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• 2018 Archive
  

• Eternal Damnation as Godʼs Metaphysical Straight Jacket
  

• 2017 Archive
  

• The Resurrection of Lazarus, Questions Galore
  
• Christians admit that difficult questions arise when one attempts to reconcile Christianity and Evolution
  
• Is the Atheist My Neighbor? a book by Randal Rauser, reviewed by Edward Babinski
  
• Tyler Cowen on “Why I Don't Believe in God” and Ross Douthat on “Should Tyler Cowen Believe in God?”
  

• 2016 Archive
  

• Christian Comedians Should Leave Satire and Sarcasm to the Experts
  
• Mark Twain on the Problem of Evil
  
• 14 Biology Lessons for I.D.ists (Intelligent Design advocates)
  
• Was Benjamin Franklin a Christian? Or to be more precise, did Benjamin Franklin convert to “true Christianity” in middle-age as Christian apologist Bill Fortenberry suggests?
  
• Looks Like Humans & Apes Share Common Ancestry ADMIT Leading I.D.ists & Creationists (with citations!)
  
• The Apostle Paul “Winged It” According To Christian N.T. Scholar, Peter Enns
  
• “Eyewitness” Reports of Jesusʼs Resurrection? Or Gospel Trajectories?
  
• Sorry Creationists, Death Existed Since “The Beginning”
  
• Prophecy about Jesus? “Mighty God, Everlasting Father” Isaiah 9:6
  
• Evolution of the Human Brain, Past, Present, Future…
  
• Cambrian Explosion, No Help to I.D.—Agassiz trumps Darwin? (Stephen C. Meyer, Signature in the Cell, Darwinʼs Doubt, Louis Agassiz, Discovery Institute, Intelligent Design)
  
• Lawrence Krauss, Stephen Meyer, Denis Lamoureux: Whatʼs Behind it All? Problems with Intelligent Design not discussed by the debaters. Including “The Junk DNA Question,” “If I.D. were true,” “The Enzyme Fold Fallacy of Douglas Axe,” and, “Why I am not an I.D.ist”
  
• Flat Earth Folly by Dave Matson (guest post in which Matson demonstrates the sphericity of the earth to modern day flat-earthers such as those crowing about a “worldwide sphere-ist conspiracy”
  
• Pawn Sacrifice. How the Bobby Fischer phenomenon inspired future grandmasters, Michael Rodhe, John Fedorowicz (The Fed), Joel Benjamin & their non-grandmaster teammate, My Three Years of Chess Bliss, 1973-1975
  
• Religious-Affinity Fraud & Christian Corporate Swindlers: Fleecing the Flock, Preying on the Faithful, Using the Lordʼs Name in Gain
  
• Leonardo da Vinci: Questioner of Authority, Empiricist, Anti-Flood Geologist…with Buddhist tendencies? And a link to a WTF Leonardo sketch.
  
• Sir Thomas Browne: A Fascinating Early Enlightenment Christian
  
• Godʼs Mixed Messages: Youth Pastor Killed by Lightning Strike (My Christian Daily 2016-01-23)
  
• Look at the Cosmos, and Compare that with what Christian Apologists Claim to Know for Sure
  
• Christian Theology is All Over the Map. Part 2. How Can One Gain Eternal Life? The Synoptic Road to Salvation vs. The Roman Road to Salvation
  
• Christian Theology is All Over the Map. Part 1. Must Christians believe that Jesusʼs bloody death had atoning power?
  
• Agnosticism compared with Religion (or compared with any other fully formed belief system)
  
• Miracles by Craig S. Keener, book review part 1 — “Inability to walk?” No. “Cured?” Only temporarily. Keenerʼs failure to try & make a famed critic of Gospel miracles look foolish.
  

• 2015 Archive
  

• Why Abiogenesis Is Not Inconceivable
  
• Christians Say the Damnedest Things… about Hell and Faith
  
• Christianity & Divorce (no convincing evidence for supernatural grace, plenty of evidence that a host of known cultural factors take precedence)
  
• Kim Davis limerick, There once was a gal named Kim…
  
• Christian Missionaries, Vacationaries, VolunTOURism (Humor, Data, Questions Galore)
  
• Violence, Primate Psychology, Mass Movements in Religion and Politics
  
• Rat-Robot Hybrids! Neurons naturally hook up & learn new behaviors based on feedback. They learn to drive robot car around and avoid hitting walls.
  
• Famed Neurobiologists on Free Will vs. Determinism, Emergence in Nature (and how their views and arguments compare with C. S. Lewisʼs Argument from Reason)
  
• Exaggerations of Biblical Proportions!
  
• Fine-Tuning question is something “we don't understand well enough yet”
  
• Divine Providence or Mixed Messages? A collection of news items showing how Christians suffer just like the rest of us.
  
• The World Beyond Your Head, quotations from Matthew B. Crawford
  
• They Saved the Lives of Billions, or Donated Tens of $Billions$ to Charitable Foundations—without trying to convert others to their religion/philosophy unless itʼs to love learning and love & help others: Hilleman, Borlaug, Gates, Buffet
  
• Do we really NEED all the diseases in the world that God designed to kill children and crops and cause sorrow and starvation galore?
  
• Isaiah 53 not a prophecy of Jesus
  
• Christians or Non-Christians Who Suffer Depression or Attempt Suicide. What We All Have In Common.
  
• Is Religion Connected to Violence?
  
• The Difference Christianity Makes—Both the Subtle and Dark Differences
  
• Does “Atonement” Make Sense?
  
• How and why did the scientific revolution take place? How much responsibility can Christianity
  
• The Fine-Tuning Argument… Raises As Many Questions As It Answers
  
• On The Second Law of Thermodynamics (Entropy) & The Bible
  
• Problems with Reconciling Christianity and Evolution (based on the book, Evolving Out of Eden by Robert M. Price & Edwin Suominen)
  
• Quotations from Sir Martin Rees and Paul Davies, Handy to have since fine-tuners often selectively quote from Rees and Davies
  
• Can a Fine-Tuner Admit That Their PARTICULAR Conception and Becoming the EXACT Person They Are MIGHT Be the Result of Impersonal Probabilities Rather than Finely Directed Teleological Design?
  
• Response to David Bentley Hart, author of Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies. Yale University Press, 2009
  
• Greg Bahnsen, presuppositional Christian apologist, Reconstructionist, Theonomist, as mentioned in a section of a new book on Christian Reconstruction by Assoc. Prof. of Religion, Michael J. McVicar
  
• Complexity is how the Cosmos flows. Mathematical Models of Reality and the Fine-Tuning Argument do not constitute proof of the kind that Intelligent Design advocates insist they do. (ADDED BONUS: “The Dexter of Parasites”)
  
• Biblical scholars, including those who are Evangelical Christians, generally agree in viewing the sayings of Jesus in the fourth Gospel (the Gospel of John) with greater suspicion than sayings in the other three Gospels
  
• The apostle Paul, fanaticus extremus, all the symptoms of your typical religious fanatic rolled into one (Part 2 of a 2 Part Series)
  
• The apostle Paul, fanaticus extremus, all the symptoms of your typical religious fanatic rolled into one (Part 1 of a 2 Part Series)
  
• Inspired Writings that Cite Non-inspired Writings for Inspiration (Paul, other New Testament writers)
  
• Christianity raises as many intellectual and historical questions as it claims to answer, if not more…
  
• How reliable are the criteria for historical authenticity employed by historical Jesus scholars, and what questions has historical research raised for Christian scholars like James D. G. Dunn, Robert Gundry, and Michael Licona? Not to mention Barbara Brown Taylorʼs questioning of her vocation…
  
• The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade (received Christianity Todayʼs Book Award of Merit for 2015)
  
• Paul Davies, noted physicist, on naturalism, theism, belief in God, and a third way (assorted quotations)
  
• Reverend Billy Graham, Darkness and Light
  
• Christian Apologist, Alister McGrath on Atheismʼs “twilight” and Aldous Huxleyʼs “lie” about Calvinists in Geneva beheading a child
  
• The Cultural Divide Between the Ancient Near East and the Wealth of Modern Knowledge/Information — Where Do We Get Our Answers From Today? What Expands Our Minds the Most Today?
  
• Terry Pratchettʼs Guide to God, Genesis, Sacred Scriptures, Ethics, Fate, Science, Nature, Philosophy, Funny Lines, History, Politics, and Education
  
• On Recovering from Alcoholism, Drug Addiction, Schizophrenia, and... Addiction to Religious Certainties
  
• The nihilistʼs nihilist, E. M. Cioran, on suicide, death, meaninglessness, paradise, freedom, polytheism vs. monotheism, and humanity whose growth is out of control in a cancerous fashion
  
• Human Giants over ten feet tall? No solid evidence. Kent Hovind and other creationists arenʼt even curious enough to research the tall tales they help spread.
  
