Religion

Answering Objections to “Just One Question”

Posted by on July 19, 2020 at 9:38 pm

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 […]

Biogeography and the Cladistic Shake-n-Shuffle

Posted by on July 12, 2020 at 8:51 pm

“[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” […]

Something to Sey about Racism, Rioting, Sin, and Justice

Posted by on June 28, 2020 at 5:44 pm

“God gives us freedom to grieve; he gives us freedom to be angry. But he doesn’t give us freedom to sin while we are grieving and while we are angry.” — Samuel Sey Lately, I’ve been getting caught up on some blogposts by Samuel Sey. You might remember the name, since I’ve quoted and linked […]

5 Books Everyone Interested in the King James Bible Should Read

Posted by on May 17, 2020 at 9:31 pm

“Out of every 100 Americans who pulled a Bible off a shelf today, 55 of them pulled down a King James Version. I feel fairly safe in saying that the King James is the only 1611 release still on any bestseller lists.” — Mark Ward, author, blogger, software trainer A lot of people have some […]

In God We Trust

Posted by on April 19, 2020 at 7:29 pm

“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 […]

Hugh Bonneville on the Countdown to Calvary

Posted by on April 12, 2020 at 9:38 pm

“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: […]

Scientism Commits Suicide… Twice

Posted by on April 5, 2020 at 6:51 pm

“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 […]

Palestinian Refugees and the Muslim Obsession with Israel

Posted by on March 22, 2020 at 7:42 pm

From Dennis Prager’s Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph, this week’s post is from the section on Islam and Islamism. Prager examines the Palestinian refugee problem and its real function within the Muslim obsession with destroying the Jewish State of Israel. You may be surprised… “Much of the Islamic […]

The Left’s Moral Confusion Over Israel and Palestine

Posted by on March 1, 2020 at 9:47 pm

This week I offer another citation about Leftism from Dennis Prager’s Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph, in which he addresses a particular apparent inconsistency between the values and actions of those on the Left. Good questions, helpful answers. “Another revealing example of the moral confusion of the Left […]

The Whats and Whys of Leap Year

Posted by on February 23, 2020 at 9:14 pm

“Thirty days hath September, April, June and November. All the rest have thirty-one, except February alone, which has twenty-eight rain or shine, except for leap year, 29.” — traditional mnemonic verse (though, there are variations) Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably realize that 2020 is a “leap year”, since February will have […]