The following comments shared among my dear siblings are in response to THIS TIME ARTICLE related to a discussion between Frances Collins and Richard Dawkins
DAWKINS:
People who believe in God conclude there must have been a divine knob twiddler who twiddled the knobs of these half-dozen constants to get them exactly right. The problem is that [...]
It’s just a little thing, maybe. I heard it on the news on Tuesday, and then read it in the newspaper sale flyers on Wednesday. It’s not enough to disturb our well deserved sleep the day after Thanksgiving.
It’s not enough that after cooking and baking for up to three days, and having [...]
The nonjudgmental secular personalities that know can shape the world in their image we will have a society that will be better suited to our true goodness.
Just saw expelled the movie before it is banished from theaters for ever.
Free will is a religious viewthe following quote from David Newells fine essay fales to address the fact that free will is a particular and especial view held a promoted by christianity.
So, this is my fundamental counter-argument. If you accept any notion of [...]
Be aware that the right to believe and practice one’s religious faith is in far more jeopardy than any person’s choice to disbelieve. Whether it be intellectual sophistry, terrorist battle cries, or celebrity babble the clammer is getting louder.
Follow this link to another warning voice in the culture war that is being waged [...]
Its 10 below zero. But nothing so insignificant will stop die-hard gamers from getting in line for the latest game system. My son and his friend heard that the local Fred Meyers would begin selling 75 of the lastest Nintendo systems at midnight tonight. By 5 p.m. they were scoping out the situation. [...]
Terrorism has served as impetus for verbal attacks on religion in general. These arguments are smoothly calculated to convince the unwitting that these purveyors of hateful attitudes towards religon are simply being “reasonable and rational.”
Follow this link to a more fair assessment of Violence and Religion:
First and foremost, the claim that religion is the [...]
I should be writing something substantive, insightful, and thought provoking. But the wind is blowing at a below zero chill factor, biting white frost is everywhere, and MY COMPUTER is malfunctioning, AGAIN. I’m experiencing a sharp dip in my attitude along with the sharp dip in the temperature. I expect [...]
The “H” word. The default (read: lame) ad hominem argument against anyone we vehemently disagree with.
Perhaps an illustrative story would be in order here.
Here in Alaska (very chilly Alaska) we’ve been having a riveting governor’s race. Not bitter, not nasty, ugly or “negative,” but lively and full of portent. Why? Well, [...]
Except for possible veiled threats against my children, it is hard to take seriously the statements of evangelistic atheists such as Richard Dawkins. According to atheist-evolutionist theory, which he proclaims, what we have here is a random bag of chemicals pontificating on The God Delusion of everyone else. But my random chemicals are just as [...]