I ran across an article by Ian Stevenson entitled "Birthmarks and Birth Defects Corresponding to Wounds on Deceased Persons," in which he defends reincarnation. The editor regarded this line of evidence as “the strongest proof yet of reincarnation.� One risk of rolling out your best argument is ...

Richard Hawkins was a bit bedazzled as he strolled about the New Jerusalem. Of course, he didn’t belong there, and it was only a matter of time before he was apprehended by the authorities. Needless to say, he had inside help to engineer his escape. Back in hell, everyone was on the take. Every ma...

We spend a lot our time waiting for something or someone. To some extent, modernity has accelerated the pace of life–with phones, cars, planes, email, online shopping, &c. Yet technology can also be used to slow things down. In the past, when you phoned a company, a real live person would come on ...

I few years ago I had lunch with some relatives on the Queen Mary–berthed in Long Beach. Afterwards I walked around the deck, which had photographs of the rich and famous from a bygone era. Long gone. Dead and buried. Life is like that. A journey. A lifelong journey on an ocean liner. It has three...

Back in the 19C, “Argonauts,� as they were termed, traveled the Oregon Trail or California Trail to settle the West Coast. It was an arduous trek. Not everyone who began the journey made it to his destination. There were many fatalities along the way, due to accident, exposure, old age, malnutri...

A number of professing believers regard youth-earth creationism as the least defensible option. Of those, a large number of evangelicals prefer old-earth creationism. It has the advantage, in their view, of doing greater justice to Scripture than theistic evolution, but greater justice to science th...

Music is an extremely popular art form. It seems to be a cultural universal. People with disposable income are often major consumers of music. Not to mention radio and the Internet. The popularity of music makes all the more striking the diversity in musical taste. While some music lovers are fairly...

Dan has responded: http://www.arminianchronicles.com/2009/02/more-on-choice-and-determinism.html “I didn’t say Calvinists define choose as “You can choose X if it’s your strongest desire�.� If you didn’t mean that, then your original objection is stillborn. “I said they avoid the com...

DOMINIC BNONN TENNANT SAID: [Quoting me] 7.But let’s assume it is possible to contact the dead. If the only departed spirits you can reach turn out to be damnéd spirits, then they will not be reliable guides to the true nature of the afterlife. Rather, they will be more like vampires, who try to ...

http://rdtwot.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/an-exercise-in-missing-the-point/ “[Nick Norelli] I have to admit that I don’t read Triablogue unless someone whose blog I do read links to it. Well, TurettinFan did exactly that in linking to an admittedly humorous post by Steve Hays in which he mocks Perr...