Key insights from
I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist
By Frank Turek, Norman L. Geisler
What you'll learn
Norman L. Geisler was a Christian philosopher and theologian who co-founded two evangelical seminaries and wrote or co-wrote more than one hundred books before his death in 2019. Frank Turek, a former U.S. Navy aviator who holds a doctorate from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, is the founder of CrossExamined.org and a popular speaker on college campuses. In I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist, Geisler and Turek build a step-by-step case for Christianity, moving from the nature of truth itself to the origin of the universe, the design of life, the reality of morality, and the historical evidence for Jesus. Along the way, they make a provocative claim: given what we know, it is atheism—not Christianity—that requires the greater leap of faith.
Key insights
- 1 Every worldview requires faith, so the real question is which one asks us to leap the least distance beyond the evidence.
- 2 Truth is absolute and knowable, and the popular slogans that deny it collapse the moment they are applied to themselves.
- 3 The universe had a beginning, and whatever begins to exist must have a cause that lies beyond it.
- 4 The precise fine-tuning of the universe and of Earth points to an intelligent designer rather than a lucky cosmic accident.
- 5 The vast information encoded in DNA is best explained by an intelligent mind, not by undirected chemistry and chance.
- 6 Natural selection can modify existing creatures, but it cannot account for the emergence of entirely new forms of life.
- 7 An objective moral law that every person recognizes requires a moral lawgiver who stands above humanity.
- 8 If God exists, then miracles are possible, and they can serve as God's way of confirming a message.
- 9 The New Testament is earlier, better preserved, and more firmly rooted in eyewitness testimony than any other ancient document.
- 10 The New Testament writers had every reason not to invent their story, and the details they recorded show that they told the truth.
- 11 The resurrection of Jesus is the best explanation for the historical facts that even many skeptical scholars accept.
- 12 Jesus claimed to be God and confirmed that claim, which means his view of the Bible settles the question of its authority.
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