tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52543693409113271002012-02-17T18:55:24.121-08:00The Weblog Home of a soon-to-be Philanthropist.Timothyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02826626472599654966noreply@blogger.comBlogger381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5254369340911327100.post-14618380509535209012011-11-14T13:26:00.000-08:002011-11-14T14:06:25.134-08:00

So I'm going to talk about living like Jesus, or living as a Christian. By this of course I mean for you to imagine a person who really is living like Jesus, helping the poor, encouraging and comforting others, and aiding the oppressed and the downtrodden. Now as you consider this, you might think that one need not be a Christian to be good. You may even be an atheist. But I'm sure you would

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According to Medical Publications .org, Theanine will:Relieve stress and anxietyLower high blood pressureCardiovascular supportNeuro-protectionAnd improve ImmunityBut is this a new drug? It can be taken as a supplement, but Theanine actually is naturally occurring in tea. In fact Lipton black tea boasts 10 mg of Theanine for every 8 oz serving. If you were to buy it as a supplement, it costs

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Sometimes I hear people asking why God would allow natural evils to occur, like Earthquakes or Tornadoes, or Tsunamis. But none of those are intrinsically evil. It is only the suffering and death that we experience with them. I believe that is necessary as a demonstration of the effects and consequences of the presence of Evil in the world, (which is necessary for Free-will). In absence of

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An interesting article I came across lately had some poll results that some might find surprising. I think I have spoken before, if not on this blog then certainly elsewhere about my thoughts that the church would be renewed by this falling away.I recall quoting C. S. Lewis before as saying:There are people (a great many of them) who are slowly ceasing to be Christians but who still call

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Different Positions On How God May Relate to Those Lacking Revelation1 Exclusivism (restrictivism, fundamentalism) - All religions are different and only one is true - One can only be saved by hearing and accepting the message of Jesus in this life. - Sharp distinction between general revelation and special revelation - Christians have little or nothing to learn from others (at least with

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With the recent Texas School Board Decision to do away with "strengths and weaknesses language" we have come across a lot of titles like this "Science Setback For Texas Schools" around now while I agree that doing away with such points is a Science setback, the articles take a different perspective. This is due to the fact that the actual vote was not strictly in favor of, but tied to maintain

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Here is an intresting abstract from Science and the Christian Belief:Evidence from the Bible and astronomy suggests that the Star of Bethlehem was a comet which was visible in 5 BC, and described in ancient Chinese records. A comet uniquely fits the description in Matthew of a star which newly appeared, which travelled slowly through the sky against the star background and which 'stood over'

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For those of us who have taken Psych 101, we all know the name of Phineas Gage. The man who took a pole through his head, altering his personality which has been used to support claims that one's personality is fundamentally decided by the frontal cortex of the brain.We hear accounts of how Gage's friends claimed he was“no longer Gage”And that he was suddenly without any social inhibitions.

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Many times in response to claims of Irreducible Complexity or Fine Tuning or other arguments toward design, the anti-teleologist will pick an example of what he or she thinks is one of poor design, and argue that this refutes the idea that there is evidence of design in the universe. This argument many times is almost completely irrelevant to the issues being discussed, but the teleologist, (

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The (former) Raving Atheist has become the Raving Theist. I blogged a little over 2 months ago that he claimed to have converted, but expressed skepticism that it may have been some lame joke. Months later he remains, resolutely, a raving theist. Three years ago, I promoted and appeared in the atheist documentary “The God Who Wasn’t There,” dedicated to the proposition that Jesus never

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Over at UD and Telic Thoughts, a recent study has been cited with some particularly interesting results. The report was written by Comres not Theos in order to avoid bias, and they had some interesting things to say regarding adherence to ID in the UK.“Despite the decrease of religious practice in the UK and the recent media coverage of issues of science and faith, there is still a core of people

