Do miracles happen?

When I say miracles I don't mean that miraculous "holy shit" moment when you barely miss a truck coming out of the driveway. I'm more interested in miracles that violate natural laws. I figure in this day and age where millions have video cameras on their phones, we should see a bunch. I found a few candidates on youtube. I wish they were more convincing.





On a side note, have you ever seen the leg stretching healing done?
Seems to be a classic. I've actually seen this one in person...twice!. Here are a couple of examples.







I'm pretty unconvinced. Hey if anyone's got some great ones send them my way!

Anyone ever see Derren Brown?

This one kills! Instant conversion:

Do Christians Cherry Pick Morality from the Bible?

I hear a lot of discussion of objective morality vs. subjective morality between Atheists and Christians. Christians claim the Bible is the source of Objective morality. Really? Does the Bible contain an objective, reliable, system for morality? Do Christians use personal preference when deciding what the Bible says about morality? I believe they do. You would be hard pressed to find a Christian these days who supports the killing of witches, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" Exodus 22:18 or one who supports the killing of disobedient children "If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, 19 his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town. 20 They shall say to the elders, This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard. 21 Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death. Deuteronomy 21:18-21. The Christian must make a conscious decision to ignore commands in the Bible he or she knows is wrong. Here's my challenge to Christians, codify the system of morality that you find in the Bible into a meaningful easy to understand list of right and wrong. Can it be done? I seriously doubt it. Could Christians all agree about what went into that list? I strongly doubt it. Will anyone actually take me up on that challenge? Probably not.

My new Blog!

Well I finally did it! I’ve been telling myself for ages that I needed to get a blog and here it is! Thanks for stopping round for pie as they say.

First of all yes, I am Michael Behe’s hat. I’ve been with Michael for about 11 years now. We seem to have a pretty thing going despite our differences, and I for one don’t have any complaints. He’s got a pretty good sense of humor he’s good to his family, works hard, the whole thing. You should hear William Dembski’s hats bitching about what an astronomical douche HE is.

A question I get asked all the time is “how can you be Mike’s hat when he’s a Christian and you’re an atheist? Well it’s true that Mike’s a Christian, and yeah he has some real crackpot ideas, like Noah’s ark being a true story, and dinosaurs living with humans, irreducible complexity. And yes I am an atheist who was a devout Evangelical Christian for many years, (in fact I was a Christian when Mike and I first met, we were introduced by Ken Ham). But to be honest we just know to stay away from the subject of religion as it tends to get us too touchy. We usually just play chess, or watch movies, listen to music, that kind of stuff.

But enough about Mike, this is my blog, and with the introductions out of the way let’s get blogging!