Articles by Frank Turek

Read articles written by Frank Turek, founder of CrossExamined.org and author of I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist, Legislating Morality, Correct, Not Politically Correct: How Same Sex Marriage Hurts Everyone. This section of the site will be updated as more articles are added, so check back.

• "Designer Wouldn't Have Done it that Way" Argument Backfires

  The so-called "design flaws" in nature that Darwinists point to support rather than destroy the Intelligent Design position.

• An Apologetic against Christian Apologetics?

  Are Christians supposed to try to "prove" Christianity? Aren't we just supposed to love people?

• Big Bang Evidence for God

  Scientists admit that the cause of the Big Bang beginning of the universe cannot be explained scientifically.

• Christians Beware: Intellectual Predators at College

  College is anything but a religiously-neutral environment, as a number of anti-religious professors admit.

• Country a Mess? Blame the Church

  The economic, intellectual, and moral demise of America is due in part to the Church abandoning her call to engage society and transform it at every level.

• Evolution Cannot Explain Morality

  Atheists can argue how we know something is moral or immoral, but they cannot explain why something is moral or immoral.

• Gay Marriage: Even Liberals Know It's Bad

  Some liberals admit the negative effects of same-sex marriage on children, but deny that marriage is about children.

• Is Intelligent Design Science? If not, Neither is Darwinism

  Both Intelligent Design and Darwinism must rely on forensic science rather than empirical science to explain the origin of the universe.

• Jesus and the Case for War

  Jesus' command to "love our enemies" does not preclude the use of force for self defense and just war, which is sometimes the least bad choice we can make.

• Matthew's "Raised Saints"

  Why does only Matthew's gospel mention the dead "saints" who were "raised" after Christ's resurrection?

• Politically Correct Torture

  While some liberals decry the use of waterboarding on guilty prisoners, they support the brutal killing of unborn innocent children.

• Sleeping With Your Girl Friend?

  Sometimes atheists so-called intellectual objections to God's existence are really a smokescreen hiding their objection to God's moral demands.

• The Religion in Science

  If Big Bang cosmology is correct, then the cause of the universe appears to have the same attributes as the God of the Bible.

• The Resurrection: An Impact Event

  Only an "impact event" like a literal Resurrection could explain such a swift and monumental shift in first-Century Jewish thinking and practice.

• The Seeker Church: Is Anyone Making Disciples?

  The seeker-sensitive church movement, which has failed to make disciples, shares several similarities with Roman Catholicism.

• Who Made God?

  That everything that is caused ultimately needs a First Cause is inescapable, and its characteristics are exactly the characteristics theists ascribe to God.

• Who Really Commits the "God of the Gaps" Fallacy?

  Scientist who point to natural selection to explain the how irreducibly complex, information-rich biological systems came into existence are simply covering their gap in knowledge of original cause.

• Why Trust Reason if You're an Atheist?

  Atheists, like Christians assume the reality of truth and reason when they use logical arguments, but atheists have no basis for this assumption.

• Why You OUGHT to Judge

  Contrary to the liberal argument that Christians ought not judge, Jesus, law, and society demand that we judge rightly.