• A Tall Tale Still Repeated by Everyone from Creationists (like Kent Hovind) to Velikovsky-ists
  
• Eight Questions for Intelligent Design advocates
  
• Intelligent Design? How Intelligent? How Designed? Was the cosmos designed so that you in particular would come to exist? If you begin to doubt that proposition, then what about the proposition that the cosmos was designed so that your particular species would come to exist?
  
• N. T. Wright — A collection of quotations that illuminate his journey and beliefs (along with criticisms from those who find his views either too liberal or too conservative)
  
• In the Bible there is divination, witchcraft, demons, along with the belief that God personally guides the constellations in their season and moves the clouds and sends the lightnings (thunder is his “voice”) and He personally sends plagues, famines, droughts, warring armies. The same Bible fails to feature scientific views ahead of its time.
  
• Young-earth creationists, Henry Morris, Ken Ham, and Jason Lisle fail to provide insight into the cosmos. Lisleʼs answer to “The Distant Starlight Question” (Alternate Synchrony Convention) fails to add scientific weight to young-earth creationism
  
• Steinmetz: Giver of Electricity to the World, and Freethinker in Matters of Religion
  
• Heavenly Extortion. According to the author of the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus warned the world that they had better show charity to Jesus' missionary disciples, or else.
  
• Leaving the Ministry. Left the Ministry. Polls, Statistics and other Data
  
• Christian Defenses of Atheism (Christians Who Have Defended Atheism, or Respect What Some Atheists are Saying or Doing)
  
• Israelites and Canaanites. How Different Were They?
  
• The Problem of Pain is also the Problem of Hell (Because if one can defend eternal suffering/punishment, then one can and will defend anything)
  
• People who donʼt know me often call me an atheist. But in all honesty… the scientific and NT questions simply run too deep for me to recite with both head and heart any of the creeds of Christianity
  
• Human DNA and Evolution. A Carnival of Information. Nature is One Big Experiment, Always Mutating. Whole Genome Duplications, Human Genetic Diversity
  
• Inaccurate metaphors for DNA often used by creationists and I.D.ists: blueprint, computer code, etc.
  

• 2014 Archive
  

• New Testament Questions Galore From a Wide Range of Christian and Non-Christian Biblical Scholars
  
• The Non-Liberation of Women Under Christianity
  
• The Discovery Institute Endorses a Literal Adam and Eve, And Itʼs Easy to See Why Once You “Follow the Money”
  
• Expanding Rainbow of Evangelical Christian Options For Interpreting the Bible Makes It Increasingly Difficult to “Tell the Difference Between Liberal and Evangelical Christian Scholars”
  
• The Cosmos as Mystery. Intelligent Design? What does a wider study of nature reveal? How much jury-rigging or tinkering might I.D.ists be willing to admit was part of the “design”
  
• Nietzsche the Drama Queen, and Christianityʼs Failure to Add Much That Was New to the World
  
• Cambrian Explosion, No Help to I.D.—Agassiz trumps Darwin? (Stephen C. Meyer, Signature in the Cell, Darwinʼs Doubt, Louis Agassiz, Discovery Institute, Intelligent Design)
  
• Aldous Huxley Quotations on the Bible, Christianity, sexual mores, philosophies of meaninglessness, and philosophies of meaning
  
• The Failure of the Search for Evidence of Human Giants Over Ten Feet Tall, The Nephilim, et al. A Creationist Story of Obsession
  
• On Recovering from Alcoholism, Drug Addiction, Schizophrenia, and… Addiction to Religious Certainties
  
• Leaving the Fold : A Few Brits Discuss Their Experiences and Reasons for Leaving the Fold after having tried to defend and promote Christianity
  
• On Hinduism, Buddhism, and the Non-uniqueness of Christianity
  
• Nature contains a limited number of “odd survivors,” including a few phyla with only a handful of living members. Do Intelligent Design proponents have an explanation for such data?
  
• Intelligent Design or Trial and Error? Some Data to Consider
  
• Quotations from Augustine of Hippo: Proof that you can study “holy scriptures” for a lifetime and pray for guidance and come to conclusions like these
  
• The New Doctor Who, Peter Capaldi, Episode 1, a Critique / Review of Deep Breath
  
• Robin Williams on God, the Bible, and the Psychic Network
  
• Seven Reasons Not to Deny Global Warming
  
• Evolution Is Not a Theory in Crisis according to prominent creationists
  
• The God Question and the Richest Man in the World, Bill Gates
  
• What do Christians want? What do atheists want? What is the meaning of life for Christians
  
• Gospel Trajectories & The Resurrection (questions as well as sources to read or listen to)
  
• The Moral Question (Ethical Decision-Making As a Sub-Set of Decision Making In General)
  
• Golden Age of Christian Apologetics? Renaissance?
  

• 2013 Archive
  

• I used to be a huge fan of C. S. Lewis' apologetic arguments, but today I have my doubts
  
• The Christian “Insider/Outsider” Way of Looking at the World Questioned
  
• R. Joseph Hoffmann does not like lowbrow humor, mere insults, or The Blasphemy Challenge
  
• On the Christian apologetic “Argument for Godʼs Existence Based on Morality / Moral Duties”
  
• Did the historical Jesus speak about the necessity of being “born again?” Questions raised by David A. Croteau, Bart Ehrman & David Friedrich Strauss
  
• The Gospel of John consists of “anti-language” say Social Scientists. It is not a Gospel about “loving oneʼs neighbor/enemies,” but about indoctrination, or in the idiom of cults, “love bombing,” and maintaining in-group thinking
  
• Looking Forward To Your Physically Resurrected Body?
  
• Stories in which Jesus commands the dead to come back to life, grow less secretive, more public, more impressive, and play a more important role in the story when you read them starting with earlier Gospels and ending with the fourth Gospel.
  
• Jonathan Pearce Points Out the Many Questions Raised By The Stories of Jesusʼ Infancy in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke
  
• A Response To Jason Engwerʼs Review (Published At Triablogue) Of Jonathan Pearceʼs Book On The Infancy Narratives Of Jesus In The Gospels Of Matthew And Luke
  
• Intelligent Design vs. The Questions That Arise After A Purely Scientific Look At The Paleontological Evidence Over the Past 500 Million Years
  
• Poems about Science, Evolution, Creation, Intelligent Design, and a short story, The Watchmaker
  
• Christian Forgeries, the Endings of the Gospel of Mark, The Implications
  
• The Search for Connections That Is “Science” (Compared with the Intelligent Design Hypothesis
  
• New Testament Questions Galore, Free Audio
  
• Carnival of Questions for Resurrection Apologists
  
• New Book: Evolving Out of Eden: Christian Responses to Evolution. (Portions of the book can be read free online)
  
• Randal Rauser : Arachnologist for Christ
  
• On the Rationalizations Christian Use to Support Their Unproven Hypothesis of the Bibleʼs “Inspiration”
  
• Preterism : Christianity Debunked by Christianity
  
• Anthony LeDonne asks, “Did Martin Luther Do More Harm than Good?”
  
• Serpent-Handling Christians (an anthology of quotations)
  
• Evangelicalism: What Is One To Make of the Phenomenon?
  

• 2012 Archive
  

• Reply #3 to Casey Luskin of the Discovery Institute, Proponent of Intelligent Design
  
• Reply #2 to Casey Luskin of the Discovery Institute, Proponent of Intelligent Design
  
• Biogeography and The Evidence for Evolution vs. Intelligent Design (Response to Jonathan McLatchie, a Discovery Institute Intern, who is reviewing Jerry A. Coyneʼs book, Why Evolution is True)
  
• Reply #1 to Casey Luskin of the Discovery Institute, Proponent of Intelligent Design
  
• Design by Robert Frost
  
• The Fine-Tuning Argument, Some Questions
  
• Suffer the Children to Come Unto Me — Jesus
  
• Cartoons & Info-tainment. This Weekʼs Topic, Marijuana Legalized, Hippie Days Are Here Again
  
• Charity, Religious and Nonreligious
  
• Americaʼs First Millionaire Evangelist Made The Tea Party Seem Tame, Made Intolerance a Virtue, Was a Bob Jones College Trustee, And Stole Lines from Americaʼs Great Agnostic. His name was Rev. Billy Sunday OMG What a Tale
  
• Randal Rauser and Ed Babinski: On Storytelling, Atheism, Christianity, God, the Cosmos, Miracles, Near Death Experiences, Scientific Hypotheses and Religious Beliefs
  
• The Religious Right
  
• Brian Jay Stanley Aphorisms and Paradoxes
  
• The Rainbow in the Clouds: An Anger Management Device
  
• 6 Reasons Why More Biologists Are Not Pro-I.D. (Intelligent Design)
  
• The Problem of Evil. Why Theodicies Are Flawed. (There Are 4 Basic Types of Theodicies)
  
• Abortion, Women, and the Bible
  
• The Meaning of Life (saving the oddist for last)
  
• Lenny Bruce was damned funny (some gems of his on censorship and religion)
  
• The Civil War as a Theological Crisis, and a “Holy War”
  
• Israel and Babylonʼs High Gods: Yahweh and Marduk
  
• The Damned Write the Damnedest Poems!
  
