Tisthammerw's Links
General Stuff
The Internet Archive—The Internet Archive has an “Internet Library” of sites and web pages that have existed in the past, even if those web pages no longer exist on their original servers. A fellow by the name of Jim Kalb e-mailed me about this website and I was thus able to restore some of the lost data I had in one of my web pages.
Ten-Percent Myth—Did you know that humans only use about ten percent of their brains? Well you're wrong. (Don't feel too bad, I once accepted this myth as fact also.) This web page discusses the origin of this myth and evidence against it. Come to think of it, the myth should’ve sounded fishy from the beginning. Have you ever heard a doctor say, “Yes he was shot in the head with a .44 Magnum, but he’ll be okay because luckily the bullet only damaged the 90 percent of his brain he didn't use”?
The official U.S. time—You can get the nearly exact (usually within 0.2 seconds) official U.S. time. Perfect for those who want to synchronize their watches to the second. Cool huh?
Merriam-Webster Online—Want to go look up a word? A quick and easy way to do it is to go to this website and enter in the word. As you might suspect, it also offers a variety of other word-related things.
Poetry.com rhyming dictionary and thesaurus—Be sure to click on the down arrow if you want to switch the “Find rhymes” to “Find synonyms” or something else (You also have the option of finding homophones, definitions, and similar spellings among other things.)
- Bible Gateway—This is where you can find a nifty online Bible. You can easily look up a passage (just type in the book, chapter etc.) and have the option of seeing it in many different versions.
- Free Translation.com—This remarkable website allows you to enter in words, click on a few buttons, and then translate those words into one of various languages. This section of the website can even translate an entire web page.
- InterTran—Yet another translation website. It translates in even more languages than Free Translation.com.
Ben's Message Board—This is a science/religion/philosophy forum that I have participated in. Anyone can post a message and do so without waiting for a moderator to approve your message. However, you are asked to comply with the rules (no profanity, bigotry, racist remarks etc.).
Origins, Theism, and the Like
Christian Think tank—This website is all about rationality and the Christian religion. Providing solid intellectual ground (as opposed to blind faith) for one’s religion is something I consider important. Being knowledgeable in these areas can also be comforting when struggling with doubts. For those who are members of this theistic religion, I recommend checking this out. In addition to solving superficial Biblical anomalies (e.g. Did Jesus rise from the dead after 3 days or on the third day?) it has a couple of other topics also:
- Was Jesus Christ just a CopyCat Savior Myth?—The standards for determining “copycat” may seem unreasonably high to the layperson at first (though apparently scholars accept them), but if even if they are ignored, at least some of the responses given to the accusation are reasonable, such as a closer examination given to the religions from which Christianity allegedly copied from and noting that the similarities are far too shallow (such as the mere fact of a sacred meal and a washing of a body) given religious ceremonies can assume only a limited number of forms, and they will naturally relate to important or common aspects of human life, (a better criticism is if the meaning of the pagan practices were sufficiently similar to Christianity, but I don’t think that’s been done.) and comparing the allegedly stolen pagan beliefs with the similarities from the Jewish faith (Christianity is supposed to be a continuation from Jewish religion, so Christianity being more similar to the Judaism than to pagan religions would constitute a powerful counterargument).
- Objections to Christianity—A response to attempted intellectual arguments against the Christian religion, such as the accusation that the Christian condones slavery.
- Tough questions—Attempts to provide answers for tough questions like How could a God of Love order the massacre/annihilation of the Canaanites?.
- Swordandspirit.com::the study::FAQs on faith—A good FAQ (frequently asked questions) responder from one view of Christianity. Here’s a sample of questions:
- Come let us reason together...—Another website that attempts to reconcile Christianity and reason, though not as comprehensive and perhaps not as successful as the “Christian Think tank” website. Among other things, the website rebuts alleged Bible difficulties, including Does the hare really chew cud?
Other examples of questions are listed below:
- Modern Myths—Exposes some modern anti-religious myths of Christianity and gives some sober history of what really happened with Galileo, the missionaries, and the witch trials. Highly recommended.
- Is There a God?—A message board that is headed up by Metacrock.
The Theory of Creation—A place where a guy named Jim Schicatano attempts to reconcile science and Genesis.
Origins—Focuses on intelligent design and philisophical theism. This is one of the most rational websites I have visited on the subjects of origins and theism.
- How Not to Critique Intelligent Design Theory—A book review (God, The Devil, and Darwin) by Del Ratzsch exemplifies what the title says. Sadly, such aspects Ratzsch mentions are far too common.
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