You know the $700 billion bailout that was passed to create a “Troubled Asset Recovery Program”? Well, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson has decided not to buy troubled assets. Instead, he is buying bank stock. According to ABC, “Paulson said today, he knew when
A Salt Lake City suburb has a monument of the Ten Commandments in a public place. That’s OK because it was donated by a private group. So now a self-described New Age Gnostic group called Summum has donated a monument inscribed with its Seven Aphorisms.
1. Summum is mind, thought; the universe is a mental creation. 2. As above, so below; as below, so above. 3. Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates. 4. Everything is dual; everything has an opposing point; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike
Still more from William Lane Craig on God in contemporary philosophy: The ontological argument. Anselm’s famous argument has been reformulated and defended by Alvin Plantinga, Robert Maydole, Brian Leftow, and others. God, Anselm observes, is by definition the greatest being conceivable. If you could conceive
David Brooks cites two factions that are vying for control of a rebuilt conservative movement: In one camp, there are the Traditionalists, the people who believe that conservatives have lost elections because they have strayed from the true creed. George W. Bush was a big-government
A few weeks ago, we posted about atheists in England proselytyzing for their lack of faith by putting ads on buses. That has inspired a similar campaign in Washington, D. C. Atheists have bought space on metrobuses to display the slogan “Why believe in a
More from William Lane Craig on the new acceptance of God in contemporary academic philosophy: The moral argument. A number of ethicists, such as Robert Adams, William Alston, Mark Linville, Paul Copan, John Hare, Stephen Evans, and others have defended “divine command” theories of ethics,
The stock market keeps dropping. I am far from an expert and no investor beyond my retirement accounts, but why sell stocks now? On paper, everyone’s holdings look bad, but that is only if you cash them out. You don’t lose money until you take
The media is puzzled that Americans overwhelmingly elected Barack Obama and other Democrats, while overwhelmingly voting down gay marriage. See, for example, Same-sex marriage bans paradoxical in historic election – CNN.com. But the elections are proof of what can be seen from the discussions on
From William Lane Craig’s article on the rise of theism among contemporary philosophers, God Is Not Dead Yet in Christianity Today: The teleological argument. The old design argument remains as robust today as ever, defended in various forms by Robin Collins, John Leslie, Paul Davies,
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