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Away with the climate change denialists!
When the aged Bishop Polycarp of Smyrna was condemned for his faith at the games, his persecutors urged him to spare his years and denounce the atheists. By this, of course, they meant the Christians who denied all the pagan deities and believed in just one God, a novel one claiming to tower over all others. Polycarp famously gestured to the baying crowds and said, “Away with the atheists!”
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The star of Bethelehem and divine sovereignty
My pastor’s degree dissertation on Satan in Revelation 12 & 13 (so that’s why you’re preaching through Revelation Mike!) mentioned in passing astronomical/astrological interpretations of the “woman and dragon” vision of Revelation 12. That put me back on the trail of Mike Heiser’s interesting YouTube clips on the star of Bethlehem, which are in turn highly dependent on Ernest L. Martin’s book on the subject, available for free download here.
Posted in Creation, History, Science, Theology, Theology of nature
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The mysterious and ignored epidemic of conspiracy theorists
Over the last three years there has been an unprecedented pandemic. But not of virus infections – they have happened regularly throughout history and COVID-19 is only unusual in the hype surrounding it. OK, and in its apparently being manufactured in a lab too, I suppose. And in the use of novel mRNA drugs, and the declaration of other long-established drugs, that seemed to help, as dangerous… No, the pandemic I’m thinking of is the alarming and unique proliferation of conspiracy theorists across the world.
Posted in Medicine, Politics and sociology, Science
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The speed of science
I hope you clocked the questioning of Janine Small, president of international developed markets at Pfizer and apparently forty years in that corporation, about the question of whether they had tested their COVID vaccine for prevention of transmission before rolling it out. You’ll also remember that the entire superstructure of coercion, vaccination of the not-at-risk, vaccine passports and so on depended – and still depends – on that prevention of transmission, now belatedly proven to be non-existent.
Posted in Medicine, Politics and sociology, Science
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Climate alarm as a paradigm for universal deception
The Daily Sceptic has a piece linking to this article today. In essence, Worddata.info, one of those sites assembling publicly available data, has produced regional temperature trend graphs using only data from stations in continuous operation since their chosen start date, 1950. As one can easily see, this is scientifically a lot more valid than trying to extrapolate back from the readings of newer stations, and so on. The graphs are below the fold. Before reading on, have a look and see what the charts tell you.
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Tearfund’s climate transformationism
Tearfund (originally “The Evangelical Alliance Relief Fund”) is running a new campaign to mobilise Christians against the “climate crisis,” hubristically modestly called “Let’s Change the Climate.” Oh, do let’s!
The selfish greed of the poor
Quite a few people now have compared the hatred of humanity (“parasites on the earth” etc) evident in much environmentalism with original sin in Christianity. Gaia is dying, or in some renditions biting back, because of the rapacity of mankind, much as in theology creation is said to be fallen and yielding thorns and thistles because of Adam’s sin.
Posted in Politics and sociology, Science, Theology
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Is no theory as misleading as the wrong theory?
In an address I heard by the head of a theological college recently, he spoke of how people have come to believe in conspiracy theories, citing three: the existence of lizard people, the existence of a deep state, and the belief that SARS-CoV2 does not exist.
The triumph of teleology
I promised I’d say something about Michael Denton’s The Miracle of Man, the premise of which is the extraordinary fine tuning of the universe itself not only for life, but for the existence of warm blooded, bipedal, oxygen-breathing mankind as the only plausible kind of intelligent and technological biological life-form in the universe.
Posted in Creation, Science, Theology, Theology of nature
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When is a skeptic not a skeptic?
An article in the Daily Skeptic recently was by an Australian who had, before COVID, classed himself as a “skeptic,” contributing to websites pouring scorn on pseudoscience, and so on, as compared to Proper Science. The article expressed his disillusion with the way that science, and in particular medical science, got subverted during the pandemic. A common tale, you’ll agree.
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