Now THAT is an Upgrade!
Monday, February 14, 2011
Now THAT is an Upgrade!
Now THAT is an Upgrade!
Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: The Dark Origins Of Valentine's Day
James Swan posted the following on his blog:
The Dark Origins Of Valentine's Day
Though no one has pinpointed the exact origin of the holiday, one good place to start is ancient Rome, where men hit on women by, well, hitting them.
Those Wild and Crazy Romans
From Feb. 13 to 15, the Romans celebrated the feast of Lupercalia. The men sacrificed a goat and a dog, then whipped women with the hides of the animals they had just slain.
Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: The Dark Origins Of Valentine's Day
My only question: why would men do that and why would women allow it.
God's Sovereignty, Quantum Mechanics, and "Micromanaging"
God's Sovereignty, Quantum Mechanics, and "Micromanaging"
FacePalm #60 - Debunking Christianity: Quote of the Day on the Outsider Test for Faith (OTF)
John Loftus has posted the following quote from a website:There is an entry on the Outsiders Test at Iron Chariots. Here's the dilemma it presents for believers:
On the one hand, believers who object to the OTF look like a person who argues in a court room that he does not want a fair impartial judgment, but rather a biased one from a biased judge who operates on double standards.
On the other hand, believers who accept the rationale for the OTF have a great amount of difficulty in arguing that the raw uninterpreted historical data without any culturally adopted Bayesian "priors" leads the historian to the conclusion that Jesus bodily arose from the dead.
I disagree that believers are not interested in fair impartial judgment. Impartiality is part of God's character. I'd like to see proof that unbelievers who think that the Christianity fails Loftus' OTF test are not biased or operating double standards. How can they admit that science is influenced by the biases and thoughts of scientist and yet claim that they are fairly evaluating evidence. Most definitely problematic.
Debunking Christianity: Quote of the Day on the Outsider Test for Faith (OTF)
Witnessing to False Teachers: a Question on the MCTS Podcast
Interview 5 | White and Barcellos from MCTS on Vimeo.
Witnessing to False Teachers: a Question on the MCTS Podcast
Apologist Interview: Fazale Rana - Apologetics 315
Today's interview is with biochemist Fazale Rana, executive vice president of research and apologetics at Reasons to Believe, a science-faith think tank based in Southern California. He talks about his journey to faith, the role of natural theology, trying to create life in the lab, the thesis of his new book, how we define life, two different approaches to synthetic biology, the goals for synthetic biology, possible moral issues behind artificial life (are we playing God?), the harmonization between new scientific discoveries and scripture, RTB's origin of life model, the plausibility of "pre-biotic soup," the future of synthetic biology, the apologetic value of science, having confidence in the scriptures, and more.
Apologist Interview: Fazale Rana - Apologetics 315
