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To Suffer Faithfully – “We sometimes tend to focus on those aspects of the Christian life (spontaneity, starry-eyed-ness, passionate intensity…) in which the younger seem to have an advantage over the older, but there are a bunch of other aspects in which the very experiences that knock some of the shine off our youthful naivety are exactly the things that equip us to be better at enduring.” Guidelines to Narrative – “If you’ve ever begun to read through the Old …
I want to remind you about rather a unique program I offer here at the blog (one that hundreds of you have already taken advantage of and seem to be enjoying). It is called Friends of the Blog. This is a program I established in order to give people an opportunity to support this blog and, at the same time, to find a creative way of thanking them for doing so. The idea was to ask people to help support …
Craig Venter has recently claimed to have created artificial life. His name showed up in a book I read and reviewd not so long ago and I have received permission to post an excerpt from that book–Who Made God? by Edgar Andrews (read my review or read my interview with the author). This excerpt begins on page 194 if you’re looking for it in your copy of his book. Life in a cake mixer We shall spend this chapter in …
Last week I wrote a review of the excellent new book Who Made God? by Edgar Andrews. This book is an intelligent, insightful response to many of the claims of today’s new atheists. I recently had the opportunity to interview Mr. Andrews and wanted to share that interview with you today. What do all of those letters after your name actually stand for? The first three (BSc, PhD and DSc) are earned academic qualifications while the remainder (FInstP, FIMMM, CEng …
Why should the Devil get all the good scientists? It sometimes seems that way, doesn’t it? We hear of scientists like Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins and others who are acclaimed as being at the top of their field and almost inevitably it seems that they are atheists or otherwise committed to explaining the world in terms of Darwinian evolution. Occasionally we find a great dissenting mind, but then we discover that that person is committed to beliefs that seem …
Friday November 23, 2007 Interview with Paul Martin Unashamed Workman continues his interview series, this time interviewing my favorite preacher, Paul Martin. Inside the Mind of a Killer At Creation Ministries is an interesting article about the recent Finnish high school shooting and the worldview of the killer. BBC To Film Shakespeare BBC aims to upstage its own classics by producing new versions of all 37 of the Bard’s plays. (HT: JC)
Monday August 6, 2007 It’s Worse to Walk Than Drive A leading environmentalist has figured out that walking does more than driving to cause global warming. It turns out there is more damage done by growing the food you need to make that walk than in the pollutants from your car. The Atheist Who Thought He Was God Scott Adams, who writes the comic strip Dilbert, has had some interesting posts lately dealing with atheism. The Duggars Welcome #17 The …