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In his law classes Dr. Greenleaf, who was an atheist at the time, would frequently attack the [[Bible]] until some of his Christian students challenged him to take his textbook and apply it to the Bible and to the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.<ref>http://www.apprising.org/archives/2006/09/thy_word_is_tru_1.html</ref><ref>http://www.allaboutthejourney.org/the-case-for-christ.htm</ref> Dr. Greenleaf accepted his students challenge and when he examined the evidence for the resurrection of Christ he became a Christian.<ref>http://www.allaboutthejourney.org/the-case-for-christ.htm</ref> In his essay the ''[[Testimony of the Evangelists Examined by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice]]'', which is cited often in the field of [[Christian Legal Apologetics|Christian legal apologetics]], Greenleaf wrote the following:
In his law classes Dr. Greenleaf, who was an atheist at the time, would frequently attack the [[Bible]] until some of his Christian students challenged him to take his textbook and apply it to the Bible and to the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.<ref>http://www.apprising.org/archives/2006/09/thy_word_is_tru_1.html</ref><ref>http://www.allaboutthejourney.org/the-case-for-christ.htm</ref> Dr. Greenleaf accepted his students challenge and when he examined the evidence for the resurrection of Christ he became a Christian.<ref>http://www.allaboutthejourney.org/the-case-for-christ.htm</ref> In his essay the ''[[Testimony of the Evangelists Examined by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice]]'', which is cited often in the field of [[Christian Legal Apologetics|Christian legal apologetics]], Greenleaf wrote the following:
{{cquote|All that Christianity asks of men…is, that they would be consistent with themselves; that they would treat its evidences as they treat the evidence of other things; and that they would try and judge its actors and witnesses, as they deal with their fellow men, when testifying to human affairs and actions, in human tribunals. Let the witnesses [to the Resurrection] be compared with themselves, with each other, and with surrounding facts and circumstances; and let their testimony be sifted, as if it were given in a court of justice, on the side of the adverse party, the witness being subjected to a rigorous cross-examination. The result, it is confidently believed, will be an undoubting conviction of their integrity, ability and truth.<ref>http://www.bibleteacher.org/sgtestimony.htm</ref>}}
{{cquote|All that Christianity asks of men…is, that they would be consistent with themselves; that they would treat its evidences as they treat the evidence of other things; and that they would try and judge its actors and witnesses, as they deal with their fellow men, when testifying to human affairs and actions, in human tribunals. Let the witnesses [to the Resurrection] be compared with themselves, with each other, and with surrounding facts and circumstances; and let their testimony be sifted, as if it were given in a court of justice, on the side of the adverse party, the witness being subjected to a rigorous cross-examination. The result, it is confidently believed, will be an undoubting conviction of their integrity, ability and truth.<ref>http://www.bibleteacher.org/sgtestimony.htm</ref>}}
The choice to embrace Christianity was depicted by Lewis as the result of the writings of two religious authors, and discussions with three friends, each of whom Lewis cites as a critical influence upon his conversion. The first of these was the 19th century novelist , whose works, ''Phantastes'' and ''Lillith'', Lewis read at age nineteen and "''baptized his imagination, preparing him for a preternatural world beyond the strictly materialist one he had grown so tired of.''"<ref>'''Edwards, Dr. Bruce L.''', ''C. S. Lewis: Mere Christian'' reproduced at [http://personal.bgsu.edu/~edwards/blade.htm Bowling Green State University, Ohio] (1998)</ref>
[[C.S. Lewis]] converted from attheism to Christian and he was very much influenced by the writings of [[George MacDonald]] and [[G. K. Chesterton]].<ref>http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n23_v47/ai_17863106</ref> In ''Surprised by Joy'' Lewis says: "''In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.''"<ref>'''Lewis''', ''Surprised by Joy'' op cit.</ref>
==Atheism and the Foundation of Modern Science==
==Atheism and the Foundation of Modern Science==