Where the facts really stand
My two posts on Brendan Eich have attracted a commenter who wants us all to know he thinks homosexuality is a form of mental illness, and that therefore it is “tough love” to discriminate against them...
View ArticleEverything we need to know about God
I was a conservative, Bible-believing Christian until I was in my early forties, and as a believer, the one thing I wanted more than anything else was to understand God. Ironically, it’s only now,...
View ArticleKen Ham knows
This article is a bit old, but it recently popped up in one of my news feeds, and I had to smile a little. Time is actually a created entity. The first verse of the Bible reads: “In the beginning God...
View ArticleA wasted debunking
Via Ed Brayton’s blog last Halloween, we have this story of Raelians attempting to debunk the Roman Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation. In this study we tested the Catholic dogma of...
View ArticleUnderstanding the strategy
A lot of people were surprised when Republicans, including Sen. Jim Inhofe, voted in favor of an amendment explicitly stating that climate change is real and is not a hoax. They needn’t have been....
View ArticleDarwin was wrong (even though he was right)
In response to a recent proposal to have February 12 recognized nationally as “Darwin Day,” Ken Ham has issued a counter-call for that date to be hailed as “Darwin Was Wrong Day.” Ironically but...
View ArticleAnti-evolution bill nixed by lawmakers
Good news from South Dakota. As the Argus Leader reports: Senate Bill 114 was killed last week. More accurately, it was deferred by the state senate’s education committee to the “41st legislative day,”...
View ArticleHuman life begins at conception
I saw somebody’s new Facebook page the other day, with a picture of a small child touching a pregnant woman’s belly. The text overlaid on the image said, “Science proves that human life begins at...
View ArticleNPR, science, and God. (And magic.)
In a commentary posted on the NPR web site, Nancy Ellen Abrams writes: “God” is a word. If we define it, even subconsciously, as something that cannot exist in our universe, we banish the idea of God...
View Article10 “Unanswerable” questions #7
TodayChristian’s 7th “unanswerable” question is probably supposed to be a real poser. 7. Where did the universe come from? This one’s a favorite among certain believers because they think they...
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