Saturday Spam Fun

I’ve decided to make my “Fun With Spam Comments” a Saturday feature. I don’t get good ones every week, but when I do, I’ll compile them for the weekend. I promise you these are exact quotes. Punctuation criticism from a credible source: Although My partner and i honestly such as this submit, I believe there …

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January 21, 2012 – 6:00 am Posted in Just For Fun Tagged , Post Comments (0) Recent Blog Comments For primary navigation click "Show Menu" above. For sidebar material (About, Links, Subscriptions, Blogroll, Copyright, ...) scroll down and click "Further Information."

Can Science Disprove Free Will?

Premiss 1. If libertarian free will (LFW) exists, it operates such that natural law does not determine its course or its actions, nor is it a matter of chance. (Definition of libertarian free will) Premiss 2. Science’s competence (meaning the empirical, physical sciences) is strictly in the study of events and entities in conjunction with, …

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January 20, 2012 – 6:00 am Posted in Origins and Science Tagged , Post Comments (81) Recent Blog Comments For primary navigation click "Show Menu" above. For sidebar material (About, Links, Subscriptions, Blogroll, Copyright, ...) scroll down and click "Further Information."

Creation: The Glory!

“The heavens declare the glory of God,” says Psalm 19:1, “and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.” I’m not sure my son at 20 years of age has ever really seen the night sky at its best, in good conditions and far from city lights. His younger sister probably has, from a mountain conference center …

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January 19, 2012 – 5:16 pm Posted in The Faith, Worldviews Tagged , , , , , , , Post Comments (15) Recent Blog Comments For primary navigation click "Show Menu" above. For sidebar material (About, Links, Subscriptions, Blogroll, Copyright, ...) scroll down and click "Further Information."

Faulty Stair-Steps and Rubber Crutches

Greg Koukl of Stand to Reason posted a video yesterday that I think I can relate to more than most. He called it “Rubber Crutches” (see below). I have a ruptured tendon in my left foot, and I’m scheduled for surgery on February 16, the earliest possible date on the doctor’s schedule. I’ve been on …

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January 18, 2012 – 10:09 am Posted in The Faith Tagged , , Post Comments (0) Recent Blog Comments For primary navigation click "Show Menu" above. For sidebar material (About, Links, Subscriptions, Blogroll, Copyright, ...) scroll down and click "Further Information."

I’m Cow-fused

Okay, now I’m confused. A few days ago I wrote Listen! You’ll Hear It! (Reductionism Fails), with music as the main theme. Now I need someone to help me figure out how that works alongside this: Hat Tip: Swiss Miss via Makoto Fujimura

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Syncretism at Home

My monthly column is up now at BreakPoint: Syncretism (noun): “the amalgamation or attempted amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought.” I first heard of syncretism in a seminary course on missions that I took many years ago. It plagues missionaries across the world. New peoples in new places come to faith in …

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January 17, 2012 – 6:49 pm Posted in Religions, Worldviews Tagged , , Post Comments (8) Recent Blog Comments For primary navigation click "Show Menu" above. For sidebar material (About, Links, Subscriptions, Blogroll, Copyright, ...) scroll down and click "Further Information."

Lessons from MLK

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s debt to theology and natural law: Those who praise the modern civil rights movement, but who also want to keep morality and theology absent from public discourse, seldom mention King’s reliance on natural law in his justly famous letter. Scholars such as the late John Rawls were at great pains to …

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January 16, 2012 – 6:30 pm Posted in Deep Social Change Tagged , , , , , , , Post Comments (2) Recent Blog Comments For primary navigation click "Show Menu" above. For sidebar material (About, Links, Subscriptions, Blogroll, Copyright, ...) scroll down and click "Further Information."

Creation Out of Nothing

God’s work in this world is marked by at least ten crucial turning points, sovereign acts of God that make all the difference for you and for me. The creation of the universe The creation of man and woman in God’s image The Fall God’s calling of a people for himself God’s ongoing self-revelation The …

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January 16, 2012 – 3:44 pm Posted in Bible, Origins and Science, Religions, Worldviews Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , Post Comments (6) Recent Blog Comments For primary navigation click "Show Menu" above. For sidebar material (About, Links, Subscriptions, Blogroll, Copyright, ...) scroll down and click "Further Information."

The Power of the Ancient Heritage

Combine the egalitarian politics, easy morals, and relative affluence and social stability of recent decades, and few people in the modern secular world are looking for a Lord or Savior in a sense the ancients and medievals would have understood. Add to that the fact that “Jesus is Lord!” has become the expression of a …

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Sam Harris and Lawrence Krauss Talk About Nothing, and Make About That Much Sense

Lawrence Krauss says to Sam Harris, Indeed, the question, “Why is there something rather than nothing?” which forms the subtitle of the book [his recent A Universe From Nothing], is often used by the faithful as an unassailable argument that requires the existence of God, because of the famous claim, “out of nothing, nothing comes.” …

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January 13, 2012 – 12:13 pm Posted in New Atheism, Origins and Science Tagged , , , , , , , Post Comments (4) Recent Blog Comments For primary navigation click "Show Menu" above. For sidebar material (About, Links, Subscriptions, Blogroll, Copyright, ...) scroll down and click "Further Information."