My four-year-old was given a worksheet in Sunday School posing the first question in the Westminster Shorter Catechism for Children. She colored it…creatively. There could be some sticky questions!

With all due respect to James McGrath, historical skepticism never gets quite this bad. Courtesy of SMBC (click image for original)

Presumably one would have to go to the beginning of the universe to find the answer to that other, oldest question in the universe. [Direct link for mobile viewing] Trying so hard not to spoil the fun of this by over-analyzing it. If I can…just reach…the publish button…

You may have your beefs with apologist Alvin Plantinga – and his evolutionary argument against naturalism certainly needs some work – but there’s no arguing with him here at least. Being without an air conditioner is no way to start the summer! H/T Glenn Peoples

Actually, it was the cosmic wet blanket known as Cognitive Discopants who burst my weather balloon. Not so much with the site he linked to (which made a couple of critical errors, IMO), but because in the comments of that page, I found a much more thorough debunking. “The truth is out there, Mulder, but […]

Hottel, who was in charge of the Washington field office in 1950, reveals that a US air force investigator had stated that “three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico”. The investigator gave the information to a special agent, he said. The FBI has censored both the agent and the investigator’s identity. “They […]

In conjunction with the original post at Pithless Thoughts, Steven Robinson quotes Orthodox monastic Elder Paisios of the Holy Mountain: The person that is struggling to the best of his abilities, who has no desire to live a disorderly life, but who, in the course of the struggle for faith and life, falls and rises again and […]