May 4, 2014
One day in Oklahoma in 1999, Clayton Lockett and a couple friends decided to rob a house. Unfortunately for 19-year-old Stephanie Neiman, she and a friend came “home” to that house, interrupting the intruders. I don’t know what happened to her friend, but Stephanie was beaten and bound with duct tape. Lockett shot her twice […]
Tags: botched Oklahoma execution, capital crime, capital punishment, Clayton Lockett, cruel and inhumane, death penalty, lethal injection, midazolam, Stephanie Neiman
Posted in Politics, Politics / Science / Religion, Religion, Science, Uncategorized |
April 27, 2014
Thanks to a video clip shown on liberal media (e.g., New York Times, “Media Matters”), a lot of people are up in arms (so to speak) about Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s latest public statements. In short, he has been accused of being racist and of claiming that Blacks were better off as slaves. It was […]
Tags: Bundy ranch, Bundy's racist comments, Cliven Bundy, federal government seizing state and private property, fight against Big Government, government overreach, Is Cliven Bundy a racist?, racist Bundy, unconstitutional action by government
Posted in Politics |
April 20, 2014
I have something different for you this Easter season. A real treat! A Facebook acquaintance of mine is Tom Graffagnino, Esq. (I added the “esquire” bit. Just sounded right.) Like me, Tom is a Bible-believing follower of Jesus Christ, who is also quite concerned about the moral decline (among other things) in this nation and […]
Tags: Christian artist, Christian holiday, Christianity, Easter, He is Risen!, Jesus Christ is Risen, Resurrection Day, Resurrection of Christ, Son of God, Tom Graffagnino, torn curtain, Without Excuse Creations
Posted in Religion |
April 13, 2014
The following guest-post is from a young man trying to grow his essay-writing business. He contacted me and offered to research/write an original post on a topic of my choice. Since I had been meaning to return to the subject — well, some aspect of it, anyway — of commercial spaceflight, I decided to let […]
Tags: commercial aerospace industry, commercial spaceflight, future of spaceflight, NASA, Obama space program, PPP, private sector space firms, private-funded vs government space programs, public-private partnerships in aerospace, U.S. astronautics
Posted in Politics, Politics & Science, Science |
April 6, 2014
Unless you somehow missed it (and how could you?!), the previous post was the first part of my response to a Young-Earth Creationist, who expressed several concerns about my Old-Earth Creationist comments at the STR blog. I don’t recall the exchange being contentious, but “Doc” sure did think I was in danger of compromising the […]
Tags: answering YEC concerns, astrophysics, Bible and science, biblical Hebrew, biblical integrity, Big Bang cosmology, Big Bang Theory, creationist claims, dealing with our own interpretational biases, evolution, explanatory power, fine-tuning arguments, general revelation and special revelation, harmonizing the Two Books, Hugh Ross, inerrancy, inference to the best explanation, Intelligent Design, OEC interpretation, plain reading, proper hermeneutic, Reasons to Believe, RTB, science/faith issues, scientific theories, YEC vs. OEC
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
March 30, 2014
Earlier this month, I posted (in 2 parts) a response I gave some years ago to a skeptic who questioned the cosmology represented in the Bible. The exchange occurred in the comments section of the blog for STR, and there were others involved in the larger conversation. One of them in particular was a Young-Earth […]
Tags: answering YEC concerns, Bible and science, biblical integrity, Big Bang cosmology, Big Bang Theory, creationist claims, evolution, evolutionary timeframes, fine-tuning arguments, general revelation and special revelation, harmonizing the Two Books, inerrancy, Intelligent Design, OEC interpretation, proper hermeneutic, science/faith issues, scientific theories, YEC vs. OEC
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
March 23, 2014
“You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.” — Alvin Toffler I would like to share an excerpt from a lengthy article I read recently. It was in the January 2014 issue of Hillsdale College’s Imprimis magazine. The author, Charles […]
Tags: anti-Obamacare, back to the Constitution, Charles Kesler, conservatism, efforts defund Obamacare, Hillsdale College, Imprimis, limited government, political strategy, populist origins, preserving constitutional government, recapturing our Constitutional freedoms, Tea Party, TP strategy, what the Tea Party needs to do
Posted in Politics |
March 16, 2014
You know her as the author of the phenomenally successful “Harry Potter” book series for young adults, which was then turned into the phenomenally successful “Harry Potter” movie series. Her name, of course, is J.K. Rowling (“Jo” to her friends), and she is loaded — the first author to reach a net worth of a […]
Tags: competition, Fabian socialism, free-market capitalism, Harry Potter, Huffington Post article, J.K. Rowling, Jerry Bowyer, Keynes, Lynn Shepherd, plea for Rowling to stop writing adult fiction, redistributionism, Rowling's politics, stagnationism, zero-sum economics, zero-sum game
Posted in Politics, S-F/F AA Entertainment |
March 9, 2014
A couple days ago, I published Part 1 of my response to a skeptic regarding biblical cosmology. I covered a couple major points and, hopefully, demonstrated that not all Christians interpret the creation passages the same. Furthermore, I think I showed how important is careful hermeneutic, and that it reveals a harmony of God’s […]
Tags: answering skeptics' claims, Bible and science, Biblical cosmology, careful look at Hebrew text, Christian apologetics, Church vs. science, flat earth, Galileo, general revelation and special revelation, geocentrism, harmonizing the Two Books, heliocentrism, OEC interpretation, phenomenological language, proper hermeneutic, Reasons to Believe, RTB, science in the Bible, science/faith issues, what the Bible says
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
March 7, 2014
Look what I found! Another apologetics-oriented exchange from several years ago (2005). It was in the comments of the blog over at Stand to Reason (aka STR, www.str.org). Unfortunately, it is one of those where I only preserved my response(s) and not the other person(s) initial comments. (So, technically, this is only half of the […]
Tags: answering skeptics' claims, Bible and science, Biblical cosmology, careful look at Hebrew text, Christian apologetics, Creation Day 4, earth created before the Sun?, general revelation and special revelation, harmonizing the Two Books, OEC interpretation, proper hermeneutic, science/faith issues, the Big Bang, what the Bible says, when was the Sun created?, YEC vs. OEC
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |