Sharp Points: God's Conspiracy to Evangelize the Inquiring Mind (IBRI Research Reports Book 46)

God loves the inquiring mind. Intellectual inquiry is the supreme activity that reflects the Image of God that he placed in humans at Creation. But the modern world of ideas is in turmoil. Recent book titles indicate this: The Age of Extremes, The Death of Common Sense, The Death of Satan, Slouching Toward Gomorrah, The End of Science. Each of these books, and many others (with perhaps less telling titles), point to a crisis in modern intellectual thought. Are these crises self-inflicted by Twentieth Century intellectual hubris, or are they sharp points: goads "hard to kick against" (reminiscent of Paul's experience) placed by God in the way of "progress," to remind a doggedly secular world of his presence, his active interest in his Creation, and the truth of Biblical claims about humanity and the Creation order? Sharp point areas noted here include: evidence for intelligent design in Creation, the Image of God in humans, God's sustaining activity in Creation, the moral nature of humans, and the attempt to define a "secular" society. The current turmoil in Twentieth Century intellectual achievement highlights a number of these sharp points that God has placed in the way of the inquiring mind. Looking ahead to the future, one can see how current trends will develop into even sharper points in the coming Third Millennium.