DOUGLAS GROOTHUIS, PH.D.

By Douglas Groothuis, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Cornerstone University The Frenchman, Blaise Pascal (1623-62), is known for many things—inventing the first working calculator (the Pascaline), for his wager on God argument, and for his statement that “the heart has reasons that reason knows nothing of.” Since he is among the most quotable philosophers, we may have seen a piquant from him scattered in various books and articles. Sadly, his religious and philosophical views

1. If Darwinism is an adequate account of the biosphere, then human beings have no essential nature, since they physically evolved...