Make your own atheist Halloween costume that doubles as an evolutionist Halloween costume

Make your own atheist Halloween costume that doubles as an evolutionist Halloween costume:




Question Evolution! resources and other resources
 
Question Evolution! Campaign

15 questions for evolutionists

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 1 - Questions 1-3

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 2 - Questions 4–8

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 2 - Questions 9-15

Refuting evolution

Atheism, agnosticism and humanism: Godless religions

Evidence for Christianity   

Creation Ministries International says there has been a big response to Question Evolution! Campaign. Also, the atheists/agnostic Noam Chomsky makes a significant point

Creation Ministries International just released a new newsletter entitled Poking the Bear which reads:

This year we have had a huge response to our theme, Question Evolution, and in great part, the attention CMI has gained is linked to the release of our 15 Questions for Evolutionists tract.  All year, responses have been pouring in from evolutionists and skeptics attempting to answer these oppositions to what they see as the irrefutable fact of evolution, yet to their dismay, these challenges are far from extinguished.

Tip of the iceberg of as far as confronting and poking evolutionist bears

This is merely the tip of the iceberg when it comes to poking evolutionist bears.  The campaign is about to be spread in wide and deep way within the Christian community in the United States, Canada and throughout the world.  Evolutionists are definitely going to have the repeatedly face these 15 Questions for Evolutionists  and other related questioning of evolution. In addition, evolution believing liberal Christianity, atheism and agnosticism will be critically examined and debunked as well. 

You definitely don't want to miss an upcoming article which we will soon posts giving our activities and some of our future plans.

I recently saw a film on how the Western media, government and other society institutions often manufacture consent via propaganda.  It was produced by Noam Chomsky who is upset that the media and United States government  is often not leftist/anarchist enough in his view. While I don't share much of Mr. Chomsky's politics or his atheism/agnosticism, he did make the important point that dissenting populations to the current power structure gain great benefits via building communities  and interacting with each other because no single person has a monopoly on various pieces of information and the large spectrum of human talents and ideas. In addition, it of course increases the available manpower for large projects.

The Canadian creationist Ian Juby endorsed of the Question Evolution! Campaign via this endorsement:

The Question Evolution! Campaign is an innovative, grassroots anti-evolution campaign which I believe will have a lasting and far reaching impact. The campaign is worldwide in scope and I hope to see it serve as a uniting force within the biblical creation community. I heartily recommend getting involved in this grassroots anti-evolution movement.

I also think there are other great benefits in terms of significant social movements such as the ability to gain word of mouth and publicity, various economies of scale and enhanced fundraising abilities. 

Question Evolution! resources and other resources
 
Question Evolution! Campaign

15 questions for evolutionists

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 1 - Questions 1-3

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 2 - Questions 4–8

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 2 - Questions 9-15

Refuting evolution

Atheism, agnosticism and humanism: Godless religions

Evidence for Christianity   

15 Questions Evolutionists STILL can't answer!



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5 reasons why the Atheism+ movement will fail

Another sect of atheism has arisen due to the horrible perception that atheists have in much of the world. It is called Atheism+.  The American atheists Sam Harris said concerning the label of atheist, "It's right next to child molester as a designation."

So how many facelifts does atheism need? What is next? The New, New, New Atheism? The new and improved atheism? Mint flavored atheism? You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

On August 23, 2012, Nelson Jones introduced the new sect of atheism called "Atheism+" via an article  in The New Statesman  entitled Atheism+: the new New Atheists. 

This new faction of atheism called Atheism+ was introduced thusly:

Let me introduce you to Atheism+, the nascent movement that might be the most exciting thing to hit the world of unbelief since Richard Dawkins teamed up with Christopher Hitchens to tell the world that God was a Delusion and, worse than that, Not Great.

Less than a week old in its current form, Atheism+ is the brainchild of Jen McCreight, a Seattle-based biology postgrad and blogger at the secularist Freethought network. She has called for a "new wave" of atheism on that "cares about how religion affects everyone and that applies skepticism to everything, including social issues like sexism, racism, politics, poverty, and crime."....

On one level, this is just the logical culmination of the huge upsurge in interest prompted by the so-called "New Atheists" and the growth over the last few years of a recognisable community or movement based around ideas of atheism, scientific scepticism and a progressive political agenda....

Atheism+ is, at its most basic, an attempt wrap things together more formally, to create a movement that prioritises issues of equality and does so from an explicitly non-religious perspective.

So how is Atheism+ working out according the leading website tracking companies? According to Compete.com the web traffic of Atheismplus.com from 8/20/2012 to 9/20/12 was 2,787 unique monthly visitors.

