Links To Go (February 18, 2014)

Is Atheism Irrational?

So if you’re an atheist simply because you accept materialism, maintaining your atheism means you have to give up your belief that evolution is true. Another way to put it: The belief that both materialism and evolution are true is self-refuting. It shoots itself in the foot. Therefore it can’t rationally be held.


Beauty: The Race We’re All Losing

It’s like we are potters trying to turn clay into a glass table. We have been given certain materials, but we want to create them into things they can never be. No wonder we are exhausted. No wonder we don’t feel beautiful. We have the wrong goal. Our clay will never turn into the beautiful clear glass we are wanting because it is meant to clay.


Extreme loneliness worse for health than obesity and can lead to an early grave, scientists say

Chronic loneliness has been shown to increase the chances of an early grave by 14 per cent, which is as bad as being overweight and almost as bad as poverty in undermining a person’s long-term wellbeing, a study has found.


What Happened to Harvard?

What has happened in these schools is what Christian philosopher James K.A. Smith describes as functional secularism. They have fully abandoned Christian distinctiveness.


Questions for Leadership Team Members – Can You Answer all of These?

So, take a look at this list of questions. Pretty comprehensive isn’t it? Almost overwhelming. And yet, I’ve got a hunch that the list is too short.
I know – you’ve got to have focus. You can only work on one to two “main goals” at a time.
But, the “work “ on such goals requires quite a list of issues and challenges to master, doesn’t it?
This list of questions might be useful for setting the agenda for a series of meetings for your leadership team.


Time for a thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations

And then there’s the human dimension. The embargo has inflicted suffering on the Cuban people for generations and yet has notably failed to achieve its goal of ousting the Castros. It’s time to lift it.

Reality show snake-handling preacher dies — of snakebite

On “Snake Salvation,” the ardent Pentecostal believer said that he believed that a passage in the Bible suggests poisonous snakebites will not harm believers as long as they are anointed by God. The practice is illegal in most states, but still goes on, primarily in the rural South.


Will the world END next week? Viking apocalypse ‘Ragnarok’ due to arrive on February 22

Believers say that when the fateful day arrives Earth will split open, unleashing the inhabitants of Hel.
The wolf, Fenrir, son of Loki, will break out of his prison and the Midgard snake Jormungand will rise from the sea.
Nidhogg, the dragon of the underworld, will gnaw at the world tree, Yggdrasil, until it groans and wilts.
Then as the ice giants of Jotunheim come thundering over the horizon, the dead heroes of Valhalla will descend from heaven to fight them.


Why does the myth of Presidents Day persist?

When is Presidents Day 2014? The correct answer to that question is “never.” When it comes to federal holidays, there is no such thing as Presidents Day. We’ve been saying this for years, but shockingly, the charade continues.
The official name for the holiday celebrated Feb. 17, 2014, is Washington’s Birthday. If you don’t believe us, look at the Office of Personnel Management’s list of 2014 holidays for federal workers.


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