Thursday, February 03, 2005

Leaves, Part II: Leafless and Leafy in the Bible

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A previous post suggested that the first technological act of humans involved leaves. Adam and Eve, as we too often do, messed things up, a...
Wednesday, February 02, 2005

Leaves: on uniformity and diversity

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I confess--I have taught botany a few times. No doubt it is showing. I have no idea how many leaves there are in the world, but there must b...
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Leafless

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Well, I didn't claim, in this previous post , to be the only person who finds beauty in trees in winter , and it's a good thing I di...
Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Leaves, Part I

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We wouldn't be here without leaves. Photosynthesis is the process by which the sun's light energy is captured, and stored as a diffe...
Monday, January 31, 2005

Trees and Seasons

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Deciduous trees are trees that shed their leaves in winter. Why do we think of four seasons, instead of two, three, six, or none? I'm no...
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Saturday, January 29, 2005

on Evangelical blogging

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I'm new to this (about a month) and I'm not sure anyone, except me, has ever read anything I've posted, or should. But here'...
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Spirit of God, Descend upon My Heart

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Spirit of God, Descend upon My Heart George Croly, 1854 Spirit of God, descend upon my heart. Wean it from earth; through all its pulses mov...

Article on ethics in science

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Here's the URL of an excellent article on ethics in science, by the late Wayne A. R. Leys, "The Scientist's Code of Ethics,...
Friday, January 28, 2005

Science and the Bible

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Some people believe that science and belief in the Bible are fundamentally opposed, and, of course, for some people, they are. Plenty of mis...

Why this title?

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The source of the title of this blog is Psalm 84:11 (KJV): For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good...

Jack Vance

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Jack Vance is one of the great craftsmen of fantastic literature in English. (He also seems to have a strong following in translation, espec...
Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Thoughts on Hebrews 11:3

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In the King James (so as not to violate copyright) Hebrews 11:3 says: Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of...
Saturday, January 22, 2005

C. S. Lewis on faith and surgery

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[In one sense, Faith] means simply Belief--accepting or regarding as true the doctrines of Christianity. That is fairly simple. But what doe...
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Thursday, January 20, 2005

C. S. Lewis on space travel

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C. S. Lewis was arguably the most important Christian apologist of the previous century. I found his writing in an unusual way. I was browsi...
Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Is scientific knowledge reliable? What does science tell us about God?

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The simple answer to the first question is "usually." The hard part, of course, is to know when it is and when it isn't. Unfor...
Monday, January 17, 2005

Patricia McKillip quotations

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Here are two I like, from the first book by McKillip that I read, and the last one: "The giant Grof was hit in one eye by a stone, and ...
Thursday, January 13, 2005

Is Harry Potter a bad influence? Part II

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Part I presented a brief analysis of the relationship between reading/watching the Harry Potter books and the Christian life. In Part II, I...
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Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Is Harry Potter a bad influence? Part I

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Katie Couric: I'm not sure if we should bite this off, but I'm going to. Tammy in Kansas was wondering: "What would encourage y...
Saturday, January 08, 2005

Tobacco, not the Ring, behind Middle Earth

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A screamingly funny posting in FrontPage magazine, which I had never heard of before, purporting to be a conversation between Noam Chomsky...
Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Ursula Le Guin's Complaint

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Ursula K. Le Guin is, arguably, the most important U. S. fantastic writer of the twentieth century. She is still alive, and still writing. O...