Last week I wrote about A 4th grade quiz on dinosaurs that the teacher would have given me an “F” on. A Christian school in South Carolina had used an Answers in Genesis quiz entitled "Dinosaurs, Genesis and the Gospel," and the atheist and skeptic blogs were abuzz about how goofy this quiz was in their …
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Hristos a înviat! Adevărat a înviat! Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! The empty tomb -- Here are 14 Evidences for the Resurrection. This is a central teaching of Christianity. Put all other issues aside for a while---questions about evolution, biblical inerrancy, gay rights, or whatever else keeps you from Christ---and give some thought to …
GENESIS 1:1 IN KLINGON -- Creationism.com has Genesis 1:1 in Klingon. I guess that might come in handy if a Klingon shows up at the next Answers in Genesis conference. For those of us who don't know the Klingon alphabet, there is an English transliteration. Oh my, there are links to the Klingon Bible -- …
This is the fifth post in a multi-part review of a young-Earth creationist (YEC) presentation given by Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson of the Institute for Creation Research in Billings, Montana in November 2012. Part 1-- The Relevance of Genesis (I was in complete agreement with Dr. Jeanson). The YEC version of the scientific method. Part 2 …
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The ESV Study Bible is a theologically conservative Evangelical work, and is certainly one of the most comprehensive study Bibles ever produced. It has been out for only three years, but it looks like it will be a highly influential reference work for decades to come.One potential positive impact of the ESVSB relates to its …
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About two years ago I wrote three posts on young-Earth creationist (YEC) claims of human footprints being found with dinosaur footprints, and the problems that footprint fossils in general cause for the young-Earth catastrophic "flood geology" model. Following the wrong footprints Following more wrong footprints Dinosaur footprints part 3 To their credit, the major YEC …
I'm sort of caught between the young-Earth creationists on one side and the militant Dawkinsites on the other. I love them both: the YECs are my dear brothers and sisters in Christ, and Jesus loves the atheists, so I do too. There are a couple of interesting conversations going on on some of my older …
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Sarah Palin --- I am a conservative and Republican, but I am no fan of Sarah Palin. I groaned when McCain selected her for his running mate, as it completely took away the "experience" argument against Obama. Rod Dreher (Crunchy Con) has a good review of Going Rogue. Senators as cartographers --- National Geographic has …
The first concrete evidence that an asteroid impact ended the Cretaceous Period was the discovery of an iridium-rich layer marking the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary by a team led by Luis Alvarez in the early 1980s. Iridium is very rare in Earth's crust, but is considerably more abundant in asteroids, leading geologists to conclude that the …
Does this carving at the Ta Prohm temple complex in Cambodia prove that dinosaurs of the genus Stegosaurus were still alive in Southeast Asian jungles only 1000 years ago? Some young-Earth creationists think so. An example of a web page dedicated to this is found at Bible.ca: Dinosaurs in ancient Cambodian temple -- Amazing evidence …
