Monthly Archives: June 2010

Darwin’s God: The “H” in Evolution

Cornelius Hunter points out serious inconsistencies in a paper by Nick Matzke, beginning with, Evolutionists say it is a fact that all of biology just happened to arise by accident, and they harshly criticize those who do not agree. But with amazing consistency their criticism is hypocritical—it applies to evolutionary thinking. Consider this recent paper …

June 30, 2010 – 6:59 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Comments Off

Free Will: Where’s the Real Illusion?

It never ceases to amaze me how some people will blithely burst forth with incoherent convictions of determinism. I acknowledge that Anthony R. Cashmore is an accomplished biologist holding an endowed chair at Penn. But that doesn’t mean he makes sense speaking of free will. The following comes from his January 2010 paper, The Lucretian …

June 26, 2010 – 4:48 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , | Comments (50)

“Daddy Was Only a Donor”

… Despite the latest propaganda in favor of a father-optional future, this study suggests two stubborn truths: Children long to know and be known by their biological fathers, and they are much more likely to thrive when they have their own father in their lives. [From Bradford Wilcox: Daddy Was Only a Donor: A Troubling …

June 26, 2010 – 11:42 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Comments (1)

“Obviously intending to make a scene”

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series The Dearborn Four

I saw it again this morning: Nabeel Qureshi and David Wood were “obviously intending to make a scene” when they were arrested for sharing Christ at Dearborn last week. That charge has been made on multiple blogs, none of which I care to link to. These blogs make it sound as if they went there …

June 25, 2010 – 6:34 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Islam | Comments (2)

Banned!

Banned: The word “angel” from a British hospital Parents from their kindergarten children’s end-of-year activities Parents’ participation in deciding whether their first-graders should be given condoms Christian literature from large portions of a Detroit suburb   Deprecated? “Freedom of Religion” in America (see also here)

June 24, 2010 – 1:36 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Miscellanea | Comments Off

“Darwinism ‘Requires Support of Suicide’”

Ideas, implications, consequences: With the corrective lens of evolutionary theory, the view that human life is infinitely valuable suddenly seems like a vast and unjustified over-valuation of human life. This is because Darwin’s theory undermines the traditional reasons for thinking human life might have infinite value: the image-of-God thesis and the rationality thesis…. But if …

June 22, 2010 – 5:50 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices, Origins and Science | Comments (4)