2010 December

Godless Girl wrote a simple inspiring message in the snow on her car window and it motivated some goodhearted, presumably religious, strangers who saw it to clean off her window for her! Before: After: Seriously though, as a friend noted on my Facebook wall when I posted this story, she probaby could have gotten the [...]

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How Belief In “Theistic Evolution” Is Nearly As Much A Denial Of Science As Creationism

December 24, 2010 By Daniel Fincke 9 Comments

One often hears the refrain that it’s possible to believe in both God and evolution. And it is in fact true, both psychologically and, more importantly, logically, that one may both believe in God and in evolution. Psychologically we have ample evidence that plenty of people believe in both and logically it is clear that [...]

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The (Jesuit) Father Of The Big Bang Theory

December 24, 2010 By Daniel Fincke Leave a Comment

Recently, on Facebook, I boiled down my philosophical and scientific objections to theistic evolution to pithy status update size and received a good deal of discussion as a result. I plan to edit, reprint, and possibly expand upon my remarks on theistic evolution on Camels With Hammers soon. But in the meantime, I wanted to [...]

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Why Free Time Should Not Be Labeled “Optional”

December 24, 2010 By Daniel Fincke 1 Comment

Lily reflects on her failures to reflect this summer: Whenever I’m extremely busy, free time is always the first thing to go. I hang onto sleep and food and cleanliness for as long as I can, but I had always seen free time as superfluous, expendable, and willingly sacrificed. That’s what I did this summer, [...]

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