Wednesday 15 July 2026 10:00 AM – 6:00 PMMorling College, Perth Vose Campus, 20 Hayman Rd, Bentley WA 6102 To Be Human is a one-day conference hosted by Ratio Christi Australia, designed for university students and young adults exploring one of life’s most important questions: what does it mean to be human? In a culture
Apologetics is providing reasons why someone should believe something
Handout Why this matters? What is Christianity? Conway, Does Christianity Still Make Sense? 2024. Scrivener, The Air We Breathe: How We All Came to Believe in Freedom, Kindness, Progress, and Equality, 2022. Holland, “Why I Was Wrong About Christianity,” New Statesman 2016. But Even if Christianity is Good, Why Think it is True? Evidence that God
Alexander, Denis, and Alister E. McGrath. Coming to Faith through Dawkins: 12 Essays on the Pathway from New Atheism to Christianity. Kregel Publications, 2023. Allberry, Sam. Why Bother with Church? The Good Book Company, 2016. Almodovar, Nancy A. Creedal Apologetics: Learning to Use the Apostles’ Creed to Defend and Proclaim the Christian Faith. Wipf and Stock, 2021. Anderson, Tawa
Handout What is Apologetics? Apologetics is not… Biblical Foundations Jesus’ Apologetic Approach Paul Apologetics is not primary, but it is important An Overview of Apologetics What is Christianity? Why think God exists? The Value of Arguments The Burden of Proof What if there is no God? See https://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/popular-writings/existence-nature-of-god/the-absurdity-of-life-without-god Define “God” Some Arguments for God’s existence
Handout What is apologetics? Apologetics is not primary An overview of apologetics Reformed Epistemology Evidence that God Exists See: Dougherty, Trent, and Jerry Walls, eds. Two Dozen (or so) Arguments for God: The Plantinga Project. 2018. Define “God” The Value of Arguments The Burden of Proof WLC’s Cosmological Argument A Note on Argumentation WLC’s Teleological
The handout for a talk given at Worldview Australia on “Origins: Where we came from and how do we know?”
