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The Candidate and the President: Rachel Motte Reports from Saddleback
I've been amused by recent speculations that Barack Obama may be the antichrist. After Saturday's candidate forum at Saddleback Church, I think we can safely say that he isn't. That would be too far above his pay grade. Rick Warren...
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Changes
Changes coming...stay tuned....
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Thirty Three Things (v. 70)
1. How the digital age is destroying us by ruining our ability to concentrate Chronic distraction, from which we all now suffer, kills you more slowly. Meyer says there is evidence that people in chronically distracted jobs are, in early...
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100 Most Overrated/Underrated Films
[Note: I'm taking a brief vacation. Regular blogging will resume on July 21.] "That movie was totally overrated. Now if you want to see a really worthwhile flick you should see..." Because film buffs like me say this type of...
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The Very Persistent Illusion:
Absurd and Amusing Rationalizations About Free Will
[Note: I'm taking a brief vacation. Regular blogging will resume on July 21.] Last year while discussing bioethics with fellow blogger Jim Smalls, I expressed my disgust and dismay about ethicist Peter Singer. How could anyone with his intellect, I...
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Thirty Three Things (v. 69)
1. God Is Not Dead Yet -- How current philosophers argue for his existence. °°°°°° 2. William F. Vallicella on God in the Declaration of Independence By my count, there are four references to God in the Declaration of Independence....
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Do Tummy Aches Disprove God?
My tummy hurts. Ergo, there is no god. This argument may be absurd but it is not intended as a reductio ad absurdum. Although a very simplistic form, this enthymeme encapsulates one of the primary atheological arguments -- the argument...
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Thirty Three Things (v. 68)
1. The Market and Human Nature -- from a 2005 Q&A with the conservative scholar Roger Scruton (via Rod Dreher): MG: What deleterious consequences result from the "free market ideology" you mention? Are there particular economic arrangements that conservatives ought...
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Celestial Teapots, Flying Spaghetti Monsters, and Other Silly Atheist Arguments
You have to pity the modern atheist who attempts to present arguments for her cause. Unmoored from any respectable intellectual tradition, each generation is forced to recreate anti-theistic arguments from scratch. The result is that the claims which they believe...
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Thirty Three Things (v. 67)
1. The Last Traffic Jam The average U.S. citizen completely ignores the regularity with which the automobile kills him, maims him, embroils him with the law and provides mobile shelter for rakes intent on seducing his daughters. He takes it...
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The Gospel of Juneteenth
Although bad news travels fast, good news often takes the scenic route. That appears to have been especially true during the Civil War. Although Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation became official on the first day of January 1863, word didn't arrive in...
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Six Thoughts About Jesus
Over the years people have asked me why, since this is an evangelical blog, I don't mention Jesus more often. My usual glib answer is that I prefer not to name-drop just because I'm on a first name basis with...
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Family Resemblance
[Note: This is my belated Father's Day post. Intentionally belated, because it's not really the sort of thing one should post on Father's Day.] "You look like you're Ukrainian," said the lady at the cosmetic counter. I had been hoping...
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Thirty Three Things (v. 66)
1. Cory Doctorow on judging one's own writing: One of the things I've noticed about writing every day is that there are days when writing that page feels like flying. Like the hand of God reached down and touched my...
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Don't Marry a Proverbs 31 Woman
[Note: I originally wrote this post in 2006 with the intention that it would be provocative. On reflection I see that it is a bit overstated and certainly less nuanced than it needs to be. "Career woman", for instance, has...
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