Apologetics
Creation Science
A friend, Ken Smith (university lecturer in Mathematics and other subjects) wrote: The formation of the Creation Science Foundation goes back to around 1977 if my memory is correct. It was certainly well under way by the beginning of 1981. In my first lecture to students in MA100, Introduction to Applied Mathematics, that year I […]
Why Do People Join Religious Cults?
Jude 1-25 Tonight we’re beginning a new series of talks on religious cults and non-Christian religions. You might ask why we should spend valuable time doing this, and it’s a good question. Australian society is multicultural and pluralist, recognising and embracing a wide variety of ethnic cultures within its structure, and affirming the right of […]
Social Capital
July 26 2003 Social capital is beating a retreat from economic fundamentalism, writes Ross Gittins. The Productivity Commission’s release of a research paper on “social capital” this week has met with raised eyebrows. What are the hardest of the hard-nosed economic rationalists doing dabbling in such a warm and fuzzy topic? Social capital is a […]
Gay Bishop
ANGLICAN COMMUNION NEWS SERVICE ACNS 3531 | USA | 1 AUGUST 2003 Legislative Committee approves ratification of Canon Gene Robinson by Matthew Davies A special hearing before the committee on the consecration of Canon Gene Robinson as Bishop-Coadjutor of New Hampshire took place this morning at the 74th General Convention of the Episcopal Church, USA, […]
The New United States … Not So Much A Nation As A Religion
July 31 2003 Self-appointed as God’s chosen people, Americans refuse to believe they can fail in Iraq, writes George Monbiot. ‘The death of Uday and Qusay,” the commander of the ground forces in Iraq told reporters on Wednesday, “is definitely going to be a turning point for the resistance.” Well, it was a turning point, […]
Tiny Hand Of Hope!
“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb” Ps 139:12. A picture began circulating in November. It should be “The Picture of the Year,” or perhaps, “Picture of the Decade.” It won’t be. In fact, unless you obtained a copy of the paper, you probably will never see it. […]
Conversational Terrorism
Conversational Terrorism ———————————————————————-> All of the techniques listed in this document have actually been witnessed, told to us by someone else, or dreamed up. They are described in first person for clarity of motive. The intent of detailing and naming these insidious tactics is so that the reader may AVOID USING THEM, to quickly recognize […]
Reasoning
“Any man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believes things only because his pastor says so, or the Assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy. There is not any burden that some would gladlier post off to […]
Popular Apologetics: Promising More Than It Should?
Quodlibet Journal: Volume 5 Number 1, January 2003 http://www.Quodlibet.net © Kerry Colling The majority of popular apologetic approaches appeal to some form of evidentialist theory, which says that if enough evidence is presented in favor of Christianity the unbeliever, and the skeptic would be required by the dictates of rationality to accept it as true. […]
Harry Potter: Magic Vs. Jesus (More)
Hi, I am writing concerning your article on about Harry Potter on page http://jmm.org.au/articles/1121.htm The story you have posted was originally posted on http://www.theonion.com – a Satirical news site. More on this can be found at Apologetics Index: http://www.gospelcom.net/apologeticsindex/p03.html#hoax or from yourdontsay.org: http://www.youdontsay.org/Potter.htm God bless, ~~~ Note from a web-friend: > Hi Rowland, just catching […]
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