Sunspots 913

Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to others*: 

The Arts: NPR reports that Pantone has selected its "color of the year."

Christianity: A Christianity Today article on "The Theological Foundations of Natural Science."

Computing: (and Sports) FiveThirtyEight discusses the high-tech balls being used in the World Cup competition.

Education: Grammarphobia considers three different meanings of the word, "lap."

History: Gizmodo reports on some scribbles in the margin of a medieval manuscript.

Politics: An article in The Conversation says that a federal judge has ruled that it is illegal to prevent domestic abusers from having access to guns.

Science: The Scientist reports that some moths emit noises to avoid being eaten by bats.

*I try not to include items that require a password or fee to view.

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Are Christianity and science compatible?

Of course, the answer is "yes!"

This page hosts a PowerPoint 2016 presentation on the subject, "are Christianity and science compatible?" and a second presentation, an appendix, with related material. Anyone is free to download, use, and modify these, provided the results are not offered for sale. If you do use one or both of these, you don't have to give me credit.

There are some links, and some block quotations, included. These are not mine. The usual restrictions apply for using those.

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Relevant on why Christianity and science should be friends.

Here's a brief essay from Relevant, entitled "5 Reasons the Church should Embrace Science."

There are other reasons, such as that scientific findings can help us to be better stewards of God's creation, but the five given are good.

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Sunspots 522a (more stuff I would have included if it had been published)

Here are links to two important web pages, on (mostly) unrelated subjects:

Christianity Today has an article on why Christians should get involved in science. Not all Christians, of course, but some. Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christianity has a lot of antipathy toward science, and that's not a good thing, for Christianity or for science.

Wired has an article on the damage to living things which is likely to occur because of the Santa Barbara oil spill.

Thanks for reading. Read these articles.