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Entries Tagged as 'Urban Myths'

Contra Mundum: The Flat-Earth Myth

December 1st, 2009 33 Comments

A while back I made a passing comment on my blog criticising an advertisement which claimed that, prior to Columbus, the Church taught that the world was flat. In response I received the following email from a high-school student in the US,
I’ve been studying Christopher Columbus in my history class and my history books say [...]

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More Reasons to not Vote Green: Population Control gets a Global Warming Twist

October 18th, 2008 4 Comments

The blogosphere is abuzz with the Greens new Family Policy which
“proposes setting a level of population New Zealand could sustain and leaving room within that for climate change refugees from Pacific Islands.
They also want parents educated about the impacts of population growth when they are planning their family size and how far apart to [...]

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Take Nobody’s Word for Anything – Especially Bob Brockie’s

October 3rd, 2008 3 Comments

In one of the definitive discussions of the issue, Philosophers Alvin Plantinga and Robert Pennock debated the teaching of evolutionary theory in public schools of religiously pluralistic societies at the December 1998 meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association.
[The following is a crude rendition of the issues in the debate - read [...]

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Genocide ! Who Cares? Tell them about crazy Falwell and Tinky Winky

March 2nd, 2008 1 Comment

A few years ago I heard with amusement the NZ media report that Jerry Falwell had condemned Tinky Winky from the Teletubbies as gay. A little while latter I came across an article in First Things pointing out that the sources of these reports were mistaken. I was not a fan of Falwell but whatever [...]

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The Flat Earth Myth

July 18th, 2007 2 Comments

A few days ago I got sent the following message from a high-school student in the US.
I’ve been studying Christopher Columbus in my history class and my history books say that prior to Columbus everyone did think the world was flat……..I don’t know if it was a mistake in the history book or your mistake…..but [...]

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Things They Don’t Teach you in Public Schools…

July 4th, 2007 2 Comments

Tonight I watched an ad on TV which has a man congratulating New Zealanders for being the first to give women the vote. This ad reminded me of the following picture which I discovered in Alvin Schmidt’s book “How Christianity Changed the World.”
The picture on this page shows women voting at the polls in New [...]

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