Future Learning: David Merrill - YouTube
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Future Learning: David Merrill - YouTube
Future Learning: David Merrill - YouTube
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Did the Umayyads change the Qur'an? - YouTube
Muslims tell us that the Qur'an has been perfectly preserved. Oddly enough, there isn't a shred of evidence for this preposterous claim. Indeed, a brief examination of the history of the Qur'an reveals significant changes to the text. In this video, L'Orientalist shows that changes were taking place even after Uthman produced his revised, standardized edition of the Qur'an.
Answering Muslims - Did the Umayyads Change the Qur'an?
Did the Umayyads change the Qur'an? - YouTube
Monday, December 12, 2011
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Obama’s War on Religion | Claude Mariottini - Professor of Old Testament
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Obama’s War on Religion | Claude Mariottini - Professor of Old Testament
Michael Voris, Diaa Mohamed, and Bart Ehrman on Thursday's DL
Since some readers of this blog seem to be clueless about what scholarly critiques look like, take a lesson from Dr James White and notice how an expert deftly handles not just the Word of God but also a variety of different subjects.
Michael Voris, Diaa Mohamed, and Bart Ehrman on Thursday's DL
Michael Voris, Diaa Mohamed, and Bart Ehrman on Thursday's DL
23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health? - YouTube
23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health? - YouTube
Leibniz on the Universe and its Author - Apologetics 315
"...if we could sufficiently understand the order of the universe, we should find that it exceeds all the desires of the wisest men, and that it is impossible to make it better than it is, not only as a whole and in general but also for ourselves in particular, if we are attached, as we ought to be, to the Author of all, not only as to the architect and efficient cause of our being, but as to our master and to the final cause, which ought to be the whole aim of our will, and which can alone make our happiness."
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, The Monadology, 1714 (more here)
Leibniz on the Universe and its Author - Apologetics 315
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Draculatheism - National Messianic Jewish | Examiner.com
Draculatheism - National Messianic Jewish | Examiner.com
He Lives: Bad to Worse
I see why such thoughts as Loftus' are "free." Carrier and Loftus are among your best and brightest? Sucks to be you.
Read the post at the link to see why he would write that.
He Lives: Bad to Worse
Answering Muslims: You are getting sleepier and sleepier . . .
Answering Muslims: You are getting sleepier and sleepier . . .
The Top 7 Things You Can't Do as a Moral Relativist - Apologetics 315
Things You Can't Do as a Moral Relativist:
Bonus #8: Stephen Meyer, in the TrueU video series (which is excellent for group study), lists a couple more. Edit: Meyer's number 8 is: Relativists can’t complain about the problem of evil. But his number 2 is: The relativist can't complain about being mistreated.
- Relativists Can’t Accuse Others of Wrong-Doing
- Relativists Can’t Complain About the Problem of Evil
- Relativists Can’t Place Blame or Accept Praise
- Relativists Can’t Claim Anything Is Unfair or Unjust
- Relativists Can’t Improve Their Morality
- Relativists Can’t Hold Meaningful Moral Discussions
- Relativists Can’t Promote the Obligation of Tolerance
As an added bonus, Brian even adds links to further resources. The really interesting thing about this list is that moral relativist still do it anyway and most miss the inconsistency in their own position. Follow the link to read Brian's article.
The Top 7 Things You Can't Do as a Moral Relativist - Apologetics 315
Friday, December 9, 2011
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Gospels and Acts as History by Timothy McGrew - Apologetics 315
Gospels and Acts as History by Timothy McGrew - Apologetics 315
OK, How Many Lies Can You Pack into One Video? Ask Michael Voris!
Dr. James White posted the following video and comments today on his blog.
You can read his comments on the video at the following link
OK, How Many Lies Can You Pack into One Video? Ask Michael Voris!
He responded to this video on today's Dividing Line. You can hear that at the following link.
Today on the Dividing Line: Michael Voris and 40,000 Denominations, Ehrman, Diaa Mohamed
You can read his comments on the video at the following link
OK, How Many Lies Can You Pack into One Video? Ask Michael Voris!
He responded to this video on today's Dividing Line. You can hear that at the following link.
Today on the Dividing Line: Michael Voris and 40,000 Denominations, Ehrman, Diaa Mohamed
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Darth Vader's Greatest Speech Ever Made - YouTube
In his final moments, Anakin Skywalker recalls the days of The Clone Wars in the arms of his son.
A visual representation of Charlie Chaplin's famous speech from 'The Dictator' put into the Star Wars universe.
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Speech and audio taken from: http://youtu.be/qLci5DoZqHU
Music by Hans Zimmer
Darth Vader's Greatest Speech Ever Made - YouTube
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Bring it::Question Evolution! Campaign
Question Evolution! Campaign
Use this link to find out all about the campaign. The campaign was also written up in an article over at Creation Ministries International. You follow this link to read it.
