A La Carte (2/6)

  • Tim Challies
  • 02/06/09
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Band of Bloggers 2009
Band of Bloggers 2009 will be held at the Gospel Coalition Conference. Timmy Brister gives all the details.
What You Could Buy with a Trillion Bucks
That trillion dollar figure is almost impossible to wrap your mind around. This article offers at least a little bit of perspective.
Flight 1549 Tapes
The FAA has released the tapes from Flight 1549. If you're as big a geek as I am, you'll probably find them fascinating.
Dialog with Darwinists
As Darwinists celebrate the 150th anniversary of their hero's breakthrough book, Marvin Olasky offers "Key themes to remember on the birthday of 'On the Origin of Species.'"
An Entertaining Saboteur
Mark Galli writes about Facebook. "But let's stick to Facebook as the prime example and admit that, in the end, Facebook actually sabotages our ability to genuinely connect with others. But it is an entertaining saboteur."
Free Games from Amazon
Amazon has recently opened a store selling downloadable games. Here are three they offer for free. I can't vouch for the quality, but the price is right...

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a comment from Irene • 02/06 @ 10:54am

Thanks for the link to Marvin Olasky's key points regarding Darwinism. I work at Carleton University in Ottawa and there is a big "Darwin celebration" happening here. As a Christian working in such an evolution-saturated environment, it's nice to have some clear talking points. If I can get up the courage to talk that is...

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a comment from Jim Vellenga • 02/06 @ 12:22pm
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I have to say, I was not in complete agreement with Mark Galli's article. There was a long time where I really pushed people to have deep discussions, the problem is, deep discussion are not where friendship is rooted. It is rooted in the seemingly irrelavant and un-important things of another's life that you take interest in because you care. If I look at the best of my friendships they have much more of that seeming trivial stuff, but that is what built the relationship because I do care about those friends even in the minutia. It was that which formed the solid relationship were we could have those deep discussions on occasion.

Both serve to build the friendship. Deep discussion without the trivial becomes pretentious and remote. The trivial without the deep discussions becomes fluff. But, put the two together and one has something very special, a friendship.

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a comment from Matt • 02/07 @ 3:59pm

My objection to this is that there really isn't such a person as a "Darwinist". It's a pejorative invented by creationists due to a difference in epistemological thinking (I think that's the right word). We aren't Darwinists. We're people who use science as a means to understand the world, and Darwin was merely a man who put forth a theory which has been revised and refined. Even if he didn't publish his theory, one of his contemporaries also had the idea, and the whole point of science is that given enough people working in one field, any discovery pertaining to that field will happen, regardless of who discovers it. "Darwinist" just comes from the religious thinker, who cannot fathom that science isn't a belief system, but rather assumes that we get down and worship Darwin, or something to that effect.

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a comment from Julie Park • 02/08 @ 9:10pm
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Did you download any of the Amazon games onto your Mac? It says windows only. :-(Sometimes, windows stuff work on the Mac, I'll have to ask my hubs.