4 Posts on Scripture
A roundup at the Moderate Christian Blogroll blog.
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Pelicans Back Home – Win 5-3
Update: The Pensacola News Journal now has a report here. After a depressing road trip and a delay filled return, the Pelicans got off to a late start against the Shreveport Sports. John Webb (my stepson, for those who haven’t realized it yet!) started for the Pelicans and went 6.2, allowing 3 runs, 2 earned….
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Fairness vs. Fairness
With a hat tip to evangelical outpost, I present this quote from P. J. O’Rourke in the LA Times. The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin. Observe the Tenth Commandment. The first nine commandments concern theological principles and social law: Thou shalt not make graven images,…
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4 Posts
I’ve decided to start a series of irregular but hopefully frequent posts on the Moderate Christian Blogroll blog for the purpose of trying to increase interaction. You can read the explanation, or see the first entry, 4 Posts on Christian Apologetics.
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Sermon Today on Genesis 1:1-2:4a
I want to recommend another sermon from the senior pastor at our new church, Pensacola First UMC, Dr. Wesley Wachob. I should note that they usually post audio from a different service than the one I attend, and he doesn’t follow a precise written text, so there may be some difference. There were two reasons…
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A Remarkable Piece of Anti-Evolutionary Logic
Via Quintessence of Dust I found this post at Reasons to Believe, with the following interesting paragraph: The fundamental problem with evolution as a scientific theory is that it is neither predictive nor falsifiable. Embryologist and geneticist C. H. Waddington says, The theory of evolution is unfalsifiable If an animal evolves one way, biologists have…
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Does Science Education Lead to Atheism
Several discussions have led me to think about this question over the last few days. There is a significant group of scientists who think that the inevitable result of scientific knowledge is a loss of faith or a turn to atheism. On the other side of the line there is a significant group of fundamentalist…
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Ouch!
. . . but on target. I refer to this post on Pursuing Holiness. My own preference is that churches and religious organizations define marriage for their own constituents, and the state simply define households. Laura’s words about free speech destroying human rights committees are also on target.
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Math Education and a Bit of Logic
Recently I’ve had several different things remind me of what I perceive to be a serious problem with numbers in this country. This can have a severe impact on one’s personal life, but also on church and social policy issues. I recall when I argued some academic affairs committee into allowing me to count a…
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John Webb Pitches 2nd Game
I was intending to post this earlier, but at an away game this time John pitched his second game of the season. He went seven innings with 1 earned run, but got the loss due to 4 infield errors. When we were listening to the radio broadcast they reported two earned runs, and I was…