The article even has a list of questions that are being considered problematic to the theory of evolution.
15 Questions summary
Note to would-be evolution defenders: please read the full brochure and linked articles before attempting to answer the questions, otherwise you will likely be wasting your time boxing at shadows.- How did life with specifications for hundreds of proteins originate just by chemistry without intelligent design?
- How did the DNA code originate?
- How could copying errors (mutations) create 3 billion letters of DNA instructions to change a microbe into a microbiologist?
- Why is natural selection taught as ‘evolution’ as if it explains the origin of the diversity of life?
- How did new biochemical pathways, which involve multiple enzymes working together in sequence, originate?
- Living things look like they were designed, so how do evolutionists know that they were not designed?
- How did multi-cellular life originate?
- How did sex originate?
- Why are the (expected) countless millions of transitional fossils missing?
- How do ‘living fossils’ remain unchanged over supposed hundreds of millions of years?
- How did blind chemistry create mind/intelligence, meaning, altruism and morality?
- Why is evolutionary ‘just-so’ story-telling tolerated as ‘science’?
- Where are the scientific breakthroughs due to evolution?
- Why is evolution, a theory about history, taught as if it is the same as the operational science?
- Why is a fundamentally religious idea, a dogmatic belief system that fails to explain the evidence, taught in science classes?
There is even a video to go along with this campaign.
If anyone thinks they can answer these, please do. Bring it if you can.
Video Projection System Turns Your Living Room Into The Movie You’re Watching [Videos]
Video Projection System Turns Your Living Room Into The Movie You’re Watching [Videos]
Herman Cain Pokemon, Plan B & Endorsement (Drops Out) - YouTube
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Herman Cain Pokemon, Plan B & Endorsement (Drops Out) - YouTube
Monday, December 5, 2011
The Muppets Are Communist, Fox Business Network Says
"It's amazing how far the left will go just to manipulate your kids, to convince them, give the anti-corporate message," he said.
"They've been doing it for decades. Hollywood, the left, the media, they hate the oil industry," Gainor continued. "They hate corporate America. And so you'll see all these movies attacking it, whether it was 'Cars 2,' which was another kids' movie, the George Clooney movie 'Syriana,' 'There Will Be Blood,' all these movies attacking the oil industry, none of them reminding people what oil means for most people: fuel to light a hospital, heat your home, fuel an ambulance to get you to the hospital if you need that. And they don't want to tell that story."
And worse:
"This is what they're teaching our kids. You wonder why we've got a bunch of Occupy Wall Street people walking around all around the country, they've been indoctrinated, literally, for years by this kind of stuff," Gainor said. "Whether it was 'Captain Planet' or Nickelodeon's 'Big Green Help,' or 'The Day After Tomorrow,' the Al Gore-influenced movie, all of that is what they're teaching, is that corporations is bad, the oil industry is bad, and ultimately what they're telling kids is what they told you in the movie 'The Matrix': that mankind is a virus on poor old mother Earth."
Oh yes! I get it now! So according to Bolling Jamie Peck was wrong to write:
You heard right: the Occupy Wall Street movement was caused by Saturday morning cartoons. Corporate greed, lack of access to healthcare, and anger over having to pay for the fallout of mortgage backed securities fraud are but excuses to obey their one true fuehrer, a guy who only appears when all their powers combine.
*Snicker*
Pecker makes good points. Speaking as one who was raised on such programming, it wasn't Captain Planet that taught us that the world was broken by corporate greed. It was the oil spills, the lying, and cheating. The gap growing between rich and poor and the lie that if we go to school and work within the system we will get our piece of the American Dream. Not to mention all the lies in history class and way people oppressed in society. You can see watch Bolling in the following clip.
The Muppets Are Communist, Fox Business Network Says
Philosopher Interview: Alvin Plantinga - Apologetics 315
Philosopher Interview: Alvin Plantinga - Apologetics 315
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Outbreak! : History’s Deadliest Pandemics [infographic] | Daily Infographic
6And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8All these are the beginning of sorrows. - Matthew 24:6-8
Outbreak! : History’s Deadliest Pandemics [infographic] | Daily Infographic
ConflictMap.org - map of armed conflicts
ConflictMap.org - map of armed conflicts
Steven Pinker Argues That People Are Now Less Violent
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Here is a longer presentation:
I'm planning a longer response but in the meantime here is rebuttal to his conclusions.
Refuting Steven Pinker’s “A History of Violence” by Jonathan Shockley
Delusions of peace by John Gray
I think that this actually illustrates a passage in the Old Testament
13 “From the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit. 14 They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. ‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace. 15 Are they ashamed of their detestable conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when I punish them,” says the LORD. - Jeremiah 6:13-15Sure God was speaking to Jeremiah's contemporaires but it sure matches today also.
Conflict Map - Infographic
Conflict Map
Ali on first Black American President - YouTube
Ali on first Black American President - YouTube
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