ILLUSTRATION & DESIGN
MY TAKE ON REALITY...
(or: Reconfirming beauty as a God-given gift) - Tinus de Bruyn
Why do we like birdsong? Why do women like flowers? Why do men like beautiful women? No, it is not just some learned behaviour, or some western cultural phenomenon, as the twentieth century art critics would have it. Instead, the desire for beauty is as universal as song, dance and picture making. Aesthetics are part of our make-up, and even in this commercial age, it finds a market. The fashionable trend to deny the existence of a universal principle of aesthetics not only flies in the face of modern culture, but has also became an excuse for immorality and a way to deny God... READ MORE
The Bloopers of Blending
Why evolution and creation can never meet -Tinus de Bruyn
Many Christian authors happily blend the theories of evolution and creation. This way, they hope to keep everyone happy and win some people for Christ. Unfortunately, good motives are not enough; a theory has to deal with the whole spectrum of its implications. Blend theories fail in at least two ways... READ MORE
When conservative is not liberal:
Who do you call conservative, and why? - Tinus de Bruyn
People like to class Christians as conservatives. Creationists especially, are considered extremely conservative. By contrast, atheists, naturalists and cynics are automatically associated with “liberalism,” as though they have discovered some greater freedom. But the whole idea of classing people as conservative versus liberal is really a misnomer; a strawman at best, designed to insult, and not a reasonable proposition... READ MORE