My Story

I was in my sophomore year of college, in my last semester at the community college, and I was taking a biology class that was a requirement in order to graduate with my A.A. and move on to the University. I knew this meant I was going to be learning about evolution and I knew this also meant that I would be learning about evolution from a Darwinian framework. Well, it turns out that my biology professor was not only going to teach Darwinian evolution, but he was also going to give us his opinion on religion, Christianity more specifically.

My professor went on to claim that Christianity is a bunch of “hocus-pocus”. He even claimed that there was no evidence that Jesus even existed as person. What any of this had to do with BIOLOGY I am still not sure about, but nevertheless these were the kind of statements that my biology professor would sprinkle in during his lectures. Finally, one day after class in which he had really mocked Christianity I was deeply troubled. I felt as though my ideas and my beliefs were caving in on me. I had been a Christian since I was 13 years old and all of a sudden some of the ideas I held did not seem to be consistent with the evidence. I approached my professor after class one day and confronted him about the remarks he made toward Christianity. We got nowhere, but he did tell me that he believed that religions were responsible for all the wars that were going on today and that he strongly believed that humans would be better off without religion. At the time I did not have the ability to think through such a statement by my professor and see the fallacy in his argument.

After my conversation with my professor that day I decided that if Christianity is true then I should be able to investigate its claims and find it to be true. If it was not true then it would not matter if I came to that conclusion as well. Since then I have dedicated myself to studying, both in school and on my own, subjects such as evolution, creationism, history, old testament, new testament, ancient texts, archaeology, anthropology, sociology, and various religious studies in order to see if the Christian worldview stands up under scrutiny. I have studied material produced by both sides and continue to do so to this day. I have seen time and time again that the Christian worldview just seems to make the most sense out of this world that we are living in. I can confidently say that I know with confidence that Jesus Christ has come, died and risen from the grave in order to offer the way of salvation. I hope that through this blog we can exchange ideas and continue to examine those questions that are most important to us.