Month: July 2015
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20 Questions From An Atheist To Christians
Last Updated on 2022-07-08 by Joop Beris So recently we’ve seen 3 things to say to an atheist, supposed to get atheists thinking about the reality of God and how those three things fail miserably. Fellow atheist and blogger Tim has done a much better job with 20 questions from an atheist to Christians that…
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Did natural selection make the Dutch the tallest people on the planet?
Last Updated on 2022-07-08 by Joop Beris An interesting article that should serve as a reminder that natural selection is still very much at work on our species, arguments from creationists notwithstanding. New study shows that taller men in the Netherlands tend to have more children Source: Did natural selection make the Dutch the tallest…
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Believe in God in 5 Minutes
Last Updated on 2022-07-08 by Joop Beris Youtube suggested to me a video entitled “Believe in God in 5 minutes (Scientific Proof)”. Of course my sceptical mind had to go and check it out. I watched the video which does indeed take up about 5 minutes of your time. The long and short of it:…
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3 things to say to an atheist
Last Updated on 2022-07-08 by Joop Beris Every once in a while you come across a believer who thinks he has come up with a clever rebuttal to atheism. Usually, it turns out to be some collection of inane arguments, quotes from a holy book and assorted bits of religious “cleverness”. These “3 things to…
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Forgery, a book review
Last Updated on 2022-07-08 by Joop Beris Forgery, a book review is my review of “Forgery, the split pen of bible-writers” the title of a small book I picked up a long time ago and that I’ve recently been rereading. As far as I know, Amazon does carry it but only in a Dutch edition…
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A great day for science
Last Updated on 2022-07-08 by Joop Beris Today has been a great day for science on both the scale of the very small as the very large. Not only did the NASA New Horizons spacecraft pass by Pluto, CERN today announced the discovery of a whole new particle: the pentaquark.