In a recent debate with Bible skeptic Bart Ehrman, Dr. Daniel Wallace of the Dallas Theological Seminary mentioned the possibility of the recent discovery of a first century manuscript of Mark. To clarify, the first century would be the same century in which Mark wrote it. This find would be an incredible evidence of the reliability of the New Testament. To explain the discovery further, I will reproduce Wallace’s recent  [ Read More ]

Skeptics of the Bible like to use a rhetorical trick to undermine the authenticity of Biblical events. If there are no traces of a Biblical event in sources outside the Bible, then they say, “See! The Bible cannot be proven by history!” If, on the other hand, outside confirmation of a Biblical event or narrative abound, then they say, “See! The Biblical story is just stolen from other cultures not  [ Read More ]

A lot of readers wonder why I seem to return to the topic of aliens from time to time on a blog that is supposed to be focused on Christian evidences. The answer is found in the subtle but undeniable connection between the belief a of great many scientists in extraterrestrials and the conviction of the same scientists that the current model of macro-evolution is a matter of fact. If  [ Read More ]

The voice of angry atheists aggressively demeaning religion grows louder with each passing day. Most notable of the great religion critics would perhaps be Richard Dawkins1, whose multiple books and interviews leave no doubt to his view that religion is an irrational cyst in need of removal from human society. As he explains: The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the  [ Read More ]

Thermodynamics and other scientific developments of the last two centuries have made the idea of an eternal universe increasingly unpopular. However, the question of how the universe could spring into existence ex nihilo (“out of nothing”) remains a confounding cosmological riddle. For the naturalist, if a purely scientific model could be derived that explains an ex nihilo creation without God, the debate would be over. This holy grail of desired scientific outcomes skirts  [ Read More ]

An Upward Trend for Dark Canopy Readership! It has been a great year for Dark Canopy! Web traffic is in an upward trend thanks to readers like you who pass along links to articles to so many others. Using Twitter and Facebook, the articles that begin on a laptop in Glenpool, OK are shared around the globe. What is in store for 2012? More developments regarding exoplanets and the frantic  [ Read More ]

Christmas is a great time for me and my family, but an awkward time for me as a preacher. It is a true “silly season” of people saying things with an air of authority about history, religion, etc. about which they are usually ill informed. To that end, let us consider the usual suspects. First, let us make a list of some things that do not matter. Not at all.  [ Read More ]

Take a look at the Download section of Dark Canopy to see the new addition to the free materials provided. The material that I prepared for my course on the Prison Epistles at the Owasso School of Biblical Studies can be downloaded for free. This is a quick survey of Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon. It highlights material that I thought would not be addressed in most outlines. The writing is mostly  [ Read More ]

I have written in the past on the star that shouldn’t exist and the question of what happens if the universe is too old. In both articles, I made the point that the biggest hurdle for the Big Bang Model is the persistent discovery of objects in our sky that stretch the current models to the breaking point. Whether it is a star that does not contain the expected elements  [ Read More ]

Geology is the study of the Earth, the materials of which it is made, the structure of those materials, and the processes acting upon them. However, like almost every field of modern science, it has become a battlefield for greater philosophical questions about the Earth and it’s history. The most basic question that arises from this field is the age old debate of whether or not all things continue as  [ Read More ]