Swedish church claims Greta as Jesus’ successor, as reported by Watts Up With That 29 September 2019. Anthony Watt of the climate website Watts Up With That spotted a Twitter announcement made on 1 December 2018 by the Swedish church Limhamns Kyrka, which proclaims (in Swedish) “Kungörelse! Jesus från Nasaret har nu utsett en av […]
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Aboriginal Boxer Mundine Says Gays Should Die
Aboriginal boxer Mundine says gays should die, according to the Courier Mail (Queensland, Australia) 9 February 2018, p23. Anthony Mundine is an Australian boxer, described by the Courier Mail as a “high profile Muslim and self-styled Aboriginal leader”. According to Mundine homosexuality is banned in Islam and forbidden in Aboriginal culture, and those practicing it […]
Biblical Thorns
A Thorny Issue In 2007 and 2009 John Mackay and colleagues found fossils of plant stems with sharp thorny projections. Some critics have questioned whether these are really thorns. One botanist has asserted that technically these are not thorns, but spines. So let us deal with two questions: First: Would the hard pointed structures on […]
Quote: Darwin on Christianity
Darwin on Christianity: In his autobiography (written in 1876) Darwin dismissed the Old Testament and the Gospels. He then describes his disbelief in Christianity: “Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but was at last complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even […]
Quote: Darwin on Shaking Faith in the Bible
Darwin on shaking faith in the Bible: Darwin commented on Lyell’s method of shaking faith in the Scriptures in a letter to his son: “Lyell is most firmly convinced that he has shaken the faith in the Deluge etc far more efficiently by never having said a word against the Bible, than if he had […]