Angels seem to be beating atheism when it comes to popular belief in the U.S. Actually, not just angels, but hearing from God, witnessing miracles, being healed supernaturally, and other divine phenomenon. Frankly, this astounds me, considering what sort of rhetoric is being bandied about by the intelligentsia of our day. Apparently, the kind of [...]
We’re going to take a little detour on the blog today because I’ve been taken to task, and perhaps rightly so, for my sloppy use of language in a post I wrote a while back concerning what I perceived as a paradox in the atheistic worldview. And just to avoid yet another round of confusion, [...]
I appreciate the comments many folks have made the past few days here extolling the virtues of atheism — unfortunately I have neither the time nor the wherewithal to continue in point by point refutation of various truth claims. It’s not that I’m not able to, it’s simply that I don’t see a good reason [...]
Update: I have written a response to criticism of this article here, so please do not read this post without also reading my updated response which clarifies many of my more emphatic statements.
I have many thoughts about the recent exchange I’ve been having lately on this blog and elsewhere. Mostly, I’m appalled by the schoolyard [...]
Shalini over at Scientia Natura responded to my previous post and subsequent inline comment attempting to refute both my off-the-cuff as well as carefully considered remarks on the whole idea of atheists opposing faith in the supernatural realm and in God on essentially moral grounds. I will now respond not to all of her individual [...]
Via Teltic Thoughts, I read some choice bits from this blog post by a self-described “evangelical atheist” who feels it’s her Dawkins-given duty to rid the world of “religion” and replace it with religion atheism. Basically, the point of the post is that we are in a war between people who believe in rationality and [...]
Seems to me it’s pretty ironic to have a contest for people to design the successor to the popular Darwin fish sticker. Why can’t they just use a computer algorithm to simulate random mutations + natural selection in order for a successor to emerge? After all, “nature” has “designed” so many wondrous and mind-boggling structures [...]
Just read an excellent point by DaveScot over at Uncommon Descent, and it basically goes like this:
If evolutionists were forced to adhere to truth in advertising, they’d have to rename random mutation and natural selection to random degradation and natural deselection. (my wording, not DaveScot’s…)
I’ve been saying this for years. The concept of natural selection [...]
Man, the origins issue sure is heating up in the public square — as if it weren’t red-hot already. On the one hand, you have the God-defying materialist crowd whose de facto leader is most certainly Richard Dawkins (though of course he has many allies). On the other hand, you have the anti-materialist, Intelligent Design [...]
