Giants causeway is one of the nicest places I ever visited, maybe because the weather was felicifically sun-drenched, and I had a lovely trip on a warm September day from beautiful Donegal, through martially fortified Strabane, on the world's best roads, oddly to be found in Northern Ireland, to the lushly verdant, surprisingly small world wonder.
Kevin Vallier has a readable piece on a debate between an atheistic evolutionist and a creationist.
I tried to resist, but I must admit to having watched the “Ham on Nye” debate in full. I find debates between creationists and atheist evolutionists tiring and deeply upsetting because I, as a theistic evolutionist, feel completely excluded and silenced while two groups of people I regard as deeply misinformed about the nature of the world beat up on each other. I argue here that the debate reinforces this dichotomy, one which pretty much everyone has reason to resist. I will also score the debate (Nye won, big time – and 92% of voters at Christian Today thought so too).
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Despite being a Christian, I find the creationists far more off-putting, in part because they frequently imply that theistic evolutionists are imperfect Christians and that they’re the real Christians.
Make sure to read the entire article at the source.
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