Archive for July, 2020

USMC Cancels Christian Speaker

July 26, 2020

Mikey Weinstein is at it again. Here’s what happened… The Marine Corps had some training scheduled for JAG reservists. One of the sessions was to be presented by Jay Lorenzen, a retired Air Force chaplain currently working with Cru. The lesson was supposed to be a “virtual battlefield tour of Gettysburg using a video from […]

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Answering Objections to “Just One Question”

July 19, 2020

The other day I (re-)discovered a comment that a reader named “Ian” had left on a blogpost of mine a couple months ago, and I had forgotten all about it. The blogpost itself was from 2011, in which I presented the “just one question” argument for the pro-life position. For a number of reasons, I […]

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Biogeography and the Cladistic Shake-n-Shuffle

July 12, 2020

“[I]t is far from true that biogeography unambiguously supports common ancestry.” — Dr. Günter Bechly Biogeography is the study of the distribution of organisms across geographic space and geological time. It has been around for quite awhile but has gradually integrated concepts and information from several scientific disciplines, from evolutionary biology to climatology. All “origins” […]

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Origins of the First Official American Flag

July 5, 2020

“The flag, like the Revolution it represents, was the work of many hands.” — Marla R. Miller, Betsy Ross and the Making of America (2010) When most Americans think of the first American flag, they think of upholsterer/seamstress Elizabeth Griscom “Betsy” Ross. The design attributed to her, with a circle of 13 stars within the […]

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