A.
  18. Charles W. Colson, Born Again (Old Tappan, NJ: Chosen, 1976), 114.
  19. Ravi Zacharias, A Shattered Visage: The Real Face of Atheism (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2004), 155.
  20. Lewis, 56.
  21. Colson, 129

51013.1 Endnotes Was Jesus Married?

Was Jesus Married?

  1. Cited in NYDailyNews.com (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jesus-married-harvard-scholar-ancient-text-papyrus-refers-wife-article-1.1162571), “Was Jesus married? Harvard scholar says ancient text on papyrus refers to ‘my wife’”, Sept. 23, 2012.
  2. Cited in The NewYorkTimes.com (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/us/historian-says-piece-of-papyrus-refers-to-jesus-wife.html?_r=1). “A Faded Piece of Papyrus Refers To Jesus’ Wife”, Laurie Goodstein, Sept. 18, 2012.
  3. The Wall Street Journal, “A Married Messiah?”, p. C4, Sept. 22-24, 2012.
  4. TheNewYorkTimes.com, Ibid.
  5. Cited on KMTV, Omaha, Nebraska, (http://www.kmtv.com/170405046.html), Fatima Rahmatullah, “Was Jesus Married? Ancient Papyrus Uncovered Refers to His ‘Wife’”, Sept. 19, 2012.
  6. Jaweed Kaleem, “Jesus’ Wife’ Research Leads To Suspicions That Artifact Is A Fake,” Huffington Post, Religion, Sept. 26, 2012 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/26/jesus-wife-suspicions-fake-artifact_n_1916932.html).
  7. Ibid.
  8. Ben Witherington, Biblical Archaeology Review, (2004), “Reviews,” 30 [3]:58-61, May/June.
  9. Barbara Kantrowitz and Anne Underwood, “Decoding ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ ” Newsweek, December 8, 2003, 54.
  10. Cited on KMTV, Ibid.
  11. Stanley Kutler, interview with Frank Sesno, “The Guilty Men: An Historical Review,” History Channel, April 6, 2004.

52001.1 Endnotes Has Science Discovered God?

Has Science Discovered God?

  1. Harrison, E. 1985. Masks of the Universe. New York, Collier Books, Macmillan, pp. 252, 263.
  2. An atheist believes God doesn’t exist. An agnostic believes we can’t know.
  3. Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe (New York: Vintage, 2000), 81-82.
  4. George Smoot and Keay Davidson, Wrinkles in Time (New York: Avon, 1993), 241.
  5. Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers, (London: W. W. Norton, 1992), 13.
  6. Ibid., 104.
  7. Ibid., 103.
  8. Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
  9. Jastrow, 14.
  10. Smoot and Davidson, 17.
  11. Stephen Hawking, The Illustrated A Brief History of Time (New York: Bantam, 1996), 156
  12. Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos (3rd ed.) (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2001), 224.
  13. Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (New York: Bantam, 1990), 125.
  14. Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2001), 198.
  15. George Greenstein, The Symbiotic Universe (New York: William Morrow, 1988), 27.
  16. Ibid., 189.
  17. Jastrow, 105.
  18. Paul Davies, God and the New Physics (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983), 174.
  19. Fred Hoyle, “Let there be Light,” Engineering and Science (November 1981).
  20. Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions—The World As I See It (New York: Bonanza, 1931), 40.
  21. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDJ9BL38PrI
  22. Paul Davies, The Cosmic Blueprint (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988), 203.
  23. Francis Crick, Life Itself (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981), 88.
  24. Quoted in William A. Dembski and James M. Kushiner, eds., Signs of Intelligence (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos, 2001), 108.
  25. Quoted in Gary Habermas, “My Pilgrimage from Atheism to Theism”: Interview with Antony Flew, Philosophia Christi, (Winter, 2005).
  26. John Boslough, Stephen Hawking’s Universe (New York: Avon, 1989), 109.
  27. Jastrow, 107.
  28. Margenau, H. and R. A. Varghese, eds. Cosmos, Bios, Theos: Scientists Reflect on Science, God, and the Origins of the Universe, Life, and Homo Sapiens (Open Court Pub. Co., La Salle, IL, 1992).
  29. Colossians 1:15-17, J. B. Phillips.
  30. John 3:16; John 14:19.

52002.1 Endnotes Does the Universe Have a Beginning?

Does the Universe Have a Beginning?

  1. Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe (New York: Vintage, 2000), 81-82.
  2. George Smoot and Keay Davidson, Wrinkles in Time (New York: Avon, 1993), 36.
  3. Greene, 81-82.
  4. Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (New York: Bantam, 1990), 38-51.
  5. Greene, 83.
  6. Hawking, 39.
  7. Smoot, 80-83.
  8. Ibid., 187.
  9. Ibid., 240.
  10. Ibid., 241.
  11. Associated Press, “U.S. Scientists Find a ‘Holy Grail’: Ripples at the Edge of the Universe,” International
    Herald Tribune     (London), April 24, 1992, 1.
  12. Thomas H. Maugh II, “Relics of ‘Big Bang’ Seen for First Time,” Los Angeles Times, April 1992, A1, A30.
  13. Nightline with Ted Koppel, ABC, April 25, 1992.
  14. Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos, 3rd ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2001), 224.
  15. Roger Penrose, Shadows of the Mind (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 230.
  16. E. M. Leitch et al., “Measurement of Polarization with the Degree Angular Scale Interferometer,” Nature 420 (2002): 772-87; J. M. Kovac et al., “Detection of Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background Using DASI,” Nature 420 (2002): 772-87; Matias Zalarriaga, “Background Comes to the Fore,” Nature 420 (2002): 747-48.
  17. Gregg Easterbrook, “Before the Big Bang,” U.S. News & World Report special edition, 2003, 16.
  18. Hugh Ross, “Big Bang Passes Test,” Connections, Qtr 2, 2003.
  19. Paul Recer, “Newest Space Telescope: The Spitzer,” Seattle Post Intelligencer,December 19, 2003, A17.
  20. Smoot, 291.
  21. Ibid., 30.
  22. Ibid., 17.
  23. Ibid., 291
  24. Ibid. 86.
  25. Stephen Hawking, ed., Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time: A Reader’s Companion (New York: Bantam, 1992), 63.
  26. Bradford A. Smith, “New Eyes on the Universe,” National Geographic, January 1994, 33.

52003.1 Endnotes Why is Only Earth Suitable for Life?

Why is Only Earth Suitable for Life?

  1. Gregg Easterbrook, “Before the Big Bang,” U.S. News & World Report, special edition, 2003, 16.
  2. Paul Davies, Other Worlds (London: Penguin, 1990), 169.
  3. Dietrick E. Thompsen, “The Quantum Universe: A Zero-Point Fluctuation?” Science News, August 3, 1985, 73.
  4. Quoted in Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2004), 131.
  5. Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos, 3rd ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2001), 224.
  6. Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (New York: Bantam, 1990), 121–122.
  7. John D. Barrow and George Silk, The Left Hand of Creation: The Origin and Evolution of the Expanding Universe (New York: Basic, 1983), 206.
  8. Lawrence M. Krauss, “The End of the Age Problem and the Case for a Cosmological Constant Revisited,” Astrophysical Journal 501 (1998): 461–466.
  9. Ross, 53.
  10. Ibid., 187.
  11. Ibid., 187–193.
  12. Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards, The Privileged Planet (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2004), 132–138.
  13. Ibid., 132–138.
  14. Eugene Wigner, “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Physical Sciences,” Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 13 (1960), 1-14.
  15. Ross. 175-199.
  16. Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee, Rare Earth (New York: Copernicus, 2000).
  17. William J. Broad, “Maybe We Are Alone in the Universe After All,” New York Times, (February 8, 2000), 1-4.
  18. Michael J. Denton, Nature’s Destiny: How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe (New York: The Free Press, 1998), 3-4.
  19. Joel Achenbach, “Life Beyond Earth,” National Geographic (January, 2000, Special Millennium Issue), 45.
  20. Hawking, 124.

52005.1 Endnotes Was Darwin Right About the Eye?

Was Darwin Right About the Eye?

  1. Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989),1.
  2. Ibid.,12.
  3. Michael Behe, Darwin’s Black Box (New York: Free Press, 2003), 24.
  4. Charles Darwin, Origin of Species (New York: Bantam Books, 1999), 158.
  5. Behe, 22.
  6. Quoted in Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2004), 199.
  7. Macnab, R. (1978), “Bacterial Mobility and Chemotaxis: The Molecular Biology of a Behavioral System,” CRC Critical Reviews in Biochemistry, vol. 5, issue 4, Dec., 291-341.
  8. Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (Chevy Chase, MD, Adler & Adler, 1986), 328.
  9. Quoted in Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator, 199.
  10. Michael Behe, “The Sterility of Darwinism,” Boston Review, February/March 1997.
  11. William Dembski, “Still Spinning Just Fine: A Response to Ken Miller”, William Dembski@baylor.ed 2.17.03, v.1.01.
  12. James Shapiro, “In the details …what?” National Review, (September 16, 1996), 62-65.
  13. Alan Sandage, “A Scientist Reflects on Religious Belief,” Truth: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Christian Thought, Vol. 1, (1985).
  14. Darwin, 156.
  15. Charles Darwin (1860) in letter to Asa Gray, F. Darwin, ed., The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, vol, 2, (London: John Murray, 1888), 273.

52006.1 Endnotes Does DNA Point to a Designer?

Does DNA Point to a Designer?

  1. William A. Dembski, The Design Revolution (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2004), 85.
  2. Werner Gitt, “Dazzling Designs in Miniature,” Creation Ex Nihilo, December 1997–February 1998, 6.
  3. Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), 1.
  4. Nicholas Wade, “In Chimpanzee DNA, Signs of Y Chromosome’s Evolution,” New York Times, Sept. 1, 2005, A13.
  5. William A. Dembski and James M. Kushiner, eds., Signs of Intelligence (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos, 2001), 108.
  6. Ibid., 115.
  7. Gerald Schroeder, The Hidden Face of God (New York: Touchstone, 2001), 189.
  8. Ibid.
  9. J.P. Moreland, Scaling the Secular City (Grand rapids: Baker Books, 2000), 221.
  10. Larry Witham, By Design (San Francisco: Encounter, 2003), 147.
  11. Simon Conway Morris, Life’s Solution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 46.
  12. Schroeder, 192–193.
  13. Amir D. Aczel, Probability 1 (New York: Harvest, 1998), 88.
  14. Paul Davies, The 5th Miracle (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 20.
  15. Michael J. Behe, Darwin’s Black Box (New York: Touchstone, 1996), 185.
  16. Sir Fred Hoyle, “The Information Content of Life,” The Universe Unfolding (Oxford: Clarendon Press, eds. Sir Hermann Bondi & Miranda Weston-Smith, 1998), 8.
  17. Aczel, 88.
  18. Francis Crick, Life Itself (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981), 88.
  19. Nell Boyce, “Triumph of the Helix,” U. S. News & World Report, February 24/March 3, 2003, 41.
  20. Aczel, 88.
  21. William A. Dembski, Intelligent Design: the Bridge between Science and Theology (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity), 1999.
  22. Antony Flew, quoted in video, “Has Science Discovered God?” Roy Abraham Varghese’s Institute for Metascientific Research in Garland, Texas, December, 2004.
  23. Quoted in Gary Habermas, “My Pilgrimage from Atheism to Theism”: Interview with Antony Flew, Philosophia Christi, (Winter, 2005).

52007.1 Endnotes Where are Darwin’s Predicted Fossils?

Where are Darwin’s Predicted Fossils?

