Showing posts with label random stuff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label random stuff. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Random Links

Opinion: What are the consequences of resurgent Baptist Calvinism?
By Fisher Humphreys--- an interesting succinct, thoughtful, perceptive, unbiased and fair analysis of the rise of Conservative Calvinism in the Baptist church especially the SBC.

Why I De-Converted from Evangelical Christianity: The Teachings of Jesus Contradict PST---an interesting and thought provoking critique on the more absurd aspects of the Penal Substitution Theory of the Atonement. The author argues that the Penal Substitution Theory of the Atonement clashes with "both the actions and the teachings of Jesus." Do you agree or disagree? What are your thoughts? I'll weigh in later but for now I'll just say that the author makes some good points that I agree with.

Old AOL News Articles:

Columbine Killer's Mother Speaks Out---interesting and heartbreaking interview.

'Hot Mormon Muffins' Calendar Debuts---funny and weird. This is not something that you associate Mormons with.

Study Finds Transcendental Meditation Reduces High Blood Pressure---interesting findings.

Church of Scientology Convicted in France---crazy.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Things Of Interest

See: Exploring Our Matrix: A Load Of Skubalon? What the Sheol?!.

A transgendered minister speaks out about revealing his secret to his congregation---see video: here.

New discovery made in the field of evolutionary science:
Earliest Human Ancestor Unveiled A Million Years Before 'Lucy,' There Was 'Ardi'
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP
posted: 1 HOUR 49 MINUTES AGOcomments: 112filed under: Animal News, Science News
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WASHINGTON (Oct. 1) -- The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about "Ardi," a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia.
The 110-pound, 4-foot female roamed forests a million years before the famous Lucy, long studied as the earliest skeleton of a human ancestor.
This older skeleton reverses the common wisdom of human evolution, said anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University.

(Read more: Here).