{"id":6233,"date":"2025-02-05T13:23:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T18:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/campus.cru.org\/faculty\/?p=6233"},"modified":"2025-02-05T13:27:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T18:27:32","slug":"the-questioning-apologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/campus.cru.org\/faculty\/2025\/the-questioning-apologist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Questioning Apologist"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6233\" class=\"elementor elementor-6233\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-54b0cbd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"54b0cbd\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-95818e6\" data-id=\"95818e6\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2b5d78c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2b5d78c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>I hate to admit it, but I have often been like many apologists: too quick to give answers and too slow to ask questions.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a4e5751 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a4e5751\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-44ca035\" data-id=\"44ca035\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-77aa636 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"77aa636\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Solomon calls that the approach of a fool:<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cA fool does not delight in understanding,<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But only in revealing his own mind.\u201d (Proverbs 18:2)<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><strong>Anxious to win arguments<\/strong><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like many apologists, I can be so anxious to win arguments by dispensing facts (i.e., by \u201crevealing my own mind\u201d) that I fail to ask questions of my audience (because I don&#8217;t \u201cdelight in understanding\u201d them enough). \u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In doing so, I have needlessly quenched discussions and weakened my apologetic efforts. If instead, I had first sought to truly understand them, my words would have been more like \u201capples of gold in settings of silver\u201d\u2014and thus \u201csweeter\u201d and more winsome (Proverbs 25:11 and 16:21).<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Accordingly, I\u2019ve been challenged to \u201cask before I answer.\u201d<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><strong>Choosing to ask questions<\/strong><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this spirit, a while ago, while at breakfast with a professor of evolutionary biology (whom I anticipated would question the truths of Christianity because of his belief in biological evolution) I chose to ask questions and listen courteously to his responses before providing answers.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I mentioned to him that\u2014as a chemist\u2014I face little opposition from those engaged in the creation\/evolution cultural war. Chemists, after all, have as their guiding mantra the rather non\u2013controversial Periodic Table of the Elements, developed in the1870\u2019s by the great Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev. \u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><strong>More controversial<\/strong><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In contrast, Christian physicists (who adhere to the Big Bang Model of cosmology and its requisite 13.8 billion years) and biologists (who adhere to biological evolution and its requisite 3.7 billion years) can face strong opposition. \u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ask the person on the street about the Big Bang or the theory of evolution and you will likely encounter a heated response. Ask them about the Periodic Table and you will most likely encounter a bored, hollow stare.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I pointed out to my biologist colleague that the Periodic Table is important\u2014but not absolutely essential\u2014to the chemistry research enterprise. After all, the alchemists of the Middle Ages had operated without it, as did the gifted chemists who followed the alchemists but preceded Mendeleev. The Periodic Table simply makes chemistry research more efficient. \u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><strong>Is it possible\u2026?<\/strong><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I then asked him if, by analogy, it is possible to pursue biology research without using the theory of evolution as an operating model.\u00a0<\/p><blockquote style=\"font-weight: 400\">As I had hoped, rather than generating resistance or hostility, the question engendered a warm and curious response\u2014because it was properly contextualized and delivered in a courteous and genuinely interested spirit.\u00a0<\/blockquote><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The question caused him to ponder the indispensability of the theory of evolution\u2014if not its accuracy.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><strong>Enter into productive conversations<\/strong><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">By taking this approach, I accomplished my goal\u2014to generate thought with a courteous but challenging question, thereby deepening our friendship. My objective was not at all to challenge the veracity of evolutionary theory. My point was to use questions about the theory of evolution to enter into productive conversations with my colleague regarding his assumptions and conclusions about the big questions of life.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am still learning and growing in this area; but I see that a step in successful witnessing is realizing my goal is not to win an argument or present convincing material, but to respect the other person in love and ask probing questions to help them open up to question their own assumptions and presuppositions in new ways.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-bd424fd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"bd424fd\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9b5987b\" data-id=\"9b5987b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5b6cb91 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"5b6cb91\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/campus.cru.org\/faculty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/652\/2025\/02\/unnamed-1.jpg?w=511\" title=\"unnamed (1)\" alt=\"unnamed (1)\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cb23e87\" data-id=\"cb23e87\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-138de24 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"138de24\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3><strong>Mark Masthay<\/strong><\/h3><h3>Chemistry<\/h3><h3>University of Dayton<\/h3>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to admit it, but I have often been like many apologists: too quick to give answers and too slow to ask questions. 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