Darwin's Doubt

Eric Metaxas and Stephen Meyer, author of, "Darwin's Doubt" discuss Intelligent Design on Vimeo.



It appears that the hard-core Darwinists of today are as closed-minded as what they accuse the Church as being historically. They are the modern equivalent to flat-earthers. We are told the science is settled? Science is never settled. It always investigates, always questions, always examines all evidence and all possibilities.

Over an hour, but fascinating.

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Edson Home Dedication Ceremony

This is the dedication ceremony for the largest rural Habitat for Humanity build in Canadian history. Much of it is thanks to my friends Bob and Karen (Karen was the project coordinator, I believe) from Edson, where I lived for about 8 years. Karen's speech begins at about the 1:45 mark. In her thanks, she acknowledged Jesus as her Lord and Saviour, but this part was not included in the video. Kind of weird, as HFH professes itself as a Christian organization.

Anyway, congratulations, Karen and Bob. Job well done.

(And if anyone cares, the apartment building in the background at the 3:47 mark is where Eva and I lived our first year in Edson.)

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Child Poverty!

Most family break ups involve unmarried parents, Co-habiting couples

We have an epidemic of family breakdown because so few people realise how badly the odds of  success are stacked against unmarried co-habitees.

I won't say much more, because this is old hat, but something that, in today's climate of self-centered morality and entitlement will never be discussed, much less addressed.

So... Just sayin'

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"Atheist?" Super Bowl Ad?

The following video, which someone has declared is, "the best commercial on the planet," was apparently originally an ad for the Church of Scientology that someone merely tacked on the word, "Atheism" over the last part.



Interesting! What does it say, either about atheism or Scientology, that one can use the other's material without so much as an internal edit?

In my opinion, atheists who think they have an exclusive lock on logic are the most arrogant of all people. The Christian faith is completely logical. The difference comes from the basic premise on which one's logic is based. And the founding premises of both atheism and theism have one thing in common - they both rely on "unproveable" assumptions, at least, each one's premise based on, "evidence" unacceptable to the other.

Christians begin with the premise, not accepted by atheists, that, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." Atheists begin with the unproveable assumption that there is no such being as God. From there, each side develops its worldview based upon its chosen founding premise.

As I have probably said before, a number of years ago, after having been an atheist, or at least an apathetic agnostic for much of my life, it began to occur to me that it made as much sense that God existed ad that He did. God Himself has turned that dawning realization into a certainty.

Having accepted that basic Christian premise, I find the Christian faith to be completely internally logically consistent, much more so, in fact, than the atheistic worldview, and much more in tune with reality than the atheist way of thinking.

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Someone's Dream

 

L'il Dave's Service N' More.

 

I passed this place the other day on one of Alberta's secondary highways. Did you ever see something like this and imagine the story behind it?

 

This was someone's dream once - a dream to be one's own boss; a dream perhaps to be independent and provide for one's family. By the look of the trees growing up around the gas pumps this place has been abandoned for about 10 years or more. I can imagine a guy named Dave dreaming of owning his own small business. He may have been a mechanic working for someone else, the facility obviously consists of a gas bar, perhaps a convenience store, perhaps a small restaurant, and a separate garage - possibly added so that Dave could service cars in addition to the other business.

 

Maybe he had a young family. Maybe he and his wife sat at the kitchen table agonizing over whether or not to buy the place. Maybe Dave pleaded with her, sharing his dream about how great it was going to be.

 

I can imagine Dave buying this business then adding the shop, convinced that people would flock to his doors when they realized just how great a mechanic he was. And then, perhaps things didn't work out.

 

Many people dream of owning their own business. The majority of newly formed small business go out of business within a few years.

 

As one who has succeeded in my own small business, then been a part of a hugely successful company that started small and grew to medium size, I have a bit of a heart for people with these dreams. I realize how difficult it is to succeed and I ache for those who go in with such dreams then find them dashed.

 

And so I imagine the story of this place.

 

But maybe it's nothing like that at all.

 

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Two Is Better Than One? Who'da Thought It?

From here
This is one of my favourite hobbyhorses - the relationship between marriage, single parenthood and social/economic position. Once again, statistics and reality bear out the relationship.

“This is the marriage crisis behind our inequality crisis. It is not complicated. It requires no regressions. It is the simplest math equation in the world. It says: Two is more than one.”

However, it occurs to me that the correlation may not be as simple as at first sight. It may be that the persons of a certain group are less inclined to marry, and that that particular group also happen to be the ones who tend to be at a lower economic level. Such a group may be grouped by intelligence, education, social environment, moral values or something else. But in fact, I wonder if the relationship may be more correlational than causal. In any case, for whatever reason, they may be less inclined to hold to what we may call traditional morality and, as I have posted a number of times, I believe (and statistics and reality seem to bear this out), there is a direct relationship between uncommitted sexual activity, single parenthood and poverty.

Obviously I am writing in a general sense, and there are surely some wonderful exceptions, but also in general, there is a right way of doing things, and if people would just see it and do it, we would all be much better off.

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You Have Saved the Best 'Til Now

“Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.” (John 2:10)

Great things are happening in Alberta, Canada. Alpha is on fire. We have hundreds of churches offering  even more hundreds of courses this fall.

But some are new to Alpha, and not sure of what to expect. I have spoken recently to a few who seem disappointed with the numbers attending. One of these was a local pastor Monday evening who was wondering whether to cancel her course because her church had only 3 or 4 guests registered. I told her I could not make this decision for her team, but the decision, with prayer, would be theirs.

 

Then I told her about what I consider, humorously perhaps, my most successful course. It consisted of my wife and I and two guests in front of our home TV. One guest was already a Christian and the other came to faith on the course, so I can claim that by the end of the course, 100% of my guests had become Christians.

The following evening she then came to my house to pick up some resources because by that time they had 10 people registered.

 The real point is to take the long view. Not all such prayers are answered so quickly, but I believe that every effort we make in accordance with God's will, will somehow bear fruit - even if we don't see it immediately.   The key is not to give up - Jesus sometimes saves the best for later. And later may be just ahead.

 

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