Archive for 2009
Think About IT: Harvard Today and Yesterday
Once a citadel of truth and training for Christian ministers, Harvard is today an enemy of the gospel and truth. Speaking at the 2002 fall convocation, Harvard President Lawrence Summers admitted that “things divine [had] been central neither to my professional nor to my personal life.” He then wondered out loud, “In what ways should…
Read MoreThink About IT: Environmentalists Are NOT Necessarily Concerned about the Environment
Patrick Moore, one of the founders of Greenpeace International, said in an interview in the New Scientist in December 1999, “the environmental movement abandoned science and logic somewhere in the mid-1980s…political activists were using environmental rhetoric to cover up agendas that had more to do with class warfare and anti-corporatism than with actual science…” ((Environmental…
Read MoreThink About IT: Science Claims That Believing IS Seeing, REALLY?
Science’s emphasis upon “observation” sometimes leads the average person to believe that scientists make all of their conclusions based upon what they actually see with their own eyes, and some scientists, who seek to make scientific observation the only or best way of knowing, speak in ways that clearly encourage that misunderstanding. Consequently, some scientist…
Read MoreThink About IT: What If a Christian Said…
The Bible speaks of an existence prior to the creation of time and matter in which God alone existed. Then, Genesis records God creating time and matter, in the words, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). That singularity was the beginning of time and matter. As Christians, we believe…
Read MoreThink About IT: Cruel Compassion
The Scripture teaches that God is compassionate, “Nevertheless, in Your great compassion You did not make an end of them or forsake them, For You are a gracious and compassionate God.“(Nehemiah 9:31) He extols compassion and commands it in His people’s lives, “So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put…
Read MoreThink About IT: Were the Indians Really One with Nature?
The following article appeared under the title “The Pristine Myth”. ((The Kairos Journal)) One of the most memorable American television images is a 1970s Ad Council ((“The Ad Council is a private, non-profit organization that marshals volunteer talent from the advertising and communications industries, the facilities of the media, and the resources of the business…
Read MoreThink About It: William Wilberforce’s legacy at TBC
Ryan Polk, Associate Pastor at Trinity Baptist Church, has felt impressed by our Lord to start “The Wilberforce Initiative” which will provide a venue for Trinity as well as citizens from across the spectrum to seek to bring our Christian worldview to bear upon some of the most pressing social, moral, intellectual and spiritual issues…
Read MoreThink About IT: Is Science a Truth Seeker?
The dilemma for science is this. If science claims or presents itself to be the pursuer of truth, following the evidence wherever it may lead, then all plausible answers regarding questions and observations of the empirical data must be weighed and debated based upon their own merit and ability to explain a particular phenomenon or…
Read MoreThink About IT: Government Run Healthcare, the End of Choice and Dignity
Claims to the contrary, the facts speak for themselves. First, look at the veteran hospitals if you want to compare the kind of care given in private versus government-run healthcare. Over the past 25 years, I have visited different veteran hospitals on many occasions. The care is minimal and at times atrocious. I have seen…
Read MoreThink About IT: Rationing Healthcare without Using the Word Ration?
Can we take seriously President Obama’s denials that his plan will ultimately result in healthcare rationing? Well no. The ultimate end of any such system further devalues the sanctity of human life because the government determines which citizens deserve to get the care they need, and the government can do this while simultaneously denying that…
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