Answering Trolls
There are many ways to rationalize going toe-to-toe with strangers (or acquaintances) online who are stirring up trouble. Still, experience teaches us that these kinds… Read More »Answering Trolls
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Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, and the Incoherence of Richard Dawkins
For Dawkins, the fact that a computer program might be conscious, is sufficient reason to act with caution in applying the ethics of personhood to… Read More »Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, and the Incoherence of Richard Dawkins
The Cup of Divination?
It is entirely possible that Joseph, while he was living in Egypt and elevated to a place of nobility, adopted the practice of divination. This… Read More »The Cup of Divination?
IVF, Surrogacy, and Same-Sex “Marriage”
It turns out things get more complicated the further we are removed from the natural means of procreation, which is the sexual union of a… Read More »IVF, Surrogacy, and Same-Sex “Marriage”
Echoes from Emmanuel, January 1979
Pulpit to Pew by Pastor Richard Eckman, Jan. 1979: “I resolve to read my Bible daily.” I’m a New Year’s resolution left over from last… Read More »Echoes from Emmanuel, January 1979