Web traffic of Atheismplus.com from 8/20/2012 to 9/20/12 according to Compete.com via a graphical reprentation:

Web traffic of Atheismplus.com according to Alexa is that it is among the top 267,612 websites in the world.

5 reasons why Atheism+ will be a long term failure

The Atheism+ movement has no long term sustainability over the long term for a number of significant reasons. It will be like many sects of atheism. It will be a new toy for atheists which is eventually put away in the closet and largely forgotten due to its unviability.

1. Atheists are tightfisted relative to Christians when it comes to charity

As noted above, one of the causes of Atheism+ is the cause of poverty.

A 2009 comprehensive study by Harvard University professor Robert Putnam found that religious people are more charitable than their irreligious counterparts.

In 2007, the Barna Group reported

The typical no-faith American donated just $200 in 2006, which is more than seven times less than the amount contributed by the prototypical active-faith adult ($1500). Even when church-based giving is subtracted from the equation, active-faith adults donated twice as many dollars last year as did atheists and agnostics. In fact, while just 7% of active-faith adults failed to contribute any personal funds in 2006, that compares with 22% among the no-faith adults.

2. Greece and the Eurozone crisis is a bellweather of liberal economic policies and progressivism being unsustainable and failing

Atheism+ is adopting a liberal/progressive ideology at a time when these Western countries are saddled with tremendous amounts of government and external debt.  Although secular Europe has been able to kick the can of the Eurozone crisis down the road  and will likely continue to do so until at least the German elections in the fall of 2013, sooner or later they are going to have pay the piper and as Greece shows it will involve an enormous amount of financial pain. The United States government has racked up a tremendous amount of debt in the last 10 years or so as well 

Bottom line: As these debts continue to accrue, bondholders of these government debts are going to demand increase premiums due to increased risk so the debts will not be sustainable.In short, big spending progressive governments are going to run out of other people's money and there is going to be a lot of financial pain.

3. Feminism within will the Atheism+ sect of atheism will help insure it dies out long term due to sub-replacement birth rates within the movement plus it will be unappealing to many men

Sexism/chauvinism is a bad thing. I am guessing that many of the atheists in the Atheism+ movement, however, are also take things further and are feminists. Feminism is often very divisive plus it has some unintended consequences. Namely, it contributes to sub-replacement rates of fertility and atheists/agnostics already have sub replacement levels of fertility which is helping to fuel a global decline of atheism.

The Birkbeck College, University of London professor Eric Kaufmann using a multitude of demographic studies argues in an academic paper entitled Shall the Righteous Inherit the Earth? Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century the decline of atheism in terms of its global adherents is an established trend that will persist for the foreseeable future and the rate of decline will accelerate and affect the Western World. A large part of this is due to atheists/agnostics having sub replacement levels of fertility. See: Why are the years 2012 and 2020 key years for Christian creationists and pro-lifers?

Michael Blume, a researcher at the University of Jena in Germany, wrote "Most societies or communities that have espoused atheistic beliefs have not survived more than a century." Blume also indicated concerning concerning his research on this matter: "What I found was the complete lack of a single case of a secular population, community or movement that would just manage to retain replacement level."

In 2012,  CNN declared:

The phenomenon of women choosing not to have children is afflicting the industrialized world in alarming numbers. Childlessness is steadily becoming more widespread, particularly in English-speaking countries but also in Japan and in much of Europe. In 20 years, the number of childless women in many countries has doubled....

Although a minority of women choose not to have children, the trend constitutes a genuine revolution, pointing to some unspoken resistance to motherhood....No country can afford to ignore a decline in its birthrate. In the long term, a nation's pension payments, power and very survival are at stake...

Tellingly, these are the rallying causes of traditional feminism, more pressing and relevant than ever. It turns out that profound feminist reform, in the workplace and in family policies, might just be what is needed to keep the birthrate from free fall.Although the CNN article encourage governments to fund daycare and other measures to prevent birthrates from falling birthrates, I don't see this being very sustainable  at a time when many governments are already saddled with colossal amounts of debt.

4. Atheism as a whole is undergoing global decline so the movement will not be able to recruit atheists long term.

In 2012, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (GCTS) reported that every day there are 800 less atheists per day, 1,100 less non-religious (agnostic) people per day and 83,000 more people professing to be Christians per day (see: Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary - status of Global Mission report).

In 2012 an article entitled  Atheism in decline by Nigel Tomes declared:

The IBMR publishes yearly figures for religions (and non religions) around the globe. Their latest numbers, hot off the press (Jan. 2012) show some interesting trends.

1. Atheism is in Decline

In 1970 atheists (those avowing there is no God) numbered 166 million worldwide; that was almost one-in-twenty—4.5% of the globe’s population. By 2012 atheists’ number is estimated at 137 million. That’s a decline of almost 30 million. Since world population is growing, atheists’ share declined to less than one-in-fifty—under 2% in 2012. Put differently, every 24 hours there are 800 fewer atheists in the world! Atheism is in decline.

2. Agnosticism is in Decline

In 2000 agnostics (those who “don’t know” if there is a God) numbered 666 million, 10.9% of the world’s people. By 2012 agnostic’s number is estimated at 661 million--a decline of 5 million. In relative terms by 2012 agnostics represent less than one tenth (9.4%) of world population. Every 24 hours there are 1,100 less agnostics in the world. Agnostics are also in decline.

Added together these two groups make up a declining share of global population. In 1970 atheists and agnostics accounted for one-in-five (19.2%) of the world’s people. Based on current trends by 2025 they will represent less than one-in-ten (9.7%). Their population share will fall by half in 50+ years.

5. Global creationism is growing even in secular countries like France and developed countries like the United States. 

Evolutionists have no satisfactory answers to the 15 questions for evolutionists of the Question Evolution! Campaign

See also:

Global creationism is seeing explosive growth 

American young earth creationism increased in recent months - Gallup survey

French scholars say evangelicalism is likely the fastest growing religion in France

Evangelical Christianity rising in the UK and challenging the status quo 

European creationism is growing

The future of European Darwinism and atheism is bleak

Social unrest in Europe altering its religious landscape

Web traffic of the website of Creation Ministries International according to Quantcast (click graph below for details)

Decline of global atheism/agnosticism and the rise of global Christianity and global creationism 
 
Decline of global atheism/agnosticism and the rise of global Christianity/creationism

Decline of internet atheism and internet evolutionism

Global resurgence of religion and the failure of the seculization theory model 

Question Evolution! resources and other resources
 
Question Evolution! Campaign

15 questions for evolutionists

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 1 - Questions 1-3

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 2 - Questions 4–8

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 2 - Questions 9-15

Refuting evolution

Atheism, agnosticism and humanism: Godless religions

Evidence for Christianity   

Creation.com blows past 150,000 unique visitors barrier. Next goal 175,000 unique vistors a month. We continue to be goal smashers

Our Question Evolution! Campaign group continues to be goal smashers. We are going from one Question Evolution! peak to another another Question Evolution! peak!

The website of Creation Ministries International, which is Creation.com, now gets over 150,000 unique visitors a month according to Quantcast. Specifically, Quantcast reports Creation.com now gets 150,935 unique visitors a month. Our creation evangelism campaign is moving faster and faster and faster. 

Our next goal is 175,000 unique visitors per month to Creation.com.  Evolutionists, how are you doing as far as satisfactorily answering those  15 questions for evolutionists?  You are still stumped, aren't you!  And more and more people are going to find out about these 15 questions. We want to continue to help make 2012 be the worst year in the history of Darwinism.

In addition, in January we will be working with an internet evangelism organization which we believe will result in significant additional traffic to the website of Creation Ministries International.  We hope to see a lot of people become Christians and then go through a discipleship program which will include material on biblical creation. See: Internet evangelism is powerful especially when combined with creationism evangelism

We believe that creation evangelism combined with internet evangelism can help grow creation evangelism by 400%.  

We are very determined to help the biblical creation continue to grow in America and be the majority view. We want to bring down the wall of American Darwinism.  On June 1, 2012, Gallup reported that 46% of Americans were young earth creationist.

See: Creating a creationist majority in America and bringing down the walls of Darwinism

 Web traffic of the website of Creation Ministries International according to Quantcast (click graph below for details)

Now is the time to grind the lies of evolutionism into a fine pulp

Bible believing Christians, there has never been a better time for creation evangelism and to grind the pseudoscience of Darwinism into a fine pulp using the high speed blender of the Question Evolution! Campaign    Get involved in the campaign and tell others about it.  Help us to continue to grind up evolutionary claptrap.

Decline of global atheism/agnosticism and the rise of global Christianity and global creationism

Decline of global atheism/agnosticism and the rise of global Christianity/creationism

Decline of internet atheism and internet evolutionism

Global resurgence of religion and the failure of the seculization theory model 

Question Evolution! resources and other resources
 
Question Evolution! Campaign

15 questions for evolutionists

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 1 - Questions 1-3

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 2 - Questions 4–8

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 2 - Questions 9-15

Refuting evolution

Evidence for Christianity  

15 Questions Evolutionists STILL can't answer!

Irish atheist Michael Nugent called Richard Dawkins a "caring, sensitive man"

The Irish Times reported that the Irish atheist Michael Nugent has called Richard Dawkins a "caring, sensitive man".

Is this the same Richard Dawkins who said  of the mass murdering, evolutionary racist Adolf Hitler: "What’s to prevent us from saying Hitler wasn’t right? I mean, that is a genuinely difficult question..."

 Isn't Richard Dawkins the man who lost a video recorded debate to Rabbi Shmuley Boteach according to the student audience and then not only denied the debate took place, but then accused the rabbi of shrieking like Adolf Hitler? See:  Richard Dawkins and the Rabbi Shmuley Boteach debate

Isn't Richard Dawkins the man of Elevatorgate notoriety?

Decline of global atheism and the rise of global Christianity and global creationism

Decline of global atheism/agnosticism and the rise of global Christianity/creationism

Decline of internet atheism and internet evolutionism

Global resurgence of religion and the failure of the seculization theory model 

Question Evolution! resources and other resources
 
Question Evolution! Campaign

15 questions for evolutionists

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 1 - Questions 1-3

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 2 - Questions 4–8

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 2 - Questions 9-15

Refuting evolution

Evidence for Christianity  

15 Questions Evolutionists STILL can't answer!

Another part of the natural world that Richard Dawkins fails to understand

The website of Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science declares:

The mission of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science is to support scientific education, critical thinking and evidence-based understanding of the natural world in the quest to overcome religious fundamentalism, superstition, intolerance and suffering.

Well, it seems as if the internet is another part of the natural world that Richard Dawkins does not understand as this website is suffering a lack of web traffic as Compete.com shows a mere 693 visitors a month for the month of 9/2012. And Alexa ranks it merely among the top 2,412,080 websites in the world. This Question Evolution! blog ranks among the top 1,147,278 websites of the world.  

If only Richard Dawkins understood the internet and computer science as well as the humble Christian members of this blog then perhaps he could vanquish this creationist blog! And if Richard Dawkins understood the social sciences better maybe he could understand human behavior better and this might help too. This is another case of an evolutionists having a hard time understanding the sciences! Come on Richard! It is time for you to put on your critical thinking cap and defeat religious fundamentalism once and for all!
 
Web traffic of  Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science according to Compete.com

In addition, the main website of Richarddawkins has lost a significant amount of web traffic as can be seen by the web traffic tracking company Quantcast which directly measures the web traffic of this domain (click graph below for details):

Another humbling defeat for Richard Dawkins on the internet, computer science and social sciences front! 

On the other hand, Creation Ministries International has a firmer grasp on the internet which is a part of the natural world as can be seen below (click graph for details): 

In addition, the atheists/agnostics are losing on the superstition front as well. 

In September of 2008, the Wall Street Journal reported:

The reality is that the New Atheist campaign, by discouraging religion, won't create a new group of intelligent, skeptical, enlightened beings. Far from it: It might actually encourage new levels of mass superstition. And that's not a conclusion to take on faith -- it's what the empirical data tell us.

"What Americans Really Believe," a comprehensive new study released by Baylor University yesterday, shows that traditional Christian religion greatly decreases belief in everything from the efficacy of palm readers to the usefulness of astrology. It also shows that the irreligious and the members of more liberal Protestant denominations, far from being resistant to superstition, tend to be much more likely to believe in the paranormal and in pseudoscience than evangelical Christians...

This is not a new finding. In his 1983 book "The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener," skeptic and science writer Martin Gardner cited the decline of traditional religious belief among the better educated as one of the causes for an increase in pseudoscience, cults and superstition. He referenced a 1980 study published in the magazine Skeptical Inquirer that showed irreligious college students to be by far the most likely to embrace paranormal beliefs, while born-again Christian college students were the least likely.

Other 

USA Question Evolution! Campaign outreach a success. Quantcast shows Creation.com having 453% more web traffic than Richard Dawkins's website  
 

Question evolution! campaign resources

Question Evolution! Campaign

15 questions for evolutionists

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 1 - Questions 1-3

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 2 - Questions 4–8

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 2 - Questions 9-15

Refuting evolution

15 Questions Evolutionists STILL can't answer!

The atheist and evolutionist Kim-Jong-un is executing his opponents by mortar round and persecuting tens of thousands of Christians in concentration camps

The atheist and evolutionist, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is executing his opponents by mortar round.

Christians are helping North Koreans flee to China. One-third of the 100,000 Christians in North Korea are in concentration camps.

See news articles:

Atheist and evolutionist Kim Jong-un ordered execution by mortar round

Flight from North Korea

Christians and North Korean concentration camps

Related article 

Will the atheism and evolution loving North Korea become less weird?


Atheism and evolution related articles

Atheism and mass murder

Communism and Nazism and evolutionary belief

Morals decline linked to belief in evolution - University study

North Korea 'Punishing Mourners' Who Didn't Cry Enough for Kim Jong Il



Weirdness of the depressing world of atheism and evolutionism in North Korea

Aggressively growing the market share of American biblical creation belief at the expense of Darwinism

The web traffic tracking company Quantcast directly measures the web traffic Creation Ministries International's website which is Creation.com  Our Question Evolution! Campaign recently started the widespread dissemination phase of the campaign in North America and elsewhere order to more widely spread the 15 questions for evolutionists.

As you can below, we are definitely getting results (see graph below). Plus, biblical creation belief is growing in the United States.  See: Biblical belief is growing in the United States


Unique monthly visitors to Creation.com according to Quantcast which directly measures their web traffic (click graph below):

Our new Question Evolution Campaign group's goal

Our new goal is 150,000 unique monthly visitors to Creation.com or bust! Are we going to meet our ambitious goals for 2012 and 2013 by taking away web traffic from other creationist websites? Are we going to rob Peter to pay Paul? No, no, no, Mr. Evolutionist! We are going to taketh away from Mr. Darwin and present to people the truth of biblical creation and the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. See: The truth of Genesis and the lies of evolution

In short, we are going to achieve our goals by growing the biblical creation belief pie.  That means bringing in the undecideds and evolutionists into our fold. And there are a lot of undecideds and a lot of soft belief in evolutionism.  Evolutionary belief is based on gut feelings. See: Evolutionary gut feelings, "Belief in Evolution Boils Down to a Gut Feeling" 

No obstacles are going to stop our relentless drive to hit our goal which we are on the cusp of achieving.  And if God is for us, who can be against us?  We are contacting approximately 180 creationist groups in North America and elsewhere and encourage them to get involved in the Question Evolution! Campaign or at a bare minimum be an ally of ours.  We are also encouraging them to adopt our aggressive military model of leadership so creationist can win the creation vs. evolution war as quickly as possible.  See: Evangelism, evangelism teams and leadership

 Our Question Evolution! group's 2012 and 2013 plans

2012 plans: 
 
Making 2012 be the WORST year in the history of Darwinism

2013 and our group's plans:

Making 2013 be the WORST year in the history of Darwinism.

Making 2013 be the WORST year in the history of Darwinism. - Part 2

Other 

USA Question Evolution! Campaign outreach a success. Quantcast shows Creation.com having 453% more web traffic than Richard Dawkins's website  


Question evolution! campaign resources

Question Evolution! Campaign

15 questions for evolutionists

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 1 - Questions 1-3

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 2 - Questions 4–8

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 2 - Questions 9-15

Refuting evolution

15 Questions Evolutionists STILL can't answer!



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Evangelism, evangelism teams and leadership

Previously,  our  Question Evolution! Campaign group indicated that it is going to contact approximately 180 creationist groups in North America plus contact Christians throughout the globe in order to create other Question Evolution! groups and form alliances with other Christian groups. See: Making 2012 be the WORST year in the history of Darwinism and  A twelve step plan for accelerating the decline of global atheism and increasing creationism

The Christian author and expert on Christian leadership John C. Maxwell wrote in his book Developing the leader within you: "Everything rises and falls on leadership".

In order for Question Evolution! Campaign groups, Creation Ministries International, Christendom as a wholeto optimally engage in creation evangelism, internet evangelism and evangelism as a whole, leaders need to be found and developed.

The empirical research indicates that leaders can be developed and they are not born. William A. Cohen in his work The Art of the Leader wrote:

Some say leaders are born as leaders and come into existence in no other way. Thus their scarcity is as a result of Mother Nature. Research proves this wrong. Many leaders who later were acknowledged as great leaders went unrecognized for years.

I saw that many factors some thought important for leadership had little to do with being or becoming a good leader. These include education, wealth, years of experience, or even position within an organization.

Maybe you thought that yu must be the formal manager of some organization to be a leader. I have seen hundreds of outstanding leaders who weren't formal managers of anything. Yet they and their organizations received significant benefits from their leadership.

 Leonard Ravenhill tells a story about a group of tourists visiting a village. As one tourist passed an old man in the village, he asked "Were any great men born in this village?"  The old villager replied, "Nope only babies."

A model for Christians fighting the good fight of faith

The Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy: "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing." (2 Timothy 4:7-8).

How can Christians best fight the good faith when it comes to evangelism?

What leadership model is best?

