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Sacred Cows
110 years
Recently, I was discussing, with a friend, the facts concerning the 911 Truthers’ conspiracy theory. As I countered his arguments, he claimed that I was holding onto “sacred cows,” as I would not acknowledge the “evidence” that WTC7 could not have come down without demolition explosives. What struck me, with this statement, was that, although, his […]
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 […]
Why Do You Care Whether People Say Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
012 years
As December rolled around this year, it was the same, as past years, with some beating of the drum that Christianity is under attack, by the usage of Happy Holidays. Some are making it vocal, on the internet, that they don’t say Happy Holidays, but say Merry Christmas. I have no problem with that and […]
How Did the People I Knew 20 to 30 Years Ago Become So Conservative?
014 years
In the last six months, I have reacquainted myself with people who I knew twenty to thirty years ago and almost all of them are very conservative in politics and thought (whereas, if you haven’t read any of my blogs, I am a very rational liberal, who thrives on scientific knowledge and equality for all […]
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,” […]
Interchangeability of “I Know” and “I Believe”
014 years
by Roger Gibby
in Testing Faith
You would think that one would not have a problem separating what they know from what they believe. But Christians, when discussing their faith, will use these terms, perhaps unknowingly, to mean the same thing. I was witness to one such bizarre discussion this last Christmas. The discussion started out with the Christian believer stating […]