Is Fulfilled Prophecy of Value for Scholarly Apologetics?
During the past twenty years, evangelical Christian apologetics has made significant progress in some areas. Today in the field of philosophy, the Christian theist has access to a secular audience and is able to challenge openly the assumptions of skeptics and atheists [Plantinga, Willard]. In the field of astrophysics, the concept of an infinitely old universe has fallen upon hard times, and the notion of “a creation event” is generally recognized [Jastrow, Ross]. Statements of the anthropic cosmological principle (“It’s as if the universe were exquisitely tuned, almost as if to accommodate us” [1] are even finding their way into introductory physics and astronomy textbooks.) I find this a refreshing reversal from the dogma of metaphysical naturalism that has saturated these scholarly disciplines for over a century. It is good to see the idea of a Creator, especially a biblical one, regaining intellectual credibility in these parts of our secular world. But despite these successes, so
