Comments by drcowboybc

Comment #189590 by drcowboybc on June 6, 2008 at 3:10 pm

ermm... said
>>I haven't bought any McEwan yet; where do recommend I start please?<<

He writes fiction: Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach. These are the only three of his novels I've read. I'd say read Saturday first, then Atonement. On Chesil Beach was a bit of a disappointment, to me. The main character in Saturday is a surgeon, an atheist. Very good story.

2. Scarlet Letter Campaign Update: A Victory

Comment #62299 by drcowboybc on August 9, 2007 at 8:00 am

For me, it was the misspelling of evolution. Just too good to be real.

3. God in the Military - The Pentagon and its Christian Embassy

Comment #61851 by drcowboybc on August 7, 2007 at 6:08 am

What the hell is "the aroma of Jesus Christ"?

4. Is Christianity Good for the World?

Comment #39174 by drcowboybc on May 10, 2007 at 6:00 am

If you get a chance, go to the Christianity Today site and post a comment there. Be aware that once you post a comment, you are not allowed to post again from that computer(?)/IP address(?). So I've made three comments from three different machines.

5. Sam's Flea!

Comment #32741 by drcowboybc on April 18, 2007 at 6:42 am

Fanusi Khiyal asked:
"Seriously. Tell me this man is not actually a plant."

Nope, he's real, and serious (in his own mind). He's popular among a certain strain of conservative Presbyterians and Reformed church people. He lives in Moscow, Idaho, and runs a church and a college: http://www.nsa.edu/

But Wilson was not the first to try and capitalize on Harris's success with a "rebuttal" whose cover looks like the original: http://thinkagain.us/

However, I think both of these efforts must have the same person running their marketing campaign. My blog has been hit by advertisements for both books. Looking back through my logs, both posters had googled "Letter to a Christian Nation blog". When they found mine, they pasted the advertisement in multiple places, including posts that had nothing to do with "Letter."

6. Guest Host Bill Moyers with philosopher Daniel Dennett

Comment #18840 by drcowboybc on January 23, 2007 at 6:27 am

I think that both the "good cop" and "bad cop" strategies (or however you want to label them) have their merits.

Here is another "good cop" approach from a recent Austin (TX) American-Statesman religion section:
http://www.statesman.com/life/content/life/stories/faith/01/06/6words.html

7. Liberty University is looking for Biology Professors

Comment #5013 by drcowboybc on November 7, 2006 at 7:56 am

Addendum to the Biology announcement at Liberty U:

Anatomy and Physiology courses must not talk about peepees, weewees, or other dirty parts or processes. Candidate must be subscribe to the Stork theory of reproduction.