Having reviewed Carl Werner's Evolution: The Grand Experiment – Volume 1 a few months back, I eagerly awaited the opportunity to crack open Volume 2: Living Fossils. Like the first volume, Living Fossils is presented in an easy-to-read format aimed at the general public and is filled with beautiful full color photographs of fossils and animals throughout….
Month: July 2011
Humanist “Rev” Barry Lynn Scolds Texas Gov. Perry For Promoting Prayer For America and “Controversial Theology”
I dunno. Maybe you’ve read about this already, but “rev” Barry Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church & State has recently sent Texas Gov. Rick Perry a letter of reprimand for attending what Lynn characterizes as “what amounts to a Christian fundamentalist revival service” [Like he has any experience with that…] or a…
Zack Kopplin’s Crusade to Insulate Microbes-to-Man Evolutionism from the Self-Correcting Mechanisms of Scientific Inquiry (via CreationLetter.com)
Recently, atheist Dr. Michael Zimmerman has been giving a lot of press to a young man named Zack Kopplin. Kopplin, a product of the microbes-to-man evolution propaganda machine that is our public educational system, wants to repeal the 2008 Louisiana Science Education Act [LSEA] which encourages critical thinking in science education. Young Mr. Kopplin believes…
PZ Myers on Why Creationists Believe, or A Look at an Evolutionist’s Double Standard
Recently on “rev” Barry Lynn’s Culture Shocks program, PZ Myers commented on geocentrism. After stating that such folks affirm that the Earth is the center of the galaxy or universe or whatever based on scientific ignorance [“It’s pretty easy to dismiss what you don’t understand,” opines Myers], he made the following estimation: “Also, they’ve got…
Flawed Gallup Poll Nonetheless Demonstrates Confusion Over the Word of God
Recently, Gallup released a bulletin that claimed the following: “Three in 10 Americans interpret the Bible literally, saying it is the actual word of God. That is similar to what Gallup has measured over the last two decades, but down from the 1970s and 1980s. A 49% plurality of Americans say the Bible is the…
Church Diversity by Scott Williams, New Leaf Press (2011) (via The Bookwyrm’s Lair)
Subtitled 'Sunday: The Most Segregated day of the Week,' Scott Williams' thought-provoking book aims at being the flashpoint for the We Are Church Diversity movement. We Are Church Diversity is consists of "congregants, pastors, church planters, educators, leaders and Christians around the world" who affirm that diversity matters to God and are "committed to seeing the body of…