When I read about prosperity-preaching churches, my response is: "If I were not on the inside of Christianity, I wouldn’t want in." In other words, if this is the message of Jesus, no thank you.
Among the many unsubstantiated accusations that author Dan Brown made in his bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code is one regarding the "unoriginality" of Christianity. Allegedly, "Nothing in Christianity is original"75.
In logic, the Law of Teleology affirms that "where there is design, there must be a designer"—a point conceded by infidels (see Ricci, 1986, p. 190). Thus, even unbelievers have recognized that the design argument is a weapon to be reckoned with in the arsenal of apologetics.
