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What Can We Learn from Creationists’ 22 Questions/Messages?
011 years
After the debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham, Matt Stopera, of BuzzFeed, had self-proclaimed creationists write a question or message for the other side. The article featured images of the people holding their question or message.[1] Several people have written articles, responding directly to each of these 22 questions and statements.[2][3] Although I would have […]
Does Evolution Prove There Is No God?
012 years
As a scientist I claim no new proofs, no revolutionary data, no stunning insight into nature that can tip the balance in one direction or another. But I do claim that to a believer, even in the most traditional sense, evolutionary biology is not at all the obstacle we often believe it to be. – […]
“Don’t Think. Pray.”
012 years
While vacationing with my family on the Big Island in the Hawaiian Islands, we drove past a sign, hanging on a cross, that said, “Don’t Think. Pray.” Actually, we drove past it many times, as it was on a main highway that traversed the West coastline, Highway 11 around mile marker 109. After seeing the […]
Intelligent Design?
012 years
Some proponents of Intelligent Design use the eye as an example of God’s intelligent design that is irreducibly complex, which had been created intact as it is today. No component of the eye, by itself, could have been of any use. Therefore, evolution could not have produced an eye, only a creator with a design plan. […]
Just When I Thought No One Could Be Crazier Than Sarah Palin …
014 years
… there then comes along Christine O’Donnell. What bugs me about people like Sarah Palin and Christine O’Donnell is not that they wear their religion on their sleeves, but that they voice their non-scientific beliefs as if they were truth and science fact as if it were false. O’Donnell, on Bill Maher’s former show “Politically Incorrect,” […]
Closet Atheist
014 years
by Roger Gibby
in Testing Faith
I think that I have been an atheist all of my life and never could admit it. I finally realized that I was an atheist about two years ago. It is ironic that a person of faith helped me realize that I had completely lost mine. My childhood dream had always been to be an […]