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The Washington Post recently published an op-ed piece that claimed that the number of Christians in America were dropping. According to that post, the percentage of Christians in the US had dropped from 86% in 1990 to 76% today.  Read More »

In a comment on a recent blog of mine a person mentioned that she found the argument from design a persuasive one for God’s existence. She said:  Read More »

Vocal atheism is often accused of superficiality when it comes to the sophistication of theological knowledge.  Read More »

Recently in the blogosphere there has been a renewal of posts claiming that anthropogenic global warming is not real. Paul Hudson, climate correspondent with the BBC posted a blog in which he claims that there has been no global warming in the past 11 years.  Read More »

As a science junkie, I think there is just about no greater honor one can achieve than winning a Nobel Prize. Furthermore, I do not think winning the Peace prize should be viewed as less of an accomplishment simply because its winners seldom have scientific expertise.  Read More »

What do Nicolai Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and Aldous Huxley have in common. The first three are famous medieval astronomers and the fourth is the grandson of Darwin's Bulldog, Thomas Henry Huxley. So one answer to the question might be an inordinate interest in science. But another answer would be a confirmed belief in the validity of astrology.  Read More »

UC-Berkeley paleoanthropologist, Tim White, had been part of some of the most important discoveries in human origin. He was with Mary Leakey and helped describe the 3.7 million year old Laetoli footprints that showed beyond doubt Australopithicines walked on two legs.  Read More »

Today is September 30^th. It is International Blasphemy Day. In a moment I will blaspheme God. But before that I want to give you a series of events that led up to this moment.

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