John Byrne and Marvin Straus attempt to answer the question, "Does God Exist?" at Metro State Auraria Campus in Denver, CO.
John Byrne has been involved in youth ministry for more then 17 years. His ability to engage, challenge, and speak relevantly to his audience has led to speaking opportunities nationwide including camps, seminars, conferences, and training events. He has also been published in Group Magazine, Youthworker Journal, and contributed to Youth Ministry Lemonade: turning “sour” experiences into leadership success.
John knew he wanted to be a youth pastor at the early age of 13. While attending Oak Hills Bible College he met the woman of his dreams and convinced her to marry him. After a two year honeymoon in the great state of Colorado he returned to his home state of Minnesota to finish his Biblical Studies degree from Northwestern Bible College.
John’s passion is living The Cause (Great Commission) in his life and helping others do the same. He does this through his ministry in the local church as well as writing, speaking, and missional living in his own neighborhood and community.
John is currently the Pastor of Student Ministries at The Rock of Southwest. For the past three years John and his family have been living and ministering in Littleton, CO.
Marvin Straus cofounded the Boulder Atheists in 2001.
He is the coproducer of The Journey Of Life From The Nonbeliever's Point Of View, an 18-minute video documentary about atheism. (2,000 copies distributed).
The producer of The Last Presentation, a 40-minute educational video that has been distributed to 16,000 US high schools and 2,300 public libraries.
He activily supports the organizations in the Colorado Coalition Of Reason.
One of his great joys is making humor-filled presentations to high schools and colleges about atheism. He has appeared on many television interviews, talk-radio shows, and in newspaper articles about atheism
The chilling impact of Darwin's Theory of Evolution. Darwin's Deadly Legacy looks at the grim social impact of Charles Darwin's idea that all life is the product of time and chance. That theory - never proven and now increasingly discredited - laid the foundation for genocide in Nazi Germany, Adolt Hitler, a disciple of Darwin, tried to speed up evolution by subjecting some 12 million men, women, and children to a horrible death in the Holocaust. Presented by D. James Kennedy.
Astrophysicist Dr. Jason Lisle presents a presuppositional approach to apologetics and shows why it is the best method for defending the faith. Giving numerous examples of real-world discussions, Dr. Lisle demonstrates how to expose the inconsistencies and arbitrariness in secular worldviews, while also demonstrating the logic and consistency of the biblical worldview.
Including interviews with the following noted theologians and scholars -
Pastor Chuck Smith
Roger Oakland
Paul Vitz
John Morris
Randall Price
Ian Taylor
John Eidsmoe
Foundations For Biblical Worldview hosted by G. Thomas Sharp, Ph.D. What is Worldview?, The impact of this virtually unknown facet of human life is critical in understanding how we live our lives. Quite simply, worldview is the filter by which we process all incoming information, and dictates how we will respond to that information. A Biblical worldview, gained through Biblical literacy, is the foundation for successful Christian living, and an increasing ignorance of the Holy Scriptures has become the bane of true Biblical Christianity. About the Series This adult-level course establishes the foundations for a Biblical worldview over the progression of four DVD lessons. The student will discover what a worldview is, how it works in our daily lives, and why the Bible must be the source of our worldview.
Series Contains
• DVD Video featuring four 50-minute video sessions with G. Thomas Sharp and interviews with noted theologians and scholars.
• Group Discussion Guide with discussion topics, sidebar information, Bible references and relevant quotes.
“Students of the history of ideas should not look for those ideas which are under constant discussion in any age, but instead should look for those basic assumptions which are so fundamental to a man’s way of thinking that he does not even realize he is assuming them.” –– Alfred North Whitehead
This playist of 50 college classes goes into detailed biblical and scientific study behind Hovind's creation seminars. Hovind "chases every rabbit and kicks every dog."
Ken Ham, Answers in Genesis president, is perhaps the most widely recognized creation-apologist in the world today. He and AiG astrophysicist Dr. Jason Lisle engage Drs.Hugh Ross (Reasons to Believe) and Walt Kaiser (president of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary), both of whom are proponents of an old earth, local-flood view of Bible interpretation. In this eye-opening debate, well-mannered disagreement is punctuated by intriguing confrontations as these four Christian leaders communicate their views. Ham and Lisle implore Ross and Kaiser to accept the Genesis account of history as written, while Ross and Kaiser argue for their view that the first chapters of Genesis are more symbolism than history. This specially prepared version, produced by AiG, features the exact programs as edited and broadcast by the John Ankerberg TV ministry.
Dr. Steven A. Austin is a field research geologist with a Ph.D. from Penn State University in sedimentary geology. He is “Senior Research Scientist” with Institute for Creation Research in Dallas, Texas. He has performed geologic research on six of the seven continents of the world. His research adventures have taken him by helicopter into the crater of Mount St. Helens volcano, by bush plane onto glaciers in the high mountains of Alaska, by raft through the entire Grand Canyon, on horseback into the high Sierra, by elevator into the world’s deepest coal mines, by SCUBA onto the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, by rail into the backcountry of Korea, by foot onto barren plateaus of southern Argentina, and by four-wheel drive into remote desert areas of Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. He is the author of three books, three videos, one computer software package, and more than thirty technical geology papers.
Dr. Austin’s field research within Grand Canyon includes over 400 nights camped out below the Canyon’s rim. He has launched 22 raft trips within Grand Canyon. He has explored very remote areas of Grand Canyon by mule, helicopter and ATV. His book “Grand Canyon: Monument to Catastrophe” and his DVD “Grand Canyon: Monument to the Flood” summarize his investigations. He has over ten technical papers on Grand Canyon. Subjects of his technical publications on Grand Canyon include lava dams, breached dams, fossils, limestones, sandstones, basalts, diabase sills and radioisotope dating. He is widely known for his discovery of the regionally extensive mass-kill and burial bed within the Redwall Limestone about 2000 feet below the Canyon’s rim.
Current research Mass-kill event and rapid burial of nautiloid fossils in a limestone layer within the Grand Canyon.
Mega-flood deposits within the Santa Cruz River valley of southern Argentina.
Frozen cones of spruce trees within a deeply buried peat layer on the shore of the Arctic Ocean in extreme northern Canada.
Gigantic slurry-flows in southern Alaska that were launched along superfaults and that produced widespread deposits composed of enormous boulders.
Secular Austin, S.A., A.A. Snelling and K.P. Wise, Canyon-length mass kill of orothocone nautiloids, Redwall Limestone (Mississippian) Grand Canyon, Arizona, Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, p. A-421, 1999.
Austin SA, Wise KP. 1999. Gigantic megaclasts within the Kingston Peak Formation (Upper Precambrian, Pahrump Group), Southeastern California: evidence for basin margin collapse. Geological Society of America Abstracts With Programs 31(7):A455.
JR Baumgardner, AA Snelling, DR Humphreys, and SA Austin. "The enigma of the ubiquity of 14 C in organic samples older than 100 ka". Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract xxxxx-xx, 2003
