Defend or Refute, either directly from Scripture, or else by sound logic based on Scripture (plus a few introspective essays):
223. TBA
222. Trust: Why and How? You can trust a person who believes in Moral Absolutes, who will therefore comply with them even when nobody is looking, and you can trust a computer program he wrote (after the mistakes are corrected), but there can be no trust in programs written by people who only do moral calculus to see who pays the most, and especially no trust for "AI" programs that nobody knows how they do what they do.
221. Systemic Evil (There Ain't No Such Thing), there are only evil people doing Bad Things they wouldn't want done to themselves.
220. ChristianityToday on AI, and a better, more informed, way to see the problem.
219. Das Kapital (Updated), Based on the Real World Facts, why Karl Marx is still Wrong. You get wealth by doing something that people want to pay for, and not otherwise.
218. What Is Patronizing? and Patronizing in the Bible. There is no such thing, but if you think otherwise, then you are doing it.
217. "It's a Fork" where language differences should not be seen as insults.
216. "Tom, you are crazy!" But maybe not as crazy as the guy who said it is
215. Two essays, Why Seaman? and ALL Lives Matter, very different in nominal topic, yet rooted in the same fundamental issue, which is: If you take somebody's money, you must give them in exchange the product they want to buy (also known as The Golden Rule).
214. Unspeakable, the kind of anger God disapproves
213. Sunday Meditations, prepared as a substitute for church during the Ban
212. On "Love", more thoughts about the Christian concept.
211. The Law of Love, what happens when you confuse two ideas into one word, and why Jesus and Paul didn't do that.
210. A Christian View of Climate Change, global warming probably isn't happening, and it certainly isn't catastrophic. God said so.
209. Dispensations, a way to nullify more than three quarters of Scripture
208. Retro Romance, musing on the upsurge in retro technology
207. Cooking for One, Tom Pittman's Personal Recipes
206. How to Be a Success, My Advice to a Guy at Crossroads
205. The Story of My Life: I ask the Hard Questions, but it makes people really unhappy
204. The Go Programming Language, why Java is better
203. The Author of Hebrews, why I don't think it's Paul
202. C++ for Java Programmers, Think in Java, but use C syntax
201. Free Speech and the recent SCOTUS decision
200. The Gift of Prophecy, why I don't think you have it.
199. The Job Affair, God is neither helpless nor cruel, but He does deserve our unconditional love
198. Why No Smart Phone, a more negative review than what you see out there from the gurus
197. Computer Power, or Why "X-rated" Is for Adolescents, Not Adults
196. Starting Up LattePanda, a more positive review than what you see out there from the gurus
195. The Problem with 21st Century AI, why it is not intelligent
194. Moral Absolutes (see also #160)
193. Categories: Without a common dictionary there is no debate, only disagreement
192. The "Only Begotten" Son, may be good theology, but it is not good Greek
191. Biblical Teaching on Community, why there is none
190. Language and Love, why men hear the Christian message differently than women
189. Half a Computer, my first computer
188. I Am Judge, a semi-fictional interpretation of how a Judger might think about his encounter with a Thinker-Perceiver
187. Biblical Conflict Resolution, which is to walk away from it
186. The Meaning of Matthew 18:15, which does not require confrontation to be in person
185. Islam vs Christianity, why I believe we got it right
184. About Slavery, Why the Biblical model resembles today more than anti-bellum deep South
183. I Am the Control Group, in the experiment that few educated ("smart") people will be Christians
182. Me & My Computer (video)
181. Insights from Reading Greek & Hebrew
180. Local Church Membership, Not a Biblical mandate
179. OSX: Not Good Unix, and not so good at event-driven either
178. Models of Church Government, Why the Baptists are not more Biblical
177. Supernova 1987a, Why It Does Not Disprove Recent Creation
176. Finding "Relationship, Not Religion" in the Bible (or rather, not finding it)
175. Deus Ex Machina, or The True Computerist (1978 Proceedings of the West Coast Computer Faire, p.131)
174. Relationshipism, A Case Study in Moral Ambiguity
173. Thanking God for Factory Farms and Processed Food, and why they are better than "organic"
172. Selfish Love, Why the gospel is not about "love"
171. Accepting the Body God Gave Us, A Christian View of Sexuality
170. Darwin of the Gaps: Atheists Coping with Their Own Illogic
169. Presuppositional Apologetics -- Con (Pittman); Pro (open)
168. Tax Deductions vs Subsidy
167. Diversity, what it means, and what it means to me
166. Things I Might Say (But Probably Won't Get a Chance)
165. How to Fix the Health Care Problem
164. A Tale of Three Operating Systems
163. The Counterfeit Religion of Relationships (Relationshipism gives wrong results)
162. Risk Management, and why it isn't options trading in the stock market
161. A study on the nature of Wealth
160. Ethics
vs Morals -- Is there a difference in a universe with moral absolutes?
