On Easter Sunday, April 15th, 1990, a lady asked her clergyman this question: ”How can I teach my teenage children about Adam & Eve, and the Garden of Eden, when they are being taught evolution in public school?”. The clergyman would only reply, “Just believe the Bible!”. Was that of any help to the lady? No, it wasn’t. It was...
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Recently, a Gallup poll collected results from telephone interviews conducted from May 5th to May 8th 2011 with a total of 1,018 random individuals aged 18 or over living in the United States of America. Every 3 in 10 Americans are most likely to believe that the ‘Holy’ Bible (Old and New Testaments) is the literal word of God as opposed to a book of fairy...
In the year 7200 BC, after the Ice Age had come and gone, God made Adam, and put him in the Garden of Eden. However, after maybe 100 years, he began to be lonely. So recognizing his loneliness, God decided to instantly make animals from the dust of the earth, to keep Adam company. Approaching another 100 years, Adam was still not happy, so God made a woman for him, in...
At the moment Darren Aronovsky is riding high with “Black Swan,” his ballet movie about the dual nature of women, that old virgin/whore split with stereotypes intact and dosed up with a bit of horror. (I haven’t seen it.) But an earlier movie is “The Fountain,” a syncretistic spiritual triptych about death in three aspects: the modern scientific determination...
On Easter Sunday, April 15th in 1990, I was visiting a church near my home in Penn Hills, PA. A lady in Sunday School asked the pastor “How can I teach my teen-aged children about Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden when they are being taught evolution in school?”. All the pastor would say is “just believe the Bible”. I considered that a copout, and realized...