Archive for December, 2006

ATHEIST APOLOGETICS: by Kent Huff

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

Neo-Darwinism is not science; it is atheist apologetics.
Atheism is, after all, a religion, a philosophical worldview, and so, naturally needs its apologetics activities as would any other religion.
I believe many truthful, frank atheists will acknowledge that this is a correct definition.
First one comes to accept atheism and materialism, and then is driven by necessity to [...]

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Monday, December 25th, 2006

We’ve returned to Boise for the grand finale of Christmas. And thank goodness all of our travels have been safe. We now anticipate the arrival of Christmas morning.
The Christmas gift I am opening this year has been one in the making since the day I was born. I gave this gift to [...]

LET THERE BE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS by Jean Snow

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

There’s been a great deal of news to comment on: The battle for Christmas, the complete and or intentional misunderstanding of Dennis Praeger’s position on the Koran, the holocaust denial crowd convention, what to do about the war in Iraq, and on and on.
I have plenty to say about all of it, and [...]

BOISE, BOWLING, BOHNANAZA AND LAVA HOT SPRINGS by Jean Snow

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

December 17-19, 2006
After satiating our hunger at Snoqualmie Pass, we continued on over the mountains into Eastern Washington and Oregon. The weather was sunny and cold. The tan carpeted Horse Heaven Hills roll monotonously along above the river valleys of Yakima and Tri-Cities.
We indulged in Dairy Queen ice cream in Hermiston, [...]

GHOST TOWN: Seattle’s Power Outage Sends Us On an Odyssey for Breakfast

Monday, December 18th, 2006

It was one of those all night flights out of Anchorage. A woman across the aisle coughed incessantly. Packed, necks crooked, like candy canes in a box, we slept fitfully, brittle.
We rolled out of the airplane and out into the concourse with one urgent imperative (well, maybe two), eat breakfast.
Wind [...]

GOD AND GRANDCHILDREN by Jean Snow

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

By the grace and mercy of God, I have created a monument that will go on forever. A self-perpetuating monument to faith, hope and charity. I have grandchildren. Two of them visited me this weekend. Holding them was like water to a thirsty soul. When I give them my attention, and [...]

FAITH AND REASON: an incomplete response by Jean Snow

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

After reading on Newsvine a particularly bloated and self-important diatribe on the virtue of abandoning faith, I wrote the following comment.

Let us consider one product of your faith in YOUR reason. I find it laughable that killing the unborn is considered a superior, “rational, and moral” position. I prefer that we need no laws [...]

Dawkins Proposes that we made it all up by Willard

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.