Blind Evolution
How could an unthinking process steer biology towards something so unimaginable as sight?
A man born blind- an intelligent, rational, thinking man who tries to understand color- cannot even begin to imagine color. He can’t even slightly imagine what the world looks like. It’s beyond his conception. And yet, we are to believe that the blind process of evolution- the unthinking, irrational, impersonal forces of nature- was able,... Continue Reading
Why the Good News Turns Bad Without Adam
It makes God bad and disembowels our salvation
Let’s put it this way: what if sin did not enter the world at a particular point in time, with a real, historic first sin? Well then we have to say that God must have created a sinful, fallen world. Sin must be a part of what God considers ‘very good’ (Genesis 1:31). Now either... Continue Reading
NAACP, Hispanics Fight Government Intervention
Working together to stop the government's ban on beverages in New York
The absolute absurdity of government telling business owners the number of ounces they can or cannot sell warrants a much longer comment than this blog allows, but America beware: this type of intervention is coming to a town near you. Politicians, yet again, have put themselves in the seat of omniscience to tell the rest... Continue Reading
Empowered Women in The Religious Right
What are progressive Christians doing in order to help women thrive in our society?
The truth is that young women are empowered in the Religious Right. They are groomed and they are educated to join the movement against gender equality. Their power can be reduced to their biological functions—in the sense that the core of their fight and causes tend to be focused on pro-life issues and protecting their... Continue Reading
The Bristol Palin Effect vs. The Roe Effect
Is the continuing rise in out-of-wedlock birth rates is an unintended consequence of the pro-life movement’s modest success at stigmatizing abortion?
But there’s good reason to think Roe itself was instrumental in creating the kind of sexual culture that makes the Bristol Palin dilemma as commonplace as it’s become. While the frequent use of abortion can limit out-of-wedlock births, that is, the sudden mass availability of abortion almost certainly had the opposite effect — mostly by changing the obligations associated with... Continue Reading
Feminist Says Baby Is “A Life Worth Sacrificing”
Her argument is simply that some people’s lives are more important than other people’s lives
All life is not equal. That’s a difficult thing for liberals like me to talk about, lest we wind up looking like death-panel-loving, kill-your-grandma-and-your-precious-baby storm troopers. Yet a fetus can be a human life without having the same rights as the woman in whose body it resides. She’s the boss. Her life and what is... Continue Reading
Economic Martyrdom and the Great Irony of Progressivism
If your religious beliefs happen to clash with the coercive methods and materialistic aims of this administration, blood shall be spilt on the altar of “access"
As we continue to see Christian business leaders refusing to bow to King Nebuchadnezzar’s Golden Image—choosing economic martyrdom over secularist conformity—the more this administration’s limited, debased, and deterministic view of man and society will reveal itself. Through it all, even as the furnace grows hotter and hotter, Christians should remember that a fourth man stands... Continue Reading
Are We Alone Together?
Has digital communication changed our human relationships?
Take my cell phone. I often instinctively carry it from room to room as I move around my house because it feels weird to be without it. Once (this was a really bad decision), because I had the phone with me, I took a call five minutes before my wife served an Asian dish she’d... Continue Reading
A Transcendentalist Moment
Thoughts on the inaugural invocation offered by Myrlie Evers-Williams
This is what Americans do when they invent religion. They do not turn outward to divine order but inward to individualistic realization. Cosmic Oversouls, self-help, and a progressive mythos can be found even today in scientology and The Secret. Most Americans are not militant secularists. Instead, they set themselves up as their own spiritual authorities... Continue Reading
Do Those Who Deny that Man-Made Global Warming is a Serious Threat Practice Pseudoscience?
Thoughts on the ETS conference on Creation Care
I also thought Moo and Bauckham should have answered why they believed certain scientists over others. Bauckham dismissed Beisner’s references to other Scientists as practicing pseudo-science. I think this is an unfair, unwarranted, and unproven accusation. If Moo and Bauckham make an argument in the fields of Old or New Testament or Theology, they expect... Continue Reading
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