Things I have recently spotted that may
be of interest to someone else:
Christianity: "The point of faith-filled education is not to indoctrinate but to bring faith into dialog with evidence and the flow of the discussion
in humility. Education may not change your positions but hopefully frees you to take the positions you do with greater awareness of the evidence and
options." - Ken
Schenck, Dean of Wesley Seminary. Unfortunately, some believe that the
point of education, faith-filled or not, is exactly to indoctrinate.
Science: National Public Radio reports on the discovery of the world's
largest volcano, by far. It's inactive!
NPR also reports on the discovery of a region of the brain that enables us to quickly
sense quantities, without having to manually count them. This works
for small quantities. Few, if any, people can sense a hundred or so objects correctly.
Wired reports on the Bobbit worm, a
really ghastly looking predator, which can grow to 10 feet in length.
Wired also reports on a huge
storm circling Saturn.
Image
source (public domain)
Musings on science, the Bible, and fantastic literature (and sometimes basketball and other stuff).
God speaks to us through the Bible and the findings of science, and we should listen to both types of revelation.
The title is from Psalm 84:11.
The Wikipedia is usually a pretty good reference. I mostly use the World English Bible (WEB), because it is public domain. I am grateful.
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The posts in this blog are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. You can copy and use this material, as long as you aren't making money from it. If you give me credit, thanks. If not, OK.
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
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