4. If we didn’t evolve, why do humans share so much DNA with chimpanzees?
If there’s one fact about evolution that bothered me as a creationist, it’s that humans shared 95 to 98.5% of their DNA with chimps. But even before these percentages were known, Creationists had the...
View Article5. Doesn’t Intelligent Design contradict itself?
Given enough time, Hydrogen will begin to wonder where it came from. –Unknown As a faithful proponent of Intelligent Design (ID), I once believed in its tenets and shared them with others. ID, I...
View Article7. Why can’t God lift a penny?
Here’s a fun experiment you can do at home. Start by making up a new god, any god, such as the “God of Pizza.” Place a penny on a table and pray that the God of Pizza will levitate it to confirm his...
View Article9. Why can’t we call down fire from heaven? Again?
With hundreds of different religions, it’s difficult to know which one is true. This wasn’t much of a problem back in Elijah’s day, when the contest was really only between God and Baal. In order to...
View Article11. Doesn’t the existence of many religions discredit them all?
There are several reasons why having multiple religions does a disservice to them all: It reduces the chances of anyone finding the correct religion (assuming there is one). It exposes mankind’s...
View Article20. Is there evidence that humans have a spirit? Part 2: Near Death...
I confess. I once spent a couple of years as an absolute NDE junkie. In my early search for evidence of the soul, NDE survivors seemed to have the proof I was searching for. I read everything I could...
View Article23. Why doesn’t the Bible mention Neanderthals?
Neanderthals are interesting because of their distinct features and fairly recent extinction. But if they lived with our ancestors, why doesn’t the Bible mention them? Neanderthal History According to...
View Article26. Why doesn’t God allow humans to regenerate limbs?
I’ve always been amazed by the body’s ability to heal itself. However, this ability really pales in comparison to the regenerative abilities of the salamander. Salamanders like the Mexican axolotl can...
View Article29. Was Jonah really swallowed by a whale?
Growing up Pentecostal, I was raised to believe the Jonah story was a literal event. But even back then, I found the story a little difficult to swallow (pun intended). I used to imagine that when...
View Article30. Should we all stop having children?
If having children leads to some percentage of them ending up in hell, is it still reasonable to continue having them? Possibly. I wish I had been buried like a baby who never saw the light of day. ~...
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