The most recent polling data from the Pew Research Center has found that support same-sex marriage has risen to 45%, up from 42% last year. Opposition currently stands at 46%. As you can see from the chart, support for same-sex marriage has steadily increased, and opposition has steadily decreased since 1996. It doesn’t take a prophet to predict that unless social conservatives start making a persuasive case in the public square real quick, those who oppose same-sex marriage will be in the minority within two years. In some parts of the country (Northeast, West), this has already happened.
Support for abortion rights has also risen back to 2008 levels, after a substantial dip in 2009 (47% in 2009, 54% now). I have a feeling the dip in 2009 was due to some sort of sampling error. It seems too unlikely to me that public opinion would change so fast, and then change back just as quickly.
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I was directed to an article that reports on a recent survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers that found Facebook is being cited in 1 out of every 5 divorce cases. Apparently a lot of people are becoming emotionally and physically involved with an old friend or boyfriend/girlfriend they friended on Facebook. It makes sense. So maybe that pastor who asked his congregation to delete their Facebook accounts wasn’t so crazy after all.
The kalam cosmological argument (KCA) for God’s existence goes as follows:
(1) Anything that begins to exist requires a cause
(2) The universe began to exist
(3) Thus, the universe requires a cause
Additional reasoning leads us to conclude that the cause of the universe is God. Given that whatever caused space, time, and matter to begin to exist cannot itself be spatial, temporal, or material. Furthermore, whatever caused our orderly universe to come into being a finite time ago must be immensely powerful, intelligent, conscious, and hence personal. These are apt descriptions of a being theists have long identified as God.
Some seek to undermine this causal argument for God’s existence by denying the first premise. They point to quantum mechanics and virtual particles as evidence that there are exceptions to the causal principle.
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The most recent polling data from the Pew Research Center has found that support same-sex marriage has risen to 45%, up from 42% last year. Opposition currently stands at 46%. As you can see from the chart, support for same-sex marriage has steadily increased, and opposition has steadily decreased since 1996. It doesn’t take a prophet to predict that unless social conservatives start making a persuasive case in the public square real quick, those who oppose same-sex marriage will be in the minority within two years. In some parts of the country (Northeast, West), this has already happened.
Thinking to Believe 