August 4, 2024
This is the fifth & final entry in my series citing Rescuing Inerrancy: A Scientific Defense (2023) by Dr. Hugh Ross. If you have read any of the earlier entries in this series, you might remember Dr. John Walton being mentioned as one of the modern Christian theologians making controversial claims regarding the Bible and […]
Tags: controversial claims, Ellen van Wolde, functional assignment, Genesis 1, Hebrew verbs, Hugh Ross, John Walton, linguistic issues, material origins, merism, Qal verb form, The Lost World of Genesis 1, Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
July 28, 2024
I like Frank Turek. I appreciate him as a Christian apologist who is reaching a lot of people through his speaking engagements and educating via the CrossExamined Academy. But, I don’t always agree with him — sometimes in approach, sometimes in content. His understanding and handling of Calvinism and the Doctrines of Grace (i.e., Reformed […]
Tags: autonomy, CrossExamined Academy, doctrines of grace, Frank Turek, free will, James R. White, Reformed theology, Romans 5, The Dividing Line, theology lesson
Posted in Religion |
July 21, 2024
This is the fourth entry in my series citing Rescuing Inerrancy: A Scientific Defense (2023) by Dr. Hugh Ross. A few weeks ago, I watched a streaming TV series — the title of which I can’t remember, sorry — that looked at controversial archaeological finds and how they indicated scientific inquiry among ancient civilizations. Granted, […]
Tags: ancient Near Eastern religions, ANE science, astronomical knowledge, Egyptian, Eratosthenes, European, geocentricity, government-sponsored astronomers, Greek, heliocentricity, Hugh Ross, John Walton, last ice age, lunar eclipses, Mesopotamian, Neolithic Revolution, Old Testament, Peter Enns, Ptolemy, scientific inquiry by ancient peoples, solar eclipses, spherical Earth, spherical Moon, spherical Sun, stone circle observatories
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
July 14, 2024
In June of last year, I wrote a post about a particular section of The Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” that dealt with Deep State bureaucracy. “Project 2025” wasn’t on a lot of people’s radar then, but it certainly is now. The Left are scared of it, and Donald Trump is even distancing himself from it. […]
Tags: correcting meme claims, Democrat claims proven false, Donald Trump, GOP, lies and misinformation, Mandate for Leadership, Project 2025, The Heritage Foundation
Posted in Politics |
July 7, 2024
This is the third entry in my series citing Rescuing Inerrancy: A Scientific Defense (2023) by Dr. Hugh Ross, which I began this past May. In this week’s excerpt, Ross addresses the ideas of “history” and “myth” in interpreting the Old Testament creation passages. How similar are these texts to those of other Ancient Near […]
Tags: ancient Near Eastern religions, ANE creation myths, biblical creation passages, biblical distinctives, biblical implications, Bruce Waltke, Christian theology, Francis Collins, Genesis, hermeneutics, history, Hugh Ross, literary genre, myth, Old Testament, Peter Enns
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June 30, 2024
“To be clear, we never have and never will endorse Biden.” — tweet from the National Border Patrol Council in response to Biden’s claim I have to say up front that I did not personally sit through the debate on CNN. I had other stuff to work on and, frankly, did not look forward to […]
Tags: Biden-Trump debate, Democrats disappointed in Biden, fact-checking, false, hyperbole, lies and misinformation, PolitiFact, poor Biden performance, presidential debate on CNN, Snopes, The Daily Signal, true, unproven
Posted in Politics |
June 23, 2024
“If a homicidal, Iranian-funded, terrorism proxy wants to pick up your college education tab, you really, really might want to reevaluate things.” — Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) on X/Twitter (May 3, 2024) It wasn’t all that long ago that we were all — Left and Right — shaking our heads in wonderment at this big […]
Tags: anti-squatters rights, anti-woke Democrat, breaking ranks, criticizing Biden admin, hoodie, John Fetterman, no soft-on-crime policies, pro-closing the southern border, pro-Israel, pro-law enforcement, regular Democrat, trolling Menendez, U.S. Senator
Posted in Politics |
June 16, 2024
“If you think that not paying someone a living wage is morally equivalent to dismembering a living human being, your moral compass is broken.” — Scott Klusendorf, president of Life Training Institute As with last week’s “8 Things the Abortion Debate Is NOT About”, this post is brought to you via the excellent book, The […]
Tags: bad arguments, Christian ethic, false claims, inconsistencies, intrinsic evils vs. contingent evils, John Pavlovitz, lazy slander, life issues, logical syllogism, moral equivalence, operational objectives, pro-choice, pro-life, redefinition of terms, Scott Klusendorf, The Case for Life, whole-life
Posted in Politics, Politics / Science / Religion, Religion, Science |
June 9, 2024
Allow me to get right to the point. In its essence, the pro-life argument can be summarized with the following syllogism (2 premises and a conclusion): 1) It is morally wrong to intentionally kill an innocent human being.2) Abortion intentionally kills an innocent human being.3) Therefore, abortion is morally wrong. Personally, I might tweak it […]
Tags: bad arguments, distractions from the issue, logical syllogism, pro-choice, pro-life, Scott Klusendorf, sidetracked discussion, The Case for Life
Posted in Politics, Politics / Science / Religion, Religion, Science |
June 2, 2024
“No other conventional material is this robust.” — Tibi Puiu, ZME Science Materials scientists are always experimenting with metal alloys in order to improve one or more properties. For example, add a little (~1%) carbon to a lot of iron and you get steel, which (among other things) is stronger than iron alone. The resulting […]
Tags: David Cook, highly fracture resistant, incredibly strong, jet engines, kink bands, materials science, new alloy, spacecraft applications
Posted in Science |