(see also
#194)
159. Atheism and Ethics -- Can atheists be ethical, and why
158. Mac: 21, God: 0 -- Thoughts on Evangelism and Vocation (1985)
157. The Blind Watcher, a critique of Richard Dawkins' Blind Watchmaker (1988)
156. Team Player & Relationshipism
155. People's Choice Health Care, an alternative to ObamaCare that is not Evil
154. Health Insurance Is the Problem, Not the Solution
153. The arguments (For and) Against Relationshipism
152. Language and Meaning
151. Meditations on the passing of my mother
150. Not Forbidden (But Not Recommended)
149. King James Only, the issues
148. Law & Justice
147. The Love of Money
146. The Burden of Truth
145. Sin and Justice -- Pro (Pittman); Con (Cary Cook)
144. Decorative Hair
143. Chiastic Structure
142. How to Make Relationships Work
141. On Truth and Honesty
140. On Control
139. On Being a Friend
138. On Persuasion
137. On Being an Educator
136. Legalism
135. Open Source Truth
134. The Problem With GPL
133. The 9/11 Conspiracy -- Pro (Dennis Elenburg); Con (Pittman)
132. Conspiracy Theories Are Always Wrong
130. The Cathedral and the Bazaar -- Pro (Eric Raymond); Con (Pittman)
129. Thinker-Feeler Differences
128. What Is a Relationship? ("not-angry")
127. The Stock Market Is A Zero-Sum Game -- Pro (Pittman); Con (Motley Fool)
126. Commerce informed by the Golden Rule, and why stock market trading generally fails at it
125. An Internet-Secure [Laptop] Computer
124. Cooperation: The Second Great Commandment
123. Thought Experiments on the Text of the Bible
122. Darwin and Democracy
121. Why Zero is the First Number
119. Exempting American Domestic Income from Tax -- Con (Pittman), Pro (Larken Rose)
117. Government Authority
116. Values
115. The Secular Case Against Homosexual Marriage
112. As God Forgave Us
111. Islam vs Us: Seeing it Differently
110. Mistranslated words in the Bible
109. Two Cultures
108. Servant Leadership
107. Reminiscences of an Early Game Programmer
106. Meditations on the passing of my father
105. Biological Evolution -- Con (Pittman); Pro (open)
104. An Operating System for Real People -- Pro (Pittman); Con (open)
103. A Case Study in Biblical Business Ethics -- Pro (Pittman); Con (open)
102. Monetary Policy -- Con (Pittman); Pro (open)
101. Is Tenure Blibical? -- Con (Pittman); Pro (open)
100. White Paper: Turkish Demitasse, A Stronger Brew Than Java
99. Collaboration in the Classroom -- Pittman
98. The Object-Orientated Paradigm accurately models the Real World -- Pro (Sinan Si Alhir); Con (Pittman/TBA)
97. The author of Genesis intended to teach 144-hour Creation Week -- Pro (Pittman); Con (open)
96. The TNIV translation is more accurate than HCSB -- Pro
(Pittman); Con (open)
All attributed positions expressed in this section are the opinion of the respective author(s).