• Award Winning Christian Seminarian Leaves the Fold After Examining the So-Called OT “Prophecies of Jesus” in Detail: George Bethune English, The Grounds of Christianity Examined
  
• Kitten-Handling Christians Open Church Across Street from Serpent-Handlers: Fang-Strokers Find Fuzzy-Cuddler Neighbors Irresistible And New Church Thrives!
  
• “Rethinking Heaven,” cover story, Time magazine, April 16, 2012 by Jon Meacham (discusses the views of theologians on the afterlife, including N.T. Wright's view in Surprised by Hope)
  
• The Non-Historicity of Jesusʼ Conversation with Nicodemus in John 3 (the chapter with John 3:16, a key verse for many Evangelicals). Bart Ehrmanʼs Question
  
• Mary Midgley quotations
  
• Things Christians Have Been Against (At least some Christians have been against some of these things some of the time, sometimes a large percentage of Christians were/are against these things)
  
• Quote of the Day by famed sociologist of religion Peter Berger
  
• Another “Living Fossil,” the Platypus! God's Practical Joke, or, Evidence for Evolution? (Also, The Young-Earth Creationist's Long March Idea)
  
• Creationists Love to Talk About “Living Fossils” Like the Coelacanth, Shark, Horseshoe Crab, etc. So Long As Evolutionists Arenʼt Allowed A Word in Edgewise.
  
• Eric Hoffer quotations—on the similar psychological drives that animate adherents of mass movements be they Christian, Fascist or Communist
  
• Crisis After Crisis Among Evangelicals Concerning Biblical Authority
  

• 2011 Archive
  

• Has Michael R. Licona considered the raising of many saints story in Matthew in light of questions of Markan priority?
  
• Christopher Hitchens: Quotations by Which to Remember Him, including his view of C. S. Lewisʼs Mere Christianity
  
• The Beliefs of Two Christians Compared: C. S. Lewis and Josh McDowell
  
• The Holy Heavens of the Hebrews
  
• The Famous Thomas More / William Tyndale Polemic. They debated each other for 2000 pages. Both were also executed. Harsh words, harsh times.
  
• Carnival of Science, The Bible, Philosophy, and Humor
  
• The Word “Objective” is Overused When It Comes to Morality (Christianity and “Absolute” Morality)
  
• Søren Kierkegaard quotations
  
• Emil M. Cioran quotations (did he out-Nietzsche Nietzsche?)
  
• Logan Pearsall Smith quotations (related to thinking as a function of the natural world)
  
• Are You a “True Christian®?”
  
• 5 major variables on which the decisions of a conscious being are based; robot directed by rat brain cells; we are “strange loops”
  
• The Secular Saints of Johns Hopkins… and a case of “faith in medicine” healing a paralyzed woman
  
• Christians 0, Christians 0…From The Reformation To Today
  
• Indians 0, Christians 1
  
• Christians 0, Christians 0 (The Early Church)
  
• The Joy of Secularism
  
• Pagans 0, Christians 1
  
• Free e-book composed in response to the book by apologist, Paul Copan, Is God a Moral Monster? Making Sense of the Old Testament God.
  
• The Flat Earth Myth? Itʼs true that Columbus and most Church Fathers were not flat earthers, but donʼt start cheering just yet…
  
• Scent from heaven? Who nose? Do tales of Jesusʼ anointing, resurrection & bodily ascension, bear the aroma of truth?
  
• Prior Prejudices and the Argument from Reason
  
• Tim McGrew and the Ring of Truth—The Undesigned Coincidences in Scripture? Or Redactions with Marcan Priority?
  
• The Shroud of Turin: John Calvin versus the Catholic Church
  

• 2010 Archive
  

• Is Flat Earth Biblical Cosmology merely an Infidelʼs Delusion?
  
• What Did The Designer God Do?—My response to rjsʼs review of Denis O. Lamoureuxʼs book, Evolutionary Creation
  
• Jesus & Buddha. Jesus & Mo. Roomies!
  
• Inerrancy no longer questionable after translators who are inerrantists get to translate the Bible. Case in point the new NIV 2011 translation.
  
• The Context Group : Amusing and Interesting Info from the Society of Biblical Literature Meeting Nov. 2010 in Atlanta
  
• Serpent in Genesis = Satan?
  
• A Review of Nick Petersʼ (ApologiaNickʼs) Tekton Tickler Book Review (or Book Snap) of John Waltonʼs “Lost World of Genesis 1”
  
• The Rise of Monotheism and Israelʼs Theological Worldview [Key Articles That Sum Up What Scholars Are Discussing]
  
• Where is Hell? (And Why Isnʼt That a Hot Topic Anymore?)
  
• Americaʼs Four Gods: What We Say about God—and What That Says about Us by Paul Froese & Christopher Bader
  
• New Book: Where is God? Divine Absence in the Hebrew Bible by Joel S. Burnett
  
• Does the Bible “Teach” Geocentrism?
  
• What Polls Show About U.S. Christianity, According to Professor of Sociology, Bradley R. E. Wright
  
• Evidence of Belief in a Three-Tier Cosmos, Or Purely Metaphorical “Burial Language?”
  
• Exaggerations of Biblical Proportions, Hyperbole, Genocide and Paul Copan
  
• “Stick to the issues, debate them forcefully and charitably, and let the conversions fall where they may.” Victor Reppert (Christian philosopher)
  
• The Golden Rule & Christian Apologetics
  
• Timothy J. McGrew versus Edward T. Babinski on the reliability of the New Testament / the Resurrection
  
• Eight Books Every Christian Should Read
  
• Luke, Acts, Dates, History, and other Questions (a list of modern and classic resources)
  
• The Trinity, Three States of Water, Bill Maher, Religulous, Other Questions Concerning the Trinity
  
• Satan
  
• Exorcisms: Demon Blasting (Shout It Out?)
  
• To Christians/Muslims Who Disliked The Last Episode Of “Lost”
  
• Martin Gardner was one of the very few people who loved the works of both the atheist, H. G. Wells, and the Christian apologist, G. K. Chesterton
  
• Heliocentrism & Talk of E.T.s before Copernicus & Galileo? The Case of Nicholas of Kues (1401—1464) AKA Nicolaus Cusanus AKA Nicholas of Cusa
  
• Protestant and Catholic Defenses of Persecuting Heretics, Infidels, and Blasphemers
  
• Noah's Ark Found! (Not!)
  
• The Word About The Growing Words Of The Resurrected Jesus
  
• The Man Next To Richard Dawkins Is Karlheinz Deschner, Author Of The Criminal History Of Christianity (Or, Christianity's Criminal History) In 9 Vols.
  
• C. S. Lewis: Provocative, Poignant & Profound Words
  
• Five Questions For Christians
  
• Challenge To Christians: Judge Not? Or Curse? The Bible Contains A Range of Responses, So You Have to Decide
  

• 2009 Archive
  

• Christian publishers admit Christianity's “image problem,” “postmodern turn,” differing rival “views” and…
  
• God Gets a “D” in Writing Class
  
• Edward T. Babinski Carnival #2 (Galaxy Evolution Explorer Edition)
  
• The Golden Rule, C. S. Lewis, William Barclay, Peter May
  
• Leaving the Fold, Deconversion, Biblical Studies Carnival, Poisonous Plants Weblinks
  

• 2008 Archive
  

• Creationists Admit “Difficulties” in Regard to the Age of the Earth/Cosmos
  
• Creationist Admits “Problem”… “The Chimpanzee Genome and the Problem of Biological Similarity” by Todd Charles Wood
  
• Billy Graham Now Believes People of All Religions (Or None) May Wind Up in Heaven, Admits He Can't Judge.
  
• The Fall of the Evangelical Nation: The Surprising Crisis Inside the Church
  
• Rejoicing at the Sight of People Suffering in Hell
  
• The Famous “Burgh - Spinoza” Exchange
  
• Indiana Jones and the Quest for the Holy Foreskin
  
• Coming This Fall, “The Exodus Conspiracy” — Dr. Lennart Moller resurrects Ron Wyatt's photograph of a gilded chariot wheel
  
• Chimp's Awe Inspired by Waterfall & Some of the Best Things Ever Said in Favor of Human Evolution
  
• Sharing the Good Nudes, and Bad Neuters, of Christianity (& God's love for harp playing male virgins)
  
• “No Stomach” for N.T. Wright (and the questions that raises concerning the life of the world to come)
  
• Tertullian's Paradox; Why Protestants and Catholics, Calvinists and Armenians, will never see eye to eye
  
• Another Brawl at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (a church allegedly built on the site where Jesus was buried)
  
• Expel the Lies (or, “Win Ben Stein's Career!”) : Selections from recent reviews of the movie Expelled, starring Ben Stein
  

• 2007 Archive
  

• The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman, Christian Objections (with Responses)
  
• New Book: Philosophers without Gods (nineteen leading philosophers open a window on the inner life of atheism)
  
• New Book: Leaving Fundamentalism (fifteen testimonies edited by philosophy professor, Dr. G. Elijah Dann)
  
• Michael Behe's version of Intelligent Design, Retracing Denton's course?
  
• Moral Objectivity, Victor Reppert, Edward T. Babinski
  
• Flat Earth? Flood Geology? Young-Earth? Steve Hays & Edward T. Babinski discuss Steve Austin, Kurt Wise, Henry Morris & Henry Gee
  
• C. S. Lewis Resources…Pro And Con
  
• “The Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit” AKA “The Blasphemy Challenge”
  
• A rational response to the film, Amazing Grace—releasing this weekend
  

• 2006 Archive
  

• Evangelical Theological Society Purges “Heretics” (Or Seems to Be Getting Ready To Do So)
  
• C. S. Lewis's “Man or Rabbit?” and Eric Hoffer's “The True Believer”
  
• On The Meaning of Life, Heaven & Hell: Victor Reppert & Edward T. Babinski
  
• What Evidence Do We Have From the Cosmos (or From the Bible) That Human Beings Are “Valuable?” Questions Abound.
  
• Richard Carrier's Five Questions Concerning “The Resurrection”
  
• Dolphin Hind Limbs - Response to AiG
  
• Testimonies of Two Who Left the Fold: Paul Wright and Gareth McCaughan
  
• Victor Reppert, Edward T. Babinski, Philosophical Problems of Knowledge & Communication
  
• Victor Reppert, Edward T. Babinski & The Question of Evil
  
• Non-Exclusivism, Universalism, Evil, and, Philosophy As One Big “IF”
  
• Debunking Christianity - Women Speak Out! #2
  
• The Triumph of the Gospel of John in American Evangelicalism
  
• Four Points Concerning The Problem of Evil, Christian Apologetics & The Bible
  
• Which “God” Should A Classical Theist Believe In?
  
• The Problem of Evil, Alvin Plantinga & Victor Reppert
  
• Does the Bible Speak of the Brain? - Heart vs. Mind in Bible
  
• Locust Recipes
  
• Ancient Skywatchers
  
• Flat Earth Assumptions of Biblical Authors
  
• Wolf Worms, the Bot Fly, and The Lord of the Flies?
  
• The Da Vinci Code, Fiction & The Gospels
  
• Lumpy Squirrels - Wolfworm or Bot Fly
  
• The Irreverent Musings of Harry McCall (And Others)
  
• Gimme That Old False Prediction, It's Good Enough For Me
  
• Debunking Christianity - Women Speak Out!
  
• Salvation and Damnation: A Panoply of Moral Dilemmas (Ken Nahigian)
  
• What can we learn from all the suffering in the world?
  
• Welcome to the World of Christianity (by Harry McCall)
  
• “The Discomfiter,” Christian History, Crazy Human Primate Species
  
• Steve Hays of Triablogue, The Discomfiter, and Stephen Colbert
  
• Absolute Idealism or Atheism? Or something else?
  
• In Response to “Free Parking & Improving The Universe”
  
• Top 3 Things About Evolution That Revolt Creationists The Most
  
• “The Tyranny of Common Sense” & The “Mysterian” View of the Mind-Body Problem
  
• Yet More on The “Many Resurrected Saints”
  
• In reponse to a blog entry at Triablogue
  
• Christians who remain in the fold (but are “born again and again and again”)?
  
• Does the Bible Speak of the Brain?
  
• Order of the Geologic Column and Flood Geology
  
• Sedimentation - Lamination Experiment
  
• Mt. St. Helens, Flood Geology, Modern Geology, The Age of the Earth
  
• Diatoms and the Global Flood
  
• Henry Morrisʼs “explanation” of the “Tower of Babel” incident
  
• Mountains of Ararat
  
• Why I Believe the Earth Is Old
  
• Creationist “Flood Geology” Versus Common Sense
  
• Why Isnʼt “Flood Geology” Accepted Today?
  
• Tower of Babel and Geocentrism
  
• Ancient Hebrew Conception of the Universe and Flat Earth Biblical Belief
  
• Genesis, Creation of Moon and Modern Astronomy
  
• Geocentrism and Modern Astronomy — Bible Does Say That the Earth Does Not Move
  
• Did the ancient Sumerians know about our “solar system?”
  
• The Planet Jupiter
  
• How the Moon Formed
  
• Geocentrism, the Flat Earth and Modern Astronomy
  
• Galileo Galilei, Heliocentrism, Geocentrism and the Telescope
  
• Evolving Interpretations Of The Bible's “Cosmological Teachings”—Or—Does The Bible “Teach Science?”
  
• Ancient American Cosmology
  
• Creation, Evolution And The Second Law of Thermodynamics
  
• Martin Luther, John Calvin and Biblical Flat Earth Passages
  
• Review of Colson's Review of Rare Earth
  
• The Holy Heavens of the Hebrews
  
• Universal Negatives and Random Mutations
  
• Irreducible match of orchid and moth?
  
• Review of The Science of God
  
• Intelligent Design: God in the Classroom
  
• Mark Twain Questions the Intelligent Design (I.D.) Hypothesis
  
• Question for I.D.ers (Intelligent Design) concerning the “waste” and “junk” in nature
  
• Human Value According to the Cosmos and also According to the Bible?
  
• “God” and Chaotic Inflation Theory
  
• Intelligent Designer or Tinkerer?
  
• The Fine-Tuning Hypothesis, an alternative to the Intelligent Design Hypothesis
  
• Intelligent Design, Chromosomes and Genes
  
• Random Mutations and the Intelligent Design Hypoth…
  
• Intelligent Design (I.D.) and Isaac Newton
  
• What is Intelligent Design?
  
• Conversation with William Dembski on Intelligent Design
  
• Who Was Jesus? -Skeptics Debate Without Agreement
  
• What Happened to the Body of Jesus?
  
• Theomatics - 616 or 666
  
• Five Questions Concerning “The Resurrection”
  
• “What Happened To The Resurrected Saints?” The Christian Think Tank Response
  
• Thallus question and the non-historicity of Jesusʼ resurrection miracles
  
• How Do I Deal with the Multitude of Prophetic Passages?
  
• Origin of Lucifer, Satan, the Dragon
  
• Number of the Beast
  
• Jesus was not the first to teach ’Love Your Enemy‘
  
• What “In The Image” of God Meant to the Early Hebrews
  
• Hell is an Evolved Concept
  
• Hell and Heaven, Satan, and Christian Superstition
  
• Miracles, Mother Mary and Divine Healing
  
• “Curse on the Serpent” in Genesis Bites the Dust
  
• Why Four Gospels?
  
• Question of the “Appearance” to “over 500”
  
• Biblical Exaggerations
  
• Peter's Denial of Jesus: How Many Times did the Cock Crow?
  
• On Prayer and the book of Daniel
  
• Book of Enoch
  
• What Is “Missing” From Conservative Christian Apologetics? The Body of Jesus
  
• Biblical Resurrection and Daniel Questions
  
• Lilith: Adam's First Wife
  
• Bible not intending to Deceive?
  
• Exagerrated Ages Sumerian/Babylonian Kings vs. Hebrew Patriarchs
  
• Sheol and the Afterlife – Several Views on Afterlife in the Bible
  
• Is the Number of the Beast 666 or 616 ?
  
• Did the Authors of the Bible Assume the Earth was Flat?
  
• Myth of a Massive Exodus of Hebrews from Egypt and their Overnight Genocidal Conquest
  
• The Bible vs. Modern Science
  
• Ezekielʼs Prophecy of Tyre: a failed prophecy
  
• The Birth of Satan: Tracing the Devilʼs Biblical Roots
  
• What Happened to the Resurrected Saints?
  
• Can We Find Atonement in the Passover?
  
• Paradise Lost
  
• Heart, Head and Mind – Prescientific Ignorance in the Bible
  
• C. S. Lewisʼs “Man or Rabbit?” and Eric Hofferʼs “The True Believer”
  
• Was the Wickedness of Sodom Homosexuality?
  
• The “Born Again” Dialogue In the Gospel of John
  
• The Golden Rule and Christian Apologetics
  
• The Lowdown on God's Showdown
  
• The Uniqueness of the Christian Experience
  
• The Bible And Slavery
  
• Does the Bible Speak of the Brain?
  
• Preterism and the Study of Apocalyptic Literature During the Intertestamental Period
  
• Ancient Views Of Biblical Writers On The Afterlife
  
• The Tree of Life and Ancient Tree Worship
  
• N.T. Wright and Theological Criticism
  
• Book of Revelation
  
• Obvious Questions Concerning Whether Or Not Moses Wrote the Pentateuch
  
• Jericho
  
• Does the Bible Speak of the Brain? – Heart vs. Mind in Bible
  
• Edward T. Babinski and Dave Armstrong (Catholic Apologist)
  
• Argument Fallacies and How the Faithful Reason
  
• More thoughts on the Psalms
  
• Psalm 91
  
• God's Will
  
• Hell and Universalism
  
• Flat Earth Assumptions of Biblical Authors
  
• Thoughts on the Psalms
  
• What Catholics once Believed
  
• Biblical Mercy
  
• Explaining The Bible
  
• Dave Armstrong - Edward Babinski
  
• Why I Doubt that Fire-Breathing Dinosaurs Exist
  
• Genesis and Chinese Characters
  
• Genesis and Chinese Characters
  
• Bible Errors by Dave E. Matson
  
• Stories of Men Swallowed by Whales
  
• The More Knowledge The More Grief?
  
• Arian Controversy, Theodosian Code, Justinian Code and the Trinity
  
• Discovery Institute, Ancient Texts and God Judging on Ignorance
  
• Doubts About The Names and Numbers in Biblical Genealogies
  
• What Is an Atheist?
  
• Understanding Atheists
  
• George Carlin is an Uncompromising Idealist
  
• Morality
  
• Agnosticism: Reasons to Leave Christianity
  
• Today's Teenagers are Deists
  
• Protestantism in England / Humanism, Deism & Atheistic Contributions to Civilization
  
• Atheist Benefactor / Christian Benefactor
  
• How Believers Believe, Why Doubters Continue to Question
  
• Christianity and Atheism
  
• What is an Anti-Christian?
  
• Anthony Flew's Conversion
  
• Agnosticism and the Christian World View
  
• C. S. Lewis and the Cardinal Difficulty of Naturalism
  
• Famed Atheist Philosopher, Antony Flew, Now a Theist/Deist
  
• What has atheism contributed to ʼartistic creation?ʼ
  
• Have any FAMOUS atheists ever converted to Christianity? C.S. Lewis and Josh McDowell
  
• Transcendental Argument for God's Existence
  
• Science is no longer a search for *truth*?
  
• Meeting God and Asking God Scientific Questions
  
• Genesis, Evolution and Bernard Ramm
  
• Stellar Evolution, Grand Canyon, Loch Ness Monster and Humans and Dinosaurs in Bible?
  
• The Paluxy Mantracks Story
  
• Creationism and Human Evolution
  
• Edward T. Babinski Speeches
  
• Varieties of Scientific Creationism
  
• Challenge to Dr. Kent Hovind to provide empirical evidence for Creationism
  
• Ed Conrad's “Man as old as Coal”
  
• Dinosaur Bones and the Age of the Earth
  
• Jonah, the Fish and the Whale
  
• Giants in Early Australia
  
• Do Rabbits Chew A Cud?
  
• Intelligent Design to Natural Selection there are a spectrum of views
  
• Old Earth Creationism and Scientific Journey from Faith
  
• Science and Scripture
  
• Giant Animals in past and Giant Human Being over ten feet tall
  
• Creationists Doubt Dinosaur and Human Tracks Found Together
  
• No Death or Decay Before the Fall?
  
• Creation Science: How One Former Creationist Evolved
  
• The Fine-Tuning Argument — Ideal Moment in Time for Humans To Have Been Created?
  
• From YEC (Young Earth Creationist) to Evolutionist
  
• The Bill of Rights: “We hold these truths…”
  
• Creationists' Misuse of Quotations
  
• Lies Creationists Tell: The Julian Huxley Lie
  
• Images of Witches, Demons, Devils, and Werewolves
  
• A Critique of Tabernacle-ology (www.madewithouthands.net)
  
• Christian apologist, Lee Strobel, in “Faith Under Fire”
  
• Scholars Comment on N.T. Wright's Resurrection Arguments
  
• Largest religious bodies — listed by number of adherents
  
• On Glenn Miller on Miracles by Robert M. Price
  
• Pictures of Demons and Satan
  
• No, I Don't Believe in a Personal Devil or a Personal Savior
  
• Miracles by Robert M. Price
  
• Sir Walter Raleigh and Allegations of “Atheism”
  
• Jerry Falwell's book, Strength for the Journey
  
• Non-Exclusivism, Universalism, Evil, and, Philosophy As One Big “IF”
  
• Question of Evil
  
• Problem of Evil
  
• The Problem of Evil
  
• The Da Vinci Code, Fiction and The Gospels
  
• Gospel of John in American Evangelicalism
  
• Which “God” Should A Classical Theist Believe In?
  
• Edward T. Babinski and Victor Reppert
  
• Philosophical Problems of Knowledge and Communication
  
• Free Will Is No Excuse
  
• Southern Baptist History 101
  
• Satanism, Demon Posession, Exorcisms and Ritual Abuse
  
• Evangelical Theological Society Purges “Heretics”
  
• C. S. Lewisʼ “Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism”
  
• C.S. Lewis Resources
  
• Literary Criticism and Historical Accuracy of the Gospels
  
• Edited Collection of C. S. Lewis's Final Letters
  
• Mind-Body Dualism and Possibility of Artificial Intelligence, Even “Born Again” Machines!
  
• Chicken Soup For The Damned Soul: Pentecostals and Evangelicals
  
• G.K. Chesterton's Universalism
  
• Catholics
  
• A Primer for Young Calvinists
  
• Witches, Divination, Magic and Satanism
  
• Ten Commandments and Commandments from other Religions
  
• Mutual Animosities of the Protestant Reformers
  
• Reconstructionist Christianity
  
• Threatening Others In the Name of God
  
• Thirty Years War and Protestants Killing Catholics
  
• Christianity's “Power to Do Good”
  
• Christianity being proved “true” by the persecution of Christians
  
• Persecution and Religious Bigotry
  
• Review of Dr. Os Guinness's Lecture
  
• Florence Nightingale, The Red Cross and Christianity
  
• “Possessed by Beliefs,” “Memes,” and “Mental Microbes”
  
• Origins of Hospitals and Schools of Higher Learning
  
• Library of Alexandria and Christian Destruction of Paganism
  
• Calvin's Geneva and Religious Persecution
  
• King James was Gay
  
• On the Justinian Code
  
• “From Jesus to Christ”, Newsweek Defends Resurrection as History
  
• Isaac Watts, Hymn-meister
  
• Christian Intolerance, Historic Examples
  
• Hypatia of Alexandria
  
• Origins of Hospitals
  
• Hell's Final Enigma
  
• Helen Keller, Emanuel Swedenborg and Universalism
  
• Doctrines on the Original Sin
  
• Execution of A Child and Adulterers in Calvin's Geneva
  
• Another Letter by Constantine
  
• Must Civilization Fail Without Christianity? II
  
• Must Civilization Fail Without Christianity? I
  
• Calvin, the Reformers and their Animosities
  
• The “Abominable Fancy” or, A Heaven that only “Snuff Film” Afficionados Could Love
  
• Science and Christianity
  
• Does the Bible Speak of the Brain?
  
• CRETINISM VS EVILUTION? Main Index
  
• What is Cretinism or Evilution?
  
• The 27 Best Things Ever Said in Favor of Human Evolution
  
• The Revised Quote Book Looking at how Creationists Quote Evolutionists
  
• Creationists admit “Difficulties” with their Hypothesis
  
• The Handy Dandy Religious Right Refuter: How Much Better Were Things in the “Good Ole Days”
  
• Geocentrism
  
• “Biblical Astronomy!” The latest advance in “creation science”!
  
• Forget about the “evils of Darwinism”, some creationists say the initial blame lies with the “evils of Copernicanism!”
  
• Excerpts from Frank Zindler's “Report from the center of the universe” and “Turtles all the way down”
  
• The Holy Heavens
  
• The Bible's Geocentrism
  
• Henry Morris' ingenious attempts at denying the Bible's geocentrism
  
• Henry Morris on the existence of other planets circling distant stars
  
• Is the Earth the “Center of God's interest” with the rest of the cosmos providing various essential services for the earth and its inhabitants?
  
• Catholic theologians disagree on sinfulness of extraterrestrials
  
• The “inspiration” of the Bible compared with discoveries of modern astronomy
  
• Parallels between creationists and geocentrists
  
• From abandoning geocentrism to accepting evolution: a “liberal trend” among evangelical christians?
  
• Geocentrism, young-earth creationism and the immensity of space and time
  
• A critique of Bouw's book, Geocentricity by Francis Graham
  
• Creationist Folk Science
  
• Men Over Ten Feet Tall!
  
• A Ninety-Foot Tall Plum Tree! - (Bearing green leaves and fruit found frozen on an island hundreds of miles north of the arctic circle!)
  
• Remains of Warm Weather Hippos Found in the Tundra's Frozen Muck!
  
• The Revised Quote Book: Looking at how creationists quote evolutionists
  
• A “devilish” quotation
  
• An out of context quotation
  
• An old, out of context quotation
  
• Further quotations from Darwin on the evolution of complex structures
  
• Further quotations from Darwin on “Design”
  
• Old, out of context quotation(s) from French scientists, Part 1
  
• Old, out of context quotation(s) from French scientists, Part 2
  
• Darwinism: Reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated
  
• E. T. Babinski's “Cretinism or Evilution” speech at Dragon-Con in Atlanta, June 1996; or, “There is no joy in Eden, for creationism has struck out”
  
• Why we believe in a designer!
  
• Further reading
  
• The most provocative things ever said about the way God “designed” the cosmos
  
• Who is “The Lord of the Flies?” Satan or God? Martin Luther's view vs. Mark Twain's
  
• The problem of pain and the egomania of the Psalms
  
• More of the best things ever said in favor of human evolution
  
• Berlinski or Babinski?
  
• Genesis is a jokesis!
  
• Natural selections from Uncle Ed's holy book
  
• Two Short Poems on the Nature of Scientific Explan...
  
• Michael Denton, is now an Evolutionist
  
• Response to 'Darwinism and the Nazi Race Holocaust...
  
• Are miracles more falsifiable than neo-darwinism?
  
• Videos of Primitive Eye Spot
  
• Geology at Torrey Pines, San Onofre and Del Mar Fo...
  
• Fossils
  
• Geological Eons, Eras, Periods and Epochs, and How...
  
• Canadian Rockies: A Geologist's Paradise, National...
  
• Fossil History in Europe
  
• Vendian Period and the Origins of Life
  
• An overview of Earth's Geological Timeline
  
• How A Living Organism Becomes a Fossil
  
• Man, the Social Animal
  
• From Darwin to Hitler
  
• Evolution of Communication in Primates
  
• CREATIONISM, Intelligent Design (I.D.) and EVOLUTI...
  
• Darwin and Hitler, on The Topics of Evolutionary E...
  
• Darwinism or Directed Mutations?
  
• CHRISTIAN EVOLUTION RESOURCE LIST (UPDATED 10/9/20...
  
• Three Cheers For Christian Evolutionists!
  
• Evolution in Bacteria
  
• Aldous Huxley - An Anti-Darwinist Criticism
  
• Isaac Newton's Dishonesty
  
• Darwin and Eugenics
  
• Darwin's Forgotten Christian Defenders
  
• What is an Evolutionist? Theistic Evolution and Da...
  
• Evidence that human chromosome #2 resulted from th...
  
• The Story In Genesis Does Not Match The Story In O...
  
• Extinction
  
• Darwin to Hitler: Weikart, the Discovery Institute...
  
• Bovine Evolution and Bat Evolution
  
• Do You Fear What Might Happen If The World Believe...
  
• Newton and Darwin and Wallace and “false analogies...
  
• BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
  
• Archaeological History and Method
  
• From Stone to Bronze
  
• The Rise of Some People or Other
  
• Ascendance and Decline
  
• The Rise of God
  
• 44 LECTURES by Robert G. Ingersoll
  
• Preface written by Compiler of Book
  
• Mistakes of Moses
  
• Skulls
  
• Ghosts
  
• Hell
  
• E.C. Ingersoll's Funeral
  
• Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
  
• Gods
  
• Intellectual Development
  
• Human Rights
  
• Hereafter
  
• Religious Intolerance
  
• Ingersoll's Shorter Catechism
  
• Ingersoll's Response to Toast
  
• Ingersoll's Views on Politics and Religion
  
• Heretics and Heresies
  
• Ingersoll's Vindication of Thomas Paine
  
• The Religion of Our Day
  
• Personal Deism Denied
  
• The Declaration of Independence
  
• Nominating James G. Blaine for President
  
• Life and Deeds of Thomas Paine
  
• Modern Thinkers
  
• The Great Infidels
  
• Oration at a Child's Grave
  
• Robert G. Ingersoll's Response to Judge Comegy
  
• Blasphemy
  
• Common Sense vs. The Bible by Dave E. Matson: Main Index
  
• Killing, Killing, and More Killing
  
• Super Feats of Brutality and Incompetence
  
• A Supernatural War Criminal
  
• Brutality at Home
  
• Hell: Mindless Brutality at its Worst
  
• Slavery
  
• A God of Foreskins
  
• The Tribal Gods
  
• Silly Laws Attributed to God
  
• Does God Need Praise and Glory?
  
• An Ocean of Contradictions
  
• The Bible Knows Nothing of Science
  
• A Cold Waste of Space
  
• Prophecy in the Bible
  
• The All-Important Matter of Salvation
  
• Conclusion
  
• ESSAYS OF AN ATHEIST by Woolsey Teller ©1945
  
• Preface by Woolsey Teller
  
• The Futility of Philosophy
  
• Mysticism in Modern Physics
  
• Muddlers of Science
  
• Christian Cowardice and Atheist Courage
  
• Froth and Fraud in Fundamentalism
  
• Christianity and Insanity
  
• Sea Gulls and Christian Gullibility
  
• Atheism-and Jesuit Duplicity
  
• Christianity and Astrology
  
• Whitewashing the Infamous
  
• Bigotry: Ally of Religion
  
• Sociology in Slumberland
  
• The Ape Ancestry of Man
  
• Monkeying with Darwin
  
• Hamstringing the Health Seekers
  
• Humanism — A New Religion
  
• Egoism and Altruism Considered
  
• Christianity and Einstein
  
• “Fictional Biography” and Thomas Paine
  
• A Reply to Critics
  
• A Hill-Billy Book
  
• Sociological Pipe-Dreams
  
• Is the Bible Valuable?
  
• That Jonah Stuff Again
  
• Chameleonic Christianity
  
• St. Patrick's “Gift” to Ireland
  
• Dr. Gregory and Religion
  
• Sideline Criticism
  
• Our Gun-Powder Survival
  
• Super-Sensory Superstition
  
• Telepathy: a Vulgar Delusion
  
• Politicians and Prayer
  
• A Non-Kosher Tax-Payer Speaks
  
• Kosher-Killing Cruelty
  
• Flouting the Bill of Rights
  
• Evolution Implies Atheism
  
• Molasses or Vinegar?
  
• A Columnist Barks up the Wrong Tree
  
• The Fallacy of Free Will
  
• The Miracle Joint at Lourdes
  
• Vivisection, Euthanasia, and Cremation
  
• Miscellaneous Notes
  
• WHO is God?
  
• Testimonies of Exorcism
  
• Evolution of Animals - Species which share traits ...
  
• Question Regarding Apostasy
  
• Questions on the Pentecostal Religion
  
• More on Mother Teresa
  
• Too much secular influence in media and schools
  
• Common Progression in Religion
  
• Mental Manipulation by Maria Ferrara
  
• A Belief in Near Death Experiences
  
• Book of Enoch and the Bible's Judgment
  
• Bible a Dangerous Moral Guide?
  
• Jehovah Witness Debate: Doctrines; Prophecy, Bibli...
  
• Fifty Bucks to prove Evolution is a Lie
  
• Cynicism on Christianity/Calvinism
  
• End Times Prophecies
  
• Pentecostal Religion
  
• Holy Diana! and other religious parody
  
• Fundamentalists Anonymous and a Question
  
• Supernatural
  
• Seventh Day Adventist: Closet Catholic?
  
• Mel's Former Fundamentalist Story
  
• Still Silent, My Journey through Christianity
  
• Guillaume's Testimony, “Recovering from Christiani...
  
• Former Pentecostal Testimony
  
• The Psalms, God and Mother Nature (A Satirical Cri...
  
• What is Fundamentalism?
  
• Evangelism, Scandals and Christian Indifference
  
• Original Thoughts on The Original Sin
  
• Martyrdom, Fundamentalism and Christianity
  
• The Meaning of Life - Heaven and Hell
  
• Christian Psychologist admits manic-depression amo...
  
• Why Jesus?
  
• Great Awakening, Revivals and Calvinism
  
• My Advice About Debating With Christians
  
• Richard Yao: Founder of the Original “Fundamentali...
  
• Religion as Gang-Warfare - Coming to a Theater Nea...
  
• Christopher Reeve (1952-2004)
  
• Changes we undergo “without knowing why”
  
• Don't feel like you quite belong?
  
• Fundamentalists - Helpful Links
  
• Alternative to the Twelve Steps: Rational Recovery...
  
• Leaving the Fold - Additional Testimonies
  
• Women Who Leave The Fold
  
• Charles Templeton: Inside Evangelism
  
• Edward T. Babinski: If It Wasn't for Agnosticism...
  
• Leaving The Fold: Testimonies of Former Fundamenta...
  
• Salvation, Faith and Pentecostals
  
• Josh McDowell - Atheist Convert to Christianity?
  
• Converts to Fundamentalist Christianity
  
• What Unselfish Reason Is There To Enter A Religion...
  
• Unitarian Universalists
  
• True Christian
  
• Pentecostals and Tongue-Speaking
  
• Onward Christian Soldiers
  
• Review of Mel Gibson's 'The Passion'
  
• Religion is not the Problem
  
• Christianity is Both Cynically and Laughably Offen...
  
• Mother Teresa and Missionaries
  
• Judas and Christianity
  
• Inter-Denominational Marriages
  
• India has no reason to be grateful to Mother Teresa...
  
• Hell
  
• “Get your hands off our God, God haters!” by John,...
  
• Gnostic Christian Testimony
  
• Ten Commandments Controversy - America Founded on ...
  
• Dare to Think for Yourself: A Journey from Faith t...
  
• Cross-Carrying Street Evangelists?
  
• Christianity's Superiorities
  
• Christian Persecution and the Bible
  
• Chick Tracts and Missionaries
  
• Abortion and the Bible
  
• Twenty Thousand Different Christian Denominations ...
  
• Origins of the Cross
  
• Leaving the Fold and Young Earth Creationism
  
• Reviews of Leaving the Fold: Testimonies of Former...
  
• Friends
  
• Society, Science and Evolution
  
• Perfect World
  
• “Boys are Stupid” Campaign and Glenn Sacks
  
• Banned Book: About Leaving the Fold by Edward T. B...
  
• Discrimination in the Job Market
  
• Constitution of the United States
  
• World Population Is a Problem, Perhaps the Biggest...
  
• Civil War, Slavery and John Ashcroft
  
• George and Jeb Bush: Unfair Election in Florida
  
• Dr. James Kennedy
  
• Imprecatory Prayer and Capitol Hill
  
• A Nation “Blessed By God”
  
• Alpha Male: Planet of the Apes, Bush, Limbaugh et ...
  
• Edward T. Babinski's Video Picks
  
• The Brain of the Believer
  
• The Bible, Prayer and American History
  
• America and its “Christian Heritage”
  
• Male vs. Female Brain: Aptitude and Intelligence
  
• Dr. D. James Kennedy's “Scholarship”
  
• George W. Bush goes Ape
  
• World on Edge of Crisis
  
• Leaving Iraq with Honor
  
• Divorce and Abortion
  
• Death Penalty and Abortion Facts and Figures
  
• Christians Have as Many Abortions as Everyone Else...
  
• Factcheck: “Good” Things Clinton Did vs. “Bad” Thi...
  
• America's Military Spending, and the Afghanistan a...
  
• Stigmata, an opinion
  
• Christians Debunk Resurrection of Buddhist Monk in...
  
• Universalism, Near Death Experiences and the After...
  
• Near Death Experiences
  
• Skeptics and Mediums Debate on Larry King Live
  
• Lightning and Enlightenment - Ben Franklin and the...
  
• Book Review of Y : The Descent of Men By Steve Jon...
  
• Probability
  
• Religiously active live longer?
  
• Miracle of the Orthodox Church: “Holy Fire” Every ...
  
• I.D. (Intelligent Design) for I.DUMMIES
  
• “Brain and Mind Question” and Christian Theistic P...
  
• Nephalim - Giants in Old Testament Genesis
  
• Whale Evolution Main Index: Atavistic Hind Limbs on Modern Whales
  
• Photos of hind limb rudiments on modern day whales...
  
• British Creation Society vs. Whale Evolution
  
• Sirenian Evolution: Elephant to Sea Cow (Manatees)...
  
• Origin of Sirenians
  
• Sea Cows, Manatee and Sirenia Evolution
  
• Visual Evidence for Evolution
  
• Genetic Mutations in Humans: From Feet to Flippers...
  
• Answers in Genesis' Response on Evidence for Whale...
  
• Whale Anatomy and Photos of Limb Rudiments on Mode...
  
• Dolphin Hind Legs - Hind Limb Bud Images, Dolphin ...
  
• The Evolution of Whales, Adapted from National Geo...
  
• Hind Limb Rudiments on Modern Whales Example Five
  
• Hind Limb Rudiments on Modern Whales Example Four
  
• Hind Limb Rudiments on Modern Whales Example Three...
  
• Hind Limb Rudiments on Modern Whales Example Two
  
• Hind Limb Rudiments on Modern Whales Example One
  
• Shore Whaling: A World Industry
  
• Review of Strange Tale of the Leg on the Whale
  
• Review of Strange Tale of the Leg on the Whale
  
• Pelvic Bones on Whales, Ambulocetus
  
• Nasal Drift in Early Whales / Review Of A Whale of...
  
• Land to Sea: Inner Ear Transitions in Whales
  
• Review of Overselling of Whale Evolution
  
• Whale Evolution / Introduction to The Evolution of...
  
• Dolphin Hind Limbs - Response to Answers in Genesi...
  
• Evolutionary Atavisms
  
• Snake Evolution - Photos of Vestigial Hind Limbs o...
  
• Python pelvic girdle and snake evolution
  
• Cetacean Folly: Whales with Hind Limbs? Email Exch...
  
• GEOLOGY, YOUNG EARTH CREATION and ANTI-EVOLUTION Arguments, by Glenn R. Morton, Main Menu
  
• Runaway Subduction is a Sham
  
• Overthrusts in Rocky and Appalachian Mountains cause problems for Global Flood
  
• Living Fossils—There are none
  
• The Problem with Intelligent Design
  
• Carbonate Hardgrounds disprove Global Flood
  
• Reply to Woodmorappe's Critique of My Webpage
  
• 19th Century Opponents of Geology and Evolution: Or, The YECs Ye Have With You Always
  
• Creationist Misuse of the Green River Formation
  
• The Real Poop on the Global Flood
  
• The Longest Running Lie in Creationism
  
• The North Sea Rocks Refute Young-earth Arguments
  
• Why Clastic Dykes don't Indicate a Global Flood
  
• Seismic Data and the Age of the Earth
  
• Can Reed and Froede Kill the Geologic Column?
  
• Response to Mortenson's Boundaries on Creation and Noah's Flood: Early 19th century scriptural geologists by Michael Roberts
  
• Reply to Mortenson's Defense of John Murray
  
• John Murray: A Misrepresentation of History Critique of Mortenson's webpage.
  
• Steve Austin's Grand Canyon Argument: Mathematical Sleight of Hand.
  
• Nineteenth Century Design arguments—A 19th Century Behe.
  
• A look at seismic data and its implications for Noah's global flood
  
• Fleeing from the Flood—an exercise in futility
  
• 300 year gap in the Middle of the Flood
  
• Illogical Young-earth Erosion Argument
  
• Zeno's Paradox and the Creationist Demand for Transitional Forms
  
• 12 False Statements by Anti-evolutionary Apologists
  
• The Demise and Fall of the Water Vapor Canopy: A Fallen Creationist Idea
  
• The Impotent God of the Anti-evolutionists
  
• Babel and the Ancient Single Language of the Human Race
  
• Death Before the Fall: The Theology
  
• Death Before the Fall: God Created the Cell Death Codes
  
• Origin of Life Probability
  
• The Entire Geologic Column in North Dakota
  
• Transitional Forms: Fish to Amphibian Transition Documented
  
• Computer Models of Selection, Cambrian Explosion and Punctuated Equilibrium
  
• Young-Earth Arguments: A Second Look
  
• Salt in the Sea Argument—The Solution to the Creationist Puzzle
  
• How Overthrusts Occur—The Solution to the Creationist Puzzle
  
• Steve Robertson's Story: A Graduate of Christian Heritage College who works in Geology
  
• Paleosoils and their Implications to the Flood-by Jonathan Clark
  
• Review of Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study By John Woodmorappe
  
• Why The Flood Can't Be Global
  
• Why Would the Flood Sort Animals by Cell Types?
  
• Why The Flood Can't Be in Mesopotamia
  
• Why The Flood Can't Be in the Black Sea
  
• Fish Cause Problems for the Global Flood
  
• Acidic water of Global Flood Would Kill Noah and the Fish in the Sea
  
• Carbon Dioxide and the Global Flood—Everybody Dies
  
• The Multiple Droughts During the Global Flood
  
• Going to the Bathroom in the Global Flood
  
• Why Radiocarbon Dating Works—Lake Suigetsu
  
• Where were the animals at the beginning of the global flood?
  
• Too Many Fossils for a Global Flood
  
• VISUAL EVOLUTION: Main Index
  
• Extinction
  
• Science vs. Creation Science
  
• Continental Movements
  
• Human and Dinosaur Footprints
  
• Human Tails
  
• Polydactylity - Extra Fingers and Toes
  
• Snakes with Legs - Snake Evolution
  
• Strata - The Grand Canyon
  
• FUNDAMENTALS OF FREETHOUGHT by Marshall J. Gauvin, Main Menu
  
• PREFACE: Fundamentals of Freethought by Marshall J. Gauvin
  
• Is There A Real God?
  
• Did Jesus Christ Really Live?
  
• Did Jesus Christ Rise From The Dead?
  
• The Bible A Dangerous Moral Guide
  
• Is There A Life After Death?
  
• One Hundred Contradictions In The Bible
  
• HOW GOOD Are Those Young Earth Arguments by Dave E. Matson: Main Menu
  
• Dear reader
  
• It only takes one proof
  
• Shrinking Sun
  
• Accumulation of cosmic dust
  
• The existence of short period comets
  
• No fossil meteorites
  
• Lunar recession
  
• Moon contains U-236 and Th-230
  
• Poynting-Robertson effect on space dust
  
• Star cluster expansion
  
• Saturn's rings
  
• Cooling rates of Jupiter and Saturn
  
• Decay of Earth's magnetic field
  
• Volume of lava on Earth
  
• Mineral in ocean water
  
• Helium in Earth's atmophere
  
• Erosion of Earth's continents
  
• Thickness of topsoil
  
• Erosion of Niagara Falls
  
• Oil and gas well pressure
  
• Mississippi River Delta
  
• Slowing of Earth's Rotation
  
• Sediment transport
  
• Stalactite formation rates
  
• Sahara Desert
  
• Amount of salt in the oceans
  
• Number of people on Earth
  
• Oldest coral reef
  
• Oldest tree
  
• Oldest historical record
  
• Dates in the Bible
  
• Stories from ancient cultures
  
• Carbon-14 decay rate
  
• Initial carbon-14 unknown
  
• System might not be closed
  
• Carbon-14 accurately measured
  
• Curve based on too few measurements
  
• Geologic Column base to calibrate C-14 dates
  
• Geologic Column Assumes Evolution
  
• Column invented to discredit Bible and does not exist
  
• Polystrate fossils and missing/out-of-order layers
  
• Choice of method determines age
  
• Woodmorappe's collection of bad dates
  
• Water and vapor and Noah's flood
  
• Coal and oil
  
• Mammoths: were they quick-frozen?
  
• A couple of ice age problems
  
• The Distance to Supernova SN1987A and the Speed of Light
  
• If the universe is young don't bother with evolution
  
• FROGS+TIME = PRINCE
  
• Structures cannot evolve by chance
  
• Evolution is merely a theory
  
• Evolution is a religion
  
• Only one proof needed for young-earth
  
• Each proof is described in detail
  
• Evolutionists typically try to debunk only one argument
  
• Burden of proof on evolutionists
  
• Another fatal problem for the vapor canopy idea
  
• A fatal heat and radiation problem for the young-earth idea
  
• References
  
• HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH Main Menu
  
• Preface
  
• Nature of the Christian Church
  
• Periods
  
• The Roman Empire As Related to the Introduction of Christianity
  
• The Jews of the Dispersion
  
• Credibility of the Apostolic History
  
• Founding and Successive Eras of the Apostolic Church
  
• The Chief Apostles
  
• Charisms of the Apostolic Age
  
• Apostolic Church Government
  
• Spread of Christianity in the Heathen Empire
  
• The Attacks of Heathen Power
  
• Attacks of Heathen Authors
  
• Christian Apology
  
• Classification of Heresies
  
• The Judaistic Heresies
  
• Gnosticism
  
• Manichæism
  
• Monarchianism
  
• The Catholic Theologians and Theology
  
• The Clerical Hierarchy
  
• Counsels, Canon and Constitution
  
• Discipline
  
• Schisms Connected with Questions of Discipline. Montanism
  
• Sacred Times
  
• Ordinances
  
• Main Features of Early Christian Life
  
• The Catacombs and their Testimony
  
• Men of Marked Individuality
  
• Introduction
  
• The Administration of Constantine and his Sons
  
• Julian the Apostate
  
• The Policy of the Succeeding Emperors
  
• Heathen and Christian Apology
  
• Nature and Results of the Alliance Between Church and State
  
• Christianity on and Beyond the Borders of the Empire
  
• Causes and Features
  
• The Arian Controversy
  
• The Christological Controversies
  
• The Origenistic Controversies
  
• Controversies on Anthropology
  
• Election, Education, and Celibacy of the Clergy
  
• Developments in the Different Ranks of the Clergy
  
• Discipline
  
• Schisms Connected with Discipline
  
• Sacred Times, Rites and Services
  
• Veneration of Saints, Relics, and Images
  
• Miracles of Saints and Relics
  
• General Tone of Christian Life
  
• Monasticism
  
• Representative Men
  
• Hymns and Liturgies
  
• Architecture
  
• Painting
  
• Catholic Creeds
  
• The Ignatian Problem
  
• The Placing of Hippolytus
  
• The Hatch-Harnack Theory of Early Christian Organization
  
• Roman Bishops and Emperors
  
• Introduction
  
• The Barbarian Tribes
  
• Extension of Christian Territory by Missionaries
  
• Limitation of Christian Territory by Mohammedanism
  
• Civil Patrons of Christianity
  
• The Crusades
  
• The Waldenses
  
• John Wycliffe and his followers
  
• John Huss and the Hussites
  
• Introduction
  
• Humanism and its Relation to the Reformation
  
• The Empire at the Dawn of the Reformation
  
• Luther till the Leipzig Disputation
  
• Luther from the Opening of the Leipzig Disputation to the Close of the Diet of Worms
  
• Luther and the German Reformation from the Diet of Worms to the Close of the Diet of Augsburg
  
• The German Reformation from the Diet of Augsburg to the Death of Luther
  
• The German Reformation from the Death of Luther to the Death of Melanchthon
  
• The Reformation in the Scandanavian Countries
  
• The Reformation in German Switzerland
  
• The Reformation in French Switzerland
  
• Bonds of Union Between the Reformed Churches in Switzerland and Elsewhere
  
• The Reformation in France during the Reign of Francis I
  
• The Reformation in France during the Reign of Henry II
  
• Protestantism in France from the Death of Henry II to the Accession of Henry IV
  
• Protestantism in France from the Accession of Henry IV to the Fall of La Rochelle
  
• Protestantism in Italy
  
• Protestantism in Spain
  
• Protestantism in the Netherlands
  
• The Reformation in England under Henry VIII
  
• The Reformation in England during the Reign of Edward VI
  
• The Roman Catholic Restoration in the Reign of Mary
  
• Protestantism in England during the Reign of Elizabeth
  
• The Reformation of Scotland
  
• Protestantism in England and Scotland under James I. and Charles I.
  
• Protestantism in Ireland
  
• The Popes and the Council
  
• The Inquisition
  
• The Jesuits
  
• Clerical Celibacy
  
• The Thirty Years' War and the Peace of Westphalia
  
• Louis XIV. and his Court
  
• Chief Factors in the Religious and Intellectual Life of the Gallican Church
  
• Persecution of the Protestants in France
  
• Gleanings from Various Countries under Romish Rule
  
• The Era of Cromwell and the Commonwealth
  
• The Era of the Restored Stuarts
  
• The Reigns of William III and Anne
  
• Individual Exceptions to the Current Dogmatism
  
• Calixtus and the Syncretists
  
• Spener and the Pietists
  
• Zinzendorf and the Moravians
  
• Tenor of Protestant History in Sweden, The Netherlands, and Switzerland
  
• The Eastern Church
  
• The Nonjurors
  
• The Deistical Controversy
  
• The Moral and Religious Condition of England on the Eve of the Great Revival
  
• Beginnings of Methodism
  
• Whitefield and Calvinistic Methodism
  
• Charles Wesley and Methodist Hymnology
  
• John Wesley and Organized Methodism
  
• Results of the Revival
  
• English Dissenters
  
• Principal Developments in Scotland
  
• Ireland from the Revolution to the Union
  
• The Colonies in their Political Relations
  
• The Colonies in their Relations to the Natives
  
• Roman Catholic Establishments
  
• Roman Catholics in the English Colonies
  
• Church of England Establishments, and the Founding of the Protestant Episcopal Church
  
• Congregational Establishments
  
• Presbyterians
  
• Baptists
  
• Quakers or Friends
  
• Methodists
  
• Lutherans
  
• Universalists
  
• Questions of Morals and Reform
  
• The Political Movement in France
  
• The Skeptical Movement
  
• The French Church Prior to the Revolution