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SWAT team-seized boy refuses doc's painkillers 11-year-old taken against parents' will after bumping head at family's home -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Bob Unruh

Kari, we call that regular programing! Well, I meant a cable channel that actually says WET - White Entertainment Television. It would get shut down in a heartbeat for being "racist."

Can't wait. And the scientific evidence for a 6000 year old universe created in 6 days, and the special creation of the kinds of living things, and the actual Flood is................??? Ummm, Jukia....where did I ever say I thought the universe was that young? Please c/p the post where I indicated I believed that.

I wonder how fast a WET (White Entertainment Channel) would get shut down?

Why waste time on someone who doesn't have a snowballs chance in Hades of winning?

Their hair.

Why Atheists Are Such Lousy Debaters by Dinesh D'Souza UPDATE: If you haven't seen my debates with Christopher Hitchens, Michael Shermer and Daniel Dennett, you can watch them here. I am waiting for Shermer to post our Cal Tech debate of December 9, which was recorded by his Skeptic Society. I watched the movie "The Great Debaters" last night, and it helped me to understand why atheists are such bad debaters. The movie portrays four students from a little black college in Texas, and shows how, under the tutelage of their pugnacious coach, they went on to defeat Almighty Harvard. Denzel Washington, who plays the coach, says early in the movie that debate is a kind of bloodsport. It's great virtue is that it puts rival ideas up against each other, as argued by people who passionately espouse those ideas, and then it lets the truth emerge through a kind of gladiatorial elimination. For about three years, it appeared as though the leading atheists were formidable debaters. But the reason was that Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens were selecting weak opponents and then generally giving them a public whipping. In one staged encounter, hardly a debate, Richard Dawkins ambushed televangelist Ted Haggard for a film Dawkins was making. Not only did Dawkins control the format, he also controlled what was shown on film. No wonder Dawkins got the better of that encounter. Harris took on pastor Rick Warren in Newsweek, where Harris made outrageous allegations and Warren basically said that Christians are nice people because they help AIDS victims in Africa. Again, this was hardly a fair fight. Hitchens promoted his book God Is Not Great by traipsing through the South taking on local pastors. Now your typical pastor is not used to debating a versatile and suave character like Hitchens. A few months ago Hitchens embarrassed theologian Alister McGrath in Washington D.C. One problem is that Hitchens has the Richard Burton accent and McGrath sounds like he just came in from shooting birds in the Scottish highlands. Another problem is that McGrath couldn't handle Hitchens' vitriolic accusations and came off looking conciliatory and weak. Unlike the characters in "The Great Debaters," I was never part of a debate team. I got my debate practice through confronting critics of my various books. Mostly I learned by taking on such seasoned debaters as presidential candidate Walter Mondale, the literary scholar Stanley Fish, and a whole series of civil rights activists from Cornel West to Jesse Jackson. Prior to my debate with Hitchens, he described me as "one of the most formidable debaters on any topic." Richard Dawkins seems to agree: the great Haggard-slayer has somehow gotten cold feet when it comes to debating me. I guess he's afraid that I'll make him look as ridiculous as Haggard. Then there's Sam Harris, who tells me that debate is not a very useful medium to arrive at the truth. He didn't seem to think that previously, but now it seems that he too is afraid of looking like a public fool. Harris wants to engage in a written debate, and I've agreed, but it should be noted that written debates allow each side to consult experts and therefore they don't reflect the true spirit of debate, which is the clash of ideas embodied in the most articulate representatives of those ideas. I've suggested to Harris a couple of weeks ago that we do both a written and an oral debate, and I'm waiting to hear his response. Why are the atheists faring so badly in these debates? I think the main reason is that they are so arrogant. Dawkins, Harris, Dennett and Hitchens really think that their position reflects pure reason and that my position reflects "blind faith." If this were really true they should win every single debate, for the same reason that a round-earth advocate should never lose to a flat-earth advocate. In reality there are good arguments on both sides, and I as a believer know this. I know it's hard to make the case for an invisible God and for an afterlife. In short, I know the strength of the argument on the other side. Leading atheists, however, simply do not expect to hear good counterarguments to their position. When they do, they have no idea how to answer them. So they either erupt into jejune name-calling (all to familiar to readers of this blog) or they slowly fall apart (witness what happened to Daniel Dennett). In reality, I don't have to win debates against atheists; I merely have to draw. Just by coming out even, I defeat the atheist premise that atheism is the position based on reason and religion is the position based on unreason. Even a tie shows that both positions are reasonable. By defeating atheists in debate, however, I have totally exploded the atheist self-pretense. I have shown atheists to be the unreasonable ones, and this is why leading atheists like Dawkins and Harris are now going into hiding. But if these guys are scared to debate me, even in secular university settings where the audience is largely on their side, what does this say about them and about the soundness of their positions? Perhaps Dawkins and company should go and see "The Great Debaters." They might get some useful tips, and they might also get their nerve back. http://news.aol.com/newsbloggers/2008/01/0...lousy-debaters/

I'm lovin' that a whole lot!

No. We fight fire with fire. Through science. And we will have to answer to God for not giving an answer to their accusations. Their blood will be on our hands if we just let them follow evolution to an eternal punishment in hell.