The Chinese general Sun Tzu wrote:

Warfare is a great matter to a nation;
it is the ground of death and of life;
it is the way of survival and of destruction, and must be examined

Whether one is involved in spiritual warfare or earthly warfare, the stakes are high.

One of the best books I read on leadership is the book The Art of the Leader by William A. Cohen, P.h.D. which is a book designed to enable people to effectively use the combat model of leadership.

Cohen  gives 6 key components of the combat model of leadership:

1. Be willing to take risks.

2. Be innovative

3. Take charge

4. Have high expectations

5, Maintain a positive attitude

6. Get out in front.

Having high expectations and being committed to them

 The Christian writer, speaker and mountain climber John Noe wrote that "High achievers make no small plans". Common sense and the Bible concur with statement. The Bible indicates that Christians serve a powerful God who is willing to assist his people. There is no excuse for living a small life. Jesus said, "All things are possible to those who believe".

A study of 267 individuals from a wide variety of cultures was done which found that:

1. People with written goals accomplished about 50% more than people with unwritten goals

2. People who made a commitment to a friend achieved 50% more.

3. People who made progress reports achieved almost double that of people with unwritten goals.

These findings indicate that the best and most productive volunteer organizations have concrete objectives via written goals, have team spirit and communicate with each other regularly in terms of their progress.

Good ways for this to be accomplished are the buddy system where people help other and hold each other accountable for reaching the teams goals. I know a person who manages large teams of independent contractors across the globe and he has found two things are especially helpful: treating people as valued members of the team and regular email reports as far as people's progress. This enables leaders to help people if they need assistance or get stuck plus it serves as a reminder to people as far as staying focused.

Leading out in front

Leadership is by example. General Douglass MacArthur set a record for becoming the U.S. Army's youngest major general and one of the things MacArthur did was lead from the front and not from the back.

The Israeli Army is one of the most successful armies in the world. Their motto is "Follow me".  William Chen wrote in 1990 that despite the fact that the Israeli Army having the highest rate of officer casualties in the world, they did it anyways because they knew that leaders must lead by getting out front. 

SMART written goals

What are SMART written goals?

SMART written goals are:

1. Specific

2. Measurable

3.  Achievable

4. Results Orientated & Relevant 

5. Time-bound

Achievable is very important so having smaller and achievable short term goals gives people a sense of accomplishment and focus. Time-bound is important too as it creates focus.

Volunteer team sizes

In 2000, the Australian Sports Commission wrote in a report on managing volunteers for various events:

Assigning one person (eg the Event Coordinator or the Volunteer Coordinator) to recruit, monitor and direct large numbers of volunteers can be both inefficient and ineffective. Rather than one person being responsible for supervising all volunteers, it is better to have small groups of volunteers (work units) reporting to a number of volunteer supervisors.

This introduces the ideas of span of control (ie the number of volunteers or work units supervised by one person) and division of labour (ie specialised roles for volunteers or work units). The Event Coordinator has a manageable number of volunteer supervisors reporting to him or her and in turn the volunteer supervisors have responsibility for coordinating a manageable number of volunteers in a defined area of specialisation. Dividing volunteer labour into manageable units improves the efficiency and effectiveness of volunteer
supervision within defined areas of responsibility.

There is no ideal span of control (ie ratio of volunteers to supervisors), rather it is dependent on the tasks performed and the objectives of an event. When work is repetitive, routine and not all that specialised, less supervision is required so it is possible for a supervisor to have a larger span of control. More complex and specialised tasks often require greater supervision, so it is better for event volunteers to be structurally closer to their supervisor under such circumstances.

A 2009 article in The Economist entitled Span of Control declared:

A manager's span of control is the number of employees that he or she can effectively be in control of at any one time.

Views on the ideal span of control have changed over time as thinking about corporate structure itself has changed. For the first 60 years of the 20th century, when managers favoured a structure based largely on military models, a consensus formed around the number six. After 1960, however, management styles began to change. Flatter, less hierarchical and more loosely structured organisations implied larger spans of control. The consensus on the size of the ideal span rose to between 15 and 25. GE's guideline was that no managers should have more than 10–15 people reporting to them directly. There was also a wide-spread feeling that five layers was the maximum with which any large organisation could function effectively. Jack Welch, a former boss of GE, once wrote: “When there are a lot of layers, it usually means managers have too few people reporting to them.”

The coming of the virtual organisation made managers take a new look at the concept. In a virtual organisation people work as independent self-contained units, either individually or in small teams. They have access to (electronic) information that lays down the boundaries within which they can be autonomous. But at the same time they are allowed to be completely free within those boundaries. In such an environment, the ideal span of control can be very large. Indeed, it can scarcely be called a span of control any longer; it is more a span of loose links and alliances.

