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I stand by what I said, despite also believing vigorously in original sin (the sinful nature of Adam is transmitted to all his posterity by ordinary generation, because he was a covenant representative of the entire human race). There are a number of verses in Scripture that attest to this idea...

I just finished reading Marx's The Communist Manifesto, and have come to the following conclusion: Why anyone takes him seriously today is beyond me. The very first sentence in the book is simply factually incorrect: No, not really. Have there been class struggles? Undeniably. But to reduce...

There's quite a dustup over on Stack Exchange. Apparently, SE has some new rules coming in (not even there yet!), which a respected member of the community, Monica Cellio on Judaism.SE, had some questions about, upon which she got fired from her moderator positions. The new rules have to do with...

Part 2 was a Q&A that I shared with my pastor, Matt Holst. He had done a short series on Death Before the Fall, and made the theological case that death before the Fall was not possible (careful definition of death, by the way, to include only animal and human death, not plant death).

It was just whoever was in church that day. I've opened it up now, though!

Lesson Plan Personal introduction. Yank rug out from underneath Kant. Kant was refuting the skepticism - rather thorough-going skepticism as well as empiricism - of David Hume. As Kant wrote, "Hume awoke me from my dogmatic slumbers." To answer Hume, Kant had two realms: the noumenon and the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9v2h2awAHU&t=446s&list=PLXqNhbObfqJrg2kUg__sNU8PJS46Bv1mi&index=5 This is a Sunday School lesson I taught for both the adults and the high-schoolers at my church a few weeks ago. First, there's a YouTube of the video (see above). Second, there's the...

Definitely not from the outside, hehe. Note my affiliation icon.

A Baptist man, a Pentacostal woman, and a Calvinist all die and go to the Pearly Gates to be let into heaven. Saint Peter meets them at the gates, and tells them they have to undergo an examination to make sure they are suitable for heaven. Saint Peter says, "All right, I'll take the Baptist...

Maybe, but I find the built-in Windows firewall to be perfectly adequate - that is, if your browsing isn't too aggressive.

The difference between experiments and observational studies is this: in an observational study, you do not control any variables. In an experiment, you do. That's it. This is an accepted difference in any statistics book you examine. In an observational study, you simply look at what is...

Not the way I was using the term. In climate science, there are a lot of computer models. I'm definitely not talking about $\displaystyle\mathbf{F}=\frac{d\mathbf{p}}{dt}$ or $E=m c^2$ as a model. Climate science does not have such well-defined equations that explain everything. Far less is...

But in the end, they're just models. They're only as good as their assumptions (sometimes not even that good). A model without experimental data to back it up is completely unable to establish causality. This is why string theory has come up on such hard times recently: we don't have the...

Ok, I see what you mean. But I've just finished arguing that the scientific method is not sufficient for the task, since we can't do the right experiments. Therefore, causality cannot be shown. It's kinda like questions of origin. We can't generate new universes, evolve them in time, and see how...

Exactly. To quote Hawking on climate science is to commit ad verecundiam: appeal to inappropriate authority.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that. It sounds like you're saying something along the lines of "Everyone knows global warming is caused by human activity." Am I correct? But that's precisely the point at issue in Dougherty's article. I'm not convinced the earth is warming, let alone that...

Yeah, few people are as responsible for as many deaths (due to ideology) as he is.

I saw a link to an article by Edward R. Dougherty, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Texas A&M, who apparently works in genomics and the cell. Then I noticed that on Public Discourse, he had a whole series of articles. I thought you all might enjoy them, as this guy can...

The problem is, neither Trump nor Clinton are presidential. They don't behave like presidents. Although I disagree with the way Obama breathes, I will totally say that he is presidential. I'm voting Constitution Party.

It's true that if I'm talking with an unbeliever, then by definition the Holy Spirit has not convinced that person that the Bible is true (My sheep will hear My voice, Jesus said). Sharing the gospel with an unbeliever would probably not take that trajectory. I would go Creation, Fall...