You can't choose to have faith in something.  You either have faith or you don't. And when it comes to most religious issues the most faith I can manage to muster is the faith that there may be some greater being, some higher power that ultimately created the universe.  Beyond that, my faith is lacking. My friends who have faith cannot understand this aspect of myself anymore than I can understand their ability to have faith in their particular religious choice. It's beyond me. I si...

It has pained my wife and I to see the Discovery Channel's 100 Greatest Americans list with people like Oprah and such on there.  Kindred spirit John Hawkins has put up a list of his own that I largely agree with.  Here's my list: Top 25: 1) George Washington 2) Thomas Edison 3) John Adams 4) Alexander Hamilton 5) Abraham Lincoln 6) Theodore Roosevelt 7) Andrew Jackson 8) Thomas Jefferson 9) Henry Ford 10) Benjamin Franklin 11) The Wright Brothers 12) Albert Einstein...

There has been an ongoing debate on another blog over whether the bible has contradictions on it.  On the one hand you have the skeptics. In the middle the realists. And on the other side, for lack of a better word, you have the dogmatics. There are countless perceived contradictions in the bible. But whether they are truly a contradiction depends on how far you are willing to read between the lines.  One of the most blatant contradictions in my opinion is the account of how Jud...