Healthy Eyes In A Digital World [infographic]

Healthy Eyes In A Digital World [infographic]

Common Runner Injuries [infographic] | Daily Infographic

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Common Runner Injuries [infographic] | Daily Infographic

The Scenic Route to a Longer Life [infographic] | Daily Infographic

The Scenic Route to a Longer Life [infographic] | Daily Infographic

Marijuana and your Brain [infographic]

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23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health? - YouTube

Dr. Mike Evans gives a good lecture on health!




23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health? - YouTube

Infographic: Marijuana Goes Mainstream - Health - GOOD

Here is an interesting infographic showing how American attitudes towards marijuana have changed.


Infographic: Marijuana Goes Mainstream - Health - GOOD

U.S. Soldier Isaias Hernandez Re-Grows Leg Muscle Using Pig Bladder Hormones (VIDEO)

Quite frankly, I see nothing wrong with science such as this. IT is just a matter of understanding the creation and harnessing it a good way. All healing comes from God. It's just an impressive use of medication. It's a gift from our creator!







U.S. Soldier Isaias Hernandez Re-Grows Leg Muscle Using Pig Bladder Hormones (VIDEO)

Near Death Experiences As Evidence for the Transcendance of the Human Mind

Recently the controversy of the human mind versus the human brain has become very important. The question: Is the human mind just an extension of the human brain or is the mind distinct and transcends death? The question has many implications. The issue is many atheists desire to define the mind as indistinguishable of the brain because then they can argue that there can't be any mind without a brain and no soul  - casting serious doubt on the existence of God. They desire to think of a human as being composed of nothing more than a physical body. They reject the Biblical descriptions of humans having having souls. They even try to say that there is no evidence to the contrary that supports that the mind transcends death and continues to exist or that the mind is not the same as the brain. They say that the fact that brain injury can cause changes in personality and behavior that the mind and the brain are the same thing. Is this true? Does it make sense?

What we have is a false parallel. The argument is designed to making you choose between the prospect that the mind and the brain are so tied together that they are the same thing or that they are so separate that the what happens to the brain doesn't affect the mind. The thing is that there is no reason to conclude that if  the mind is affected by what happens to the brain that the mind/soul do not live on after the physical body (brain) dies. There is no evidence that the relationship should be so. I have yet to read or hear anyone successfully argue why we should make that assumption. It seems that there is no reason why they both can't be true - that the mind is affected by what happens to the brain  and that the mind/soul survives physical death - brain death in other words.

A lot of people admit that if near-death experiences (NDE) are proof that the mind/soul survives death, then it's proof that the mind and the brain are not the same thing. This is why many atheists argue very hard against NDE's. They recognize that if accept the possibility that our minds survive the death of our bodies it puts their atheism in a precarious condition because we can't really know anything about what happens after we die using our own natural ways of observing the material world. Worse than that.  It means that all truth cannot be determined using the natural methods many of them have pinned their faith on. It means you have to truly consider if the Bible is true. You have to admit that it matters if the Bible is true or not.

Is there proof that NDEs are true experiences? I think they are  and not because I need them to be true to validate the Bible. I think that a good place to start looking at these issues is to look at the work of Gary Habermas. Here is an audio lecture on the subject of NDEs.

Dr. Gary Habermas gives a talk about data reported in peer-reviewed medical journals involving near-death experiences.

Listen to the talk at the following link: Near-Death Experiences: Evidence for an Afterlife? - Gary Habermas MP3 Audio

Also he has a FAQ section on NDEs on his website. Read it at http://www.garyhabermas.com/qa/qa_index.htm#nea

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Apologetics 315: Why Won't God Heal Amputees? MP3 Audio from GotQuestions.org

I appreciate Brain Auten for posting this awesome audio refuting one of the  arguments against God's existence that keeps getting trotted out.  If there is a God and prayer works then why doesn't God heal amputees? This audio answers the question by giving seven erroneous presuppositions on which the argument is based and why they don't make sense.  Brian posts a link to the audio and to the text answer.

Apologetics 315: Why Won't God Heal Amputees? MP3 Audio from GotQuestions.org

Christopher Hitchens has cancer, the faithful begin to respond - "gotcha"

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I recently found out that Jeff Musall of the Portland Atheist Examiner linked to my article about Dr. James White's  response to the announcement of Christopher Hitchens' illness. You can read my article and get a link to White's response here. The reason I bring this up again is because I have to take issue with what much of what Musall said.  Musall wrote:

What the myriad comments like these are saying with we will "pray for you" is a slap in the face to the nonbeliever more pointed than any simple insult. It would be better if they took the sly smile off their faces and just went ahead and laughed at him. 

Like the "hate the sin, not the sinner" chant fundamentalists use against homosexuality, the cloak of love doesn't quite cover the body of hate. 

Of course, atheists aren't innocent. Many smiled with glee at the passings of Oral Roberts, Jerry Falwell, and D. James Kennedy. And some will party when James Dobson slides into his imagined eternity. 

But we are in the open with it, we don't hide behind false feelings. We didn't like them, and were glad to see them go. I wish the religious could be so honest about atheists.
Here's hoping Christopher Hitchens comes through this just fine, and emerges on the other side not in any way thankful to those who offered their prayers.

It's sad that Musall would think that Christians are hiding their true feelings.Why would I be happy for Christopher Hitchens to die painfully and end up in hell? Can he really think that Christians are that mean and petty? I guess so. By definition if we believe the Bible about God's attitude about such things we can't take that attitude.

Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? - Ezekiel 33:11

⁹The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9

It's not Christians who pray for the physical and spiritual recovery of Christopher Hitchens who are being hateful. Hate fills those who are described by:

Many smiled with glee at the passings of Oral Roberts, Jerry Falwell, and D. James Kennedy. And some will party when James Dobson slides into his imagined eternity. 

A video of Hitchen was also posted with Musall's post. Let's look ast it juxtaposed with the attitude Christians like Dr. White have.








"Gotcha!" isn't the appropriate response. Prayer is. No one is better or worse.  We are all sinnersand withoout Jesus Christ we have nothing.

Christopher Hitchens has cancer, the faithful begin to respond - "gotcha"

French psychiatrists and psychologists diagnose Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder (BPD)

Darth Vader - a teaching aid? Yup. I think this article makes some good point.  However, Anakin's problems came between episodes 1 and 2. He seemed mental to me even before his mother was killed in episode 2? I would like to see stories explaining what happened to Anakin. How did he turn into a emo-teen? Did Obi-wan mess up in raising him? Now those would  be interesting stories.

French psychiatrists and psychologists diagnose Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder (BPD)

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Can This Condom Keep You From Being Raped? « TheGloss

What does it say about men that women have to go to the extreme of  wearing a female condom that cuts into a man when he forces himself on her?  It's a shame!  I hate it.  I mean "No" should be good enough. a woamn has the right to be able to say "No" and that should be respected. 

Can This Condom Keep You From Being Raped? « TheGloss