Category Archives: Religion

Making Darwin UnComfortable

Evangelical minister Ray Comfort recently put out a “150th Anniversary Edition” of On the Origin of Species, with a Special Introduction attacking Darwin, the theory of evolution, and atheism. Yeah, big deal. It’s been all over the Internet lately. Well, as an assignment for one of my university courses, I wrote a nice report on …

December 3, 2009 – 7:21 pm | By Cap'n Refsmmat | Posted in Education, Religion, Science | Tagged | Comments (7)

Dear Lord

Why do You make so many of Your followers so intolerant and hating, and yet make so many more so loving and kind? It makes it so difficult to make sweeping generalizations!

June 27, 2008 – 12:23 am | By Cap'n Refsmmat | Posted in Religion | Tagged , | Comments (2)

Reading the Bible

This summer I thought it would be an interesting project to sit down and read the Bible cover to cover. (Perhaps later I can tackle the Qur’an.) At the time of writing I’m on Numbers 20 (page 170 out of 1217) and generally learning a lot. (The Old Testament God is scary.) But reading the …

June 23, 2008 – 10:24 pm | By Cap'n Refsmmat | Posted in Books, Religion | Tagged , | Comments (5)