On Creationism

Having spent years posting at CARM, I have come to realise a few things about certain Christians. These obviously will not apply to all Christians, but it gives some insight in to how some Christians think, and allows us to understand how the earlier gospels became embellished and accepted. ETA (18/Jun/20): CARM has crashed and lost every post, so the links will no longer worker. Some of the posters may use new names now. Dealing with Evidence I started a thread about who the author of the Gospel of Matthew is, presenting evidence that it could not be the disciple Matthew. This thread went on for nine pages, and 132 posts, and spawned two further threads. At no point did any Christian discuss the evidence in the OP at all. No Christian mentioned Markan priority or the Papias text or anything. No Christian post offered any alternative evidence. Christians just do not like evidence that might challenge their beliefs, and so just ignore it. Proof I own a certain book The cle...

Kent Hovind is, perhaps the very worst of the creationists, so it is with some interest I note that he is now on this third wife in three years. For many years he was married to Jo Hovind, who ended up going to prison for a year due to her involvement in tax fraud. Once Kent got released from his rather longer prison sentence, it was not long before Jo filed for divorce (early 2016) - possibly to distance himself from any further gaol sentences. A few months later, 24th Sptember 2016, and he married Mary Tocco - not a full marriage, but a covenant before God. It looks like she got various assurances that Kent's new business was entirely honest before she got married. However, she later cam to realise that that was not really the case, and, again to avoid ending up in prison , she left him in November 2017. http://kehvrlb.com/mary-tocco-on-leaving-kent-hovind Less than a year later and he has a new wife, Cindi Lincoln, a former friend of Mary's. It is not clear if they ...

I had been under the impression that Deuteronomy requires a rape victim to marry the rapist, but examining more closely I think this is wrong. This is from Deuteronomy 22 (NIV), and the section starts: 13 If a man takes a wife and, after sleeping with her, dislikes her 14 and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,” 15 then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate proof that she was a virgin. 16 Her father will say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her. 17 Now he has slandered her and said, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.’ But here is the proof of my daughter’s virginity.” Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town, 18 and the elders shall take the man and punish him. 19 They shall fine him a hundred shekels[b] of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, beca...