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		<title>Dolphins and Porpoises and&#8230;Bats? Oh My! Evolution&#8217;s Convergence Problem</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=302</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=302#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 20:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Creation/Evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have recently been reading George McGhee&#8217;s Convergent Evolution: Limited Forms Most Beautiful.  McGhee&#8217;s book is a gripping read, and it favorably cites the work of  both Michael Denton and Douglas Axe, ID-friendly scientists well known  to readers of ENV. The book documents a multitude of cases of convergent  evolution (homoplasy), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Molecular Flagellar Clutch of Bacillus Subtilis</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=301</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=301#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 13:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Creation/Evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have previously outlined a few of the key mechanisms undergirding flagellar assembly, and the remarkable process of bacterial chemotaxis  by which bacteria change direction in response to chemical signals.  There are, of course, a number of different variants in those systems.  If you thought that these remarkable mechanisms bear a strong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Explaining the Cambrian Explosion, Has the TalkOrigins Archive Resolved Darwin&#8217;s Dilemma?</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=300</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=300#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 14:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Creation/Evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A correspondent recently referred me to an article  in the TalkOrigins Archive responding to the argument that &#8220;Complex  life forms appear suddenly in the Cambrian explosion, with no ancestral  fossils.&#8221; TalkOrigins is a popular online resource that collects  attempted answers to some often-heard challenges to Darwinian  evolutionary theory. The article [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nice Try! A Review of Alan Rogers&#8217;s The Evidence for Evolution</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=299</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=299#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Creation/Evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read The Evidence for Evolution  by University of Utah professor of anthropology and biology Alan  Rogers. The book is certainly concise, only 102 pages long. Christina  Richards, of the University of South Florida, has praised it for  presenting its arguments &#8220;in a respectful manner that is accessible to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Paper Reveals a &#8220;Novel Insight into the Non-Coding Repertoire&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=298</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=298#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Creation/Evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On an almost weekly basis, new research floods in documenting  previously unidentified functionality of many different classes of  non-coding DNA elements. This consistent trend renders untenable the  dogmatic claim that our DNA is mostly junk.
A paper was recently published in the journal Nucleic Acids Research that identified a previously unknown function of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apologetics Resources for Kids</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=297</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=297#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Turek</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Apologetics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I often get asked to recommend apologetics resources for kids.  Our friends at Ratio Christi have put together a list of recommendations by age group, all the way down to elementary school.  Click here for details.
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		<title>The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=296</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=296#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[2. Does God Exist?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The ontological argument is widely thought to have been first clearly  articulated by St. Anselm of Canterbury, who defined God as the greatest  conceivable being. Anselm’s reasoning was that, if a being existed only  in the mind but not in reality, then a greater being was conceivable (a  being which exists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evidences Jesus is ALIVE</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=295</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=295#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Turek</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Resurrection]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[4. Is the NT True?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[  
My guest on the radio program today was Dr. Tim McGrew, Professor of Philosophy at Western Michigan University.  He provided five lines of evidence that Jesus is ALIVE:
 A         Appearances to his followers (1 Cor 15, Mt 28, Lk 24, Jn 20-21, Acts 1, Josephus and others)
 L          Low status of women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Study Adds Further Depth to the Information Story</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=294</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=294#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Creation/Evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Previously on ENV, I have described several remarkable features &#8212; and the finely tuned characteristics &#8212; of the genetic code found in nature. A new study, published in the journal Nature  and conducted by a research team at the University of California, San  Francisco, identifies an additional, hitherto uncovered, layer of  information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irreducible Complexity with Four Glasses and Three Knives</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=293</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=293#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Creation/Evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A post at Uncommon Descent offers  an innovative way of illustrating the concept of irreducible  complexity &#8212; one that is likely to be more resistant to Darwinist  misrepresentation than Michael Behe&#8217;s well-known mouse trap analogy.
