Sep 30, 2019 | American Exceptionalism, Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, History, Poverty, Racial Justice, Samuel McDonald |
by William Trollinger Potosi Correctional Center. Photo (c) 2007 by Wikimedia Commons user Americasroof. CC BY-SA 3.0 On the evening of September 23, 1997 – before I was unceremoniously ushered into the observation booth in Missouri’s Potosi Correctional Center to...
Sep 20, 2019 | Answers in Genesis, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Creationism, Evolution, Flood Geology, Genesis, Geochelone Tortoises, Harry F. Sanders III, Historical Science, History, Inerrancy, Observational Science, Religion and Science, Righting America, Sarah Olson, Science, Staring Points, Troy Lacey, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger “Seychelles Giant Tortoise eating” by flicksmores is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Young Earth creationism has its own, unusual scientific method. Most scientists will not recognize it as a “scientific...
Sep 17, 2019 | History, Kent State, KKK, May 4, 1970, Politics, Richard Margolis, Upheaval |
by William Trollinger Images from Richard Margolis’ exhibit Upheaval, 2019. Reproduced with permission from the artist. At its most basic level, history involves (as one of my mentors, Paul Conkin, used to say) trying to tell true stories about the past. This is...
Sep 13, 2019 | Age of the Earth, Answers in Genesis, Atheism, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Creationism, Evolution, Genesis, Historical Science, History, Intelligent Design, Natural History, Observational Science, Old Earth Creationism, Religion and Science, Rhetoric, Science, Young Earth Creationism |
by Rodney Kennedy Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div. from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. The pastor of 7 Southern Baptist churches over the course of 20 years, he pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH)...
Jul 5, 2019 | Agnoticism, Areligious, Atheism, Certainty, Charles Taylor, Christian Right, Creationism, Culture War, David Ray Griffith, Dayton, Evangelicals, Francis Collins, Freeman Dyson, Fundamentalism, History, Ken Ham, Kenneth R. Miller, Politics, Religion and Science, Religious Rhetorics, Rhetoric, Rodney Kennedy |
by Rodney Kennedy Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div. from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. The pastor of 7 Southern Baptist churches over the course of 20 years, he pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH)...
Jul 2, 2019 | Atheism, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Certainty, Creation Science, Creationism, Culture War, Evangelicals, Frederick W. Schmidt, Fundamentalism, Historical Science, History, Religion and Science, Religious Imagination, Religious Rhetorics, Rhetoric, Sarah Olson, Science, Secularism |
by Sarah Olson Sarah Olson is an undergraduate student majoring in microbiology at Oregon State University, and a member of the National Association of Science Writers. She works at a bookstore curating their science and math sections and reviews popular science books...
