About the Debate RESOLVED: THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION IS SUPERIOR TO THE THEORY OF SPECIAL CREATION AS AN EXPLANATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE RELATED TO ORIGINS. A DEBATE HELD AT: AUBURN UNIVERSITY AUBURN, ALABAMA 10 MAY 1988 SPEAKING FOR THE AFFIRMATIVE: Kenneth S. Saladin, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biology Georgia College Milledgeville, Georgia SPEAKING FOR […]
Evolution vs. Creationism The Saladin-Gish II Debate (1988) Transcribed and Annotated by Kenneth S. Saladin About this transcript About the debate Preface Moderator’s Introduction Opening Statement for the Affirmative (Saladin, 45 min.) Opening Statement for the Negative (Gish, 45 min.) First Rebuttal for the Affirmative (Saladin, 15 min.) First Rebuttal for the Negative (Gish, 15 […]
Revelation’s Place in the Christian Bible (2007) Keith Gilmour “A repulsive film in which intellectuals have found acres of social and political meaning; the average judgement is likely to remain that it is pretentious and nasty rubbish for sick minds who do not mind jazzed-up images and incoherent sound.[1] This was Leslie Halliwell’s assessment […]
Review of The Impossibility of God (2005) Julian Baggini Review: Michael Martin and Ricki Monnier (eds). 2003. The Impossibility of God. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. 438 pp. Let’s get the well-deserved praise over and done with and move swiftly on to more interesting matters. All infidels (Infidel, noun, 1: one who is not a […]
Chapter 19 Joseph Wheless 22 page printout, page 406 - 427 END CHAPTER XIX CESSET SUPERSTITIO! AND THEN? "But if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men" (Matt. V, 13). -- "It […]
Chapter 18 Joseph Wheless 16 page printout, page 390 - 405 CHAPTER XVIII REVELATIONS OF THE HEREAFTER HEAVEN, HELL, AND PURGATORY IN the twentieth century after the traditional advent of the Son of Yahveh on earth, the religion which is built around that event persists in a congeries of primitive cosmological notions, which modern knowledge […]
Chapter 17 Joseph Wheless 13 page printout, page 377 - 389 CHAPTER XVII THE CHRISTIAN "PLAN OF SALVATION" ORIGINAL SIN AND ETERNAL DAMNATION "Redemption from the Curse" THE whole philosophy of what is fondly known as the "Sacred science of Christianity" revolves around two extremes of inspired Bible history: the "curse on man" through Adam, […]
Chapter 16 Joseph Wheless 38 page printout, page 339 - 376 CHAPTER XVI THE SACRED DOCTRINES OF CHRISTIANITY THE creeds, says a poet, are in number some seventy-three. Of Christian sects or denominations, each founded upon chosen texts, there are in fact a much greater number, some hundreds, each quite out of harmony with all […]
Chapter 15 Joseph Wheless 33 page printout, page 306 - 338 CHAPTER XV MORE "HARMONY OF THE GOSPELS" THE CLOSING SCENES OF THE DRAMA WE have thus reviewed the salient features of the recorded events of the birth and career of the Man of Nazareth, and thus have been enabled to form an intelligent, if […]
Chapter 14 Joseph Wheless 47 page printout, page 259 - 305 CHAPTER XIV THE INSPIRED "HARMONY OF THE GOSPELS" OF THE LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST THE life and times of Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah, the King of the Jews, the Savior of the world, are preserved in four short monographs, called after their Greek […]
Chapter 13 Joseph Wheless 28 page printout, page 231 - 258 CHAPTER XIII THE "PROPHECIES" OF JESUS CHRIST THROUGHOUT the four gospel biographies of Jesus, the Christ, there are frequent references to and quotations of sundry passages in the Old Testament, which are appealed to as "prophecies" concerning Jesus Christ, and are asserted to foretell […]
Chapter 12 Joseph Wheless 15 page printout, page 216 - 230 CHAPTER XII BIBLE THEOLOGY AND MODERN TRUTH BEFORE essaying frankly, for the sake of truth, to "search the scriptures" of the New Testament, wherein, says the Christ, "ye think ye have eternal life" (John v, 39), it is of prime importance to consider briefly […]
Chapter 11 Joseph Wheless 21 page printout, page 195 - 215 CHAPTER XI THE HOLY PRIESTS AND PROPHETS OF YAHVEH TURNING from the self-portrait of the Hebrew chief God, let us view the holy priests and prophets of Yahveh, the votaries of this Hebrew war-god. This examination will show the vague and shadowy notions of […]
Chapter 10 Joseph Wheless 16 page printout, page 179 - 194 CHAPTER X YAHVEH -- THE "TERRIBLE GOD" OF ISRAEL THE revelation which is made in the inspired pages of the Hebrew Scriptures of the personality and characteristics of the Hebrew God, cannot but be amazing and even revolting to those whose concept of the […]
Chapter 09 Joseph Wheless 17 page printout, page 162 - 178 CHAPTER IX THE PAGAN GOD -- AND GODS -- OF ISRAEL THERE is (it may be) a God, the Supreme Architect, the Creator of the earth and of the fullness thereof, and of the wondrous "finite but unlimited" universe. Lord Bacon has said: "I […]
