Good Morning Friends,
Quote of the week:
A new functional feature-an invention-produces no fitness signal at all until at least one individual in the species already has that invention-which means natural selection itself can’t invent! – Douglas Axe
But let’s briefly return to the notion that religion is a virus of the mind. How does one decide what is a dangerous idea and what is a beneficial idea? Or to put the matter bluntly, why are the ideas that Dawkins dislikes (e.g., religion or God) viruses of the mind, but others like Darwinian evolution are pure, safe, and beneficial? All these ideas would have infectiously leaped from mind to mind. All would function as memes in his view. It seems wholly arbitrary and subjective to prefer one set of beliefs and condemn another. – Is God Just a Human Invention and Seventeen Other Questions Raised by the New Atheists
Now, here are your weekly links:
- WHAT GOOD IS CHRISTIANITY? – YouTube: https://youtu.be/ndFYFQ63LQc?si=hy0bdlH6tbqtztkQ
- Scientific Evidence for the Soul with Neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Egnor – Cross Examined: https://crossexamined.subspla.sh/27dhbbg
- What’s Wrong with The God of the Gaps Argument THINKAPOLOGETICS.COM: https://wp.me/pCHEG-5BO
- How to Defeat Modern Day Atheism With Three Easy Questions | Shadow To Light: https://wp.me/pntle-D1
- Theories that explain everything | George’s Journal: https://georgesjournal.net/2019/07/29/theories-that-explain-everything/
- What If Christians Were “Unsilenced”? | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/what-if-christians-were-unsilenced/
- Christianity’s Core Belief – Differences in Eyewitness Accounts – Faith & Self Defense: https://faithandselfdefense.com/2019/04/23/christianitys-core-belief-differences-in-eyewitness-accounts/
- Jesus, Contradicted | with Mike Licona – Cross Examined: https://crossexamined.org/jesus-contradicted-with-mike-licona/
- Are the Galapagos finch beaks evidence of Darwinian evolution? | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2025/07/08/are-the-galapagos-finch-beaks-evidence-of-darwinian-evolution-6/
- Michael Egnor debates the nature of mind with Christof Koch and Michael Shermer | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2025/07/09/michael-egnor-debates-the-nature-of-mind-with-christof-koch-and-michael-shermer/
- Religion Isn’t Just a Social Club – Stand to Reason: https://subsplash.com/u/standtoreason/media/d/cmrw4d2-religion-isnt-just-a-social-club
- Is Jesus Christ a Copy of Pagan Religions? – Bishop’s Encyclopedia of Religion, Society, and Philosophy: https://jamesbishopblog.com/2015/01/19/23-reasons-why-scholars-know-jesus-is-not-a-copy-of-pagan-religions/
- 3 Startling Truths about the Early Church from the Pre-New Testament Texts – Bellator Christi: https://bellatorchristi.com/2017/03/28/3-startling-truths-about-the-early-church-from-the-pre-new-testament-texts/
- How I Learned the Difference Between Belief THAT and Belief IN | Cold Case Christianity: https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/how-i-learned-the-difference-between-belief-that-and-belief-in/
- New study: rising oxygen levels rejected as explanation of Cambrian explosion | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2017/07/28/new-study-rising-oxygen-levels-rejected-as-explanation-of-cambrian-explosion-2/
- 10 Signs the Christian Authors You’re Following are (Subtly) Teaching Unbiblical Ideas: https://crossexamined.org/10-signs-the-christian-authors-youre-following-are-subtly-teaching-unbiblical-ideas/
- Information Enigma: 21-minute video explains intelligent design | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2025/06/28/information-enigma-21-minute-video-explains-intelligent-design-10/
- Michael Behe and Keith Fox debate theistic evolution vs intelligent design | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2025/06/29/michael-behe-and-keith-fox-debate-theistic-evolution-vs-intelligent-design-13/
- Why do Christians vote for the Republican party in the United States? | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2025/06/30/why-do-christians-vote-for-the-republican-party-in-the-united-states/
- Should we expect to know what God’s reason is for allowing evil and suffering? | WINTERY KNIGHT: https://winteryknight.com/2025/07/01/should-we-expect-to-know-what-gods-reason-is-for-allowing-evil-and-suffering-9/
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. Luke 6:36
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. Proverbs 17:22
Blessings to you all