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
World-renowned philosopher pleads, ?Do as I say, not as I do?
2007-08-04 02:11:00 Sean Penn, loving husband and committed pacifist, wants the United States to embrace the principles of pacifism he personally holds so dear, engaging in friendly talks with totalitarian leaders like Hugo Chavez and ignoring when other dictators such as Saddam Hussein violate terms of surrender. I suppose the exercise of force should only be put ... More About: Politics , World , Current Events , Foreign Policy , Hilo
Rwanda prohibits death penalty for perpetrators of genocide
2007-08-02 05:52:00 Joseph Farah writes of his frustration in an article entitled, Help me Rwanda ! He is such an eloquent writer that I really have nothing to add. I highly recommend the article. Some excerpts follow: Some 13 years after the government of Rwanda sparked the genocide of some 800,000 mostly Christian ethnic Tutsis, a new government had, ... More About: Politics , Current Events , Death , Death penalty
Trip to the Creation Museum
2007-08-01 10:46:00 While visiting family in the States, I was able to take a trip to the “controversial” Creation Museum in Florence, KY (near Cincinnati). It was extremely crowded. We waited in line for 45 minutes to get in after a very long drive, but it was well worth the wait! We started off our tour with ... More About: Theology , Trip
Power of Schmooze Award
2007-07-31 12:21:00 Ladies and gentlemen, I have been selected to receive the Power of Schmooze Award ! This honor is only given by others who have received it, and passed on to other deserving recipients. The Power of Schmooze award was created by Mike at Ordinary Folk and Danielle at Pink Reviews to help ?recognize those people that ...
Praying for bin Laden
2007-07-11 12:39:00 Brother Andrew, founder of the persecuted-church ministry Open Doors, is asking Christians whether they have prayed for Osama bin Laden today. The man is obviously a good evangelist, but he is clueless when it comes to national security. He says, They have a very strong belief, and they act upon it, that in the end times in ... More About: Theology , Current Events , Bin Laden , Pray
Tiny tablet provides proof for Old Testament
2007-07-11 06:32:00 A professor from Vienna makes an important archaelogical discovery, and a British museum expert provides another example of the double standard applied to the Bible: Michael Jursa, a visiting professor from Vienna…made what has been called the most important find in Biblical archaeology for 100 years, a discovery that supports the view that the historical books ... More About: Theology , Current Events , Tiny , Proof , Tablet
Texas State Lawmaker Opposing Deadly Force Bill Shoots Would-Be Thief
2007-07-10 14:33:00 I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I hate guns. I think people have a right to defend themselves, though, and especially when someone breaks into their home. Why is it that liberals and liberal lawmakers that support tighter gun control laws often carry concealed weapons themselves or have bodyguards that do? I’ve ... More About: Politics , Force , Texas , State , Stat
PageRank updates
2007-07-01 13:22:00 I’m not a professional blogger, nor do I desire to be, but I’ve been trying to improve my Google PageRank for the past several months, so I’ve been looking into how it works a bit. Just today I found a very convenient page for estimating when the next PageRank update will be: Page Rank Export ... More About: Pagerank , Updates , Ager , Gera
Japan should defend U.S. from ICBM attacks: panel
2007-06-30 08:45:00 For those of you who don’t know, Japan ’s constitution prevents them from taking aggressive action. It is so strict that when a North Korean ship attacked the Japanese Self-Defense Forces a few years back, the JSDF were apparently not allowed to fire back because the North Koreans were not using enough fire power to sink ... More About: Politics , Panel , Attacks , Tacks
Americans give record $295 billion to charities in 2006
2007-06-29 09:28:00 Okay, let’s get rid of this stereotype that Americans are stingy. It’s about time that self-righteous hollywood stars and irrelevant has-beens like Jimmy Carter quit saying things like rich states “don’t give a damn” about people in poor countries. The ABC report notes that the governments of “many other countries, such as Norway, Portugal and Japan, ... More About: Politics , Current Events , Give , Record
Double standards
2007-06-27 02:37:00 I don’t recall the AP ever running a story about Bill Maher saying that he wished Dick Cheney had been killed while he was in Afghanistan because “people wouldn’t be dying needlessly” (I couldn’t find one in their archives, either). Yet they see fit to run a story on Ann Coulter mocking Bill Maher and ... More About: Politics , Standards , Double , Double Standards , Stand
Who loves you, baby?
2007-06-22 08:47:00 Liberals claim that the only thing conservatives care about is making more money. I’m sure many of you saw the stories about the research that proves exactly the opposite last year, but it was before my blog was started, so I want to share it with you just in case you missed it. The book, entitled ... More About: Politics , Baby
The Politically Incorrect Americanism of Alba, Pacino, and Arnold
2007-06-20 04:15:00 Mary Katharine Ham, the managing editor for Townhall.com, has an excellent piece on assimilation. She quotes pro-American comments by Jessica Alba , Al Pacino and Arnold Schwarzenegger and then the reactions from the anti-American, anti-melting pot, hate-filled, leftist, illegal immigration supporters. More About: Politics , Current Events , Politically Incorrect
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 ... More About: Global Warming , Current Events , Global , Calls , Theory
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 ... More About: Theology , Animal , Current Events , The A
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 ... More About: Theology , Death , Experiences , Peri , Erie
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 ... More About: Politics , Studies , Crime , Death , Death penalty
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! More About: Break , Week , Brea
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 ... More About: Politics , Liberals , Terrorism , Current Events
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 ... More About: Ideas , Current Events , Fear
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 ... More About: Crime , Current Events , Robber , Robb , Rime
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, ... More About: Seafood , Treat , Import , Imports
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. More About: Comments , Stra , Comm , Registration , Regis
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. More About: Music , Country , Country Music , Listen , Count
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 ... More About: Children , Peri , Erin
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. More About: Theology , Relativism , Oral , Moral , Mora
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 ... More About: Error
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 ... More About: Theology , Events , Vent
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!!!
More articles from this author: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. More About: Running 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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