Apologetics Class

Grace Prep Apologetics Class (Some readings are PDF documents. These are read by a free program called Adobe Reader available at www.adobe.com. If you are unable to read PDF documents, please download the latest version of Adobe Reader.

) Class Syllabus. Textbooks: New Evidence That Demands a Verdict by Josh McDowell (ISBN-10: 0785242198, ISBN-13: 978-0785242192). Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis (ISBN-10: 0060652926, ISBN-13: 978-0060652920).

The Bible. Assignments (also called homework) - The dates listed here are when assignments ARE DUE, not when you start them: Due 8/22 (Fri) - Read How to Write a Major Paper & Plagiarism. Due 8/25 (Mon) - Read Is God Logical? Due 8/29 (Fri) - Read Reasons from the Bible to Study Logic, pp. 1-5. Due 9/1 (Mon) - Labor Day - NO CLASSES! Due 9/5 (Fri) - Read Reasons from the Bible to Study Logic, pp.

6-9. Due 9/8 (Mon) - Read The Language of Persuasion. Print this document and bring to Monday's class. Due 9/12 (Fri) - Work on your Fallacy Notebook (see Class Syllabus for instructions). Here is a sample Fallacy Notebook.

(No, you may not copy the examples.) AND read Science 1, Advertisers 0. Print a copy of "Science 1, Advertisers 0" and bring to Friday's class. Due 9/15 (Mon) - Read from your textbook The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict, pages v to xx (this is the dedication page, the Table of Contents, the Foreword, the Preface, the User's Guide, & Explanation of General Format) AND read pages xxiii to xxvii (He Changed My Life). Bring this textbook to class.

There will be a short quiz on what you read. Due 9/19 (Fri) - Read Memory Mechanics book, pp. 24-41. AND read from your textbook The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict, pages xxix to xli (this is the first part of the Introduction). Bring this textbook to class.

There will be a short quiz on what you read. Due 9/22 (Mon) - Your Fallacy Notebook is due (see Class Syllabus for instructions). See this Sample Fallacy Notebook if you need an idea of how to do one. AND study for your 1st Major Test. Due 9/26 (Fri) - Read Mere Christianity by C.

S. Lewis, pp. xvi - 32 AND bring this textbook to class. Due 9/29 (Mon) - Read http://www.new-life.

net/Freud.htm. Due 10/3 (Fri) - Read http://www.new-life.net/atheism.

htm. Write down the Scripture references found in this article and bring your Bible and these references to class. Due 10/6 (Mon) - Read http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/2174.

Bring your Bible to class. Due 10/10 (Fri) - Read http://www.new-life.net/difficul.htm.

Bring your Bible to class. Due 10/13 (Mon) - Columbus Day - NO CLASSES! Due 10/17 (Fri) - Complete the Bible Contradictions? exercise that was distributed in class. It will be collected on this date. Also bring your Bible to class. Due 10/20 (Mon) - Bring 2 of your own Bible "contradictions" to class.

This is a written assignment. Bring your Bible to class. Due 10/24 (Fri) - Read from The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict, pages 33-45. Take notes as you go. On Friday, I want to see one full page of notes based on what you read.

I will count this as a homework grade. Due 10/27 (Mon) - Read from The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict, pages 45-60. Take notes as you go. On Monday, I want to see one full page of notes based on what you read. I will count this as a homework grade.

Due 10/31 (Fri) - Read the article Fish Out of Water. Due 11/3 (Mon) - Go to the Answers in Genesis website: http://www.answersingenesis.org/. Find the article entitled Did T.

Rex taste like chicken? Read the entire article and bring the answer to this question to our next class. Due 11/7 (Fri) - Read Scopes Monkey Trial. Due 11/10 (Mon) - Read Racism & Evolution. Due 11/14 (Fri) - Study for your 2nd Major Test (see Study Info 2). Read Darwinism: Survival Without Purpose AND The Blind Men and the Elephant poem.

Print the poem and bring it to class. Due 11/17 (Mon) - Read Witnessing to Hindus (Part Two: Specific Suggestions). Due 11/21 (Fri) - Read the three pamphlets on Mormonism that were given to you in class: LDS1, LDS2, LDS3. A quiz will be given on your reading. Work on your paper or video that is due on December 5.

See the Syllabus and How to Write a Major Paper for instructions. Due 12/1 (Mon) - Prepare your questions on Mormonism for the missionaries coming on Monday, December 1. Due 12/5 (Fri) - Read How NOT to Start an Ancient Religion, Factors 1-8. Your paper/video is due. Due 12/8 (Mon) - Read How NOT to Start an Ancient Religion, Factors 9-end.

(You don't have to read word-for-word. Just get the gist of what is said about each factor.) AND Study for your 3rd Major Test (see Study Info 3). Class Notes & Quizzes - I will not provide a copy of the lecture notes for every class, but the notes that are placed here are for the benefit of those who might have missed class. 8/18 (Mon) - What is Apologetics? notes.

8/22 (Fri) - SQ3R Study Method. Definition of logic = "the study of methods and principles used to distinguish correct (good) from incorrect (bad) arguments." 8/25 (Mon) - Fallacy Handout 1. 8/29 (Fri) - Quiz 1 and Fallacy Handout 2. 9/5 (Fri) - Fallacy Handout 3.

9/8 (Mon) - Fallacy Handout 4. 9/12 (Fri) - Short List of Fallacies. 9/15 (Mon) - Quiz 2 and Fallacy Handout 5. 9/19 (Fri) - Quiz 3 and Fallacy Handout 6. 9/22 (Mon) - Test 1 and How to Prevent Belief.

9/26 (Fri) - Quiz 4 and Spong article. 9/29 (Mon) - Quiz 5. 10/3 (Fri) - Bart article (Part 1). 10/6 (Mon) - Bart article (Part 1). 10/10 (Fri) - Bart article (Part 2).

10/17 (Fri) - Suggestions on Dealing with Skeptics. 10/31 (Fri) - Postmodernism. 11/10 (Mon) - Evolution & the Bible. and An example of how to read articles purporting to show "proof" of evolution. 11/14 (Fri) - Test 2 and What is Hinduism? (article from Brio magazine) 11/17 (Mon) - The Development of Hinduism, The World Egg, and Hinduism - Quotes from Their Scriptures.

11/21 (Fri) - Quiz 6. Terminology Differences Between LDS and the Bible. Instructor: Dennis Rupert. Sample Worldview Video Grace Prep website