It is very much an issue that pertains to salvation. Those who champion evolution do so because they believe that if they can successfully challenge what God says about the origin of the universe, then they have grounds to challenge what He says about their sin. Evolution is contradictory to the Bible, because the theory is predicated on the origins of the universe being the product of natural means absent a personal creator. It is a strike at the very existance of God Himself. It is not vanity to seek the truth about how the universe came into being. It is vital. It is vital to the spreading of the gospel. It makes all the difference to the lost who see it as way of explaining away the existence of God. It is not a peripheral issue like tongues or the rapture. It is an issue that bears directly on God and His integrity. Indeed. If one starts doubting what is said about creation, why then believe in a virgin birth? Why believe that Jesus rose from the dead? Science won't support either...

I think it has more to do with people putting their faith in what the evolutionists are saying, which does nothing but chip away at Scripture a little bit at a time, until all faith is gone. I say, we don't give up an inch! This is a spiritual battle for the minds of our generation, and we can't afford to let them win even a round. To doubt Genesis, is to doubt the rest of it. Why have faith in a book that cannot be trusted?

What else would you expect from this moron. Perhaps we should also allow astrology, alchemy etc to be taught in science classes. You make a very good point. The sad things is that Darwins theory is just that, a theory. Their teaching it in school as fact only indicates the governments willingness to program rather than educate. For all intents and purposes, a scientific theory is not just an idea, its a fact until proven otherwise by empirical evidence and observation. Evolution is so universally accepted in science that it is one of the two fundamental laws of biology. So, if a scientist said the universe was created by a giant turtle who vomited it all into existence, it's a FACT until proven otherwise?????? And, how is evolution in action observed today?

God hasn't forgotten you, dear heart. He promised to never leave you, nor forsake you...ever. He cannot lie. Your husband has the same free will you have. He chooses to not serve the Lord as he should - while you choose rightly to serve the Lord your God. God will reward you for your faithfulness in the midst of trouble. While your husband will receive what he is due for his disobedience. God is a God of mercy, but He is also a God of justice. Your present trouble will indeed pass. Hold onto that which is good, and do not worry for your future. It is all in God's hands. May you be covered with the mighty, healing blood of Jesus! And may all the blessings of heaven rain down upon you! In Jesus name, amen.

And here I was, thinking you were an atheist... Or was that a Freudian slip?

IMO, it seems to me that's why the German people have been so easily led in the past.

Israel Retaliates, Bombs Gaza Three Times by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) The rocket war in and around Gaza is heating up. The Israel Air Force bombed Gaza three times on Thursday afternoon in retaliation for a Katyusha rocket that landed further north than any rocket ever fired from Gaza. Shortly afterwards, a Kassam rocket attack from Gaza injured a Sderot woman hanging laundry. An Iranian-supplied Katyusha rocket fired around 11 AM on Thursday by Islamic Jihad terrorists in Gaza towards Ashkelon landed further north than ever before - 16.5 kilometers (10 miles) from Gaza. No one was hurt in the attack, though the missile landed only some 50 meters (55 yards) from a residential neighborhood. The IDF retaliated for the attack nearly four hours later by air-bombing several terrorist targets in Gaza City, including the home of an Islamic Jihad terrorist who was killed in a similar attack last week. The terrorist, Muhammad Dahduh, had been considered the mastermind of Kassam rocket production in Gaza. His now-destroyed home was empty at the time of today's attack, though nine passersby were reported injured by the bomb. Eight Palestinian terrorists were killed in clashes with Israeli forces throughout the day; the last one was in the midst of trying to fire anti-rocket rockets when he was killed. Seven other Kassam rockets and mortar shells were fired from Gaza this morning; no one was hurt. Miracle in Sderot Shortly afterwards, a round of between two and five Kassam rockets was fired from Gaza, with one of them landing in the yard of a residential home in Sderot. A woman who had been hanging laundry there ran for cover when she heard the Color Red early warning alarm, and the rocket fell just several feet from the laundry lines. The woman, and several other Sderot residents, were evacuated to a hospital and were treated for shock. The Katyusha fired at Ashkelon, a Grad model 122 millimeters (nearly 5 inches) in diameter, was the fifth such rocket fired in recent years towards Ashkelon. PA Blames Israel The Palestinian Authority retaliated for Israel's retaliation not only with Kassams, but also on the international media stage. Nabil Abu Rudeineh, a spokesman for PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas, asserted that Israel's counter-terrorism operations were

Big deal. Married couples have been reading each others thoughts for ages!

Sadly....I'm easily led...

I don't know about them, but I'd use it to make some french fries! Put enough on for two.........I'll be there in 20 minutes. And, btw........they are not called fries.......they are called chips BTW.....it's a cigarette.....not a fag Cookies...not Biscuits Butt...not Bum Mom...not Mum Closet...not a Wardrobe Package...not Parcel Apartment...not Flat Pants...not Trousers Elevator...not Lift Eraser...not Rubber Potato Chips...not Crisps Vacation...not Holiday Gas...not Petrol Subway...not Underground Crazy...not Mad Garbage Can...not Dustbin Diaper...not Nappy Pharmacist...not Chemist Baby Carriage...not Pram Bar...not Pub Soccer...not Football Faucet...not Tap Sneakers...not Trainers Oatmeal...not Porridge And FRIES...not CHIPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sheesh.....I wish you Brits would learn English!

I think God has too much dignity to allow his followers to flop around like fish out of water...

I don't know about them, but I'd use it to make some french fries!

*Kari faints*

Why not? A shark is the closest relative to a lawyer.....

Go Huckabee! Woo-hoooooooo!

They should put a pig on every bus in Israel. No homocide bomber would dare blow himself up if there was a chance his remains would be mingled with that of a pigs... 70 virgins? Sheesh...doesn't that make Allah a pimp?