Casey's Critical Thinking Casey's Critical Thinking A blog and collection of essays on such topics as the existence of God, abortion, creation/evolution, Christian living and current events. Articles
Humorous discussion
2007-09-12 16:11:00 I engaged in a humorous discussion the other day with a person who believes that this world is an hallucination. I would provide the link, but I don’t want to “artificially enhance” the discussion. Anyway, I thought I’d share the conversation with you. Confused bloke: There is not one thing in this world that is true. ... More About: Humorous , Discussion , Disc
U.S. border closed to unsafe Mexican trucks
2007-09-12 12:23:00 Well, Congress has actually done something useful for once. They blocked the deal I mentioned the other day. The U.S. Senate has dealt a likely death blow to the Bush administration plans to give Mexican long-haul trucking rigs free access to United States roads and highways. A bipartisan majority voted 74-24 tonight to pass an amendment offered ... More About: Politics , Trucks , Closed
Top 5 9/11 Truther Myths You Should Be Prepared to Debunk
2007-09-12 02:10:00 Mary Katharine Ham has a great piece on 9/11 truthers on Townhall today. Six years later, and the conspiracy theories are still floating around. I figured the kooks would have gone away by now. Myth No. 1: Four novice pilots with no experience could never have successfully guided those planes into three out of four targets. Fact: ... More About: Politics , Terrorism , Myths , Debunk
A bad argument against evolution
2007-09-10 02:21:00 Lately I have seen a certain argument against evolution popping up left and right. It seems that many people think that it is reasonable to assume that if humans evolved from apes there should be no more apes. First off, to be technical, evolutionists do not believe we came from apes. They think we share ... More About: Evolution , Creation
Site was down for a while
2007-09-10 01:42:00 My site was down for a while yesterday. My apologies if you experienced difficulties connecting. There was apparently some kind of DDOS attack at the datacenter. All appears to be well now. More About: Site
Is Rush rooting for Huckabee?
2007-09-09 02:51:00 On Friday, Rush Limbaugh made the following comments on his show: You know, Huckabee is — well, when these things all started, everybody said, “Rush, who you for?” I said, “It’s too soon, you never know, anybody could spring out of this thing a surprise.” Now, Huckabee hasn’t moved in the top tier yet, but ... More About: Politics , Kabe
Vice President Huckabee?
2007-09-09 02:47:00 The New York Times thinks it might be a good idea for Rudy Giuliani to run with Mike Huckabee . They say they “balance each other out.” Do they really think that conservatives are going to vote for Giuliani just because he’s got a conservative vice president? Not me. I will be voting for someone else ... More About: Politics , President , Vice President , Vice
U.S. border to be opened to 100 Mexican-domiciled trucking companies
2007-09-08 05:26:00 WorldNetDaily has a very alarming story today about plans to open the border to Mexican trucking companies that do not meet American safety standards: “The Bush administration has indicated to me that tomorrow (Friday) they will open the U.S. border to 100 Mexican-domiciled trucking companies,” DeFazio said. “This is a sad day for America.” “This administration is ... More About: Politics , Companies , Foreign Policy , Opened
Misguided teachings in the church
2007-09-08 05:16:00 A couple of blogs got me thinking about biblical-sounding teachings that are nowhere to be found in the Bible. The first is the “sinner’s prayer.” Bob Hayton does a good job of describing the dangers of this seemingly innocent addition to the words of the Bible and notes that no one recorded in the Bible ... More About: Church , Theology , The Church , Teac , Guid
Fred?s announcement video
2007-09-07 04:43:00 If Fred can keep talking like this I think he’s got a very good shot at the presidency. More About: Video , Politics , Announcement , Anno
If it?s good enough for Tigger?
2007-09-06 14:17:00 It seems that many people argue that euthanasia should be legalized on the grounds that “we do it for our pets, so why shouldn’t we do it for suffering family members?” I am actually shocked to see this kind of reasoning used in public fora. Can we really compare the value of a human being ... More About: Good , Tigger
Gravatars
2007-09-04 02:33:00 I’ve enabled the Grava tars2 plugin for comments. Now if you’re registered on gravatar.com your avatar will show beside your comment. More About: Rava
A martial arts fan?s dream come true
2007-09-02 15:15:00 If you’re a fan of martial arts movies like I am, then you’ll be excited to learn that Jet Li and Jackie Chan are teaming up in a new movie called Forbidden Kingdom. I’m a big fan of both these guys. Personally, I think that if the fight were outside the ring, i.e. there were ... More About: Martial Arts , Arts , Dream , True , Martial
Random, incoherent observation of the day
2007-09-01 03:37:00 Yesterday a mosquito reminded me of something that I find inexplicable: why are we able to discover medicines? Cortisone stops the itch of a mosquito bite almost instantaneously. I understand why mosquito bites itch. I also understand how cortisone stops the itch. What I don’t understand is why does cortisone exist? What is the evolutionary ... More About: Theology , Random , Creation , The D
Fred?s in?finally
2007-08-31 02:42:00 Fred Thompson is going to announce his bid for the presidency on September 6. Will he be able to meet the high expectations people (including myself) have of him? We’ll soon find out. Mike Huckabee doesn’t think so, but I’m starting to have some doubts about Huckabee, too, with his tax-and-spend record and nanny state ... More About: Politics , Fred , Finally , Fina , Ally
I?ve joined the ?dofollow? movement
2007-08-30 05:48:00 Today I removed the “nofollow” attribute from links in comments using the Nofollow Case by Case plugin. So now if you comment on my blog you’ll get a backlink (provided you enter one in the URL field). Note that I still moderate all comments due to all the spam I get , so please ...
