Josh Benner

Category: Culture

  • Debate over origins: Nye vs Ham

    Ken Ham who’s a Christian young earth creation apologist, the founder of the Creation Museum, and Answers in Genesis website debated famed science educator and television personality, Bill Nye at the Creation Museum tonight. The topic was: Is creation a viable model of origins in today’s modern, scientific era? To be fair, I’m not a…

  • Facebook: The social network that changed the world turns 10

    This post is based off of a previous post entitled: Facebook 2004 and Facebook 2011. Seven year anniversary of joining the Social Network. Originally published November 16, 2011. I can still vividly remember it. Talking to a friend from high school on AIM, him sending me the link to some obscure site that he had…

  • Duck Dynasty: Why are opinions offensive?

    We live in a society that is becoming more tolerant about lifestyles but which is also becoming more intolerant about opinions. I hear people talk about freedom of speech, with the controversy which has been caused by comments from Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson about his views on the immorality of homosexuality. Of course he has…

  • Kennedy assassination: 50 years after the death of Camelot

    In the movie JFK, there’s a climactic scene where Kevin Costner shows the absurdity of the idea that Lee Harvey Oswald could have been the lone gunmen who assassinated John F. Kennedy. To just watch that scene, it might seem like a compelling argument. Conspiracy theories about John F. Kennedy have always been prevalent. It’s…

  • Shattered peace: 75th anniversary of Nazi’s “Night of Broken Glass”

    Throughout Germany and Austria, riots broke out on this night 75 years ago in a night which is infamously referred to as Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, after the destruction done to Jewish businesses and properties. At least 91 Jewish people were killed; 30,000 men were arrested; hundreds of businesses were damaged or destroyed.…