First Blog

According to the latest news reports, Christians have been elevated to being the most persecuted religion on Earth.   Judging by what we hear from the Middle East, this may be exactly so.   Think what you wish on this, but there are some facts that may give either comfort or distress.     History has shown us that when certain types of religions are persecuted they grow stronger. This has been true of the Christians (Protestants and Catholics), the Muslims, the Jews, the Buddists, and other religions, all with sound scriptures and sometimes doctrine or canon law.   They may live under persecution for generations, but though it may take centuries, but they seem to restore their numbers and thrive again.    We include another religion of sorts, atheism, which sustains its faith through sheer belief.   Atheists have been persecuted throughout all of history.   It has no scripture aside from specific beliefs, but the idea (there is no God) simply cannot be destroyed by theis

I love evolution theory ; I love creationism .  These are active and competing theories of human and life's existence, one based on contemporary scientific methodology and the other based on traditional, though religious beliefs.   Both involve a level supplemented by plausibility arguments. Both try to tell us where we are on a chronological scale and within a broad scheme of events.  The first tells us where we came from, how long it took, what were the steps, and ultimately how we got here.  It doesn't explain how it happened, but does assume it did happen.    The current evolution theory is consistent, contiguous, though evolving and incomplete.     Science should explain the how - but hasn't done so yet.  Science conjectures, theorizes, i.e. guesses on at the marvelous processes.  The problems are difficult.   In contrast, the creationist (i.e. religious) viewpoint explains the origins, with the "how" being a Devine intervention.  With the how "establi

There are many callings to atheism , with no particular common denominator.  Significant are those that suggest non-belief is a rejection of belief partly because of negative feeling toward organized religion, or a matter of life's convenience.  There are few that actually have a well formed non-belief in a deity.  This may be the case because ultimately non-belief in a deity is so similar to belief in a deity that they are virtually indistinguishable. The subject at hand is teleology , doctrines explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes.  A great quote for all atheists and all is the following. Fundamental quote:  "Theology is but the ignorance of natural causes reduced to a system."--Baron d'Holbach, Common Sense (1772) Basically, what this says is I don't believe because it doesn't make sense to me. The root of this is that if something is knowable, I can know it - cause I'm smart. :)  Maybe not.  The first part or our posting on atheisms, see