Apologetics
To a Creationist: the laws of physics
The constancy of radioactive decay rates isn’t an assumption, as you (and other creationists) fondly believe. Creationists simply don’t know enough science to be able to decide when something is an assumption, and when it is a deduction from some other law. One of the fundamental principles of modern physics is that the laws of […]
Christians are as bad as the rest?
http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2005/001/3.8.html ” This, alas, is roughly the situation of Western or at least American evangelicalism today. Scandalous behavior is rapidly destroying American Christianity. By their daily activity, most “Christians” regularly commit treason. With their mouths they claim that Jesus is Lord, but with their actions they demonstrate allegiance to money, sex, and self-fulfillment. The findings […]
The Peoples of the Earth
If we could shrink the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following: There would be: 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south 8 Africans 52 would be female 48 would be […]
Conservatives Pick Soft Target: A Cartoon Sponge
NYTimes.com > Washington By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK Published: January 20, 2005 ASHINGTON, Jan. 19 – On the heels of electoral victories barring same-sex marriage, some influential conservative Christian groups are turning their attention to a new target: the cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants. “Does anybody here know SpongeBob?” Dr. James C. Dobson, the founder of Focus […]
Miracles and rewards
I googled ‘reward’ and ‘miracles’ and ‘skeptics’ and noted the following. But somewhere there’s quite a large reward offered by a skeptics’ society (in Britain) for scientific proof one one miracle. Anyone know anything about that? Original headline: Priest offers $5000 to disprove miracles of Lourdes A Sydney Catholic priest has challenged sceptics of religious […]
Are earthquakes evil?
is an avalache evil? is a mudslide evil? is a tsunami evil? is a tree falling evil? is a pile of humus (or a lightning strike) – creating a fire which burns down a forest evil? or more to the point – is the shifting of tectonic plates in someway important to the earth and […]
Creationist doctorates
One netfriend: I am not a Creation Scientist. However, I have read articles written by quite a number of them and watched videos made by the Creationism movement. Among present-day Scientific Creationists there are some who have three Ph.D’s in up to three scientific disciplines. You can say 1a) “There is no God!” or 1b) […]
Church ends taboo on mercy killings
· Archbishop’s aide signals new approach · ‘Compassionate case’ for voluntary euthanasia Jamie Doward, social affairs editor Sunday January 16, 2005 Observer The Church of England took a radical step towards backing ‘mercy killing’ of terminally ill patients last night after one of its leading authorities said that there was a ‘strong compassionate case’ for […]
Christian Ethicists Advocate Just Peacemaking as Corollary to Just War
Almost two years have passed since the start of the Iraq war, but war, peace, and nation-building still dominated the debate among Christian ethicists at their annual meeting this January. In a significant shift, many scholars endorsed taking a proactive approach to peacemaking rather than merely shunning war. At their 2003 meeting, two months prior […]
Onward the new Christian soldier
January 17, 2005 Evangelists who hold the Bible as literal truth are reshaping the face of modern Christianity, writes Paul Sheehan. Hundreds of millions of people believe the Bible is the literal truth. God created the world in six days, 6000 years ago. Evolution is wrong. Soon these beliefs will be exhibited in a state-of-the-art, […]
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