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Saturday, October 12, 2013

How has Christianity Changed the World? Supporting articles.

October 12th, at Adventure Christian Church in Roseville, CA, I am debating Dr. Phil Zuckerman, professor of sociology at Pitzer College in southern California, on the question, "Does Christianity or Secular Humanism provide a better basis for Civil Society?"  Here are some articles, both on this site and elsewhere, that support my claim that Christianity best achieves this goal. 

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Paul Davies (on the Origins of Science): "Templeton Prize Address"

Tim O'Neil (on the rationality of Medieval Christianity): "The Dark Age Myth: An Atheist Reviews 'God's Philosophers'"

Robert Woodberry: “The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy”   

Jenny Gibbons: "Recent Developments in the Study of the Great European Witch-hunt"

David Marshall, in Books and Culture: "How the Brothers Grimm Overthrew the Evil Empire!"

Patrick Fagan, surveying studies that show that "religion" has a powerful positive effect on social and mental health, emphasizing the family: 
http://www.heritage.org/...

A review of Melanie Kirkpatrick's excellent Escape from North Korea, highlighting the role Chinese Christians play in expediting those escapes: 
http://www.patheos.com/.../
 
Tim Stafford, an overview of Christianity and the American Abolition Movement: 


My interviews with Allan Chapman, Rodney Stark, Don Richardson, and Michael Behe. 

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