 Based on the above, I think proliferating the number of 10-25 member evangelism teams would be the most effective way of advancing creation evangelism, internet evangelism and other forms of evangelism. In order for Christian evangelism teams to have a sense of fellowship, I would think that 10-15 member teams would be best. Of course, the simpler the tasks the bigger teams could be and the more complex the tasks, the smaller the groups should be.

For Question Evolution! Campaign volunteer teams and internet evangelism teams it would make sense to initially organize them by country. Creation Ministries International has offices in: United States, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Singapore. 

Multiplying volunteer groups and giving them flexibility

Publishers Weekly did a review of the classic book The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations.

Here is an excerpt of Publishers Weekly review:

Apache Indian tribes "are made up of many smaller units capable of operating, growing and multiplying independently of each other, making it very difficult for a rival force to control or defeat them."

 Three points:

1. Giving teams some flexibility on how to advance the Question Evolution! Campaign or ownership gives them a sense of ownership and increases innovation and people taking risks. At the same time, there is something to be said for not reinventing the wheel and having proven turn key systems for people to use.  After all and is said and done, there is a balance.

2. I think encouraging teams to create new teams and alliances is important. Encouraging volunteer groups to create new groups will create new leaders and increase the amount of volunteers faster.

Groups creating alliances with other Christian groups disseminates the evangelism faster as other groups have networks of people.  In addition, alliances can increase the amount of volunteer effort via joint projects.

3. Grassroots efforts such as the Question Evolution! Campaign are going to have independent people that start up efforts on their own. I know of one internet evangelism organization that had someone

they did not know has taken the initiative to set up a social media webpage at MySpace and it was senindg them 1,000 visitors per month. So it is important to give people ideas and tools to do things on their own. For example, an easy thing to do is to have "link to us" page and an RSS feed.

Recommended further reading

1. Developing the leader within you by John Maxwell

2. Developing the leader within you workbook by John Maxwell

3. The Art of the Leader by Willaim A. Cohen, P.h.D.

4. Peak Performance Principles  by John Noe

5. The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

Question evolution! campaign resources

Question Evolution! Campaign

15 questions for evolutionists

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 1 - Questions 1-3

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 2 - Questions 4–8

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 2 - Questions 9-15

Refuting evolution

Two pillars of evolutionary belief and atheism are rickety and cracking severely

Global atheism and evolutionism are crumbling while global Christianity and creationism are growing rapidly around the world and there is plenty of data and evidence to support this claim. See: Global atheism/agnosticism are shrinking and global Christianity/creationism are growing rapidly

In an article entitled Two Pillars of  Skepticism Leon Jaroff and Paul Kurtz died this weekend Smithsonian.com declared:

Leon Jaroff, the man who founded Discover Magazine in 1980, has died at the age of 85. Paul Kurtz, a philosopher, was only a year older than Jaroff and also passed away this weekend. Together, the two men represent some of the founding ideas of the modern skeptic community.

We have compelling information/data that Paul Kurtz left no significant legacy. See: Paul Kurtz, the father of secular humanism, is another atheist failure without a legacy and PZ Myers proves Paul Kurtz, the father of secular humanism, was another atheist failure without a legacy

Let's see what kind of legacy Leon Jaroff left. 

Global market share of Discover Magazine according to Alexa:

Unique monthly visitors to Discover Magazine according to Compete.com

Taking an axe to the rickety pillars of evolutionism and atheism
 

It certainly seems as if these pillars of evolutionism and atheism are cracking doesn't it? Imagine the effects on these cracking and rickety pillars of evolutionary belief and atheism when the well designed and aggressive anti-evolution grassroots Question Evolution! Campaign with its15 questions for evolutionists campaign is unleashed upon them. 

Evolutionists and atheists, the Question Evolution! Campaign axeman cometh!  2012 and 2013 are going to be HORRIBLE years for evolutionism and atheism. 

See:

Making 2012 be the WORST year in the history of Darwinism

Making 2013 be the WORST year in the history of Darwinism.

Also, consider this:

Currently global atheism is shrinking in terms of adherents and it is expected to shrink at an accelerated rate due to demographic factors and other factors as well. On the other hand, global Christianity and global creationism are rapidly expanding. The Question Evolution! Campaign can certainly serve as a catalyst for the continued shrinking of global atheism plus assist in the current rapid expansion of Christianity.

Professor Eric Kaufmann told a secular audience in Australia: "The trends that are happening worldwide inevitably in an age of globalization are going to affect us."

