Monthly Archives: November 2011

Penn State Sex Scandal: “Losing Control Draws Me Toward All of This”

Joe Paterno has been fired as football coach at Penn State. It happened at about 10 pm yesterday. News reports say he was notified of his dismissal by phone. The situation evokes grief over all that has been lost, astonishment over the absurd disproportionality of it all, and of course outrage over crimes reportedly committed …

November 10, 2011 – 1:02 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (10)

Apologetics Search Engine

Just added to the sidebar: the Apologetics Search Engine: Christian scholarship on challenging issues, from the best sites around the Internet.

November 5, 2011 – 9:57 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Unfiled | Comments (0)

Welcome to Visitors From the “Thinking Atheist”

The “Thinking Atheist” page at Facebook has (ahem) honored me with a mention this week. I can’t claim that their comments there have been very thoughtful or enlightening, unfortunately. In hopes of doing better than that with them, I’ve invited their participants to bring their disagreements, disputes, and questions here; and I’m opening up this …

November 3, 2011 – 7:29 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Unfiled | Comments (106)

Evolution Defined ;)

Naturalistic Evolution (def.): the marvelous (presumed) capacity of nature to create the appearance of design, and to produce beings who have the ability to design and to detect design; but which itself has no ability to design, or if it does have that ability, it is forever undetectable. (This definition was inspired by a recent …

November 3, 2011 – 6:25 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , | Comments (60)

Stephen Law’s Incoherent “Evil God”

Stephen Law brought an “evil God” challenge with him to his debate with William Lane Craig, claiming that Craig’s arguments for God are next to worthless in that they could prove the existence of a supremely evil God just as well as a supremely good God. Practicing his typically admirable discipline, Craig refused even to …

November 2, 2011 – 10:12 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism | Tagged , , , , | Comments (137)

“Private Beliefs”—It’s All In How You Pose the Question

SteveK tipped us to an article that includes: Improbably, gay marriage and religion loom as issues in the Nov. 8 race for a part-time, $12,000-a-year clerk’s job in this town of gently sloping hills on Cayuga Lake. Voters are posed with the question: Where is the line between an elected official’s public duty and private …

November 2, 2011 – 2:49 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged , , , , | Comments (17)