Disgraceful: A UN scientist has admitted he included the nonsense about Himalayan glaciers disappearing by 2035—even though he knew it had not been scientifically verified—to put political pressure on regional government leaders. From the story:The scientist behind the bogus claim in a . . . . Continue Reading »
This is an essential catholic and evangelical truth: the Word of God does not speak of something the way, for example, I may speak of something I know or have an opinion about. Scripture is God speaking. When Scripture speaks, we hear the voice of God.For most of Protestantism Scripture has become a . . . . Continue Reading »
So I got an email criticizing my post below for not talking up ELI as representing the truth that is Christian theology. Good point, actually. Here’s my feeble memory of what the movie’s unfashionable but genuinely illuminating teachings are along those lines: 1. Each of us has free . . . . Continue Reading »
The best way to counter the Tea Party movement, which is all about stopping things, is with an Innovation Movement, which is all about starting things. [ . . . ] Obama should bring together the country’s leading innovators and ask them: “What legislation, what tax incentives, do we need . . . . Continue Reading »
Oh dear, oh dear: The UN’s IPCC has been caught getting it hysterically wrong again. First, it was the false claim that the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035—which turned out to be one man’s conjecture—since withdrawn—published in New Scientist. . . . . Continue Reading »
1. It’s very much worth seeing, although it’s far from the best movie ever made. The best Christian movie ever made remains TENDER MERCIES. But Bob may be right and I may be wrong. It could be that the movie’s teaching style doesn’t correspond to my learning style. 2. JWC . . . . Continue Reading »
It never ceases to amaze me how often I forget this profound truth:“The center of God’s revelation is Christ. All that God is to us, He is in Christ. All that we know of God, we know through Christ.” (Henry Eyster Jacobs, Elements of Religion, p. 170).So often we are tempted to . . . . Continue Reading »
NASA has released a study claiming that 2000-2009 was the warmest decade since records began being kept in 1880. This isn’t the same thing as saying it is the warmest decade ever, of course. And I am skeptical. First, Jim Hansen is a panic monger, and I don’t believe anything . . . . Continue Reading »
Are Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid really this dumb? Apparently, they are attempting to resuscitate the seemingly dead health care reform Gargantua by keeping its most onerous provisions and shoving it through the Senate in a process that would require only 51 votes. From the . . . . Continue Reading »
I guess this is one way to deter the suicide industry that has set up shop in Switzerland: Tax it! From the story:Patients who travel to Switzerland to die in Zurich’s so-called suicide clinics could face a 50,000 Swiss franc ($53,000) ”death tax”. Right-wing Swiss . . . . Continue Reading »
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