A couple of weeks ago the bureaucrats of the European Union surprised the world with a decision: They banned the claims that regular consumption of water can reduce the risk of dehydration; anyone who prints such claim on their water bottles will be liable to fine and up to two years in jail. Or may [...]
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Atheists and non-atheists are going to debate the topic ‘Would the World Be Better off Without Religion?’ this evening at New York University’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. The debate will start at 6:45 p.m. and last until 8:30 p.m., November 15, 2011. Here are the debate participants: British philosopher and professor A.C. Grayling, [...]
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A couple of months ago, my friend Roger and I, plus our families, went to visit the Amon Carter Museum in Forth Worth, Texas. Out goal was to see the collection of works by the two great artists of the American West, Frederic Remington and Charles Marion Russell. We spent a couple of hours at [...]
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I am not surprised by the SAT scores comparison between the three groups: homeschoolers, religious-based private schools, and public schools. Homeschoolers beat the other two groups in every category, and consistently score above the 84th percentile in every category. Only 29 per cent of the homeschooling fathers and 13 per cent of the mothers have [...]
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Did you see the video of Rick Perry being questioned about evolution? The Texas governor was responding to a question from a little boy in New Hampshire. The child is not asking on his own account. He was being used as a prop by his mother. You can hear the boy’s mother whispering questions to [...]
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Joel McDurmon is once again talking with Calvin Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance about their DVD lecture series titled “Resisting the Green Dragon. In this segment, they give a brief overview of the topics covered in the the DVD. This product makes an excellent homeschool, Sunday school, or small group study resource. Audio Version: Part [...]
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In this special edition of Vantage Point, Joel McDurmon interviews Calvin Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance on the topic of environmentalism and Christianity. The Cornwall Alliance has produced “Resisting the Green Dragon”—a series of lectures by nine leading evangelical scholars, exposing the anti-christian worldview, theology and ethics; the poor science and economics; and the often [...]
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Steve Simon, a state representative from Minnesota, gave a short speech against a constitutional ban of same-sex/same-gender “marriage.” In the four-minute video, Simon works calmly to argue for homosexual marriage. Here is one of his arguments: “The scientific evidence shows more and more everyday that sexuality and sexual orientation are innate, something people are born [...]
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Atheism seems to be on the rise. A number of young people are taking to it like they did to disco in the 1970s. But alas, like all trends, it met its end on Disco Demolition Night July 12, 1979 at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois, where a crate filled with records was blown up [...]
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Since the emergence of the Enlightenment atheism and the idolization of scientific method as the “true path to knowledge,” Christian apologists have been pointing to an obvious problem: Neither human reasoning nor human observation can explain the world. The human brain can only discover new things within a framework of a priori presuppositions; these presuppositions [...]
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