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Father of scientific climatology calls man-made global warming theory ?hooe
2007-06-18 17:47:00
The “father of scientific climatology” says that talk about man-made global warming is a bunch of hooey. When are people going to wake up and realize that we’re all being had by people trying to make money? Reid Bryson, known as the father of scientific climatology, considers global warming a bunch of hooey. The UW-Madison professor ...
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Why put the animal down?
2007-06-17 14:43:00
In February this year, a jaguar killed a zookeeper. The other zookeepers put the animal down. Rush Limbaugh made the following comment on his radio show: Even if it hadn’t attacked the other rescuers, and it didn’t say attack, it said it was “approaching.” They couldn’t take any chances. In this case, I understand it. But ...
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Near-death experiences
2007-06-17 14:28:00
Today’s sermon was about the rich man and Lazarus. The guest speaker today made some interesting observations about the passage, but he mentioned near-death experiences in passing and how so many people see a “bright light.” I don’t know what today’s speaker thinks about near-death experiences, because he didn’t elaborate, but I am skeptical. If ...
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Studies say death penalty deters crime
2007-06-16 08:03:00
It’s certainly surprising to see a story like this on AP, but here it is. Some interesting highlights: The reports have horrified death penalty opponents and several scientists, who vigorously question the data and its implications. …”Science does really draw a conclusion. It did. There is no question about it,” said Naci Mocan, an economics professor at ...
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Two week break
2007-06-07 02:34:00
Due to circumstances at work I’ll be taking a two week break from the blog. Comments are disabled until that time. Thanks for reading!
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Why do liberals blame the US for the Iraq death toll?
2007-06-06 04:02:00
Why is it that liberals like to place banners on their websites showing the Iraq death toll? Obviously, it is because they believe that the US is to blame for the casualties. Victor Davis Hanson notes on National Review: Somehow ?thousands have been killed? is never qualified as those mostly butchered and blown up by insurgents–since ...
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Evolutionists fear other ideas
2007-06-05 07:49:00
As you may know, Answers in Genesis has opened a huge Creation Museum in Kentucky. On Ken Ham’s blog, he gives some responses by people at the University of Cincinnati. ?What I have a problem with is how the Answers in Genesis movement twists science ? repeatedly taking facts out of context ? in order to ...
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Violent crime up again, more murders, robberies
2007-06-05 02:47:00
There’s a story on Yahoo that reports that the murder rate in the US is going up. The FBI reported that the number of violent crimes nationwide went up by 1.3 percent last year, following a 2.3 percent increase in 2005. That had been the first rise in four years and the biggest percentage gain in ...
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Seafood imports from China raised in untreated sewage
2007-06-04 16:55:00
Okay, now this is scary. Red meat: bad for you. Fish: tainted with feces? China , the leading exporter of seafood to the U.S., is raising most of its fish products in water contaminated with raw sewage and compensating by using dangerous drugs and chemicals, many of which are banned by the Food and Drug Administration. …In China, ...
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Registration no longer required for comments
2007-06-02 13:50:00
As per a suggestion received on Blog Catalog, I’m going to try turning off the requirement for registration for a while. If there are a lot of spam comments I’ll have to turn it back on.
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Why listen to country music?
2007-06-02 05:05:00
I’m not a fan of country music, but I wish the things Jeff Foxworthy says about it here could be said about the genres I do listen to like R&B and rock.
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Pampering ?shy children?
2007-06-02 04:37:00
There’s two things funny about this story in the Telegraph. First, the British apparently refer to “math” as “maths.” Ha, ha. I didn’t know that. The second thing is that these experts don’t know what they’re talking about. I was one of these “shy children.” I didn’t ever want to raise my hand in class–even ...
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Moral relativism
2007-06-01 17:18:00
Moral relativism is rampant these days, and it seems the only thing moral relativists are willing to condemn is Christianity. My friend Richard has a good discussion of moral relativism going on on his blog.
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Terrorized
2007-06-01 16:28:00
Fred Thompson had a nice piece on National Review yesterday. So many people seem to be clueless about the situation in the Middle East. It seems like everyone thinks that because Israel is militarily advantaged that it is the Palestinians who are the victims. The restraint that Israel shows never ceases to amaze me. Far ...
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How involved is God in everyday events?
2007-06-01 10:07:00
This is not going to be a theological discussion, but more of a personal observation. I’m still trying to collect my thoughts on the subject, so I haven’t come to a conclusion yet. One often hears the words “God is in control” at church or on the radio. God is the omnipotent creator of the ...
