Hurricanes and God
“Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it’s destroyed and put stress on this country,” says New Orleans mayor. That’s one theory. Another, as studied by the scientists at NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, is that global warming is to blame. Perhaps this is a good time … Hurricanes and God
ACLU Defending Christians
Ed Brayton has written an interesting piece that contains links to several summaries of the ACLU’s efforts to defend the religious freedom of Christians.
An atheist visits Christian forums
Lya Kahlo did an informal study of Christian forums, visiting them and openly announcing her atheism to see what would happen. She visited 35 different forums. 7 banned her because she was an atheist, 28 continued to welcome her. She was accused of trying to corrupt the young and repeatedly asked “if you don’t believe … An atheist visits Christian forums
Condom-Holding Key Fob
What is that God is handing to Adam? Condom-holding key fob with picture of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam is example of “depraved morals” says Catholic Action League! Planned Parenthood is selling them on their website and thanks to the League’s outrage they’re selling like hotcakes.
Reply to Steve Hays
Steve at Triablogue has a rejoinder to my earlier post on intelligent design and he makes some great points. Just to clarify my position, I am certainly not saying that Dembski is engaging in a sleight of hand by calling ID “science” when he really means “religion.” I definitely give the Discovery Institute the benefit … Reply to Steve Hays
Link: An Atheist Manifesto
A friend just pointed me to a site entitled, “An Atheist Manifesto.”
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Well it’s old news now. Parents have filed a lawsuit against the El Tejon Unified School District because the Frazier Mountain High School in Lebec, California, is slipping an intelligent design course into its curriculum. Entitled “Philosophy of Design,” the district’s attorneys told the school board that “as the course was called ‘philosophy,’ it could … …