The illustration is intended to address the common misconception that  irreducible complexity entails that (a) the individual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massimo Pigliucci: Theodosius Dobzhansky, in His Famous Comment about Evolution, Was &#8220;Patently Wrong&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=292</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=292#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Creation/Evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Writing on his &#8220;Rationally Speaking&#8221; blog, internationally acclaimed  evolutionary biologist turned philosopher Massimo Pigliucci has weighed in on a recent paper  published by Addy Pross entitled &#8220;Toward a general theory of evolution:  Extending Darwinian theory to inanimate matter.&#8221; What was of particular  interest to me was Pigliucci&#8217;s comments on Theodosius Dobzhansky&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cataloguing the Historical Anachronisms in the Qur&#8217;an</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=291</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=291#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Muslim apologists often contend that the Qur&#8217;an is free, in its  entirity, from contradiction, inconsistency or historical inaccuracy. I  have seen many Muslims assert that the historical and scientific  accuracy of the Qur&#8217;an was what impressed them about this book and  convinced them that Islam is true. Previously, I have  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Argument From Cosmic Fine Tuning</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=290</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=290#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[2. Does God Exist?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The concept of cosmic fine tuning relates to a unique property of our  universe whereby the physical constants and laws are observed to be  balanced on a ‘razor’s edge’ for permitting the emergence of complex  life. The degree to which the constants of physics must match precise  criteria is such that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Saturday on the National Mall in Washington, It&#8217;s the Unreasonable Rally</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=289</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=289#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Atheism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Culture CrossExamined]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This Saturday, March 24, on the National Mall in Washington D.C.,  atheists and secularists from all over the world will gather for a day  of entertainment from guest speakers, comedians and musicians. The Reason Rally,  which claims to be the &#8220;the largest secular event in world history,&#8221;  features such notable figures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British Geneticist Robert Saunders Weighs in on Signature in the Cell</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=288</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=288#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Creation/Evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Readers may recall my exchange with British geneticist Robert Saunders (here and here) following Stephen Meyer&#8217;s lecture at the Lord McKay dinner in London (which you can now watch here). At the time, Saunders admitted that he had not read Signature in the Cell, nor had he attended the lecture. It was, therefore, not entirely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Intolerance of those Fighting for &#8220;Tolerance&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=287</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=287#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Turek</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[College Events]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Culture CrossExamined]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[  
This is an article on my I Don&#8217;t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist presentation that a homosexual group protested last night at Ohio University. Notice one student said that I shouldn&#8217;t be speaking because anyone opposed to homosexual behavior and same-sex marriage is &#8220;hateful.&#8221;  The people who say they are fighting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Response to the Reason Rally, March 24th, Washington DC</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=286</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=286#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Atheism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Evangelism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From here:
&#8220;Richard Dawkins, P.Z. Myers and other New Atheists are planning a “Reason Rally” in Washington, D.C. on March 24. They’re billing it as “the largest gathering of the secular movement in world history,” and they’re using it to trumpet their message that reasonable people reject belief in God.
We disagree.
Together, we represent Christians from the United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who is the Angel of the Lord?</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=285</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=285#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout the Old Testament, we routinely encounter the mysterious  character who goes by the title &#8220;The angel of the Lord.&#8221; By looking at  the numerous appearances of this individual, we can piece together clues  as to His identity. The first time the angel of the Lord is introduced,  he makes an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The GULO Pseudogene and Its Implications for Common Descent</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=284</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=284#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Creation/Evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[L-gulonolactone oxidase (GULO), the final enzyme in the biosynthetic  pathway of ascorbic acid (vitamin C), is a subject that comes up often  in discussions of common ancestry. The functioning GULO gene allows most  plants and many animals to produce vitamin C from glucose or galactose.  In some taxa, however, the GULO [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contending With The Critics On Same Sex Marriage</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=283</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=283#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Culture CrossExamined]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Legislating Morality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Previously, I have given a number of reasons for my opposition to same sex marriage. Since then, a debate has broken out on a thread on this blog. Here, I offer a brief rebuttal to some of the points raised there.