Question evolution! campaign resources

Question Evolution! Campaign

15 questions for evolutionists

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 1 - Questions 1-3

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 2 - Questions 4–8

Responses to the 15 Questions: part 2 - Questions 9-15

Refuting evolution

PZ Myers proves Paul Kurtz, the father of secular humanism, was another atheist failure without a legacy

On September 30, 2012 I posted an article entitled Paul Kurtz, the father of secular humanism, is another atheist failure without a legacy  The article offered various pieces of data and other information demonstrating that Paul Kurtz was an unmemorable failure.

And now the atheist and evolutionist PZ Myers has further demonstrated that Kurtz did not lead a life of achievement, but one of unnotable folly.

In a October 21, 2012, in a Freethoughtblog.com post entitled Paul Kurtz is dead, Myers writes:

One of the most influential figures in modern skepticism and atheism is no more: Paul Kurtz has died at the age of 86.

That's it.  Myers writes a 23 word blog post commemorating someone who is supposedly "one of the most influential figures in modern skepticism". It certainly seems as though Kurtz wasn't all that profound or memorable even in the eyes of his fellow atheists.  Myers  gives him a mere 23 word lip service blog post concerning his departure.

The very next day, on October 22, 2012,  PZ Myers writes a blog post titled FtB Party! which is 138 words long and describes an upcoming atheist party.

The proverb "success has many fathers, failure is an orphan" seems very apt proverb to describe the atheist Paul Kurtz's lack of legacy.  

And judging by the information in these articles, it does not seem as PZ Myers is going to leave a legacy: 

Freethoughtblogs: : World's biggest atheist blogging community seeing a big decline? Are atheist women or atheist men to blame?

Scienceblogs.com: Evolutionary pseudoscience, liberalism and atheism are boring and irrelevant. Christianity fosters scientific development

Related articles

Two challenges to the dwindling fan base of atheist Farrell "forgotten" Till 

Decline of internet atheism and internet evolutionism

Global decline of atheism/agnosticism and the rise of Christianity

Resources on the rise of global Christianity and creationism and the decline of global atheism and agnosticism 

Other resources

Refuting evolution

Atheism, agnosticism and humanism: Godless religions

Evidence for Christianity

Scienceblogs.com: Evolutionary pseudoscience, liberalism and atheism are boring and irrelevant. Christianity fosters scientific development

Scienceblogs.com: More proof and evidence showing that evolutionary pseudoscience, liberalism and atheism are irrelevant, boring and that public is tiring of them. In addition, I will offer more proof and evidence Christianity fosters scientific development.

Alexa graph for the website Scienceblogs.com

See also:

Decline of internet evolutionism and intenet atheism 
  
Global rise of creationism and the global decline of atheism and agnosticism

Screechy monkeys

In 2010, Mariano Grinbank's Christian apologetics website True Free Thinker  wrote concerning Scienceblogs.com:

Scienceblogger Chad Orzel described the commentators on PZ Myers ' Scienceblogs.com site Pharyngula, and other Scienceblogs.com commentators, as "screechy monkeys.

In 2008, Mariano wrote:

Prof. PZ Myers' website "Pharyngula" is part of the "Scienceblogs" network. While the premise of Scienceblogs is to give professors access to the masses and the masses access to the professors with regards to science it has morphed into something quite different, as Scienceblogger Matthew C. Nisbet stated it in referring to:

"…the major perceptual hit that the scienceblogs.com community and brand continues to take because of PZ's antics. The Seed sponsored blog portal is supposed to be a place that attracts new audiences to science, but in fact, it has turned into the Web's leading echo chamber of anti-religious rants and sophomoric discussions of atheism, what the physicist Chad Orzel refers to as the 'screechy monkey' problem. In a recent interview on the podcast Point of Inquiry, host DJ Grothe asked PZ if he worried that scienceblogs.com was becoming better known as 'atheistblogs.com.' It's a question that merits serious consideration, especially in light of recent events."

Science and Christianity

Biblical roots of modern science

Biblical origins of science 

Why young-age creationism is good for science

Christianity, Islam and science

British scriptural geologists in the first half of the nineteenth century - part 1

British British scriptural geologists in the first half of the nineteenth century: part 2 

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• It’s super-natural (naturally)
• Naturalism in the light of reality
• Why does science work at all?
• The Fall and the inspiration for science
• The Lawgiver is the biblical Creator God
• Part 1: Culture wars: Bacon vs Ham
• Creationist contributions to science
• Refuting Evolution (Chapter 1) — Evolution & creation, science & religion, facts & bias
• Do creationists hate science?
• The importance of foundations
• Reading the Bible and understanding nature

Additional reading

• Christian Apologetics Questions and Answers
• Atheism, agnosticism and humanism: Godless religions 
• Refuting evolution