August 31, 2025
When President Trump announced earlier this month that he wanted the Census Bureau to conduct a new, national census that would not include illegal immigrants, there was a bit of an uproar — mostly on the political Left. But, why is the President pushing for this (again)? And why is the Left so worked up? […]
Tags: APNews, apportionment, call for new census, Census Act, Census Bureau, exclude illegals from census, identity politics, illegal immigrants, legal and logistical issues, mid-decade census, Mike Gonzalez, Mike Schneider, NAC, racial and ethnic categories, redistricting, The Daily Signal, Trump administration, undocumented
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August 24, 2025
Last week I cited from Chapter 1 of the book Old-Earth or Evolutionary Creation?: Discussing Origins with Reasons to Believe and BioLogos (2017), quoting representatives of RTB as they clarified their organization’s approach on a few things. In that same redirect, Robert Stewart (one of the Southern Baptist theologians acting as moderators) also commented and […]
Tags: Deborah Haarsma, discussion with RTB, evangelical mission, evolutionary creationism, human evolution, interpretation of evidence, mainstream science, Robert Stewart, science apologetics, scientific consensus, theistic evolution, worldview issues
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
August 17, 2025
As I recall, this is not the first time I have posted on the topic of concordism in Christian apologetics, particularly as used by the Reasons to Believe (RTB) organization. This time, the source is Chapter 1 of the book Old-Earth or Evolutionary Creation?: Discussing Origins with Reasons to Believe and BioLogos (2017), which addresses […]
Tags: discussion with BioLogos, evangelical mission, explanatory power, Hugh Ross, Intelligent Design, Kenneth Samples, moderate concordist approach, Old Earth Creationism, old earth interpretation, predictive power of Scripture, Robert Stewart, science apologetics, testable creation model
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
August 10, 2025
Some readers might be familiar with, or at least aware of, “Red Pen Logic” (RPL). For those who aren’t, RPL is the work of Christian apologist Tim Barnett, aka “Mr. B”, who addresses questions and challenges to Christianity in brief videos. The challenges usually come in the form of a text that he reproduces on […]
Tags: activist, affirming, biblical clarity, Christian apologetics, correcting misunderstanding, Jesus, LGBTQ+, love your neighbor, Pride Month, progressive pastor, Red Pen Logic, Tim Barnett, true love
Posted in Politics, Politics / Science / Religion, Religion, Science |
August 3, 2025
“So often in the age of presentism, we in our narcissism and arrogance confuse our technical and material successes with automatic moral progress.” — Victor Davis Hanson I know, I know. I just had a post not long ago in which I quoted the author/commentator Victor Davis Hanson, a respected classicist and military historian. Normally, […]
Tags: American virtues, avoiding chronological snobbery, chronological hubris, commencement address, danger to future generations, Hillsdale College, Imprimis, past challenges, reverence for the past, tradition, Victor Davis Hanson
Posted in Politics |