  1. Michael Boulter, Extinction: Evolution and the End of Man (London: Columbia University Press 2005).
  2. Niles Eldredge, Reinventing Darwin (London: Phoenix Giant, 1995), 33.
  3. Wim Kayzer, “A Glorious Accident” (New York: Freeman, 1997), 92.
  4. Charles Darwin, Origin of Species, 6th ed. (New York: University Press, 1988), 413.
  5. Steven Stanley, Macroevolution (San Francisco: Freeman, 1979), 2.
  6. Darwin, 344.
  7. Ibid.
  8. Behe, 22.
  9. T. S. Kemp, Fossils and Evolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 253.
  10. Richard Dawkins, River out of Eden (New York: Basic, 1995), 83.
  11. Stephen Jay Gould, “The Evolution of Life,” Scientific American, October 1994.
  12. Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (Chevy Chase MD: Alder & Alder, 1986), 46-56.
  13. George Alexander, “Alternative Theory of Evolution Considered,” Los Angeles Times, November 19, 1978.
  14. Kemp, 147.
  15. Eldredge, 95.
  16. Stephen Jay Gould, “Is a New and General Theory of Evolution Emerging?” (lecture, Hobart and William and Smith College, February 14, 1980).
  17. Stephen Jay Gould, “Evolution’s Erratic Pace,” Natural History, vol.86, May 1977,14.
  18. Quoted in, Thomas Hayden, “A Theory Evolves,” U.S. News & World Report, July 29, 2002, 2.
  19. Eldredge, 63.
  20. Behe, 27–30.
  21. Denton, 193–4.
  22. Gerald L. Schroeder, The Hidden Face of God (New York: Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, 2001), 91.
  23. Simon Conway Morris, Life’s Solution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), front book jacket.
  24. Darwin, 413.
  25. M. H. Ho and P. T. Saunders, “Beyond Neo-Darwinism: An Epigenetic Approach to Evolution,” Journal of Theoretical Biology 78 (1979), 589.
  26. George Alexander, Ibid.
  27. Quoted in William A. Dembski and James M. Kushiner, eds., Signs of Intelligence (Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2001), 127.

52008.1 Endnotes Are Humans the Result of Evolution?

Are Humans the Result of Evolution?

  1. Quoted in Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2004), 62.
  2. Ibid. 63.
  3. Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda’s Thumb, (W. W. Norton & Company, 1980), 126.
  4. R. C. Lewontin, Human Diversity, (Scientific American  Library, 1995), 163.
  5. Ian Tattersall, The Fossil Trail: How We Know What We Think We Know about Human Evolution(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), 246.
  6. John Maynard Smith, “The Importance of Gossip,” article in Rita Carter, Mapping the Mind (London: Phoenix Books, 2002), 257.
  7. Ernst Mayr, What Evolution Is (New York: Basic Books, 2001), 253.
  8. Steve Olson, Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins (New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002), 87.
  9. Lewontin, Ibid.
  10. Marcel-Paul Schutzenberger, “The Miracles of Darwinism,” La Recherché, January 1996.
  11. Mayr, 252.
  12. Tattersall, 219.
  13. Fazale R. Rana, “Neanderthal-Human Link Severed, “ Connections, Qtr 2, 2003, 8-9.
  14. Olson, 29.
  15. Ibid.
  16. Ibid.
  17. Ibid., 25.
  18. Olson, 86.
  19. Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory In Crisis (Chevy Chase MD: Adler & Adler, 1986), 330-331.
  20. Denton, 331.
  21. Stephen Hawking, The Universe in a Nutshell (London: Bantam, 2001), 169.
  22. Carl Sagan, Cosmos (New York: Ballantine, 1985), 229.
  23. Gerald L. Schroeder, The Hidden Face of God (New York: Touchstone, 2001), 112.
  24. Ibid.
  25. Mayr, 252.
  26. Nicholas Wade, “In Chimpanzee DNA, Signs of Y Chromosome’s Evolution,” New York Times, Sept. 1, 2005, A13.
  27. C. D. L. Wynne, “The Soul of the Ape”, American Scientist, 89 (2001), 120-122.
  28. Carter, 312.
  29. Ibid., 298.
  30. Sagan, Ibid.
  31. Sir John Maddox, “The Genesis Code by Numbers,” Scientific American, December 1999, 62–67.
  32. C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man (New York: Macmillan, 1947), 45–49.
  33. Laurence W. Wood, Asbury Theological Journal 41, no.1 (1986).
  34. Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), 59.
  35. Stephen Jay Gould, quoted in Wim Kayzer, ‘A Glorious Accident’ (New York: W. H. Freeman & Co., 1997), 93.
  36. Mayr, Ibid.
  37. Mayr, Ibid.
  38. Schroeder, 159.