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Near Death Experiences have been discussed for a long time as evidence for an afterlife, or a soul, or something like that, in the sense that one can have consious thought after what appears to be a lack of electrical activity in the brain, as well as different sensations and experiences like the experience of floating above one's body near the ceiling of a medical room and watching operations

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Apparently from several studies:Weekly Religious Attendance Nearly As Effective As Statins And Exercise In Extending LifeGo To Church And Breathe EasierReligious Attendance Linked To Lower Mortality In ElderlyPrevalence Of Religious Congregations Affects Mortality RatesResearch Shows Religion Plays A Major Role In Health, LongevityThere however are several individuals who urge caution on the

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3 Part Rebuttle to "The God Who Wasn't There".Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.A Scholarly Rebuttle to the Zeitgeist. (Not that it deserves it)Skeptics Annotated Bible Refuted In Kind.Dan Barker's Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead? Decimated.

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Regarding an earlier post I made concerning the Miracle of the Sun, I decided it would be better to revisit this due to the discussions I have had elsewhere, for the sake of rebuttle and to further illustrate my points.1 The Miracle was really a sundog.The Following was quoted from Wikipedia:However, there are marked problems with the sundog theory because the meteorological conditions at the

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The Epicurean arguement:Is God willing to prevent evil but not able? Then is he impotent. Is God able but not willing? Then is He malevolent. Is God both able and willing? Whence then is evil? I think this is clearly a false dilemma because the author simply presumes that there cannot be a reason that a benevolent God would allow evil to exist. But what if God were an opportunist, and that Evil

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See his Brilliant Defense here.

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Barack ObamaJohn Mcain

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Little Green Footballs has been claiming to be a conservative blog site. But recently there have been a lot of disturbingly liberal sounding rhetoric and seem to have gotten very vitrolic recently. A friend of mine did a little digging, and pointed out to me that some of the earlier posts seem to sound exceedingly close to that of a San Francisco Liberal.Note this post for example, which refers

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This is ridiculous, over at listserve.com, there is a list of 10 books that screwed up the world.It has all your usual contenders, Mein Kampf, The Communist Manifesto, The Prince, but apparently on par with all of these is DARWIN'S BLACK BOX!I am calling Godwin's Law on this one. But as I see it, this is a good development. More people are likely to read anything labeled "dangerous" and it

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D'Souza seems to have been pretty busy lately trashing atheists left and right. But it seems the main man of the New Atheists, Richard Dawkins, is afraid to confront him. In his blog D'Souza writes:So far no takers though. And my challenges to Dawkins to step into the arena have only met with pathetic rationalization: "Richard is simply too busy and smart to debate you Dinesh." Busy doing what

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This appears to be a true riddle. This mysterious event occurred as predicted by three shepherd children that a miracle would occur at noon on October 13th. This prediction was laughed at up until the time when it occurred shocking everyone.The events were described as follows:"The sun, at one moment surrounded with scarlet flame, at another aureoled in yellow and deep purple, seemed to be in an

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Someone has posted a very interesting parody of Richard Dawkins on Youtube. Interestingly, William Wallace over at Coincidence Theories notes that most of them are too slow to realize they are being made fun of. Apparently Dawkins too is a bit of an old fogey for it, he says:If anyone can understand a single word of this, don’t bother to translate, just tell me whose side it’s on. I get the

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It appears that over at PT they are still maintaining that they were not "gate crashing".Let us examine this.As I mentioned in my last post, it was, as pointed out by another blogger, admitted by Glen Davidson that he found the rsvp site and stuck it on a number of Evolution activist websites like Talkorigins, and Pharyngula, PT, etc. See here and here.I found their rsvp site and I stuck it on

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It seems that PZ Meyers is complaining about being "kicked out" of a private screening that he was invited to for the movie Expelled.In a desperate effort to scrape some of the egg off their faces, the creationist wingnuts are spinning the story to make it look as though PZ and I were "gatecrashers’. The ill-named ‘Discovery’ Institute heads its web article, “Richard Dawkins, World Famous

