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In Defense of Faith

By msarko on 1/6/10 5:11pm
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While the focus of this blog is to promote secular concepts in opposition to religion, as well as to point out some of the inherent absurdities of popular faith, I feel as if a lot of the ire generated by the atheism vs. religion debate is misplaced. Both sides of the argument oversimplify each other, if for no other reason than to generate a series of straw men to be knocked down by a blunt and ultimately fallacious point. I would like to take this opportunity to stand in defense of faith, not from a position of biblical literalism or moral condemnation, but from the perspective of someone who does not believe that rationality and religion are truly diametrically opposed.



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Scary Scientists visit the Creation Museum

By selecter on 6/25/09 8:02pm
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Creation Museum dinosaur: Come ride the Dinosaur of Misinformation!Creation Museum dinosaur: Come ride the Dinosaur of Misinformation!The world famous Creation Museum, which illustrates scientifically, no, make that Biblically, the creation of the universe. So wait, the science supports the Bible at the Creation Museum... or does the Bible support the science? Is there any actual science? Well, a group of professional scientists, who actually go out to fossil digs and dig up fossils, went to the museum built by people who look at the Bible and devine knowledge from it about stuff that it doesn't even mention (dinosaurs). A large group of Paleontologists were invited into the museum to be converted...

Dr. Jere Lipps, a paleontologist at UC Berkeley had this concise statement to offer:

"It is a monument to scientific illiteracy."

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