Monday, July 21, 2014  This Video Is Not Dangerous To My Atheism
The other day I was checking up on my Klout score(something I'm
finding to be a fairly useless measure of social media
influence), and I seen this blog post listed in the create tab:
"Warning: This Video May Be Dangerous To Your Atheism".  Oh,
joy. A blog post from the original writer of "God's Not Dead",
Rice Broocks. Let's see if we can analyse this blog post,
paragraph by paragraph:  "The discovery that the universe had a
beginning is a relatively recent realization in the scientific
community. The implication of this discovery is that in one
moment, all of space and time came into being. In fact, one such
scientist named the event the "Big Bang" as a derogatory term,
since he feared that the idea was allowing "the divine foot in
the door""[emphasis Broocks'].  The last sentence is the first
mislead in the blog post. Georges Lemaître, the scientist who
first proposed the Big Bang model, described it as the "the
Cosmic Egg exploding at the mo