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This is an interesting subject, which I believe deserves more attention.While there are some severe criticisms of Ecotourism, I genuinely believe that ecotourism is the best and probably only continuous way of preserving the environment and many species for future generations. In this age where Capitalism pretty much dominates the world, our environment is becomeing more and more at risk. Many

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In a recent book entitled "Science Evolution and Creationism," the NAS apparently defines a creationist as the following:Advocates of the ideas collectively known as “creationism” and, recently, “intelligent design creationism” hold a wide variety of views. Most broadly, a “creationist” is someone who rejects natural scientific explanations of the known universe in favor of special creation by a

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By David Sloan Wilson at Skeptic.comTime will tell where Dawkins sits on the bell curve of open-mindedness concerning group selection in general and religion in particular. At the moment, he is just another angry atheist, trading on his reputation as an evolutionist and spokesperson for science to vent his personal opinions about religion.Indeed this seems to be the case, as he really contributed

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The National Academy of Sciences recently made a publication about Intelligent Design and Creationism, within they conflated "Intelligent Design" with the DI as if the two groups were one and the same. While it is true that many leading ID proponents are somehow associated to the DI, there are many that are not.If this were only an honest mistake it would be forgivable, but it was clearly not

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Someone made a comment to me recently about Evangelicalism. It was about how Evangelicals have created this myth that Young Earth Creationism is a great challenge to Science, and thwarting the Evolutionist's every attempt to escape the inevitable conclusion that God created that world and the global flood literally happened, along with the earth being a mere 6000 years old. Unfortunately, and

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Following a televised debate between Kirk Cameron, Ray Comfort, and The "Rational Responders"Ray RespondsThis sort of thing annoys me. They were supposed to be doing "Christian Apologetics" not some stupid evangelism nonsense.What Ray and Kirk attempted to do as I have heard from my evangelical friends is to "go around the intellect" and "get at the heart of the matter". This is utter rubbish. An

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It seems the ID movement can do their work in peace.There has been lots of trouble for proponents of Intelligent Design lately in trying to publish research, even though such works as the design inference, and other peer reviewed publications hadn't had such problems in the past. It had been because of the media spotlight. The typical news junkies trying to make a big deals of pitting a science

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Apparently some nut called "Pastor Manning" blames Christians, Puritans in particular for the enslavement of African Americans. Now most reasonably intelligent individuals know that the Puritans had nothing to do with slaves. But apparently this Manning fellow believes the real reason the Puritans came to America is to set up their own kingdom and enslave the Black man. He also claims the

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I came across an interesting article in the National review recently with a very telling story:Underneath all the soothing talk about "inclusiveness" and "sensitivity" I began to spot some darker waters flowing. Someone raised Reactionary's comment about being "gender-blind and color-blind." This occasioned a great burst of laughter. "That's what they always say!" "Of course it is!" I am

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From the LA Times:The Reuters photo showing the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on Beirut was doctored. The British-based news service acknowledged as much Sunday, withdrawing that picture and another doctored image, of an Israeli jet,that were taken by freelance photographer Adnan Hajj. The agency subsequently severed its ties with the Lebanese photographer and purged its files of his work.

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Of course there is plenty of Evidence for God's existence, much of it seems intuitive, and for many this evidence is enough, but there are others out there like myself who cannot believe something based on a feeling, or "just know" I have made a rational argument here and other empirical arguments elsewhere, but this one is a very powerful argument based on physical constants.The Physical

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Recently, the film Director from the movie Titanic claimed that he has discovered Jesus' tomb, based on some ossuaries that have been found in Talpiot. A news article is availible here via the Discovery Channel. Allegedly this is the discovery of Jesus' family tomb. The official site is Jesusfamilytomb.com, and on the site they argue based on DNA evidence, Archaeology, and historical texts that

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