The Evidence Room
The big questions
13 questions, each a full page: the evidence walked in order, the objects photographed, and every serious objection stated the way the people who hold it state it.
The resurrection
Gary Habermas's survey of the critical literature since 1975 reports that a short list of facts about the weeks after the crucifixion is granted by most writers on the subject. They disagree about what explains them.
How the text reached us
Nobody has the page Paul wrote on. Here is what we do have, how much of it there is, and how the copies compare.
Archaeology
People have been digging in the Bible's countries for two hundred years. Here is what came out of the ground, and exactly what each object says.
Fulfilled prophecy
Some of the Bible's boldest claims are about the future. Centuries later, we can go and look, and say plainly when the match is partial.
Where everything came from
This is the room where Christians disagree with each other the most, so you will hear more than one voice in here.
Does life look designed, or does it just look that way?
Living things look engineered, and everyone on every side of this argument agrees they look that way. The whole fight is over whether an unguided process can produce that appearance, and this page prints the best case for each answer at the same length.
6 steps · 4 objections answered
How do we know God exists?
Nobody has a proof, and the Bible never offers one: what there is instead is a set of features of the world that are far easier to explain if a mind is behind it than if nothing is, each one weighed here against the best answer its critics give.
6 steps · 6 objections answered
How old is the earth, and does it matter?
MannaFest reads Genesis 1 as six ordinary days and reckons the earth's age in thousands of years from Scripture's own genealogies, and this page prints the other Christian readings at full strength, shows our own approved voices disagreeing, and states the hardest unsolved problem in the young-earth case in the young-earth section.
7 steps · 5 objections answered
Right and wrong
If there is no God, is anything really wrong? It is the oldest argument there is, and we take both sides of it seriously.
The Bible itself
Who decided what goes in it, does it contradict itself, and what is faith actually supposed to be?
Doesn't the Bible contradict itself?
Most of the famous cases are differences rather than contradictions, and the standard tools for reading ancient documents dissolve them honestly. But a few genuinely remain open, and this page names them instead of smoothing them.
7 steps · 5 objections answered
Who decided what goes in the Bible?
No council invented the list. The story is churches across the Roman world converging over three centuries on books they were already reading, and the paperwork survives so you can watch it happen.
6 steps · 4 objections answered
What about God commanding the killing of the Canaanites?
This is the hardest thing in the Bible, several of the standard responses have real evidence behind them, and none of them makes the texts comfortable. A page that leaves you at ease here has not been honest with you.
6 steps · 4 objections answered
Isn't faith just believing things without evidence?
Not in the Bible's own vocabulary: the Hebrew and Greek words behind faith mean trust based on a track record, the same thing you mean when you say you have faith in a friend, and the New Testament repeatedly stakes itself on claims that could have been checked and could have failed.
7 steps · 5 objections answered
Suffering
The objection no argument dissolves. We give it full weight and do not pretend to wrap it up neatly at the end.