Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Patents on human genes may be ruled against the law

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National Public Radio (and others) recently reported that a judge in a US federal court has ruled that patenting particular human DNA sequen...
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Sunspots 254

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Science: Wired has a photo gallery on how we are geoengineering...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Is Avatar better than reality?

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A photograph of real fern fiddleheads in Oconee County, South Carolina. To even ask the question of the title seems absurd. But an articl...
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Monday, March 29, 2010

Royal Destiny: Queen of the Orcs, book III, by Morgan Howell.

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My most recent post on this series is here . The first one is here . In this, the conclusion of the trilogy, Dar, who began as a slave to ...
Sunday, March 28, 2010

C. S. Lewis on death, and the end of the world

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"Sir," said Caspian. "I've always wanted to have just one glimpse of their world. Is that wrong?" "You canno...
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Saturday, March 27, 2010

Sword and Sorcery fantasy: Not a bastion of democracy

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I have previously posted on what is sometimes called Sword and Sorcery fantasy. That is, fantasy works set in pre-gunpowder societies, wher...
Friday, March 26, 2010

What makes art Christian (or not)?

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From a recent post by Jan: Unfortunately, as Christians we’ve so bought into the idea that all creativity has to have a purpose, and that...
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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Conservatism: What it's about

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The Free Dictionary gives these first two meanings of conservatism: 1. The inclination, especially in politics, to maintain the existin...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Sunspots 253

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Humor: (or something) According to CNN the new health care bill p...
Sunday, March 21, 2010

Healing and Faith

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"You do not have to be sick because God wants to heal you, and if you'll have faith, He will heal you!" ( Tom Brown . There ar...
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Sunspots 252

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Science: He Lives explains what the Anthropic Principle does,...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Richard Dawkins and 400 years of the King James Bible

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I thank Julana for bringing these matters to my attention. There is a 2011 Trust: Celebrating 400 years of the King James Bible , which h...
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Monday, March 15, 2010

Why isn't there a Jewish Narnia or Middle-Earth?

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I confess that I had never pondered that question, until reading an essay on that subject in what appears to be the first issue of somethin...
Sunday, March 14, 2010

C. S. Lewis on Intelligent Design (in Narnia)

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All this time the Lion's song, and his stately prowl, to and fro, backwards and forwards, was going on. . . . Polly was finding the son...
Friday, March 12, 2010

The Bible and "Social Justice"

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Quadrilateral Thoughts, a fine blog, has a post listing a number of Biblical references to Social Justice. A good, and timely, reminder.
Thursday, March 11, 2010

"Soon" in Revelation 1:1, from He Lives

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In a recent post , He Lives points out that there is a "soon" (or equivalent word, depending on the translation) in Revelation 1:1...
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Sunspots 251

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Science: NPR reports that mosquitos fatten up for the winter ...
Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Ken Schenck on the separate existence of the soul

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Most Christians accept, uncritically, that we have a soul that is separate from the body. Some Christians believe that there are three entit...
Monday, March 08, 2010

Avatar

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I finally got around to seeing Avatar , the movie that uses computer technology to produce a film supposedly set on the large moon of a non-...
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Sunday, March 07, 2010

Thoughts on Creation

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Thoughts on God’s creation Genesis 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. “Scripture quotations are from The Holy B...
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