Recent content by XenonEmeritus

for the existence of God? I assumed Ray Comfort & Kurt Cameron's "banana proof for God" video was a source of laughter across the entire "apologetics spectrum" -- but then I started seeing posts on R&S which seemed to presume that theologians down through the centuries have looked in awe to the...

publishing a consensus-changing tome? After all, anyone who published the definitive article (appearing in one of the top peer-reviewed journals of history or religious studies) and unseated the long-standing conclusion of scholars at the world's top universities that the Jesus who founded the...

publishing a consensus-changing tome? After all, anyone who published the definitive article (appearing in one of the top peer-reviewed journals of history or religious studies) and unseated the long-standing conclusion of scholars at the world's top universities that the Jesus who founded the...

Sciences undergrads? I heard that Harvard had some sort of faculty controversy over such a topic even though such courses are common at other Ivy League schools.

...Was it idyllic? Indeed, why was an excellent "island" (called Eden) needed in contrast to an entire earth that the Bible tells us little about.

...pre-tribulational rapture as separate from.....? .....the Second Coming of Christ?

recent decades. Will it get reversed? Do you think that governmental regulations will reduce air pollution to where the trends will be reversed? (I don't recall the preferred scientific term. But it is measured based upon how quickly a quantity of water exposed to the sun at ground level will...

play a role in your change of mind? I used to have long lists of alleged "Bible errors" until I became multi-lingual and came to understand the dynamics of semantic domains and cross-cultural factors. Several books I've read by former atheists seem to have gone through similar paths of...

...Christianity in their reporting? Are the terms commonly understood differently outside of the U.S.?

And why would "The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil" be used as a symbol of having sex for the first time? Why would that be an important "lesson" for such a story? (And why would sex be considered evil, especially after God kept looking at each part of creation and said "It is good.")

end of the GW bell curve? That is, many scientists believe that the warming trend is far more serious than what the U.S. press has reported. And have the climate scientists who are most emphatic in calling for aggressive action by the world's governments been virtually ignored?

warming" term? The scientists have always emphasized "climate change" because they realized that those ignorant of climate issues would naively assume that "global warming" was a universal descriptor for every place and time of weather phenomenon on the planet. So have the terms simply changed...