April 26, 2020
“I just don’t think that we really need to make a projection when it’s such a moving target that you could so easily be wrong and mislead people.” — Dr. Anthony Fauci in New York Magazine‘s Intelligencer Today, I present to you three articles I thought were pretty good reads regarding the COVID-19 situation. First […]
Tags: “Life above profits”, Ben Peterson, case fatality rate, Christian Research Journal, coronavirus, COVID-19, danger of certainty in science, death rates, decision-making, Dr. Anthony Fauci, economic impact, epidemic models, interconnectedness, lockdown, pandemic, Public Discourse, quarantine, risks to the economy, roundup, Scott Klusendorf, Uncommon Descent, vulnerability of the obese, WHO
Posted in Politics |
April 19, 2020
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” — John Adams, 2nd President of the United States Over the past several weeks, I have shared portions of Dennis Prager’s Still the Best Hope — twice from the section on Leftism and once […]
Tags: American Trinity, American values, Americanism, beliefs of the Founders, Creator God, Dennis Prager, ethical monotheism, founding of American universities, George Washington, God who is involved, In God We Trust, John Adams quote, Judeo-Christian scripture, moral imperatives, not Deism, source of Liberty, source of morality, Still the Best Hope, Thomas Paine, unalienable rights
Posted in Politics, Politics & Religion, Religion |
April 12, 2020
“Whether you are a person of faith or of none, you cannot escape the fact that the last six days of this man’s life, and his death, changed the world.” — Hugh Bonneville, actor A couple years ago, I came across this article about actor Hugh Bonneville (“Downton Abbey”) and the documentary he had completed: […]
Tags: Amos Oz, assumed late dates for Gospels, Calvary, crucifixion, documentary, Easter, economic factors, execution of Jesus, historical factors, historicity of biblical accounts, Hugh Bonneville, Jerusalem, Judas Iscariot, Passover Week, Pontius Pilate, radical theories, religious unrest, Resurrection Day, sociological factors, who killed Jesus
Posted in Religion |
April 5, 2020
“Only science gives reliable truth.” — believers in scientism Have you ever heard of a self-refuting view or idea? This is an idea that, when examined, actually defeats itself. It commits suicide. There are different types of self-refuting ideas, and some are easier to recognize than others. For example, if someone says, “All English sentences […]
Tags: contradictions, Greg Koukl, logical infanticide, logical suicide, Science, scientific method, scientism, self-destructive view, self-refuting idea, truth, Truth Box
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |