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Atheism and Creation Ministries International, part 1
Having written a little essay about atheism offsite at www.creation.com/atheism I have encountered certain comments that have been made about it and I thought that it may be interesting to consider, and respond, to them. Let us consider comments posted to Apologetics 315, comments posted to RichardDawkins.net’s forum (who were kind enough to besmirch it),…
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Francis Collins, Barack Obama and the Envious
By now you may have been made aware that Barack Obama has nominated Francis Collins for the position of director of the National Institutes of Health. A search for “Francis Collins” in Google News returned 270 hits for the past week alone. It is fascinating to read some of the news related articles which cannot…
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Jewish / Judaism : When Was the Messiah Expected?, part 5 of 7
Encyclopedia Judaica 6:861 & 10:390, “The Bible has no word for the abstract idea of eschatology. It does however, have a term-‘aharit ha-yamim-that often has eschatological connotations, at least in the broad sense mentioned above, it means literally ‘the end of the days’ i.e., ‘the end of time.’_.Towards the end of the second Temple period,…
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Jewish / Judaism : Jewish View of Jesus
There certainly is not one single Jewish view of Jesus. Rather, there are various: from the respectful and empathetic to the malicious and condemnatory. In this essay we simply provide a sampling a various opinions. In typical Jewish humor Franz Rosenzweig and David Flusser wrote, Whether Jesus was the Messiah will be shown when the…
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Jewish / Judaism : The Isaiah 9 Controversy, part 2 of 4
The Targumim:Targum Jonathan, “For to us a Son is born, to us a Son is given: and He shall receive the Law upon Him to keep it; and His Name is called from of old, Wonderful, Counselor, ELOHA, The Mighty, Abiding to Eternity, The Messiah, because peace shall be multiplied on us in His days.”…
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PZ Myers Complements Christianity
FYI: This is one of the essays that I wrote before PZ Myers – The Desecration Delusion but in typical dyslexic (and procrastinative) form am posting now – after the fact, and after the act. Recently PZ Myers paid Christianity a tremendous compliment. He paid Christianity a compliment by ripping a page out of a…
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PZ Myers – The Desecration Delusion
oday, the front page of Prof. Richard Dawkins is advertising, “VOICES OF SCIENCE: PZ Myers – Buy it now on DVD.” Oh, PZ Myers is also a scientist? Who would’a’thunk’it?!?! Well, that is what I get for procrastinating. I had written up two nice little essays on PZ Myers’ shenanigans and before I got a…
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Barker's Butt
One of life’s greatest mysteries is why Dan Barker is considered an apt representative of atheism and an able debater. During his debate with Kyle Butt that was entitled “Does the God of the Bible Exist?” (hear it here) and which took place on Charles Darwin’s birthday he, yet again, premised his credentials upon being…
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Jewish / Judaism : A Jewish Book Called “The New Testament”
The New Testament? A Jewish book? Oi vey! Is not the New Testament a Gentile book written by Pagans? Let us see… Jesus was Jewish. His Jewish parents took him to the Temple to be circumcised on the eighth day. His parents took Him to the Temple feasts. He attended the synagogue and, when of…
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The Rape of Skepticism, part 2
Free Republic: As of October 9, 2009 AD, 51 comments were posted to the Free Republic mention, some pro some against and many carrying on discussions back and forth. Thus, I will focus on a few to which I personally responded. As with ExChristian.Net Has Been X’d, part 2 one commentator did not seem to…