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Today a colleague passed on Richard Dawkins’ Newsweek article wherein “Darwin’s rottweiler” went on another tirade against creationists. [1] As recent research on the Cambrian fossil records has hammered in the last nail in the coffin of Darwinian evolution, one of the last bad ideas of the nineteenth century that wreaked havoc in the twentieth century (another being Marxism), the rant is understandable. What is Dawkins’ response to the proposition that the fossil record in general and the Cambrian fossil record in particular fails to support the Darwinian model, he just pontificates, “We don’t need fossils in order to demonstrate that evolution is a fact. The evidence for evolution would be entirely secure even if not a single corpse had ever fossilized. It is a bonus that we do actually have rich seams of fossils to mine, and more are discovered every day.” Is not he just saying, “Don’t get bogged down with the facts, just believe me.” Dawkins’ then brings up some analogy of a baron...

As I was going about my daily work routine, it came to my attention that this year the Jewish Holy Day of Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) falls on September 27, 2009. It is an observation of God’s commandment that “On exactly the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement; it shall be a holy convocation for you, and you shall humble your so11uls and present an offering by fire to the Lord” (Lev. 23:26-27, NASB). It was a day set aside in for the children of Israel to make animal sacrifices to atone for the sins they had committed (Lev. 16:29-34). The Old Testament sacrifice, with a priest making a bloody animal sacrifice to cleanse a person from the sins they have committed before a holy God was one of the defining characteristics of the ancient worship of Israel. The ancient Hebrew experienced the consequences of sin. They understood the bitterness of sin heaped upon them, having survived slavery under a cruel Pharaoh, who placed them into hard labor and sent midwives execu...

A hot newsflash item of late has been a series of controversial videos posted on biggoverment.com created by activist filmmaker James O’Keefe, which allegedly unveil corruption within the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). [1] The videos have O’Keefe and Hannah Giles (a college student) poising as a pimp and prostitute, and entering into select ACORN offices to receive aid in purchasing a house for the purposes of running a brothel with undocumented alien child prostitutes, and ACORN workers apparently offering advise in how they should go about doing it. O’Keefe’s exposé did reach the eyes and ears of lawmakers, and the House and Senate voted to de-fund ACORN. (For many of my conservative Republican friends, in a serendipitous way this proven that every grey cloud has a silver lining, as the decision to cut funds to ACORN is a plus for those who don’t like big government—not necessarily my politics, but I’m just saying….) ACORN’s response was multifa...

A couple of months ago, I picked up a copy of The Francis Schaeffer Trilogy , which contains The God Who is There , Escape from Reason , and He is There and He is Not Silent , in a single volume. Reading through Schaeffer’s 1970s classic He is There and He is Not Silent , which explores the philosophical arenas of metaphysics, morals, and epistemology, particularly that there is a difference in our understanding the world in light of the reality of God being there and not silent, I came across the most haunting statement in his section on morality, wherein he contended that those who hold to an impersonal beginning, whether modern science, or neo-orthodox theology, one must face the inevitable problem of there being no basis for any moral absolutes. Picking up on Marshall McLuhan’s point that democracy is finished, Schaeffer writes: There is coming a time in the global village (not far ahead, in the area of electronics) where we will be able to wire everybody up to a giant computer, an...

In this fast paced Web 2.0 universe with real time updates, it seems like bringing up something that was a buzz a few years ago seems clueless. Sort of like finding out the cloths one wears have been out of style for the last two decades. Yet, lessons can still be learned about the hype of yesteryear, since time has a way of weeding out pop-culture novelties from the ideas that are really shaping the world. All this came to mind when I got an email inquiry about the Blasphemy Challenge on YouTube. So I checked out video, and there was this young fellow named Chandler who said, “Three months ago I was a Christian. Through basic observation of the world around me and logical thinking I’ve come to the conclusion that alongside the fact that there is no Santa Clause, there is no Easter Bunny, there’s also no God. So without further ado, my name is Chandler and I deny the existence of the Holy Spirit.” [1] Come to find out that this was part of a Rational Response Squad (RRS) and the Beyon...

The movies I’ve seen this summer were very entertaining, albeit each of them had their share of bloody violence, and were not intended for the family friendly audience. Nevertheless, the storytelling in each of them was quite enjoyable. The extraterrestrial bipedal crustaceans or “Prawns” sci-fi drama of District 9 parallels the 1980s sci-fi movie Alien Nation —in both a space ship lands, extraterrestrials come out to live amongst humans but are marginalized because of well their different. Of course, like many other sci-fi movies, these take real life issues—such as in the case of District 9 and Alien Nation the ill treatment and exploitation of foreigners—and infuse them into an otherworldly adventure. In District 9, the aliens overstayed their welcome, and are relegated to living in a ghetto outside of Johannesburg South Africa where their experience extreme poverty and exploitation. However, humans are still not satisfied and want to evict the aliens and move them in mass to ano...