Daily Archives: Thursday, October 16, 2008

He said I should take my friends and family and everyone where I live and move into Calmar, which is a community across the river from where I live. God told me that if I obeyed him and you obeyed me as a representative of God Almighty himself, that peace, harmony, joy, riches, a good life, and eternal salvation will be yours. We must move to Calmar. Unfortunately, Calmar is infested with Calmarians and they must be destroyed because they are evil anyway. God has commanded that we do not negotiate, nor have mercy on, nor spare any Calmarians. We must go there and kill all of them including the women and children. Especially the women and children. We must kill them all, then burn everything to ashes, saving nothing, not even are we allowed to take their animals, they also must be destroyed. Do not fret because these Calmarians … Continue reading →

There is a huge controversy today about whether the world was created by God, or by strictly natural processes. There are many other beliefs and opinions, but here I want to talk about two opposing beliefs in an unavoidably stereotypical way. On one side we have the creationists and intelligent design advocates, who believe there is a God who has created the universe. On the other side we have the scientists and atheists who feel they do not have to resort to supernatural forces to explain the creation of, and the evolution of the universe. Obviously, there are many gradations of belief between these two extremes. But how do we decide who is right? How can we make intelligent judgments in the face of some possibly unanswerable questions? In other words, how can we employ the best possible critical thinking skills when we try to make sense of the world? … Continue reading →

This is a topic of extreme importance to me and so I have created this category of posts “Science and Creation” to contain my thoughts on this controversial and complex topic. THIS post is special in that it is a must-read post for those who need to understand that putting things in writing is permanent, whereas the ideas that led to the writings are not. People change, ideas change, I change. I change when presented with more evidence or when the evidence I based my ideas and conclusions on change or are found to be false. In this sense, a writing, or a series of writings is a snapshot in time and not a dogmatic thing. Because it is such a huge and complicated topic I had, and am having a hard time organizing and beginning this category. Where do I start? What do I write? I don’t know so … Continue reading →