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A collection of writings, quotes, and debates regarding God, Jesus Christ, Bible, Christian apologetics, theology, church, atheism, skepticism, The Jesus Seminar, G.A. Wells, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, evolution, theistic-evolution, eugenics, the Kansas State School Board evolution ruling, and historical quotes by the Founding Fathers regarding America's relationship with God. Richard Dawkins

“Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day [the Fourth of July]?" “Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity"?  President John Quincy Adams, July 4th, 1837 when he delivered a Fourth of July speech at Newburyport, Massachusetts

Christian Apologetics:

Jesus Christ - Who is this unique person? What does the Biblical evidence reveal?

Dating the New Testament Books  Dating the Old Testament Books Various opinions by conservative and liberal scholars as to when the books of the Bible were written.  Dating New Testament Events     Dating Old Testament Events   Elementary Rules of Bible Interpretation  Dates for English Bibles   Quotes Regarding the Bible and Theology

The Kenosis-Which Christ? by Gary Butner, Th.D.  Did Christ empty Himself of His deity? The Kenotic Theory was first scientifically formulated by Thomasius in Germany, (1860 to 1880) and later by theologians in England (1890 to 1910). Prior to that no recognized teacher in the first 1,800 years of church history, including those who were native speakers of Greek, thought that "emptied himself" in Philippians 2:7 meant the Son of God gave up some of his divine attributes.

Antony Flew's There IS a God - the authorship controversy By Denyse O'Leary - When Antony Flew's book first appeared, its substance was overshadowed by a controversy over whether Flew really wrote it. The implication, drawn out at length by Mark Oppenheimer in The New York Times, was that Flew was senile and was being manipulated by zealous Christians. There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind

Antony Flew, God, and the Evidence: A review of There IS a God By Denyse O'Leary - On December 9, 2004, an Associated Press story story went out on the wires, "Famous Atheist Now Believes in God: One of World's Leading Atheists Now Believes in God, More or Less, Based on Scientific Evidence."

More? Or less? As it turns out, neither. He believes in God simply on the scientific evidence. Many might consider that thin gruel, but he is entitled to cite the evidence in his defense. And there is a lot of it.

Part One: Antony Flew sought to make the best case for atheism
Part Two: Following the argument wherever it leads
Part Three: Rediscovering the God of the Philosophers
Part Four: Einstein's God and Antony Flew


The Meaning of Atheism By Rev. Dr. Greg Neal. On the Internet it has become very common for self-professed Atheists to define their position as being a simple lack of a god-belief and not as a denial of the existence of God. By claiming to affirm only a passive lack of a god-postulate, and by denying that they actively assert the nonexistence of deity, such Atheists conveniently absolve themselves from having to defend their position. In other words, they claim that there is a big difference between asserting: "I do not believe a deity exists" and "I believe a deity does not exist."

Atheism - An excellent article (offsite)

Islam, Muhammad, and the Koran - The Koran is the Muslim's Holy Book-they call it "The Glorious Qur'an" or "Al-Mushaf Al-Shareef." The Koran came almost 600 years after Christ. Many of its contents contradict the Bible, and it records many of the Bible stories with great distortion. It commands the killing of Jews and Christians, permits polygamy, permits the husband to beat his wife, and permits a Muslim man to marry a Christian or Jewish woman, but forbids the Muslim woman to marry a Christian or Jewish man. Many more things are mentioned in this book.

The Omnipotence of God   By Rev. Dr. Greg Neal. Each of us have heard the skeptics mocking challenge, "Can God make a rock He cannot lift?" In his Seeking the Shepherd's Arms, Rev. Neal answers this and many other challenges skeptics present to believers.

The Errancy of Silence   A debate between Rev. Dr. Greg Neal and AOL hyper-skeptic atheist apologist Achrachne regarding the errant use of silence by hyper-skeptic G.A. Wells.

Hate   A debate between Rev Dr Greg Neal and AOL hyper-skeptic SnakePiper on the meaning of the Greek word Miseo in Luke 14:26.

Hyper-skeptic Motives   By Rev Dr. Greg Neal.

Mark 7:24-31 Hyper-Skeptic Questions Mark's Geography  A debate between Dr. Gary Butner and AOL hyper-skeptic Kornform, M.D.

Mark 7:24 Skeptic Neglects to Respond   An exchange between Rev Neal and hyper-Skeptic Joseph Crea.

When was Jesus Crucified?  A debate between Dr. Gary Butner and AOL hyper-skeptics Kornform and Ariex regarding an apparent contradiction as to the time of the crucifixion.

Who is G. A. Wells?  By Rev. Dr. Gregory S. Neal.

 Pi in the Bible  1 Kings 7:23  On The Rabbinical Exegesis of an Enhanced Biblical Value of  pi. It will surprise hyper-skeptics to learn the Biblical pi is far more accurate than 22/7.

Ancient Statistics   Rev Neal refutes an often rehashed and worn out argument used by hyper-skeptic Kornform, M.D. 

The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul Do religious experiences come from God, or are they merely the random firing of neurons in the brain?

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Christianity in America

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religion but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.","Give me liberty or give me death." Patrick Henry of the Constitutional Convention.

"Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever." President Thomas Jefferson

"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports . . . And let us indulge with caution the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion . . . Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail to the exclusion of religious principle." From President George Washington's Farewell Address

"The general principles, on which the Fathers achieved independence, were . . . the general principles of Christianity." John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, June 28, 1813, The Adams-Jefferson Letters, ed. Lester J. Cappon (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1959), vol 2, pp. 339-40.

"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers. And it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest, of a Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers." First Chief Justice of Supreme Court John Jay to Jedidiah Morse February 28, 1797

"The American population is entirely Christian, and with us Christianity and Religion are identified. It would be strange indeed, if with such a people, our institutions did not presuppose Christianity, and did not often refer to it, and exhibit relations with it." John Marshall, in a letter to Jasper Adams, May 9, 1833, JSAC, p. 139. Marshall was Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1801-1835.

Christopher Columbus Testimony

The Fifty-Six Signers of the Declaration of Independence and Their Church Affiliation

The Fifty-Five delegates to the Constitutional Convention

Quotes by America's Founding Fathers       Quotes by Our Presidents

God In the 50 State Constitutions

The First Amendment

In Their Own Words - By Bob Gingrich (Book Review)

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Evolution & Darwinism

Flat Earth Theory: A Defense of Science  By Roddy Bullock, JD, BSME

It's a fact, the earth is flat. At least as a scientific matter. I know this because I'm a scientist who's been taught all my life nothing but earth flatness, it appears to me that the earth is flat, and, quite honestly, I like the idea of a flat earth (the implications of a round earth concern me). But more importantly, the overwhelming majority of scientists no longer question whether the earth is flat and I know that presupposing a flat earth in science establishes a powerful unifying principle (something of a rule one might say), ordering all the various concepts just so. As a scientist, I find that nothing in earth science makes sense except in the light of flatness.

Charles Darwin, The Last Icon of Evolution? By Roddy Bullock, JD, BSME

What would happen if teachers in a public school classroom notified students of a book in the school library that offered scientific challenges to Darwin's theory of evolution? Call it The Book, and assume it gave a fair portrayal of evolution by natural selection but, in addition to clearly outlining Darwin's thoughts on the matter, also identified specific challenges to Darwinism. What if The Book raised the prospect of gaps in evolutionary theory for which there is no evidence? Even worse, what if The Book contrasted the ideas of Darwinism with that of creationists, clearly focusing on the diametrically opposite religious implications of the evidence? Would such notification by teachers be legal in the United States?

Darwinism: Bumbleology with a Fake ID By Roddy Bullock, JD, BSME

Q: How many materialists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. Given time the light bulb will change itself.

No joke. Light from darkness, life from non-life, mind from matter; it's all a mere marvel of matter in motion. Never mind where matter came from, and no matter where mind came from, for matter-only materialists everything that is came unplanned from everything that was in a string of unguided eternal change...Who would have thought?

Darwinism: Mountain of Evidence, Valley of Death By Roddy Bullock, JD, BSME

Dogmatic Darwinists: The Captain Ahabs of Science By Roddy Bullock, Esq.

Richard Dawkins, Hyper-skeptic This speech is bone-chilling. In it, Dawkins crossed over the line between science and religion. He claims he doesn't, but he does it time and time and time and time again. He even does so according to the atheistic "Philosophy of Religion" school, which states that Science deals with "How" and "When" questions of life, while Religion deals with the "Why," "By Whom," and "For Whom" questions.

  The Myth of the Flat Earth  By Jeffrey Burton Russell, Ph.D.  Hyper-skeptics routinely label Christians flat-earthers.  It might surprise you to know who created the label. Offsite

"Evolution, Fact or Faith?" By Dr. Jim Anderson. 

Where IS all that EVIDENCE? By Bob Gingrich

A Reality Check from Oz, By Dr. Gary Butner  

Second Thoughts about Peppered Moths By Jonathan Wells, Ph.D. This classical story of evolution by natural selection needs revising.

Why Kansas Catholics Opposed The Teaching of Evolution  By Jack Cashill, Ph.D. 

Quotes Regarding Creation/Evolution/Intelligent Design

 Intelligent Design Network, Inc. Home Page
 

Evolution / Darwinism Archives

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Pro-Life / Pro-Choice Issues:

Rescue those who are unjustly sentenced to death; don’t stand back and let them die.  Don’t try to avoid responsibility by saying you didn’t know about it. For God knows all hearts, and he sees you. He keeps watch over your soul, and he knows you knew! And he will judge all people according to what they have done.  Proverbs 24:10-12 New Living Translation. Wheaton, Ill,: Tyndale House

Answer to The Pro-Choice Argument That "Abortion" Is Not in The Bible

Exodus 21:22-25: Translations & Mistranslations By Gary Butner, Th.D. 

Baby Parts for Sale-A batch of eyes by UPS – 30 livers by FedEx By J. C. Willke, MD, President The Life Issues Institute, Inc.

The Abortion-Breast Cancer Link is America's Best Kept Secret By Frank Joseph, M.D.

Quotes by Early Christians and Jews Regarding Abortion

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