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Christopher Tanner
- Feb 18, 2015
- 5 min
Faces in the Crowd: A Darwinian Family Affair
Imagine a small crowd of people – a hundred or so – in a public place. A few minutes earlier they were all in transit to various other destinations, but a momentary spectacle has drawn them together. They do not, for the most part, know each other and in most cases they’ll never see each other again once they go their separate ways. They include representatives of every age group from infancy to dotage; there are people of various ethnic backgrounds, political and religious p
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Christopher Tanner
- Oct 24, 2014
- 13 min
Reading the Myths Aright, Creation Through the Looking Glass Part 1
What’s the best way to read a myth? That depends on the myth, of course. Some myths are crafted for the purpose of teaching a lesson by means of a fanciful story and should be understood as products of the rich human imagination, somewhat akin to art. Some point to actual events, retold in a much-amplified way and should be understood as embellished accounts of watershed occasions in a culture’s history. Many afford valuable insights into human psychology and the human predic
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Chris Hanna
- Sep 25, 2014
- 3 min
Thank you Stephen Hawking for Telling Everyone What We Already Knew.
I am reminded of a drowning person, reaching, clawing, scratching, and pulling on anything they can to stay afloat, remain in existence, and stay alive. Before you object, I would never stoop so low as to insult the magnificently gifted intellectual know as Steven Hawking, I am talking about the history of religion and its treatment of the innovative scientist. Take a moment, click over to your browser tabs and open your favorite search engine, go ahead and search for: “Einst
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Christopher Tanner
- Jul 30, 2014
- 5 min
The Best Argument – A Response to AiG
The Best Argument Response Answers in Genesis thinks they have the ultimate answer to all the atheist’s responses to the existence of god. Today I have the pleasure or should we say the distaste of seeing a post on the AiG website called “Chapter 27: What Is the Best Argument for the Existence of God?”. Now this title itself is an intriguing topic given that usually AiG asserts that “god is true because the bible says so, and the bible is true because god said so” which as we
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