Monthly Archives: August 2011

Riots in England: Spiritual Collapse and a Prediction Tragically Fulfilled

Thirty-two years ago Josh McDowell addressed students at Campus Crusade for Christ’s Institute for Biblical Studies with a sobering message. Obviously humans have been inflicting violence on one another for as long as we’ve been around, but Josh had a prediction to add to that shared knowledge: that the nature of that violence was about …

August 15, 2011 – 12:51 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, Life and Choices, The Faith, Thinking Christianly | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (10)

“Cerebration » Blog Archive » Crises in Somalia and Kenya”

“The United Nations estimates it will take $1.4 billion to save the lives of some 12 million people across the horn of Africa in Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya and Djibouti. The emergency is expected to persist for at least three to four months, possibly peaking in August and September.” [From Cerebration » Blog Archive » Crises …

August 15, 2011 – 9:12 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Deep Social Change, Ethics | Tagged | Comments Off

The Need for an Informed Worldview (2)

When I wrote on the need for an informed worldview a couple weeks ago, the discussion got off to a good start, but then it got strangely diverted into geocentrism and the age of the earth—topics that are tangential at best to the original post. So I’m going to do something I’ve never done before. …

August 15, 2011 – 8:12 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices, Thinking Christianly | Comments (46)

The Same Arguments for Thor?

Someone on a discussion forum wrote this about my divine hiddenness argument for Christianity: I could mount those same arguments for Thor, the Norse god of Thunder. He real? If I were interested in registering for this forum, I’d ask him to show how he would do that. It would be entertaining, at least. Anybody want to …

August 14, 2011 – 9:17 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences | Comments (5)

Stage collapse kills 4 in Indiana

I’m in shock—this hits close to home. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A stage collapsed during a powerful storm at the Indiana State Fair on Saturday, sending steel scaffolding into the terrified crowd below and killing at least four people among fans awaiting a performance by the country band Sugarland. [From Stage collapse kills 4 ahead of …

August 14, 2011 – 8:23 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Unfiled | Comments Off

Jerry Coyne: Either Culpable Ignorance, Or Else … ?

Update again, 10/20/11: I bid a hearty welcome to visitors from Dr. Coyne’s website. (I appreciate the link, Dr. Coyne.) He seems to have a policy of not allowing my comments to remain on his site, except for those that he can twist to suit his own purposes, as I have indicated in my earlier …

August 4, 2011 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, New Atheism | Tagged , , | Comments (134)