Unbelievable?: Why after ten years of talking with atheists, I'm still a Christian

As a scientist he found it intriguing that the emergence of life on our planet seems to disobey one of the fundamental laws of nature. The second law of thermodynamics states that, when left to their own devices, all closed systems (such as our universe) will move towards increasing ‘entropy’ – the scientific word for disorder.

If there is a God, then why should we cut ourselves off from explanations that involve supernatural agency if that’s where the evidence most clearly leads?

for mainstream academics, the view that Jesus never existed belongs in the same category as those who claim that the moon landings were a hoax.

Rocks, chairs and cats also lack belief in God. Does that make them atheists?

we have far better historical evidence for the life of Jesus than we do for the crossing of the Rubicon by Caesar, a major event in the history of the Roman Empire, which nobody questions.

The idea that human rights, welfare provision and equality will naturally prevail in any educated society was a secular myth, he said: ‘Everything we take for granted as being part of the natural state of things absolutely isn’t, and the reason we have these assumptions is because our society is saturated with Christian assumptions.’

Like any institution run by humans, the Church has sanctioned both good and evil. That doesn’t mean Christianity is inherently evil, merely that it can be misused.

Tim Keller has described the gospel as the ‘what’ and apologetics as the ‘why’.4 It is aimed at showing sceptics that the claims of the Christian faith are worth their time and attention.

Atheists also believe they have the truth. The Christian might equally respond ‘So out of the thousands of beliefs about the nature of the world, yours just happens to be right?’