Posted by Brian on Sat 30-Jun-2007 at 9:00 pm
Ewan McDonald, comment on CultureWatch Secular Religion, 23 May 2007:
Cosmological evolution can be witnessed today as new stars form, but this does not prove a naturalistic origin. Rather, since the process of stellar evolution remains a mystery, a supernatural origin makes much more sense.
[Best example of a 'god of the gaps' argument I've seen for some time. Ewan, mate, you just don't get it, do you?]
Posted by Brian on Wed 27-Jun-2007 at 9:45 pm
The evangelical Christians who run New Life magazine probably consider themselves a highly moral group of people. After all, they spend much of their time fulminating against abortion rights, gay and lesbian rights, feminists, ‘evolutionists’, supporters of voluntary euthanasia and similar miscreants. Surely they themselves are ‘right with God’.
As with a number of conservative Christian journals, you can tell a lot about the core beliefs of the publishers and editors by reading the children’s pages. Here, the organisation’s basic ideas are distilled to their essence, untrammelled by the bodyguard of … I was going to say ‘nuances’, but let’s say ‘lies’ instead … that accompany similar articles written for adult consumption.