The atheist proclaims personal tragedy is proof of God's non-existence.
Or at least proves He is not loving and personal.
They cite extreme examples of natural disaster, terminal disease and man's inhumanity to man.
They then project and impose their own feelings of betrayal and injustice on everyone else as if their feelings were universal and absolute. As if everyone would feel as they did if it weren't for religion overriding normal, natural feelings.
But not everyone feels that way.
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The atheist proclaims personal tragedy is proof of God's non-existence.
Or at least proves He is not loving and personal.
They cite extreme examples of natural disaster, terminal disease and man's inhumanity to man.
They then project and impose their own feelings of betrayal and injustice on everyone else as if their feelings were universal and absolute. As if everyone would feel as they did if it weren't for religion overriding normal, natural feelings.
But not everyone feels that way.
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Each of us is designed for a specific purpose.
It is not a choice.
But what we do with our unique design and purpose is our choice.
I have the freewill to put on my design and face the challenge of my purpose, or retreat in defeat.
Fear and uncertainty are not excuses for retreat. I must face my Goliath.
This is my Goliath. Writing. All the intellectual trickery in my arsenal cannot change that fact. And like David, I go it alone.
Yes God is there with me, but he does not fight 
As an armchair Physicist (at best), I’m drawn to the concreteness and certainty of the science of Physics.
It’s a tribute to intellectual honesty and the effectiveness of the Scientific Method.
How so?
How do I know this?
Have I done the math?
Hardly.
Have I recreated and witnessed the original, corroborating experiments of intellectual giants like Newton, Tesla and Einstein?
Nope!
Then how do I know Physics gets it right?
Applied Physics.
I work with it every day. Impressed? 
Apologetics presupposes reason.
Thinking.
But what kind of thinking?
Thinking based on reason, logic and evidence.
Is there any other kind?
Oh yes!
It’s very popular!
Thinking based on personal preference twisted to fit presupposed conclusions not derived by due process.
Due process to what?
The Laws of Logic.
The Fundamental Laws of Thinking ignored by the will of men twisting reality to fit the bigotry of personal preference in spite of reality.
You find this in every intellectual 
I’m energized whenever I get around other like-minded Apologists.
The last two days are proof of that.
I arrived late to the three-day event Friday afternoon after it was more than half-way completed.
Of course it was my original intent to attend all sessions of CIA 2016, but recent business and personal challenges threatened any attendance at all.
I compromised.
And I’m glad I did!
Because I’m reminded of the real reason for attending CIA in the first place -a chance to renew my excitement 
Two-year-olds don't like being told what to do.
Most of us don’t.
But we see this more clearly in children, who haven’t learned to hide it.
We often attribute willful resistance to obedience as a negative behavioral trait going back to Adam and Eve.
But is it always negative?
Could it be most people aren’t stubborn enough?
Where it counts.
Like stubborn resistance to bad thinking.
Like refusing to accept and adopt a worldview without rigorous examination of the premises and logical 
Why is life so hard?
Even when we are doing that we care most about?
Even when we know we are doing that for which we were destined?
Why the roadblocks? The rough roads?
The missing roads?!
Why?
Truly that's a philosophical question, rather than one posed by an engineer looking for flaws in the mechanics of a structure in need of repair.
We cannot repair it.
It is there for a reason or the result of an even bigger reason. Which is to say it is the way it is because of an overarching 
"I feel much better now that I’ve given up hope”
I saw that on a bumper sticker.
Would that really work? Is giving up on hope the answer to hopelessness?
But isn’t giving up on hope a form of hope in hopelessness itself?
And therefore it isn’t giving up on hope at all?
Instead it’s a decision to put one’s hope in cynicism!
Sometimes I feel that way anyway.
Especially at the end of a long week where I’m further behind than when I started.
Dazed. Dizzy. Exhausted.
Reaching 
I envied my Christian friends in High School for their ability to believe in a loving, personal God. I often wished that I too could take that blind step of faith they cited as the key to their relationship with and understanding of God.
I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t throw reason out the window no matter how much I needed that relationship.
Better to believe in an unpleasant truth, than a pleasant lie.
Over the years my heart grew ever harder and impatient toward Christians for their 
There are two types of faith and doubt.
There is faith based on logic and the facts at hand. There is faith in spite of the logic and facts at hand.
There is doubt based on logic and the facts at hand. There is doubt in spite of the logic and facts at hand.
As an Apologist I am always preparing to give an answer to everyone who asks me to give a reason for the hope that I have.
Apologists evangelize from their hearts to the hearts of others by the use of reason.
The key to Apologetics