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"The Christian religion, in its purity, is the the basis and the source of all genuine freedom in government." - Noah Webster in a letter to James Madison (1829)   _______________________________________________________   THESE STATEMENTS ARE UNREASONABLE, IRRATIONAL, AND ABSURD "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing." - The Late Physicist Stephen Hawking, atheist (March 31, 2018  Stephen Hawking's eulogy was held at St. Mary the Great church in Cambridge, where Eddie Redmayne read Ecclesiastes 3:1-11.  Agnostic, Carl Sagan's eulogy was held at St. John the Divine church in New York City.  How ironic that after decades of denying God, both finally end up in churches.)   "An entire universe can come from nothing because its entire energy can be zero." - Physicist Lawrence Krauss "Our universe is a small, random accident in a Multiverse." - Lawrence Krauss The same fellow said the foreg...
   Thu 9/14/2023 11:35 AM  Hi John—    Your critique of the Dawkins weasel demonstration found its way to me, and  I agree with it entirely.  I offered my own critique in  Undeniable  (p198-200).  You hit the nail on the head!  (I highlighted the red) Regrettably, even solid refutations of evolutionary arguments like this don’t seem to get their proponents to rethink their position. I’ve become convinced that this is because the root problem is spiritual, not scientific or intellectual.  Best regards,  Doug Axe  Douglas Axe, PhD Rosa Endowed Chair of Molecular Biology Professor of Computational Biology Co-Director of Stewart Science Honors Program School of Science, Technology & Health Biola University   _____________________________________ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_program     In chapter 3 of his book  The Blind Watchmaker,  biologist Richard D...