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Intelligent Design a Boondoggle

Intelligent Design a Boondoggle

In a roundtable interview with reporters from five Texas newspapers President Bush said yesterday that he believes schools should discuss “intelligent design” alongside evolution when teaching students about the creation of life. No problem. Just don’t ask science teachers to teach it. Teach it in religion classes, not alongside evolutionary theories in biology class. The principle of selection: what lives to reproduce passes on its genes. There are discussions about different theories within the science of evolution – debate about…

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Which theologian are you?

Which theologian are you?

Kind of outdated and the questions aren’t that great, but anyway… You scored as Paul Tillich. Paul Tillich sought to express Christian truth in an existentialist way. Our primary problem is alienation from the ground of our being, so that our life is meaningless. Paul Tillich 87% Jurgen Moltmann 73% Martin Luther 67% Charles Finney 60% Friedrich Schleiermacher 53% John Calvin 53% Augustine 47% Karl Barth 20% Jonathan Edwards 13% Anselm 0% Which theologian are you?created with QuizFarm.com Emergent/ Postmodern?…

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A Former Witness Writes

A Former Witness Writes

I don’t know if you remember me but I had wrote you an email about how much I enjoyed your web site. Have you ever seen that video Witnesses of Jehovah? I ordered it. It had a lot of good information but I didn’t like the propaganda style making of the video. The music, the horror stories and them dramatizing the the little girl crying and sitting while saluting the flag (sitting during a flag salute is against Witness doctrine…

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“Good Steward”????

“Good Steward”????

Well, all in all, both men did very well. These presidential debates are the most serious, the most exciting, the most historically resonant of any in my living memory. Anyone who wants to now has plenty of information to do their own research, and make an informed voting decision. Voter registration is up. I’m really beat and I’ve had an extraordinarily…um..unusual week. But I can’t go to bed after the second presidential debate without at least screaming out to cyberspace:…

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