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Have We Been Going About This All Wrong? Fun With Conspiracy Theories
A cartoon from XKCD (HT P. Z. Myers) illustrates a different approach to conspiracy theories: combating like with like. How might that be applied to some of the conspiracy theories that regularly get...
View ArticleQuote of the Day (Derek Flood)
We don’t need to fear science — including the social sciences. Science is based on curiosity, hypothesis and observation of the way things are. In other words, it’s about truth, and we should never...
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An Unbending Quest for Truth
The blog Unreasonable Faith shared this: I think that really what it is getting at is the fact that some people do not think the truthfulness of their position is as self-evident as their rhetoric...
View ArticleDeath Star Trutherism
Click here to view the embedded video. This is a great Star Wars parody of 9/11 trutherism – and all other conspiracy theories! As with other conspiracy theorists, there is usually some glaring error...
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Ken Ham Continues to Contradict Himself
We’ve recently heard Ken Ham denying knowledge of where the notion of humans riding dinosaurs comes from, when it was his own books. Now we have Ham denying the stance that his own representative,...
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Young-Earth Creationism vs. Sodom and Gomorrah
In the Biblical story about Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham pleads with God to spare the cities even if just a certain minimum number of righteous people are found in it. Eventually he bargains God down to...
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No Scientific Revelation in the Bible
As several other bloggers have already mentioned, Jesus Creed featured a post recently about John Walton’s emphasis on the fact that the Bible includes no scientific revelation. Here is a relevant...
View ArticleTolkien and Lewis on Myths and Lies
Click here to view the embedded video. Thanks to Joel Watts for making me aware of this dramatization of a famous discussion between J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, one that was instrumental in the...
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Can Young-Earth Creationists and Proponents of Intelligent Design be Christians?
Michael Ruse famously asked the opposite, whether a Darwinian can be a Christian. But the opposite question is the real pressing issue. Here is what I wrote in a comment on Michael Kruger’s blog: I...
View ArticleIf We Have The Truth
“If we have the truth, [it] cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.” – J. Reuben Clark, leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
View ArticleTruth and Faith
“God is a God of truth, so the truth cannot unravel our faith if our faith is legitimate.” – Ken Schenck, in a blog post entitled “Paul, Athens, Evidence, Presuppositions”
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Maybe this is why young-earth creationism is so disturbing and offensive. Young-earth creationists will pretend that mainstream science journals are not filled with abundant evidence for evolution –...
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Mastered by Divinity
In his sermon last Sunday, my pastor Tom Bartley mentioned the irony of one being awarded the title “Master of Divinity.” The notion that one can master the subject of divinity, and perhaps even the...
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Defending Absolute Truth?
Zack Hunt, after quoting Isaiah, writes: This is what, or rather who, we should be defending. The orphan. The widow. The oppressed. The least of these right outside our door. But like the Israel of...
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Truth is Stronger than You
The above cartoon from David Hayward makes a wonderful point. And I love how different ideas about truth, including ultimate truth, can be substituted to bring the point home in specific contexts....
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God is Truth
The above quote on Facebook seemed worth turning into a meme, and so I did so, with the author’s permission. “In my view, Ham’s basic mistake is to separate God and Truth. Not only is all truth God’s...
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The Unity of Truth
The quote comes from a blog that I had drawn to my attention for the first time yesterday, and more specifically a post on it with the title “Evil-ution (Part 1).” For those interested in the...
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