Chapter 08 Joseph Wheless 16 page printout, page 146 - 161 CHAPTER VIII THE HEBREW HEATHEN RELIGION. SEX WORSHIP AND IDOLS THE first that we know of the Hebrew Yahveh, after the fabled Flood of Noah and the fabulous Tower of Babel, is his appearance to the Chaldean heathen Abram at Haran, telling him to […]
Chapter 07 Joseph Wheless 10 page printout, page 136 - 144 CHAPTER VII THE "CONQUEST" OF THE PROMISED LAND HAVING been duly impressed with the promises reiterated by Yahveh to his Chosen People, let us turn our attention to the wondrous manner of their fulfillment, as recorded in the inspired history. The promises are repeated […]
Chapter 06 Joseph Wheless 21 page printout, page 115 - 135 CHAPTER VI THE "TEN COMMANDMENTS" AND THE "LAW" EVERYBODY in Christian communities knows, supposedly, and many can even quote the "ten commandments" given by God to Moses on Sinai, and hung neatly framed in all well-conducted Sunday schools, Christian and Jewish alike, for here […]
Chapter 05 Joseph Wheless 19 page printout, page 96 - 114 CHAPTER V THE FORTY YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS IN the third month after the hegira from Egypt the hosts of Yahveh came to the "desert of Sinai, and pitched in the wilderness, and camped before the mount" (Ex. xix, 1, 2). This was Mt. […]
Chapter 04 Joseph Wheless 17 page printout, page 79 - 95 CHAPTER IV THE WONDERS OF THE EXODUS THE exodus is so wonderful, and so humanly impossible that its accomplishment by Providence deserves our especial attention. We will therefore attentively review its wonders, which are superlative if one Bible wonder may excel another; they differ […]
Chapter 03 Joseph Wheless 19 page printout, page 60 - 78 CHAPTER III THE PATRIARCHS AND THE COVENANTS OF YAHVEH IN the year 1996 B.C. according to the chronology of Bishop Ussher, or just 352 years after Noah's Flood, there was born a heathen Chaldee who was christened Abram (Abu-ramu, an ordinary Babylonian name meaning […]
Chapter 02 Joseph Wheless 36 page printout, Page 24 - 59 CHAPTER II A SKETCH OF HEBREW SCRIPTURES THE Bible, as all must admit, is the only source of knowledge which we have, of the great questions of miracle and of "revealed religion" which come to us through its pages. The authenticity of its remarkable […]
Chapter 01 Joseph Wheless 23 page printout, page 1 - 23 Reproducible Electronic Publishing can defeat censorship. **** **** This file, its printout, or copies of either are to be copied and given away, but NOT sold. Bank of Wisdom --- Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 **** **** IS IT GOD'S WORD? AN EXPOSITION OF […]
Is It God’s Word? By: Joseph Wheless Chapter I – The Genesis Of Christianity Chapter II – A Sketch Of Hebrew Scriptures Chapter III – The Patriarchs And The Covenants of Yahweh Chapter IV – The Wonders Of The Exodus Chapter V – The Forty Years In The Wilderness Chapter VI – The “Ten Commandments” […]
Introduction Joseph Wheless 24 page printout, page 1 to 23+note of 322 Reproducible Electronic Publishing can defeat censorship. This file, its printout, or copies of either are to be copied and given away, but NOT sold. Bank of Wisdom Box 926, Louisville, KY 40201 **** **** FORGERY IN CHRISTIANITY A Documented Record of the Foundations […]
Chapter 7 Joseph Wheless 82 page printout, pages 238 to 319 of 322 CHAPTER VII THE "TRIUMPH" OF CHRISTIANITY "Destruction to the Triumphant Beast!" Giordano Bruno. "Ecrasez l'Infame!" Voltaire. Even MORE INDUCIVE than its own sweet reasonableness and persuasive truth, as accredited by the records and vouchers we have examined, were several very effective forcible […]
Chapter 6 Joseph Wheless 42 page printout, pages 196 to 237 of 322 CHAPTER VI THE CHURCH FORGERY MILL "Nevertheless, the forging of papal letters was even more frequent in the Middle Ages than in the early Church." (CE. ix, 203.) LYINGLY FOUNDED on forgery upon forgery, as has been made manifest by manifold admissions […]
Chapter 5 Joseph Wheless 48 page printout, pages 148 to 195 of 322 CHAPTER V THE "GOSPEL" FORGERIES "Whether a Church which stands convicted of having forged its Creed, would have any scruple of forging its Gospels, is a problem that the reader will solve according to the influence of prejudice or probability on his […]
Chapter 4 Joseph Wheless 36 page printout, pages 112 to 147 of 322 CHAPTER IV THE SAINTLY "FATHERS" OF THE FAITH "The greater Saint, the greater Liar." Diegesis. "The principal historians of the patristic period cannot always be completely trusted." (CE. vi, 14.) EMBRACED WITIFIN CE.'s confession of patristic untrustworthines and perversion of truth is […]
Chapter 3 Joseph Wheless 24 page printout, pages 89 to 111 of 322 CHAPTER III CHRISTIAN "SCRIPTITRE" FORGERIES "Nothing stands in need of Lying but a LIE." To such an extent are the origins of the Christian Religion wrapped in obscurity, due to the labyrinthine confusions and contradictions and forgeries of its early records, that […]
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