Things I have recently spotted that may
be of interest to someone else:
Christianity: BioLogos reports that almost 100% of scientists believe that humans evolved over time.
However, about 50% of white self-reported evangelical Christians who
say that they attend church regularly believe that scientists are deeply
divided over that question, when they clearly are not so divided.
Computing: From National Public Radio: a wide-ranging interview
on cyber-privacy and the government's right to know. It includes a
discussion about President Reagan seeing a scary movie.
Politics: (sort of) The New York Times
discusses the effects
of growing up in a bad neighborhood, and of leaving such a place
fairly early in life.
Science: NPR on the unfortunate
confusion about the word, theory,
in science and elsewhere.
NPR also reports on what
non-human primates are thinking.
NPR also reports on a new sort of artificial organism, manufactured from a previous one in nature, by removing genes, one by one, to get to those
genes that the organism absolutely has to have, in order to grow and reproduce. We don't know what several dozen of those necessary genes
do.
Listverse reports on 10 interesting strategies in the "war" between plants and bugs.
Sports: FiveThirtyEight backs up my guess that Breanna
Stewart may be the best player ever, in women's college basketball,
with statistics. (She's had lots of help, from Moriah Jefferson, Morgan Tuck and others.)
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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