17Feb 2025 by Post

Darwin, Kinsey, and Stockholm Syndrome Christianity

Alfred Kinsey, Bible, Charles Darwin, Culture, Culture & Ethics, deviants, ethics, Faith & Science, Floyd Martinson, Harvard University, junk science, males, mammals, morality, pimps, prisoners, prostitutes, psychopaths, secularists, sex, sex offenders, sexual abuse, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, Stockholm Syndrome Christian, The Descent of Man, United States, Victorian England, zoologists
Perhaps the figure most responsible for the breakdown of traditional sexual ethics in Western culture was a Harvard-trained evolutionary zoologist. Source
Read More
17Feb 2025 by Post

Christianity and Abortion, Part 1: A Brief History of Abortion in Antiquity

abortion, Apologetics, Christianity, Church History, conception, ethics, FreeThinkingMinistries.com, Gospel, Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, Peter Rasor, prochoice, prolife, Sanctity of Life
It is always a temptation in an industrial and technological society such as America to fall into what C.S. Lewis called “chronological snobbery.” This is the belief that the present ideas and practices are superior to, or could never have been imagined by, those who went before us. This is no less true concerning the practice of abortion. Many believe abortion is a relatively new idea and that those who preceded our advanced age could never have imagined having the means to abort a human person in the womb. They did not, after all, have the biological and medical knowledge we have today. Right? Nothing could be further from the truth. Abortion, or some equivalent practice, is just about as old as humanity. Those in antiquity may not have had…
Read More
14Feb 2025 by Post

Who’s Afraid of This New Science Journal?

Academy of Public Health, Ajit Varki, Authors, Catherine Offord, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, editors, Food and Drug Administration, gatekeeping, Great Barrington Declaration, Greg Piper, Jay Bhattacharya, Journal of the Academy of Public Health, Just the News, Martin Kulldorff, Marty Makary, Medicine, Michael Eisen, National Institutes of Health, Paul Ginsparg, Peter Suber, Real Clear Foundation, Science (journal), Sunetra Gupta
Skeptics worry that the new journal "will be used to sow doubt about scientific consensus." Source
Read More
14Feb 2025 by Post

Teen with Lesbian Desires Asks What Could Be Wrong About Love?

Answering questions, Christian Apologetics, Christianity, Desires, Dr. Frank Turek, Homosexuality, Lesbian, Love, morality, philosophy, Podcast, religion, theology
What could possibly be wrong with “following our heart”? Isn’t that what culture always tells us to do? In this week’s solo podcast episode, Frank responds to a troubling email from “Jane”, a self-identified lesbian teenager struggling with conflict at home since coming out to her mother. Tune in as Frank walks through a series of thought-provoking questions designed to help Jane reflect on the long-term consequences of her choices. During the episode, Frank tackles key questions, including: Why is theology the foundation of all knowledge? Why shouldn’t people define themselves by their sexual desires? What should (and shouldn’t) parents do if your child comes out to you as same-sex attracted? Should your attractions determine your actions? What are three reasons why homosexuality falls short of natural marriage? Do sexual…
Read More
14Feb 2025 by Post

How Evolutionists Overlook Signatures of Design — The Case of Koalas

botany, Center for Science and Culture, convergence, Darwinian theory, Darwinians, David Klinghoffer, earth, embryology, Evolution, Evolution News, fingerprints, genetics, Günter Bechly, humans, Intelligent Design, Jay Mathers Savage, John West, koalas, mountain ranges, non-primates, philosophy, Richard Dawkins, state universities, sun, zoology
I note and discuss an astounding case of convergence between humans and koalas, “the only non-primates with fingerprints.” Source
Read More
13Feb 2025 by Post

Sophisticated Energy Shield Found in a Shrimp

arthropod, biology, Bouligand structure, brain injuries, dactyl club, Davide Castelvecchi, design language, Emily Reeves, Evolution, Evolution Theater, evolutionary fitness landscape, H. D. Espinoza, hierarchical, Hubble Space Telescope, Intelligent Design, irreducibly complex mechanisms, James Webb Space Telescope, mantis shrimp, Mark S. Lavine, Morpho butterfly, N. A. Alderete, Nature (journal), nerve damage, Northwestern University, Odontodactylus scyllarus, Pablo D. Zavatierri, Science (journal), shear waves, structural color
A sophisticated energy-absorbing structure has been discovered in the mantis shrimp’s dactyl club that protects the animal from its own shock waves. Source
Read More
12Feb 2025 by Post

Why I Left The Word Of Faith Movement

Apologetics, Brian Huffling, BrianHuffling.com, charismatic movemement, Christianity, ClassicalTheology, Gospel, Health and Wealth, Televangelism, Theology and Christian Apologetics, Word Faith Movement
When I was about fourteen I started listening to teachers such as Kenneth Copeland, Jesse Duplantis, Jerry Savelle, and Creflo Dollar. I had grown up going to church, albeit a very liberal church, but these guys were different than what I was used to. They had passion, zeal, and spoke with power and authority. They taught very differently than what I had heard before, but they used Scripture to back everything up (well, and some direct revelation from God, so they said). They taught that Jesus had secured our physical healing for this life, that we had power over sickness and the devil, that we could transform our finances through our faith, and that we could even use faith the way God does—the God kind of faith. I really enjoyed…
Read More
12Feb 2025 by Post

When Building Our Case for Intelligent Design, How Should We Think About Prior Probability?

Atheism, background information, Bayes factor, Bayesian analysis, Bayes’s theorem, biological design, biology, environmental fitness, Evolution, Evolution News, fine-tuning, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, physical constants, plausibility, Podcast, prior probability, probabilities, revealed religion, theism
Bayes’s theorem is a tool for modeling our evaluation of evidences to appropriately apportion the confidence in our conclusions to the strength of the evidence. Source
Read More
11Feb 2025 by Post

HELP! I Want to Believe! Atheist Woman Shares Her Struggles on the Quest for Truth

agnostic, atheist, Christian Apologetics, Christianity, Dr. Frank Turek, Evidence, faith, morality, philosophy, Podcast, Questions, religion, theology, truth
Are you willing to follow the evidence wherever it leads? What if it goes against everything you previously believed to be true? In this solo episode of ‘I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist’, Frank unpacks a thought-provoking email from an atheist in France, who’s innate fear of death now has her questioning everything she was taught about the world. Tune is as he addresses her many questions and concerns, and shares her journey from staunch materialism to becoming open to Christianity. During the episode he’ll tackle questions like: Is it possible that Jesus had a twin brother that nobody knew about? Is believing in miracles totally irrational? Would frequent miracles help the case for Christianity? Which one should we trust more–the evidence or our feelings? Is being a Christian like believing in Santa Claus? Do we…
Read More