A battle has broken out in the genteel world of Baptist theology over the proper understanding of the book of Genesis. It began with the publication in 2009 of the book The End of Christianity: Finding a Good God in an Evil World by William Dembski. Dembski’s name will be a familiar to those who …
Monthly Archive: October 2010
Oct 21 2010
Physicists and climate change
In 2007, the American Physical Society issued a short but strong statement stating that the evidence for global warming is incontrovertible. It is no secret that there is a very small but vocal minority within the APS membership that disputes the idea that global warming has a significant human-based cause and who were upset with …
Oct 21 2010
Lynn Anderson sings I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
I always thought that the lyrics must have emerged as the result of a contest to see who could pack the most number of clichés, trite rhymes, corny ideas, and hackneyed metaphors into a single song. “Smile for a while and let’s be jolly, love shouldn’t be so melancholy”? Really? I was astounded when it …
Oct 21 2010
Faith healing and me
In yesterday’s post and earlier I have expressed my fury with parents who let their children suffer and die because they withheld medical care, believing that their faith will heal the child. P. Z. Myers documents some other abuses inflicted by parents on children. Such acts are nothing short of criminal because they sacrifice the …
Oct 20 2010
Ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the occupied territories
Juan Cole describes what is going on in the occupied territories as Israeli settlers set fire to girls schools and mosques, destroy olive groves, take over land, and dump their sewage on Palestinian vineyards, all in the effort to force Palestinians out.
Oct 20 2010
Apology for comment deletion
In responding to a sudden wave of spam comments, I accidentally deleted some genuine recent comments. My apologies.
Oct 20 2010
Why do they hate us?
In an article titled It’s the Occupation, Stupid, Robert Pape of the University of Chicago, who has been studying terrorism in many countries for a long time, says that the argument that we hear that terrorists hate us for who we are and what we represent, as formulated bt then president George W. Bush that …
Oct 20 2010
How religions mainstream insanity
Some time ago, I wrote a post titled Suffer little children about children who are allowed to suffer and even die because of the religious beliefs of their parents. I mentioned the tragic case of a woman Ria Ramkissoon with a child named Javon who in 2006 joined a Christian religious group whose leader, who …
Oct 19 2010
Born to Add
Sesame Street music parodies are the best, so clever and good natured and yet educational. Here is Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run being given the treatment.
Oct 19 2010
Pope Joan trailer
Apparently the German film about the female pope may get a US release soon. Here’s the trailer (thanks to reader Norm).
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