When most people say “I’ve been around” they usually refer some sort of life experience. In my case it is the ideological spectrum. By that I mean I have pondered a wide array of different ideologies – political, social, and religious. I would like to think I have an open mind but just the fact of saying so makes me fearful that I am encouraging a particular bias under the rubric “open mind”. I have been stunned at how so many self-proclaimed open-minded people have zero tolerance for any opinion contrary to their own. Instead, let me say that I am a good listener. I want to follow the truth wherever it leads and I have been willing to change my mind when the facts (not necessarily the statistics mind you) support it.
I am not a theologian by any measure, so why start an apologetics blog? After all, there are plenty of other blogs out there. I am a truth seeker, not really an apologist, and I want to find others like me who are looking for an honest discussion about Jesus, the Gospel, the Bible to see where the truth lies. As a data scientist, I don’t look at the world through the typical, what’s right/wrong perspective but more through probabilities. I am fairly well-read and not a dummy and I think my background and educational pedigree is quite rare among apologists which may serve the reader ably in this regard.
It is that background which has lead me to my current faith. Things like Pascal’s wager make it rather easy to be a believer, actually, but more so the (as far as I can ascertain) many different probabilities seems to make it rather impossible to believe otherwise.
Disagree? Well glad to have you aboard. Just be nice and respectful, maybe you will change my mind, or I will change yours.