Wayne Adkins
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July 17, 2009
There is no God. How could I just make an assertion like that? Why wouldn´t I say "I believe there is no God" or "I don´t believe there is a God"? After all, I am making a negative assertion, an assertion that something does not exist. To prove that something does exist, one need only p...
September 09, 2008
John McCain has been doing a lot of crowing lately about the "success of the surge" in Iraq. He and Sarah Palin are pointing to McCain´s backing of the surge as evidence of his good judgment on Iraq. But his backing of the surge strategy and his subsequent claims that the surge is working...
July 14, 2008
The Associated Press is reporting that the Justice Department filed a federal court motion this week to have a lawsuit filed by Spc. Jeremy Hall and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation dismissed. They argued in their more than 300- page filing that the atheist soldier who claims the milit...
December 12, 2007
Each time an article appears somewhere that carries the words “intelligent design” and “creationism” in the same sentence the Discovery Institute feels compelled to respond. They desperately want to distance themselves from biblical creationists because they know it will hurt their chances of s...
April 29, 2007
It was bad enough when Army chaplains and leaders like Chief of the National Guard Bureau Lt. Gen. H. Steven Blum were disparaging atheists in the press. It was bad enough when my formal EO complaint was thrown away by the National Guard Bureau EO office. It was bad enough when the Department o...
February 26, 2007
James Cameron’s latest project “The Lost Tomb of Jesus” has generated a great deal of criticism already and it hasn’t even aired yet. The criticism has come primarily from religious scholars who are being described in the media as “skeptics”. That is what I have found most amusing as I have watched ...
November 30, 2006
On July 18th, 2006 Lt. Gen. H. Steven Blum, Chief of the National Guard Bureau, lumped atheists and agnostics together with bigots and in a paraphrase of an old untrue negative stereotype declared that there are no atheists in foxholes. It is ironic that such a bigoted remark would come during h...
July 15, 2006
Each time an article appears somewhere that carries the words “intelligent design” and “creationism” in the same sentence the Discovery Institute feels compelled to respond. They desperately want to distance themselves from biblical creationists because they know it will hurt their chances of s...
June 01, 2006
It is graduation time again and the chorus of Christians bemoaning the absence of prayer at graduation ceremonies and in public schools in general has returned. They point out that the majority in this country identify themselves as Christians. They point out that students who are not Christian don’...
March 08, 2006
The Intelligent Design movement is the latest attempt to inject creationist beliefs into the classroom. It is also a concession of sorts.
In the past many people looked to theology for answers about our world. Many mythologies grew out of attempts to explain natural phenomena. Greeks created...
March 07, 2006
Today we take for granted some ideas that were unthinkable just a few hundred years ago. We have sent men to the moon, sent probes to other planets and photographed other galaxies millions of light years away. But it wasn?t until the 1600?s that Galileo looked through a telescope and saw, to his ama...
January 12, 2006
The Discovery Institute, an organization which bills itself as ?the leading organization supporting scientific research into intelligent design? is seeking to distance itself from creationists. Casey Luskin, an attorney with the Discovery Institute wrote a letter to John W. Wight, Superintendent of ...
December 30, 2005
Lieutenant Gordon Klingenschmitt is a Navy Chaplain at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia. He has been on a water only hunger strike since Dec. 20th in protest of military policy that forbids him to pray in Jesus’ name when in uniform in his official capacity leading a multi-denominational group. He...
December 23, 2005
Proponents of intelligent design claim that evolution is fatally flawed. They would have the public believe that there is serious debate among scientists about Darwin?s theory and whether it could have produced the variety of species we see today.
They remind me of the late Johnny Cochran during ...
December 15, 2005
The truth about God is like the elusive lean body. We all say we want it, but few are willing to put in the work it requires. Most people are content to take what their parents give them as truth. That is why a child born in Iraq is likely to become Muslim while a child born in Utah is more likely t...