According to Barna.org, Charleston/Huntington, WV ranks #10 of America’s Most and Least Bible-Minded Cities, with 47% of the population qualifying as Bible-minded. This compares to the Most Bible-Minded city, Knoxville, TN [52%] and the Least Bible-minded, Providence, RI [9%]. The most Bible-minded cities tended to be from the South, while the least tended to be…
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Christmas & the Archko Library
Every Christmas and Easter, I get tons of hits on The Archko Volume, or Archko Library by the Rev. W. D. Mahan. Proponents of this work of pseudo-apocrypha, including televangelist Benny Hinn, claim that the Archko Volue is an authentic historical work recovered from the Vatican Library which authenticates many of the events of the…
Why I Didn’t Need to Call NASA To KNow the World Isn’t Going To End on December 21, 2012
Yes, I’m still offering Johnny Came Home free on Kindle today. No, that’s not what this post is about. I’m writing this post because I found out that NASA was/is being flooded with calls and emails from folks wanting to know if Doomsday is here. The Mayan Long Calendar ends on today, December 21, 2012….
2012, the Mayan Calendar & the Free Kindle Book at the End of the World
The Mayan Long Calendar ends on December 21, 2012 and everyone’s seeing that as a sign of an impending Apocalypse. Well, not everyone. The Mayans were actually looking forward to it as something of a Golden Age per some scholars. In any case, Christians need not fear this hocus pocus. Jesus adamantly stated even He didn’t know the…
Objections to Young Earth Creationism Often Reveal A Basic Misunderstanding of Science
Recently, I ran across a few comments about this image on a site called atheistthinktank.net. I really don’t expect fans on these sites, but I was surprised to see that their basic objections reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of the debate. For example, take this comment by someone who sadly identifies themself as nogodsforme: “What the eff? I…
Another Great Review of Johnny Came Home: Is Survival of the Fittest Justifiable Among Humans?
Peter R. Stone, author of A Knight from Dein, posted this awesome review of Johnny Came Home on Amazon: After his parents perished in a house fire, Johnny vowed never to return to his hometown, to never again see the boarded up remains of his fire-gutted family home. Yet inexplicably he returns, dragging his best…
Our First 5-Star Review: ‘Johnny Came Home’ And We Hope He Sets Up House
K G Powderly, Jr., author of The Windows of Heaven series, weighed in with five stars on Johnny Came Home’s first Amazon review. His review expounds on the mythological elements I crafted into the world of John Lazarus: As a boy, I lived at the pharmacy comic book section, where The Avengers and X-Men captured…
Pastor Blasts Biblical Inerrancy. I Demonstrate Why This Is A Bad Idea
On June 24, 2010, Associated Baptist Press reported on a sermon delivered on the same day by Dr. Wm. Richard Kremer to Garden Lakes Baptist Church in Rome, GA, entitled, Is the Bible Inerrant? Dr. Kremer’s sermon begins with the following claim, which I find utterly baseless for reasons I shall relate afterwards: “Few words in the…
God Rested: How the Sabbath Day Destroys a Critic’s Argument Against Young Earth Creationism
Recently, a fellow named David Evarts posted a rather subversive comment on the Defending Genesis Facebook page, hoping to attract Biblical Young Earth Creationists over to what he sees as a more reasonable point of view. He began with the following statement: “Christians and other theists are, by definition Creationists. As such, the debate isn’t…
Removing the Stones
On this date in 1997, I gave my life to Christ. This week, I had the opportunity to hear Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis speak at a homeschool convention in South Carolina. I genuinely enjoy listening to Ken speak. I think I’ve heard every presentation he has at least four times over, but I…
Is the Resurrection a Legendary or Mythical Element Added to the Real History of Christ?
One of the more common objections to the resurrection of Christ is that we have no contemporary records of His life, so that legendary elements were added to the historical facts over time. This is ridiculous double standard and easily refuted by taking a look at the actual evidence. Sir Frederick Kenyon notes that: “In…
Why Animals, Humanity and the Rest of Creation Suffers for Adam’s Sin
In a post called “A theological argument against young earth creationism,” J W Wartick has argued that Biblical (young earth) Creationism is “morally impermissible.” His reasoning? Because animals died because of Adam’s sin, not because of anything they themselves did. If you’re reading that from an orthodox Christian worldview, something about his argument should be…
Defending Genesis 