Science
Too Skeptical for the Holy Spirit
The other day I was speaking with a friend about the pessimism of our generation, how our Hermeneutic of Suspicion has so permeated every part of our lives that we are (at least I am) too skeptical even for the Holy Spirit. In an age when politicians have bombarded us with promises un-kept, when our [...]
An Important Distinction in the Evolution Debate
On Hank’s recommendation, I listened to Al Mohler’s radio show on Theistic Evolution from 6/1/7. In this broadcast, Mohler maintained that belief in a creator and belief in evolution are mutually exclusive. He said that it is absolutely impossible to have it both ways. Mohler even went so far as to question [...]
Thoughts on Origin Stories
I came across this today at slackivist via katagrapho. Slackivist is trying to discuss the purpose of origin stories. He begins by looking at a question of why crow’s feathers are black and then looks at the ultimate answer to the question:
Q: Why are the crow’s feathers black?
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God and the Human Gnome Project
While I personally don’t buy into the theory of evolution, I have read a very promising article at cnn.com. Dr. Frank Collins is the head of the Human Gnome Project that is studying the human genetic code. He wrote this article where he presents his faith and science working together to create a deeper worship [...]
The Fundamental Mistake in the “Fundamental Mistake of Theistic Evolutionists”
In working on another post on the Emerging vs Emergent church, I came across Christian Ministries International (warning: flash-intensive, high-bandwidth site). As always, I took a glance at their articles section. I came across a few “the sky is falling” articles, the standard fare for conservative evangelical organization websites. One article in [...]
Two Links of the Day
Today’s links of the day comes from one of my favorite periodicals, Scientific American. They are not religious in nature or bias (not that bias is a bad thing, everything has a color), but touch on Christian issues.
Special Report: Has James Cameron Found Jesus’s Tomb or Is It Just a Statistical Error? Short version: [...]
How to understand Flesh
How do you understand a human being? Is it as enfleshed spirit, self-conscious flesh, a monistic interaction that can be distinguished but not separated? Or is it spirit against flesh, spirit over flesh, a dualistic separation with flesh at best a distraction and at worst an imprisonment? (Crossan, The Birth of Christianity p.xxxi)
the incarnation is the counter-example
I was finding it too hard to keep my comments brief, so I will turn this into a entry. And it’s also a “Christmasy” post, since I would like to delve into the incarnation, the conception of Jesus, and the impeccability of Christ.
The early church considered the Incarnation to be one of the most [...]
Thoughts on Religon and Science
Hank and Travis came over last night for some much needed video gaming. In the course of our conversations, several topics came up: Authorship of the Pauline letters, Creationism, logical consistency of being anything less than a 5-pointer, ect… Towards the end of the night, we talked some about Christianity and Science. [...]
Quote of the Day
Materialism is a grammar which only recognizes nouns.
That is a quote from The Story of Philosophy that I came across today. The internet has been out at our place and I have spent the better part of the day running around MU trying to get ready for next week. That is the cause [...]
Christians, Creation, and Evolution
The Attitude of some towards Science
A wide number of Christians reject the theory of evolution in all of forms. Some even reject the idea of the progression of the fossil record. To aid in their disproving of evolution, many Christians also deny the old age of the earth. They have built quite [...]
Einstein and a Personal God
I came across a very interesting article on Physics Web[1] the other day. It was entitled Subtle are Einstein’s Thoughts[2] and it was on the personal religion of Einstein. Yes, that was a pun and read on to find out why.
There are many quotes on religion from Einstein. Here is a sampling[3] :
Science without religion [...]
Vatican sucker punches Creationists
Scotsman.com News - International - Creationism dismissed as ‘a kind of paganism’ by Vatican’s astronomer
BELIEVING that God created the universe in six days is a form of superstitious paganism, the Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno claimed yesterday. Brother Consolmagno, who works in a Vatican observatory in Arizona and as curator of the Vatican meteorite collection in [...]