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Evolution: The Beginning

Evolution: The Beginning How a board game about evolution teaches us about God   A couple of years ago around Christmas time I heard a radio advertisement for a new board game that was marketed as a fun way to teach children about evolution.   The game is called Evolution: The Beginning .   I was sad to hear this game promoted as a good Christmas gift, since evolution (with the exception of theistic evolution) denies the existence or necessity of God.   I could imagine Christmas morning: “Merry Christmas Bobby.   Here’s a gift that teaches that your life has no meaning and no purpose and when you die its over!”   I wanted to know more about this game so I did some research online about the game play and goal of the game. [1]   I was surprised to find that, though designed to teach about evolution, this game inadvertently teaches about the necessity of the Creator God.   The first thing in my investigation that struck me as odd is the conflict between the title of the game
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Obama Makes Illogical Pro-abortion Arguments

On January 22, 2016, the 43rd anniversary of the horrible Roe v. Wade decision concerning abortion in America, President Obama made a statement advocating for abortion (click here to access statement) .  President Obama's statement reflects the standard talking points of pro-death abortion advocates.  Let's think through his statement line by line. First he says Roe v. Wade "affirmed a woman's freedom to make her own choices about her body and her health."  This is the "pro-choice" argument.  The problem is that it isn't logical.  No woman in America has complete freedom of choice when it comes to her own body or her own health.  For instance, there are laws against drug abuse.  A woman doesn't have the legal right to make her own choice about her body in this instance.  The law takes that choice away.  She is not allowed to abuse drugs simply because that's what she chooses to do with her body.  A second reason that this is illogical is th
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When Does a Baby Deserve Human Rights?

At what point does a baby get human rights?  Presidential hopeful Senator Barak Obama was asked that question in a 2008 interview by Pastor Rick Warren held at Warren's church. The transcript to that interview can be accessed here. Obama's answer? Well, you know, I think that whether you're looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade.   Senator John McCain, also aspiring to the presidency, answered the same question: At the moment of conception.  Obama's claim that he was not able to answer that question with "specificity" seemed to be an attempt to dodge the question.  His lack of clarity on the issue also brings up other questions.  If he cannot say when a baby gets human rights then what about infants?  How can he be sure infants have human rights if he cannot specify when those rights are endowed?  Could post-birth babies not have rights yet?  Mc
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Motive Discovered in Death of Cecil the Lion

Breaking News... The investigation into the tragic death of Cecil the Lion, the beloved male lion from Zimbabwe, has recently taken a decisive turn.  Investigators have uncovered a possible motive for the senseless murder of the iconic cat.  Initial clues led detectives to one suspect, American dentist Walter Palmer.  Police are sure they have the right man.  Palmer's confession to the crime has all but made their case for them.  Police already knew that the murdering dentist fit the profile of an extremist; white, rich, gun-toting.  What had not been determined with certainty was the motive behind Palmer's barbaric act.  That is until investigators received an anonymous tip about the murdered lion's progressive ideology.  Park ranger Pete "PETA" Perkins reported to police that he had received a mysterious phone call from an informant who wished to remain anonymous.  The caller's tip led investigators to search the lion's Facebook page. What they fou
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America's Shameful Failure to Stop Abortion

Thomas Jefferson, writing the Declaration of Independence courtesy of freeimages.com The United States is a world leader in many good ways.  Unfortunately she also leads in one way that no American should be proud of.  Upon founding our nation, our Fathers wrote: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.     - The Declaration of Independence Today is not a proud day for America, but rather one that marks the anniversary of one of America's most shameful moments, the legalization of abortion in our country. Since the Roe v. Wade decision, 42 years ago today, over 50 million Americans have been legally murdered in their mother's wombs. Instead of leading the world to protect and promote the unalienable right to life of every person, the United States sadly leads in the opposite direction: it has the highe
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Why Not Allow The Possibility That Genesis Means What It Says?

In my recent post A Sad Dance Around a Simple Question: Did God Use Evolution to Create Man?   I reported on the way that Ravi Zacharias, when asked by a man in his audience at a seminar if he believed in theistic evolution, avoided answering. I have great respect for Mr. Zacharias and his ministry of Christian apologetics, Ravi Zacharias International Ministries ( RZIM) .  However, the way he avoided answering that question concerns me.  It seems like a straightforward question and the Bible clearly provides a straightforward answer in the opening chapters of Genesis. Why would a man whose ministry is to give a defense of the Christian faith not be willing to commit himself to answer such a basic question?  Did God create the first man, Adam, from the dust of the ground? or did God guide evolution through millions of years to result in the first man "Adam"? Where could we find an answer to how God created man?  In Genesis, of course.  At least that is what Jews and Christ
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A Sad Dance Around a Simple Question: Did God Use Evolution to Create Man?

I am somewhat reluctant to write this post for fear that it will be seen as an attack on Ravi Zacharias, a man I greatly respect.  Mr. Zacharias is one of Christianity's great apologists and has a brilliant mind.  Please understand that it is not my intention to attack Mr. Zacharias.  This post is a critique of what he and an associate said (and didn't say) in a question and answer session while they were speaking at the University of Hong Kong.  It is only worth mentioning because I think that their answers to a question asked from the audience have the potential to do more harm than good. In the video, an audience member who identifies himself as a "scientist and also a Christian" ask this question: Do you believe in natural selection and evolution?  Or do you think it's a disgrace for humans to be created this way? Apparently Mr. Zacharias cannot hear all of the question so the man re-states it: Natural selection and evolution... Do you think this is
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