It would be wise to remember that the Theory of Evolution is not the thing it is a description of the thing. It is not a sacred text or an untouchable eleventh commandment. It was taught in schools for many years, with less research and less evidence supporting it than the scientific community [...]
One summer about 8 years ago, I took a group of teenage girls from my church congregation in upstate New York, to Rehoboth Beach in Delaware. The heat was crushing. I grew up in southern California and went to the beach every summer. But the soggy heat that day on Rehoboth Beach was beyond my [...]
THE NATURAL AND THE SUPERNATURAL
I’m not sure I really get this one. Something just isn’t adding up. Isn’t challenging a belief system and dogma, sometimes relentlessly, considered a perfectly legitimate activity by the purveyors of doubt based on scientific theory?
And so they can’t take a little challenge being sown in the arena they have [...]
For a minute I lost my patience with the whole nasty mess. For one fleeting moment I threw up my hands and thought, “Oh, bother, give them what they want and shut them up, already. Does it really matter?” It was just a moment. A moment where I thought perhaps it’s better to have [...]
The scenes coming out of New Orleans and other areas hit by hurricane Katrina, are truly heart rending. Our prayers, our thoughts, and most importantly, our help must go out to the people whose lives have been shattered by this disaster. While there is much blaming, finger pointing and political hay being made [...]