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Is an Embryo a Baby?

May 2, 2024 • Amy Hall, Greg Koukl

Putting a baby in a freezer would kill it, but freezing an embryo would keep it alive. Does that prove an embryo isn’t a baby?

Would it be wrong to use IVF with genetic testing to prevent carrying a baby with an inherited genetic disorder that always results in stillbirth?


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What’s the Best Evidence for the Reliability of the Old Testament?

May 23, 2024 • Amy Hall, Greg Koukl

What’s the best evidence for the historical reliability of the Old Testament? How do we know that what the Old Testament writers wrote back then is what we have today? Does Greg subscribe to the idea of four independent Gospel accounts or something more like the two-source theory? Why do you think the apostle Paul was commissioned to write so much of the New Testament explaining Christian theology when he wasn’t present for Jesus’ teachings during his earthly ministry? 

Why Would You Say Evolution Has No Purpose?

May 20, 2024 • Amy Hall, Greg Koukl

Why would you say evolution has no purpose when it’s a fine-tuned process that ensures the propagation of life and is anything but random since it’s controlled by a survival-fitness feedback loop? Since people who have aphantasia are unable to form mental images, doesn’t that mean the ability to picture something is based in chemistry rather than a soul?

Are the Crusades Proof That Christians Are Evil?

May 16, 2024 • Amy Hall, Greg Koukl

How do you answer someone who says the Crusades are proof that Christians are evil? What are the facts around the church burning people at the stake for saying the world is round and not the center of the universe? Does this prove the unreliability of biblical authority and damage the historic witness of the church?