We humans have a notorious knack for minimizing our faults. We know we should behave better than we do but rather than appealing to a higher standard we use our fellow-man as a yardstick. Acutely aware of our own faults we temper our disappointment by scrutinizing the behavior of our neighbor and concluding we aren’t so bad…..
One of the main reasons young people leave the church is because doubt is demonized and questions are discouraged. Instead of filling a sincere intellectual hole with Holy cement the church puts hazard tape around it and warns young people to not get too close. Do we think that God is that fragile? Are we afraid that…..
In the movie Contact, based on the book by Carl Sagan, Jody Foster plays Dr. Ellie Arroway an astronomer obsessed with finding extra-terrestrial life. Ellie doesn’t believe in God but she does believe in aliens. Her persistent search for aliens ultimately pays off when she finally picks up radio signals from outer space. Through a series of events…..
The Intelligent Design (ID) movement is often portrayed as a religious Trojan Horse, a faux scientific steed hiding a band of religious fanatics trying to get a divine foot in the laboratory door.
Evolutionists … have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to…..