Two main objections were raised with regards my previous remarks. In Stephen B&#8217;s own words:
1. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discovery Institute 2012 Summer Seminars, JULY 6-14, 2012 Seattle, WA</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=282</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=282#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Creation/Evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, I had the tremendous opportunity to travel to Seattle,   Washington, and take part in Discovery Institute’s yearly summer   seminar for undergraduate and graduate students. Truth be told, it was   one of the most memorable experiences of my life. I had the chance to   interact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did They Really Exist? A Biblical and Scientific Defence of Adam and Eve</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=281</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=281#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Creation/Evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The  historicity of Adam and Eve is a question which strikes at the  heart of  the Christian faith. If the primordial pair did not exist,  then the  historical and Biblical doctrine of the fall becomes extremely  difficult  to maintain. The apostle Paul clearly linked God&#8217;s  redemptive plan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peer-Reviewed Paper Concludes that Darwinism &#8220;Has Pretty Much Reached the End of its Rope&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=280</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=280#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Creation/Evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting paper was recently published by David Depew and Bruce Weber in the journal Biological Theory.  The paper bears the title &#8220;The Fate of Darwinism: Evolution After the  Modern Synthesis.&#8221; Its abstract summarizes the article&#8217;s contents:
Click here to continue reading&#62;&#62;&#62;
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		<title>Did Jesus Deny His Deity in His Conversation with the Rich Ruler?</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=279</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=279#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Luke 18:18-29 (and the parallel account in Mark 10:17-31), we read  the narrative of the rich young ruler coming to Jesus and asking, &#8220;Good  teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?&#8221; Jesus responds by  saying &#8220;Why do you call me good? No one is good &#8212; except God alone.&#8221;
Jesus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Muhammad Properly Understand the Trinity?</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=278</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=278#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post,  I explained and defended the historical Christian concept of the  Trinity. In this blog post, I want to consider the conception of the  Trinity held by the writer of the Qur&#8217;an &#8212; whom I presume to be  Muhammad &#8212; and examine whether this individual properly understood the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Bonhoeffer Goes to Washington</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=277</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=277#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Turek</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Culture CrossExamined]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[






My friend and best-selling &#8220;Bonhoeffer&#8221; biographer Eric Metaxas brilliantly wove wit and humor through a speech against dead religion at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday.  Calling on the heavenly witnesses of Wilberforce and Bonhoeffer, Metaxas courageously defended life and natural marriage before about 4,000 people and with President Obama and Vice President Biden sitting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Same Sex Marriage: A Response to Stephen B.</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=276</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=276#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Legislating Morality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Commenter Stephen B has offered a response to my previously published article concerning same sex marriage. Stephen writes,
&#8220;Sorry Jonathan, but this is not a category error, and your objection doesn’t work. 
 Here’s the comparison:
White man marrying black woman / man marrying man.
 If  you want to describe it in terms of ‘actions’ then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Banning Same Sex Marriage Discrimination?</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=275</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=275#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Culture CrossExamined]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Legislating Morality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Note: This is an exchange which took place between myself and an anonymous correspondant regarding a recent article I published on Blogos.org (and also posted here). The correspondant&#8217;s comments are appended below and immediately followed by my response.]
