Apologetics
Food Inc
Aussies should also take note. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.foodincmovie.com/ Food, Inc. exposes America’s industrialized food system and its effect on our environment, health, economy and workers’ rights. Learn about these issues and take action through the Hungry For Change cafeteria and check out the 10 Simple Tips for making positive changes in your eating habits. Learn more […]
N T Wright on Homosexuality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpQHGPGejKs&feature=PlayList&p=E462DCD55E05B03F& playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=3
Reports on Clergy Sexual Abuse
The Ferns Report and the Anglican research By Clare Pascoe (http://www.clergyabuseaustralia.org Clergy Sexual Abuse in Australia) July 2009 The results of two major moves with regard to clergy abuse have been made public in recent weeks. Firstly, the Irish report into abuse in the Catholic Church in Ireland, and secondly the Anglican (Australia) report on […]
Acid attacks scar eleven Christians
Acid attacks scar eleven Christians as 600 Muslims firebomb their village, vandalising at least 117 homes as police again fail to intervene: One household had their door smashed in and their walls painted with Islamic proclamations. On Tuesday 30 June, around 600 Muslims used petrol bombs to attack at least 117 Christian homes in Bahmani […]
Sharing our paradoxes: steps for a dialogue between Christians and Muslims
Herman Roborgh June 25, 2009 Introduction The dictionary explains the word paradox as follows: ‘A statement or proposition seemingly self-contradictory or absurd, and yet explicable as expressing a truth’.1 As with all religions, Christianity and Islam contain statements and customs that are contrasting or even apparently contradictory. For example, we hear about the transcendence and […]
Charles Darwin’s last paragraph
I’ve received several emails asking me for more of the context of the last sentence in “The Origin of Species”. Here is the complete last paragraph in the book (6th edition). Charles Darwin: On the Origin of Species Sixth edition, 1872. CHAP. XV.Conclusion.page 429 [QUOTE] It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with […]
Albert Einstein re ‘God’
“I cannot conceive of a god who rewards and punishes his creatures or has a will of the kind we experience in ourselves. Neither can I — nor would I want to — conceive of an individual that survives his physical death. Let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egotism, cherish such thoughts. I am […]
Creationism and Racism
I’m now more than ever convinced that behind a lot of the USA anti-evolution activity is deep-seated racism: people just don’t want to accept that Negroes are of the same species as those of European descent. I don’t know how I’ll be able to demonstrate this to general satisfaction, but time (probably lots of it) […]
Darwinism, Evolution and Racism
Question: I am a student teacher enrolled at the University of ______ and currently doing an assignment on racism. I came across an exchange on your website (http://jmm.org.au/articles/1520.htm ) which addresses racism toward Aborigines in the context of Darwin and evolutionary theory. The exchange mentions ‘Creation Ex Nihilo Vol 14, no. 2’ ‘Darwin’s Bodysnatchers’. Would […]
Human Rights
From a friend (June 10, 2009): Charter Rights No Wrongs :: what’s all the fuss about? | the issues in brief “I think there is no doubt the bill of rights of any form does transfer some power from politicians to judges”. – Father Frank Brennan, Chair of the National Human Rights Consultation, when interviewed […]
Categories
Articles may be reproduced in any medium, without applying for permission
(provided they are unedited, and retain the original author/copyright information - and a reference to this website :-)!
26,756 articles online.
Protected by Akismet, Digital Ninjas and an Ion Cannon. Really.
Blog with WordPress