Several news agencies have been reporting on “research” into dinosaur behavior by a team of British scientists at John Moores University in Liverpool. JMU is not one of the elite Russell Group of universities, but even so these “findings” are being taken seriously.
The report on which I will comment was published in the UK’s Daily Telegraph newspaper, and can be found in their online edition. The report is entitled “Dinosaurs passing wind may have caused climate change.”[1. Dinosaurs passing wind may have caused climate change. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/dinosaurs/9250032/Dinosaurs-passing-wind-may-have-caused-climate-change.html] I thought of using an American agency... Continue Reading
Thus you shall say to them: "The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens." (Jeremiah 10:11)
Ideas can be false gods. A false god is anything that we worship in place of the True God of the Bible. If we worship something, we are declaring it to be worthy of praise.
Some atheists have referred to quasi-religious feelings as they consider the universe. Here, Richard Dawkins “waxes poetic”:
Awe and wonder are things which religious people undoubtedly feel, but I get a bit irritated when they imply they have a monopoly of... Continue Reading