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Is Evolution Satan’s Great Lie?

Karl Giberson

Evolution, embryology and the Big Bang theory are "lies straight from the pit of hell" according to U.S. Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga. They are not scientific theories, supported by mountains of evidence as scientists would have us believe. They are a part of Satan’s grand plan to keep people "from understanding that they need a savior."

Broun’s extraordinary remarks were made at Liberty University, the fundamentalist school that became an evangelical powerhouse under the leadership of Jerry Falwell. The largely fundamentalist audience cheered the comments.

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categories Huffington Post, Response
tags Evolution, Paul Broun

If Only We Could Edit the Bible

Karl Giberson

I have often wondered--quietly and usually to myself--what would happen if we could edit the Bible. After all, textbooks get edited and publishers bring out new and improved versions that are more in tune with how things are, instead of how things were. Wouldn't it be good if some ecumenical committee could go through the Old Testament and take out all the language about stoning people to death for breaking various rules? Or maybe soften that passage where the Psalmist talks about bashing the heads of the babies of his enemies against the rocks? We could also fix some of those New Testament misquotes of the Old Testament.

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categories Huffington Post
tags Bible, Science

Is Free Will a Mystery?

Karl Giberson

By Dr. Karl Giberson via The Huffington Post

This piece was loosely inspired by Martin Gardner's great essay on free will in The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener that I used in my freshman seminar course.

Excerpt: Are there Big Questions that don't have answers? Are some things simply beyond our capacity to understand with the finite lumps of gray matter in our heads? Are there "mysteries" in the world that simply can't be sorted out no matter how much gray matter is applied to the problem?

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categories Huffington Post
tags Free will, Knowledge, Religion, Science