Lita Cosner, B.A., M.A. Candidate

Biblical studies, New Testament (USA)

Lita Cosner obtained a B.A. (Summa Cum Laude (= First Class Honours)) in Biblical Studies from Oklahoma Wesleyan University in 2008, where she won the Koinē Greek Scholar Award. She is now completing her M.A. New Testament thesis at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, which awarded her the Carl F.H. Henry Scholarship, “Trinity’s highest award”, as well as the Helga Henry Scholarship, “given to outstanding women who desire to pursue a theological education”.

A Christian since 2002, she has had an interest in apologetics ever since finding the CMI website, which played a role in her salvation (see her own account). She joined CMI full-time as Information Officer in May 2010.

Articles

Creation magazine

• An eternal perspective on creation
• Darwinism and World War One
• Saving the other patient
• Tortoises of the Galápagos
• The birds of the Galápagos
• The Use of Genesis in the New Testament
• “A Parade of Mutants”—Pedigree Dogs and Artificial Selection

Journal of Creation

• The Bible’s high view of women grounded in the creation account
• G.K. Chesterton: Darwinism is “An attack upon thought itself”
• New title, same old arguments: Review of Honest to Genesis by Margaret Towne
• Strong case, but flawed by compromise: A review of The Case for a Creator by Lee Strobel
• A pathetic case for an old earth: Review of A Biblical Case for an Old Earth by David Snoke
• Romans 5:12–21: Paul’s view of a literal Adam
• Mostly masterful defence of Christianity; pity it’s slack on creation: A review of What’s So Great About Christianity? by Dinesh D’Souza
• A review of The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens by Vox Day
• A review of There is a God: How The World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind by Antony Flew with Roy Varghese
• A review of The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller
• From Darwin to Dover—A broad overview of creation vs evolution
• A review of: The Swastika against the Cross: The Nazi War on Christianity by Bruce Walker

CMI website articles

Apologetics

• Do animals possess morality?
• What part of Genesis should we believe? All of it! There are no contradictions in Scripture
• ‘One long ad hominem’
• Immigration, culture, and Christ
• The Fall and the existence of other religions
• Project Nim: Can a chimp learn language?
• ‘Religious’ racism, and a chronology of Cain
• Copycat copout: Jesus was not made up from pagan myths
• Dawkins calls Texas Governor a ‘fool’ for questioning ‘fact’ of evolution
• Is the Bible an immoral book?
• Who has an answer?
• The lies of Free Inquiry—a response
• Did CMI mischaracterize the motivation for atheists’ ‘deconversion’?
• Going ape about human rights: Are monkeys people, too?
• ‘Plants rights’? The latest evolutionary absurdity
• Amazing Grace, the film: Wilberforce v. Slavery
• Glycon: Is Jesus “just a product of His time and place?” Refuting the idea that Jesus was copied from other gods
• Hitler, the Dalai Lama, sin and salvation; and the religion of North Korea
• Can Christians believe “dogmatically” that the earth is 6,000 years old?
• Are young-earth creationists irrational knuckle-brains?
• Was the Virgin Birth non-miraculous?; and should Christians bother with atheists?
• Can we know the truth?
• Is charity more important than apologetics?
• Does an old universe better display God’s power?
• Errors in the Bible?
• Christian converts and polygamy; and CMI’s view of the ‘Hobbit’
• Is Belief in God a case of Christian wish fulfillment?
• Does a worldview have to be livable?
• Deny vote to creationists
• Is Genesis poetry? and Who was the father of hermeneutics?
• Is the Bible our sole final authority?
• Evolutionary Christianity?
• The Star of Bethlehem: A Review
• Does Creation make the Gospel a laughing stock?
• Racism—a consequence of evolution?
• The Hawaiian hot spot and the Bible
• UFOlogy: the world’s fastest-growing ‘scientific’ religion?
• When was the Last Supper?
• How does Göbekli Tepe fit with biblical history?

Biblical theology

• The global flood—according to the New Testament
• The limitations of physical evidence
• ‘No death before the Fall’?
• A review of The Sign: The Shroud of Turin and the Secret of the Resurrection by Thomas de Wesselow
• Dealing with claims of Bible ‘contradiction’
• Did the witch of Endor call up a ghost?
• A riff on Genesis hits a few sour notes. A review of Rob Bell’s Everything is Spiritual
• Ghosts, experience, and the Bible
• Does the Bible promote injustice?
• Will humans explore the stars?
• Is Christianity ‘for whites only’?
• Did Matthew misuse the Old Testament?
• Is Isaiah 7:14 exclusively a prophecy of Jesus birth?
• Christianity Today?
• What happens when speculative science and questionable exegesis collide
• Gap theory revisited
• Did God create over billions of years?
• The Resurrection and Genesis (available in Polish)
• Evolutionary syncretism: a critique of Biologos
• Is the Bible one book or 66?
• A response to Timothy Keller’s ‘Creation, Evolution and Christian Laypeople’
• Gospel Dates and Reliability
• What’s in a pronoun? The divine gender controversy
• London Times reports that the Bible is not anti-female: is this news?
• The ‘gender neutral’ Bible Emasculating Scripture for political correctness
• Out of Egypt: Could so many Israelites have crossed the Red Sea?
• Politicizing Scripture: Should Christians welcome a ‘conservative Bible translation’?
• Did Eve have a “Moral compass”?; and the “120 years” of Genesis 6:3
• Do creationists hate science?
• Compromising chaplain castigates creation
• Compromising chaplain castigates creation, round 2
• Logistics of the Exodus
• Animal cruelty and vegetarianism
• Can compromisers really be saved?
• The failure of evolutionary orthodoxy
• Does CMI think women are inferior?
• Pew survey reveals basic ignorance of Christian belief
• Is the whole creation fallen?
• The Emergent Deception—the evolution factor
• The lead codices—this year’s ‘Gospel of Judas’?
• Atheism, plants, and gas giants
• Hidden messages in Scripture?
• Can pantheism explain morality? And, the fight-or-flight response and the Fall

Education

• Erring on the side of censorship: US government schools are becoming Christ-free zones (censoring address by valedictorian Brittany McComb)
• The ‘indoctrination’ of children
• Faith-based attacks on religious schools
• Do parents have the right to teach their children?

Pro-life

• Abortion: an indispensable right or violence against women?
• “Bioethicists” and Obama agree: infanticide should be legal
• President Obama okays funding embryonic stem cell research (but removes adult stem cell funding): What are the issues involved?
• US Senate passes embryonic stem cell bill; President vetoes
• The gift of death? Planned Parenthood offers abortion gift cards for Christmas
• A “wrongful birth”? A Florida court case highlights America’s heightened devaluing of human life
• Refuting contrived pro-abortion arguments

Science

• Badly designed arguments—‘vestigial organs’ revisited
• Does it matter if endogenous retroviruses have functions?
• Is evolution compatible with religion and free will?
• The “God spot”
• Monkeying around with the origins of language
• Spore: new game allows players to “evolve” creatures; should creationists be concerned? (see also a response to critics of this article)
• Does CMI misunderstand how science works?
• Martian Fossils? Dissecting the media hype
• Did the moon landing bring evolutionary insights?
• ‘Carnivorous’ dinosaurs had plant diet
• Top 10 Consequences of evolution?

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