Sometimes I wonder if there are not more important things for me to be concerning myself with than Darwinism vs ID vs Creationism vs whatever. Afterall, the core message of the Gospel is much more important than the physical processes of how we got here. The majority of my Christian friends are content to accept [...]
I got such a touching and moving email today which inspires me to post much more often…
Having read your web site and this conversation I cannot imagine a more deluded person I have ever come across in this world. What happened to you as you grew up? did your parents drop you on [...]
Continue reading about Conversations with militant atheists, part I
Found this gem of a quote by Katie Price (aka Jordan) in Heat magazine…
Take away politics and religion for world peace. I don’t know anything about any of it, but it just seems to cause problems.
Our office rest area has a mixture of electrical engineering magazines, and trash like Heat and Now! Nobody reads the [...]
People often mock the bits of the Old Testament Law that don’t make sense to them. Even many Christians who want to reinterpret what the Bible says on current controversial issues such as homosexuality often resort to depicting Old Testament commands and prohibitions as being superstitious and irrational in nature.
I don’t believe that a Christian [...]
A quote by agnostic cosmologist Robert Jastrow:
A sound explanation may exist for the explosive birth of our Universe; but if it does, science cannot find out what the explanation is. The scientist’s pursuit of the past ends in the moment of creation. This is an exceedingly strange development, unexpected by all but the theologians. They [...]
David Berlinski just became my favourite commentator on the Evolution controversy. For those who haven’t heard of him, he describes himself as an agnostic Jewish mathematician. First I stumbled across this copy of his well known article from Commentary magazine, which gives a general and entertaining critique of Darwinian Evolution. But that is nothing compared [...]
It’s interesting how people have responded to the revelations about Ted Haggard. There are those who are always delighted to see a Christian fall from grace, but it seems most people have a certain amount of sympathy for the guy, even if they completely disagree with his religion and his support for Bush, and even [...]
People who say life is an accident, a result of impersonal random processes, and nothing special in the cosmos, often criticise what they see as the arrogance and naivity of those who believe the opposite. The logic they seem to follow is that if an idea (such as life having purpose) is desirable, then the [...]
Once again I am in awe of G.K. Chesterton, having stumbled across this excerpt from his book Orthodoxy (1908), where he dismantles some of the arguments of Nietzsche:
This, incidentally, is almost the whole weakness of Nietzsche, whom some are representing as a bold and strong thinker. No one will deny that he was a poetical [...]
My post on Dawkins got linked on ravingatheist.com, so I checked it out and noticed a quote by G.K. Chesterton at the top of the page…
A cosmos one day being rebuked by a pessimist replied, “How can you who revile me consent to speak by my machinery? Permit me to reduce you to nothingness and [...]
