Podcast: The Watch and the Watchmaker: Philosophy and Intelligent Design

Check out this excellent discussion with ‘a philosopher who argues that though the Intelligent Design camp is wrong, the philosophical Darwinians are not always right.’

It's an old question: could there be a watch without a watchmaker? In other words, could there be a universe without a god who made it? These days, the proponents of what is known as Intelligent Design argue that there must have been a designer and that the theory of natural selection cannot tell us how we and other animals got to be here. This week we meet a philosopher who argues that though the Intelligent Design camp is wrong, the philosophical Darwinians are not always right. (Program website)

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Redefining Church Success

By Marcel Schwantes

Many church pastors and administrators define success by measuring things like attendance, membership and tithing, which is noble on their part to ensure their institutional survival and that the mission is carried out. But there's a greater neglect--assessing a church's spiritual growth. Why is it that churches don't naturally look at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, integrity, and the degree to which lust, addiction, abuse and broken relationships are sabotaging the lives of church families?

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Shameless Plug: I'm a Social Justice Christian

Several weeks ago, Glenn Beck announced that if your church espoused "social justice" values - you needed to run away, and fast.

More than a few Christians disagreed and the Hollywood Adventist Church's production company New Name Pictures along with my film collective, Traveling Muse,, produced a PSA (the first of three, we hope) to support the idea that followers of Christ can and should be social justice Christians.

Here's the final product:


You can also read Ryan Bell's much more detailed examination of the issue at theHuffington Post.



 Posted by Leslie Foster

What Do These Scores Mean?

by Andy Hanson

Usually, scores on standardized tests look pretty impressive. They have been computer generated and are often accompanied by bar graphs and statistical information. Since the scores you are most likely to see compare your child's achievements and/or IQ to those of other children of approximately the same age and grade, more than likely viewing these numbers and graphs elicits an emotional response.

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