Dear Blogos Editor,
First  of all, congratulations on your new site.  I&#8217;m glad and excited  for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Britain&#8217;s Moral Decline</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=274</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=274#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Culture CrossExamined]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The British BBC News last week reported   on research conducted at the University of Essex finding that &#8220;Britons   are less honest than they were a decade ago.&#8221; According to the  article,  &#8220;the survey of more than 2,000 adults found that people were  apparently  more tolerant of lying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Wrote the Gospels?</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=273</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=273#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[4. Is the NT True?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One often hears the claim, made frequently by skeptical scholars and  laypeople alike, that we have no grounds on which to think the four  canonical gospels were actually written by the people to whom they are  ascribed. The original documents, we are told, were written in  anonymity, the attributions being added [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Trinity Defended</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=271</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=271#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The  doctrine of the Trinity has come under increasing attack over  recent  years from a variety of groups. Some of these groups (such as  Muslims  and Jehovah&#8217;s witnesses) deny that this doctrine is even found  in  Scripture. They are often quick to point out that the word &#8220;trinity&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joining the Conversation: Perspectives on the Discussion with James Shapiro</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=270</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=270#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Creation/Evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have followed with interest the discussion (&#8220;Is  James Shapiro a Design Theorist?&#8221;) initiated by Bill Dembski and  now involving James  Shapiro, Ann  Gauger and Douglas  Axe. The nub of the issue seems to relate to conflicting  conceptions about what constitutes a legitimate scientific explanation  (what philosophers call [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British Free Schools that Teach Intelligent Design as Science Will Lose Funding</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=269</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=269#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Creation/Evolution]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Culture CrossExamined]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The British Guardian newspaper reports  on recent developments in UK governmental policy on teaching evolution  in free schools (which, though state funded, are normally not required  to follow the national curriculum):
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		<title>On the Origin of Mitochondria: Reasons for Skepticism on the Endosymbiotic Story</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=268</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=268#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Creation/Evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With regret, ENV recently noted the  passing of biologist Lynn Margulis. Margulis, a scientist whom I admired greatly, was never a stranger to controversy, going so far as to call neo-Darwinism &#8220;a complete funk&#8221; and asserting  that &#8220;The critics, including the creationist critics, are right about  their criticism. It&#8217;s just that they&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turek &#038; Cornuke to Lead Footsteps of Paul Cruise, July 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=267</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=267#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Turek</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[4. Is the NT True?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Frank Turek and Bob Cornuke (the REAL Indiana Jones) will be leading a &#8220;Footsteps of Paul&#8221; cruise in July 2012!  Our ship will be Oceania&#8217;s beautiful &#8220;Regatta.&#8221;  We&#8217;ll present evidence and insights about the New Testament while we tour the Biblical sites of:

Ephesus (Ephesians, Paul&#8217;s home for three years, and his confrontation with Diana worshipers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parallel Host and Parasite Phylogenies: Do They Imply Common Ancestry?</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=266</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=266#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Creation/Evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One line of evidence for common ancestry, which lies among the stronger  of the relevant arguments, is the phenomenon of parallel phylogenetic  patterns thought to indicate host-parasite codivergence. Consider, for  example, this diagram &#8212; or &#8220;tanglegram&#8221; as it&#8217;s called &#8212; excerpted  from Legendre et al. (2001).
Click here to continue reading&#62;&#62;&#62;
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		<title>The Universe Had a Beginning</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=265</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=265#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Turek</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Atheism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Debates]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[2. Does God Exist?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Cosmologist Alexander Vilenkin wrote a book in 2006 (Many Worlds in One) in which he refers to a theorem he developed with Alan Guth and Arvind Borde.  Although not a believer in God but the mulitverse, Vilenkin says that their theorem proves that even if other universes exist there was an absolute beginning of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Year in Review: Intelligent Design in the UK</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=264</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=264#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Creation/Evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An often-heard criticism of intelligent design claims that it is  exclusively an American phenomenon, since presumably the rest of the  world is too smart to fall for the stuff. Of course this is nonsense. ID  is making impressive strides in Europe and Asia. As I can report from  personal experience, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christ in the Story of Ruth</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=263</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=263#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan McLatchie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Apologetics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My father was recently invited to speak at a church. When it came time for him to speak, he announced that he was going to read a story about a couple giving birth to a baby in Bethlehem. With everyone expecting him to turn to the story of the nativity in the gospel of Matthew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Lennox vs. Richard Dawkins</title>
		<link>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=262</link>
		<comments>http://www.crossexamined.org/blog/?p=262#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Turek</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Debates]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[2. Does God Exist?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is an excellent conversational debate between two Oxford professors, Dr. John Lennox and Dr. Richard Dawkins.  Hope you enjoy it!
 






     
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