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The resurrection of M. capricolum
Nobody really knows whether Jesus rose from the dead, but here’s a resurrection that you can know happened. PZ Myers explains what geneticist Craig Venter hath wrought: The experiment involved creating a strand of DNA as specified by a computer … Continue reading
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Tagged biology, craig venter, frankenstein, Genesis, life, PZ Myers, resurrection, synthetic life, synthetic men
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Three Pretty Good Reasons to Doubt the Resurrection of Jesus
Below are three pretty good reasons to doubt the resurrection of Jesus: First, no agnostic or atheist needs to prove a negative. Burdens of proof fall upon those making a spectacular claim. If someone claims, for example, that an intelligent … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, Christianity, Easter, God, history, Jesus, John Macarthur, resurrection, skepticism
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Messianic prophecy, Jesus, and an inconvenient fact
Am I impressed that the Hebrew Bible (the “Old Testament”) has numerous chapters and passages that seem to foreshadow Jesus’s ministry and death? No. Why? Because their predictive value is vastly diminished by an inconvenient fact: THE WRITERS OF THE NEW … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, bible prophecy, God, gospels, Jesus, John Macarthur, messianic prophecies, prophecy, religion, skepticism, the Bible
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If bees believed
If bees had religion, wouldn’t it be reasonable to expect them to talk to an all-powerful and all loving Queen Bee and imagine her heaven as hive and flower? Our Mother who art in hiven, . . . It would … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, bees, critical thinking, Genesis, God, Islam, Jesus, philosophy, reason, religion, skepticism, the Bible
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The first synthetic cell
Craig Venter crosses a threshold. This today in the New York Times: Dr. Venter described the converted cell as “the first self-replicating species we’ve had on the planet whose parent is a computer.” “This is an important step, we think, … Continue reading
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Tagged biology, cells, craig venter, frankenstein, Genesis, history, life, science
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Pam Reynold’s Near Death Experience
I’ve long found this the most intriguing near death experience that I’ve ever come across. The clip here is from a BBC documentary titled The Day I Died:
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Tagged atheism, atheist, cancer, death, existentialism, God, hope, life, near death experience, pam reynolds, theism
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The great I don’t know? An agnostic develops serious doubts about his agnosticism, and starts affirming “the great I don’t know”
At Andrew Sullivan’s blog today, an agnostic nurse writes movingly about his hospice work: I came into this experience as an agnostic who often had leanings to atheism, but while working with hospice patients my faith in something has been … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, atheism, atheist, death, life, near-death experiences, religion, the ontological mystery
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Apocalypse Now?: North Korea, a nuclear power, threatens full-scale war with South Korea
And this chilling sentence appeared in the New York Times story on the crisis: The motivations, health and even state of mind of North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-il, remained cloaked in mystery. Got it? We don’t know whether, exactly, Kim … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse, Communism, cults, foreign policy, Jim Jones, kim jong-il, korea, north korea, oh shit, Politics, south korea, totalitarianism
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Imagine getting dressed up to attend a science lecture every Sunday morning
Karl Giberson recently made an observation that startled me: Most people think more highly of their religion than their science. Imagine trying to get 100 million Americans to dress up for a science lecture every Sunday morning — and then … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, apologetics, atheism, atheist, church, humanism, life, religion, Richard Dawkins, science, social psychology
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Prometheus Unbound 