Who were the sons of God and the Nephilim?
2007-08-28 13:42:00 Who are the “sons of God” and the Nephilim in Genesis 6:4? I was taught that the “sons of God” were fallen angels (possibly possessing the bodies of men) and that the Nephilim were the hybrid human-angel offspring. I always had a problem with this interpretation, mainly because I could not fathom the Bible referring ... More About: Theology , Sons , Were , Hili
What is a right?
2007-08-25 05:00:00 I was recently listening to Dr. Walter E. Williams, and he made a few comments that I had never considered before. He pointed out that we have to recognize that government has no resources of its very own. The money being spent by politicians doesn’t represent them reaching into their own pockets. Neither does it ... More About: Politics
Speaking in tongues
2007-08-23 04:11:00 Today it really would not be that strange to ask someone, “What is your mother tongue?” Of course, you would be asking the person what their native language was. Despite the fact that we use this terminology even to this day, Pentecostal churches teach that speaking in tongues refers to speaking in gibberish that only ... More About: Theology , Speaking , Tongue , Tongues , Tong
It?s not illegal if you walk backwards when you step across the border
2007-08-22 17:32:00 An appeals court in Kansas has recently concluded that just being in the country illegally doesn’t necessarily violate the law, so “…a judge cannot deny probation and require a jail sentence for a convicted drug dealer who is an illegal alien.” Hmmm. So you can be doing something that is illegal, but that doesn’t necessarily ... More About: Step , Walk , Illegal , Backwards , Acro
?Beneficial? mutations?
2007-08-21 06:00:00 Evolutionists like to cite “beneficial” mutations as the source of the creative power of evolution. There’s just one problem: all the so-called “beneficial” mutations that have been observed involve a degradation of information. Biochemist Michael Behe recently pointed this out, and I can’t do any better than the post at Uncommon Descent at describing the ... More About: Theology , Creation
Is it too much to ask for Democrats to stop trashing the United States?
2007-08-20 11:15:00 I don’t know if I would have realized the impact of what American politicians say on national television if I didn’t live in Japan. I hear so much negative talk about the United States here that is based on the lies told by Democrats on television. Nevermind the lies they continue to tell about President ... More About: Politics , Stop
Why I can?t support Mitt Romney
2007-08-17 02:08:00 Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily articulates my concerns very well: Mitt Romney , fresh from a victory in the Iowa straw poll, says now he was wrong to misrepresent his position on abortion as a candidate and governor of Massachusetts. In other words, he admits he lied ? then. But, what if he wasn’t lying back then? What if he ... More About: Politics , Abortion , Support
Better get in the race, Fred
2007-08-16 05:26:00 It’s time for Fred Thompson to get into the race. Michael Medved gives some convincing reasons why it is Mike Huckabee, and not Fred Thompson, who is going to unite the conservatives. My blog pal Bob also has a post on why Huckabee is very electable. So, where are you, Fred? It’s now or never! More About: Politics , Race
Libs can?t take criticism
2007-08-15 02:31:00 Criticize a conservative or a Republican and you’re simply pointing out the obvious. Criticize a liberal or a Democrat and you’re “attacking” them. Hillary Clinton runs a despicable ad attacking President Bush, and when the White House responds, Hillary says that the White House “attacked” her. The audacity of these people! Democrats say Bush lied ... More About: Criticism , Crit , Critic
Mike Huckabee could win the Republican nomination
2007-08-12 16:12:00 It appears as though Mike Huckabee is rising in popularity. He made a strong showing in the Ames straw poll in Iowa. I’d definitely rather see his name on the ballot than Romney, McCain or Giuliani. My dream ticket would be Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee. My friend Bob Hayton has a link to a ... More About: Republican , Nomination
Jesus = Jehovah
2007-08-12 08:09:00 It is a fundamental doctrine of Christianity that the God of the Bible is a triune God, i.e. that he exists as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It seems to me, however, that there are many Christians that overlook the implications of this truth. If Jesu s is God, then that means that it was Jesus ... More About: Theology , Jehovah
Government is not the solution to our problems?
2007-08-09 01:33:00 There are so many Christians out there that think it is government’s responsibility to provide for the poor. Somehow this is seen as following Jesus’ teachings. Nothing could be further from the truth. As the old adage goes, “Give a man a fish and feed him for a day; teach him to fish and feed ... More About: Politics , Theology , Government , Problems , Solution
Giving tithes ensures a believer will be rich?
2007-08-06 06:24:00 I was reading a Japanese Christian forum the other day, and a certain individual stated that he made a mistake at work and yet it ended up benefiting the company. Then he had car troubles, but his company paid for the repairs. Later, his car stopped on the railroad tracks and caused the trains to ... More About: Theology , Rich , Giving , Ving
America?s strongest ally
More articles from this author:2007-08-04 10:14:00 Whenever the issue comes up of who America ’s strongest ally is, England and Israel most often make it to the top of the list. Militarily, England is almost certainly our strongest ally, although popular support for the US in England seems to be on the decline. In the United Nations, Israel votes with the US ... More About: Politics , Japan , Foreign Policy , Strong 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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