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Wetware
2007-06-01 09:30:00
Have you ever heard of “wetware”? A while back I subscribed to Merriam Webster’s “Word of the Day,” and yesterday’s word was “wetware.” It means “the human brain or a human being considered especially with respect to human logical and computational capabilities.” That’s a pretty interesting word. I’m going to have to use it sometime. MW ...

Fred Thompson is running!!!
2007-05-30 17:09:00
Great news! There is finally a viable candidate that I can vote for in good conscience. Fred Thom pson is planning to announce his entry into the race over the Fourth of July holiday.
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A challenge to Christian pacifists
2007-05-29 05:17:00
I have been contacted by many Christian pacifists since I first wrote Christianity and Pacifism after the events of September 11, 2001. Some claim that I am going to hell, some beg me to learn how to love my enemies and others voice their concern in a reasonable manner. All of them, I presume, have ...
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Liberal hypocrites
2007-05-28 05:59:00
What could possibly be the point of ABC revealing “covert action” in Iran? The sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the subject, say President Bush has signed a “nonlethal presidential finding” that puts into motion a CIA plan that reportedly includes a coordinated campaign of propaganda, disinformation and ...
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Young Earth vs. Old Earth Debate
2007-05-25 23:12:00
Tonight I attended a debate between Hugh Ross of Reasons to Believe and Minoru Usami of Creation Research Japan. It was called a "debate," but it was more of a presentation of views for each side to listen to the other. It was stressed that both Hugh Ross and Minoru Usami are evangelical Christians and that both Young Earth Creationists (YECs) and Old Earth Creationists (OECs) believe that the Bible is God's word. It's an important point, because we're all on the same side. We tend to let disagreements divide us, but the age of the earth/universe is irrelevant when it comes to salvation. I have never read any of Hugh Ross' books all the way through, so it was an interesting presentation. It did drive home how different one's interpretation of the Bible really is depending on whether they take Genesis literally or "literally." By "literally" in quotes, I mean that Hugh Ross claims that since the Hebrew word  "yom" can mean a long pe...
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My testimony
2007-05-25 00:03:00
No Christian website is complete without a testimony. In particular, when it comes to an apologetics website such as this one, many people probably wonder about the site owner's background. So why did it take me eight years to put one up? No idea. I just happened across an article on the subject on rationalchristianity.net today, which I had actually read before, and decided to get to it. The full article can be found here.
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Environmental activism is a religious experience
2007-05-16 09:47:00
Environmental activism is a religious experience. What else can explain the utter pointlessness of trying to "save" a world you believe arose by accident and is ultimately destined for destruction? The majority, or at least a very large number, of environmental activists are atheistic evolutionists who believe that life is the result of an accident that occurred billions of years ago. If life is an accident then so is the sun, and when the sun burns out a few millenia from now, all life will cease to exist. It will be as if nothing ever happened. All the environmentalists' efforts to prolong the inevitable will have been forgotten by...well, there actually won't be anyone left to remember! Apparently there really is a God-shaped hole that we all need to fill. Many people are filling this void in their lives by dedicating themselves to stopping climate change, an impossible task to accomplish on a planet that has been through several ice ages and periods of warm. At lea...
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Bush's Real Record On the Economy
2007-05-15 18:45:00
An editorial from Investor's Business Daily sets the record straight on Bush and the economy: Years from now, pundits and academics will surely wonder why President Bush's greatest achievement — his stewardship of the economy — got so little notice during his time in office. Yet that's how it is. Bizarrely, polls show that many people think the economy has fallen into a recession. Or that we never left the slump that began in March 2001, a bare month and a half after Bush entered office, and that ended in November of the same year. Last summer, a national poll taken by American Research Group showed 38% of Americans thought the economy was in a recession. By last month that had fallen to 28%, but it's still a big share. Of course, we weren't in a recession. Nor is it the case, as also has been asserted, that "things got worse" under Bush. What factually is true is Bush faced the greatest economic challenge of any incoming president since President Rea...
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Conservative cartoons
2007-05-15 17:43:00
Some of these are really funny. Check out IBD Editorials for a good laugh.
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Democrats and the Fairness Doctrine
2007-05-15 12:50:00
Knowing that they cannot compete on the merits of their ideas, Demo crats love to try to silence the competition. Why is it that it is the Republicans that always get accused of censorship? Rush Limbaugh explains it this way: Bring it on! Pelosi and the Democrat s are resurrecting The Fairness Doctrine to shut up Rush. The left saw their liberal radio network go down in flames, but they won't accept that they cannot compete in the marketplace of ideas. No, they're going to require local radio stations to "balance" Rush's commentary, knowing it will create hassles so thick that radio stations will drop the show. "It's a pure Stalinist tactic," Rush says. "Elected officials of government are attempting to deny private citizens access to the microphone." The focus of Democrats is to make war on Rush, not Al-Qaeda. It's not just Rush, though, it's a host of conservative radio hosts. Of course, Rush is the biggest name, but there are others. Since there...
