Archive for August, 2006
More Astrology Follies
I'm highly skeptical of your claims about astrology, and I can cite multiple sources of double-blind tests showing that astrological readings fail utterly to predict anything about human beings or ...
Marriage
Polls have shown that Americans overwhelmingly oppose the recognition of any kind of non-traditional marriage. But let’s look at some of the results: couples who spend years together but who ...
Fuzzy thinking on religion - On Line Opinion - 24/8/2006
But it is all down-hill from there on. She celebrates trends towards non-belief in the West, arguing that this is a good thing. Many would disagree. The last century has ...
GM’s Macho Camaro
GM is releasing a redesigned 2008/2009 Camaro that's about as relevant to today's world as a Revolutionary War musket. This in the same week that Ford is slashing production 20% ...
We Love Our Violence, Just Don’t Make it Too Real
Billions of people every year pay money to see violent films and play violent video games, where extremely graphic bloodsport is portrayed. Horror and martial arts films seem to be ...
Blackmail
The secular West is strategically bankrupt. That much has become clear, at least during the Bush Administration, and possibly for much longer. The current cease-fire represents a stalemate in Lebanon, ...
The Baptist Standard :: The Newsmagazine of Texas Baptists
Religion and science are both pursuing truth. When truth and belief come into conflict, it’s better to change our belief to fit the truth than to change the truth to ...
Belief and Unbelief II
Belief and Unbelief II Another rambling, logically flawed critique of atheism.
FACE: Funding African Children’s Education, Inc. | facefund.org
FACE: Funding African Children's Education, Inc. | facefund.org
Annie Looby's Foundation
Simon & Schuster: Why We Believe What We Believe: Uncovering Our Biological Need for Meaning, Spirituality, and Truth (eBook)
Simon & Schuster: Why We Believe What We Believe: Uncovering Our Biological Need for Meaning, Spirituality, and Truth (eBook) Seems like another pseudoscientific attempt to justify religion based ...
Encounter with a Relativist
I never cease to be amazed at how the more unfounded a person's assertions are, the greater offense they seem to take when challenged or asked for documentation. I was ...
voiceofsandiego.org: Keith Taylor… Honesty and God
Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2006 | Last week I used one of the two most opprobrious words in the English language to describe myself. It's the one that does not start ...
Why Nature Doesn’t Need A God
Published originally as an answer to the following question for Vox Populi 15:
3. Christians like to point at something in nature and tell us how it proves the existence ...
Creationists Lose at the Ballot Box
The New York Times is reporting that:Kansas voters on Tuesday handed power back to moderates on the State Board of Education, setting the stage for a return of science ...
Oil Safari: A Tank of Gas, A World of Trouble
Trace the irony-laden journey of crude oil into American autos. This brilliant 4-part series by Pulitzer-prize-winning Paul Salopek of the Chicago Tribune should be REQUIRED READING for everyone who ...
The Really Big Show of “Morality”
I think hypocrisy is fundamental to the human condition just as other forms of deception are fundamental. Deception and cheating have strong evolutionary support. They have shown themselves to be ...