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The death of George Floyd and its aftermath has prompted a lot of discussion of the need for change. Proposals that I have heard include increased training of law enforcement, allowing for law enforcement agents to be personally sued, and one that I like if it is workable – increased body cams. I have also heard of proposals that do not make any sense at all to me, such as defunding the police. What do people want? Total anarchy? That…..
Should we blindly trust our church leadership to tell us what the Bible means? My article “Stop Ignoring the Dinosaur in the Room!”1 referred to a New York Times article that extolled people for doing this because they “had more freedom to accept science.”2 But are these people missing something? Are their church leaders putting their trust in what the scientists are telling them? And what is the worldview of these scientists? Do they have biases?3 What is their view…..
It was just recently in the news that the number of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) was up for the fifth straight year, with “1.7 million chlamydia cases reported.”1 The solution we have generally heard is so-called “safe sex.”2 It is now getting recognized that what has been called “safe sex” is still risky. So it is now being called “safer sex.” I call it “slightly less risky sex.” While a pregnancy can occur 3-5 days a month, a sexually…..
In December, 2017, in response to young earth biblical creation being called “Flintstones science,” I wrote an article called “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Science.”1 I made the point that the idea that genetic mutations can make life more advanced and more complex goes against everything we observe. What we actually observe is that genetic mutations are overwhelmingly negative; and over time cause a loss of genetic information, disease, suffering and death. If anyone questions this, all they need to do…..
Over the years, I have had a number of failures in my discussions with people who do not believe the Bible. And of course those discussions are about the creation account in Genesis – something that church leaders who want to just talk about Jesus in the New Testament miss. I say “Jesus in the New Testament” because John 1, Colossians 1 and Hebrews 1 teach us that the creation account in Genesis is about Jesus. “Christ is the visible…..
In his 2014 article “Why Stop at Refusing to Bake a Cake for a Same-Sex Marriage,” Bernard Goldberg (a political pundit seen as conservative and actually opposed President Obama) sees the issue of a business owner who does not want to cater same sex “weddings” as a civil rights issue.1 He states: “But when laws are based on deeply held religious beliefs, I get nervous.” He compares this to people using their religious beliefs to justify segregation and laws against…..
The first President Bush talked about making American families “a lot more like The Waltons and a lot less like The Simpsons.”1 While I understand what President Bush was trying to say, and I agree with his point, the truth is I have a problem watching either show. While I was growing up, I watched The Waltons with my family. That was Thursday night. We were almost through the week. The Waltons was based on the actual family and growing…..
Reading 1 Kings 18 in my daily Bible reading, I thought of theistic evolution. But Terry, what does 1 Kings 18 have to do with evolution? This was 2600 years before Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species! Elijah called the people to Mount Carmel for a showdown with the prophets of Baal and Asherah. This is one of my favorite Bible accounts. Elijah said to the people: “How much longer will you waver, hobbling between two opinions? If the Lord…..
Peter Ward, a University of Washington Biology professor, claims that people being stressed from Donald Trump’s presidency will cause an evolutionary change.1 Ward states: “Were finding more and more that, for instance, people who have gone through combat, or women who have been abused when you have these horrendous episodes in life, it causes permanent change, which is then passed on to your kid.” He then goes on to say “On a larger scale, the amount of stress that Americans…..
On February 23, I attended the documentary Is Genesis History? After the movie, for those interested, I handed out pamphlets with information about the San Antonio Bible Based Science Association.1 I handed out all of the pamphlets that I had. For those of you that have not seen it or heard about it, this movie supports the biblical creation account and Noah’s flood from a scientific perspective. It looks at biology, geology, astronomy, the fossil evidence, language, and the ancient…..