A recent editorial in USA Today titled “Give Millennials good reasons to read the Bible” points out the fact that 70 percent of those 18-29 in America believe the Bible should not have more influence on society and that now 19 percent (and growing) of American adults, especially the young’uns, are skeptical of the Bible. Read More
Richard Nelson who sets himself up as the “Commonwealth Policy Center” from Cadiz has written letters to The Murray State News Opinion Editor a few times this semester to expound on Creationism and other conservative with a capital “C” concerns; most recently, the “defense of man-woman marriage.” This time it was the failure of the Read More
Last week’s The Murray State News Faces and Places series installment featured Cash Willis, senior from St. Louis, Mo., and his preaching to the Monday and Wednesday lunchtime student and faculty traffic on the walkway between the library and the Curris Center. Willis “shares the Gospel” from his park bench, to all who happen by. Read More
It’s everywhere. In the print media, magazines and newspapers, online in blogs, news sources, chat rooms, Facebook discussions, tweets, at speaking presentations and debates: the culture war, secularism vs. religion. It seems like it is new, like it just started around at the millennium or less than a decade ago since the “New Atheist” books Read More
Human evolution. The study of our origins. Paleoanthropology. Biological anthropology. Whatever you want to call it, it’s for real. This is not a competing worldview, a fantasy of apes and monkeys that aren’t made up to satisfy the demands of atheistic Evilution. What we know about human evolution from the fields of archaeology, geology, paleontology, Read More
Richard Nelson, executive director of the Commonwealth Policy Center based in Cadiz, Ky., wrote a letter to the editor in last week’s The Murray State News that included a number of Creationist claims including the following: “Evolution has yet to explain where matter and energy come from and how living things spring from non-living matter.” Read More
We are outgrowing religion: it’s a beautiful thing. What if someone living in Germany, France or England in the mid 1600s roughly 400 years ago, at the height of the witch trials, the plague and the great fire of London (both assumed to be due to God’s wrath due to an individual’s heresy, blasphemy, witchcraft Read More
Monday night at the CFSB Center wasn’t a love fest but it was close. I’d been hearing all day from my students, “You going to Bill Nye?” “I love Bill Nye” “My sixth grade science teacher played his episodes every week,” “You NEVER saw Bill Nye?” I confess I hadn’t. Wrong generation: I’m just a Read More