ANTITHESIS

November/December 1990 - Volume 1, Number 6

If we must worship a power greater than ourselves, does it not make sense to revere the Sun and the stars? Hidden within every astronomical investigation, sometimes so deeply buried that the researcher himself is unaware of its presence, is a kernel of awe.
Carl Sagan

For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to Him.... They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator.
Romans 1:21, 25.

• Douglas M. Jones III

• L. Anthony Curto
• David G. Hagopian
• Timothy J. Harris
• Ellery C. Stowell
• Greg L. Bahnsen

• Beyond Creation vs. Evolution: Taking the Full Measure of the Materialist Challenge (33k)
  T.M. Moore

  The popular materialist-science apologetic of Sagan, Gould, and Hawking falls prey to its own demands.

  The Second Reformation of Scotland: An Overview of Scottish Presbyterian History - Pt. 5 (26k)
  L. Anthony Curto

• Charles I continued the state's battle against the Presbyterian church, yet in the midst of these foreboding times there prevailed extraordinary spiritual refreshing.

  The Biblical Antithesis in Education (33k)
  Douglas Wilson

• The enmity between Christian and non-Christian throught is central to the debate over public education.

  The International Monetary Fund: Throwing More Good Money After Bad (15k)
  Doug Bandow

• The IMF's attempt to fashion a global solution to the debt crisis primarily serves to fund regimes that are responsible for impovershing their people.

  G.K. Chesterton Reformed: A Protestant Intepretation (27k)
  James Sauer

• What is it in G.K. Chesterton's work that makes it so appealing even to Protestants? Perhaps it is his evident Protestant streaks.

  The Character of Inflation (14k)
  Steve Samson

• Inflation is a reflection of the heart of modern society and begins with the desire to gain some undue advantage.

• Observing the Current
  • Federal Shut-Down As the Key to Deficit Reduction (5k)
  • Henry Miller: The Life and Literature of Obscenity (8k)
  • Is Kuwait the Fifty-First State? (9k)
  • U.S. Post Office Needs to Look Down Under (6k)
  • "Rational Suicide" and the Dearth of Courageous Humanists (6k)

  For the Record (14k)

• Norlan DeGroot provides a sketch for understanding worldviews.

  Issue and Interchange

• Two authors exchange view on the permissiblity of gambling.

  • Advocate 1: Gambling Per Se Is Permissible Within Certain Biblical Limits (27k)
  • Advocate 2: Gambling Per Se is Inconsistent With the Biblical Ethic (20k)
  • Advocate 1 Response (11k)
  • Advocate 2 Response (12k)
  • Advocate 1 Concluding Remarks (11k)

  Book Reviews

• • Mugged By Biology (8k)

    Enemies of Eros, by Maggie Gallagher
    Reviewed by James Sauer

    Exegetical Cats on Hot Textual Bricks (14k)

  • The Grace of God, The Will of Man, by Clark Pinnock, Gen. Ed.
    Reviewed by Douglas Wilson

• Novelties, Nonsense, and Non Sequiturs (8k)

  Notable truths, fallacies, and arrogances making the rounds.