16. Don’t other religions have creator gods? If you read a pagan creation myth—whether from Greece, or India, or the Middle East, or tribes in America or Africa or anywhere—the gods are beings that are already part of the world and just reshape matter that’s already there. The idea of a Creator outside the universe, […]
One-ism or Two-ism? Questions 12-13: The Truth
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Think Tank 2012 Live-Blog: Two-ism and Politics (Calvin Beisner)
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Think Tank 2012 Live-Blog: Two-ism and Science (James Wanliss)
Speaker: James Wanliss (physics professor) Session: Two-ism and Science “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” - Dawkins Long ago, […]
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