Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Gene Wolfe and J. R. R. Tolkien

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I have been doing my bit to fill cyberspace, with this blog, for over two years, for which set of privileges I thank God. I frequently wonde...
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Monday, January 29, 2007

Trinity Episcopal Church, Abbeville, SC

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We recently took a day trip through some of upstate South Carolina, including Abbeville and Laurens, SC., and other places. This is a photo...
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Sunday, January 28, 2007

Diary of an Old Soul, Jan 28 - Feb 3

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28. I was like Peter when he began to sink. To thee a new prayer therefore I have got-- That, when Death comes in earnest to my door, Thou w...
Saturday, January 27, 2007

Ben Witherington on Barack Obama

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Ben Witherington , a conservative Christian scholar (see also here ) has, says his web page, ". . . been seen on the History Channel, N...
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Friday, January 26, 2007

Women in the Old Testament, 3: Athaliah

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At a recent midweek service, my pastor asked who we thought was the wickedest woman in the Bible. There were several responses, including Je...
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Thursday, January 25, 2007

Wired answers (sort of) the big questions

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Wired has posted a number of mostly scientific big questions (samples: "Why do we sleep?" "What happens to information in a...
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Sunspots 92

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Humor: This one is partly science, but take your time. Don...
Monday, January 22, 2007

Barack Obama, Muslim?

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Two good people -- Christians, church-goers, people I want praying for me -- have forwarded me an e-mail message which claims that Barack Hu...
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Sunday, January 21, 2007

Diary of an Old Soul, Jan 21 - 27

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21. Thou in my heart hast planted, gardener divine, A scion of the tree of life: it grows; But not in every wind or weather it blows; The le...
Friday, January 19, 2007

Islamic anti-science philosophy?

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I am not an expert in the subject of this post, which is the result of an hour or so of searching and reading in the Internet. The subject i...
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Thursday, January 18, 2007

Women in the Old Testament, 2

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Over a year ago, I posted on Jacob's family, in Genesis, and women's importance. I pointed out that Genesis says that 66 persons we...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Sunspots 91

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Science: Surprise! Men are distracted , and tend to make bad dec...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Why do animals have heads?

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In previous posts, I mused about why there is sex , and why living things have cells . See the latter post for some discussion of what ...
Monday, January 15, 2007

Play in the Bible

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Carl Zimmer, an important science writer, recently wrote about the function and origin of play in animals, in Forbes . Since play is rather...
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Sunday, January 14, 2007

Diary of an Old Soul, Jan 14 - 20

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14. Sometimes, hard-trying, it seems I cannot pray-- For doubt, and pain, and anger, and all strife. Yet some poor half-fledged prayer-bird ...
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Saturday, January 13, 2007

Theodicy, or the problem of evil/pain

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Henry has begun posting on Theodicy. His first post on the subject refers favorably to a long article, " Christian Theodicy in Light o...
Friday, January 12, 2007

Comet McNaught visible tonight in Northern hemisphere

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A fellow blogger saw me at a basketball game, and told me that Comet McNaught is now about as bright an object as there is, except for the ...
Thursday, January 11, 2007

Successes in the use of embryonic stem cells

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As far as I am aware, there have been no successful treatments of a human medical condition with human embryonic stem cells so far. This is ...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Sunspots 90

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Humor: Have you read Toby Appel's Guide to the Orchestra ? (...
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Musing about Gene Wolfe

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Gene Wolfe is a craftsman of fantastic literature. He has won numerous awards, critical acclaim, and his books and stories apparently sell ...
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