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“If you have not yet heard (or read) about me, I am an outspoken Christian professor who has, at times, been critical of certain aspects of evolution.
I mention this because it affects the way I see you and the way I will treat you this semester. Rather than seeing you as the mere product of random mutation, I see you as a unique individual who is of infinite worth to his Creator. Each one of you has unique and special talents and along with that a distinct purpose in life that makes you not just unique but irreplaceable.”
I mention this because it affects the way I see you and the way I will treat you this semester. Rather than seeing you as the mere product of random mutation, I see you as a unique individual who is of infinite worth to his Creator. Each one of you has unique and special talents and along with that a distinct purpose in life that makes you not just unique but irreplaceable.”
Via "With A Shout"
“[T]he populist habit of stringing words together for their connotations rather than crafting them for meaning. The tactic makes insinuation sound direct.”
Matt Raley
This is in the context of an old controversy (Dobson vs. Obama) in an article I just came across by a friend of a friend but it’s an apt description for most of public discourse these days.
This is in the context of an old controversy (Dobson vs. Obama) in an article I just came across by a friend of a friend but it’s an apt description for most of public discourse these days.
“When religions make mutually exclusive truth claims, they both can’t be true.”
Via heart in a cage
“Evangelicals are surpassing the divorce rate of secular society. And yet we’re accusing gay folks of breaking up the family while all of them want to get married. What’s happening here?”
shane claiborne
Both of these ideas—divorce makes marriage a sham anyway and why shouldn’t people who love each other be able to get married regardless of gender—are missing the real point.
Marriage is a life-long union of a man and a woman. Anything other than that is simply not marriage.
You can call a dictatorship a democracy but it’s still not a democracy. You can call a drink without gin and vermouth a martini but it’s still not a martini.
Both of these ideas—divorce makes marriage a sham anyway and why shouldn’t people who love each other be able to get married regardless of gender—are missing the real point.
Marriage is a life-long union of a man and a woman. Anything other than that is simply not marriage.
You can call a dictatorship a democracy but it’s still not a democracy. You can call a drink without gin and vermouth a martini but it’s still not a martini.
“The obvious answer is that the … atheists’ attitude toward God is like the Arabs’ attitude toward Israel. They don’t deny that God exists, but they blame him for all their problems, and they refuse to recognize his right to exist.”
James Taranto on this.
“But the one common factor is the belief in God or a higher power, which is shared even by 21 percent of those who said they are atheists.”
“The Genographic Project’s findings are also consistent with the idea - held for some years now - that modern humans had a close brush with extinction in the evolutionary biblical past. The number of early humans may have shrunk as low as 2,000 8 before numbers began to expand again in the Late Stone Age after the flood.”
Human line ‘nearly split in two’ (via dailymeh) [my edits]
Via Historian: First English Bible Fueled First Fundamentalists - LiveScience »
from jamarch
Here’s an interesting view with a healthy dose of religion-bashing—if not God-hating—thrown in.
Via jeff's tumblelog