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Bad Climate "Science"
2007-05-14 00:00:00
The subheading to Joel Schwartz's article on National Review about global warming science sums both the article and the issue up nicely: The ideology goes in before the science goes on.Assume that human greenhouse-gas emissions are causing dangerous changes in the Earth’s climate. What should we do about it? Public debate on climate change has focused almost solely on requiring large reductions in fossil-fuel energy consumption. Enter the journal Nature with a new feature article on another potential means of dealing with climate change. ...Another potential contributor is a wooly-minded romantic environmentalism that seems to have infected scientists as much as anyone else. This also comes through in Nature’s profile: Hans Feichter, a climate modeller at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, speaks for the vast majority of his colleagues when he says ‘the role of a geoscientist is to understand nature, not to change it.’ Climate scientists...
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Start calling 'em French fries again
2007-05-11 00:00:00
Maybe we've confused the French with the French media. The election of pro-America Nicolas Sarkozy to the presidency of France shows that the French people don't hate us as much as our media would like us to believe. Yep, it's time to start ordering "French" fries again (not that I ever called 'em "Freedom" fries). The election of Nicolas Sarkozy to the presidency of France has been a serious blow to those who claim that America has earned the undying hatred of Europeans. Oh, to be sure, the French media hates us, but there are a lot of people who say ours does too. Regardless, Sarkozy’s victory has sent shock waves through the world’s media centers. A French president who openly admires America is an embarrassment to those who view us as the country bumpkin cousins of the sophisticated Europeans. American pundits and politicians who say we should change our foreign policies to win the European popularity contest ought to be feeling a little emb...
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Was There Death Before Sin?
2007-05-11 00:00:00
I have written a new article responding to Rich Deem's rebuttal of the young earth creationist argument that there was no death before the Fall on godandscience.org. If you're interested, the article is here. Here 's a short excerpt: For many years now I have enjoyed the articles on godandscience.org. At the time of this essay they are celebrating 10 years on the Internet. Although I do not agree with their position on the issue of origins, I find much of their website very helpful, and I believe there is much common ground. I'm sure I've read through their section on young earth creationism before, but I just happened to look at it in more detail today. I would like to respond to Rich Deem's rebuttal of the young earth creationist argument that there was no death before the Fall. First of all, he claims that plant death is the same as animal death. It's hard to imagine someone actually arguing this, but I suppose there is precedent for it in religions like Buddhism (som...
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More ingratitude
2007-05-10 00:00:00
By now, everyone knows about the thwarted terror attack in New Jersey. This is yet another example of ingratitude toward American kindness. Michelle Malkin has a column on National Review today describing some of the kindness extended to Muslims by the United States and Fort Dix, in particular: Well, here is the thanks we get. Eight years ago, America opened its arms to tens of thousands of ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo. The first planeload landed at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Military leaders worked day and night to turn the base into a child-friendly village. They coordinated medical and security checkups, mental-health and trauma counseling, and ethnic-food preparations. Soldiers from Fort Bragg traveled up from North Carolina to assist in refugee operations at Fort Dix. Then-U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Mitchell M. Zais also assembled a team of about 80 soldiers from the U.S. Army Reserve Command in Atlanta. The New Jersey National Guard and American Red Cross teamed up to coordinate...
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A letter to the Global Church from the Protestant Church of Smyrna
2007-05-06 00:00:00
On April 18, 2007 several members of the "religion of peace" tortured, disemboweled and slit the throats of three Christians in Turkey. I'm a little late in writing about this, because I just learned of it recently. We prayed for the families of the martyrs at church today. The Protest ant Church of Smyrna has asked believers around the world to pray that someday at least one of the murderers will come to faith in Christ because of the testimony in death of Tilman Geske, the German missionary, and the testimonies in death of Necati Aydin and Ugur Yuksel, the first martyrs for Christ out of the Turkish Church. I'll certainly be praying for this as well as for Muslims all over the world to wake up to the reality of what their religion is all about and that justice will be served in this and all other terrorist attacks all over the world. A Letter to the Global Church from the Protestant Church of Smyrna Turkish Believers Satanically Tortured for Hours before Being Killed