Just yesterday, I saw on the news that Bush has a new strategy for Iraq: he'll be giving a series of (ridiculous) speeches aimed at justifying his invasion of Iraq. He still believes his poll numbers are in the tank because Americans have a perception problem. That's perhaps why he…
Post: The word by itself evokes for me a thick, square cedar pole standing up from, and presumably sunk down into the ground, waiting for the laundry line. Suppose you post a letter to the officer who posthumously posted your father to his army post in the post-war era. Words…
There wasn't any holding back here. Here's an excerpt from Mayor Rocky Anderson's speech: Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism. A patriot does not tell people who are intensely concerned about their country to just sit down and be quiet; to refrain from speaking out in the name…
Christians who declare their belief in Biblical creationism leave all sorts of unanswered questions in their wake. Here are a few.
Question 1: Why are there so many near-human animals?
Let’s say Darwinian evolution is “just a theory” and that one of the Bible’s two creation stories (yes, there are two in Genesis) correctly explains the origin of life on earth. Why, then, do apes and monkeys exist? Why did God create animals — especially chimps and bonobos — that are almost genetically identical to humans? If God created us in his image, wouldn’t it have made a lot more sense for no other animal on earth to be even remotely similar to us? Why would God create so many other primates — ANIMALS — that share over 95% of our DNA? Moreover, why would God give them social behaviors nearly the same as ours; language skills nearly the same as ours; emotions, the ability to use tools, even bipedalism, compassion and self-awareness all nearly the same as ours? Indeed, if we look at virtually any metric of mental ability, the average rhesus monkey behaves more human-like than did the brain damaged Terri Schiavo, whom President Bush and many Republican Members of Congress rushed to “save” because they believed she displayed human consciousness. Assuming that no species on our planet arose from evolution, but from instantaneous creation by God, why are there so many near-human animals? Why would God do this?…
63% of Americans say that the Bible is literally true. Those who rely on the Bible to condemn and harass gays often point to the book of Leviticus. If that is a worthy strategy, let's follow everything the Bible teaches us, including everything from Leviticus, right? The following excerpts are…