Thursday, March 31, 2011

Speculative Faith: Recent Posts

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Speculative Faith is one of my favorite blogs. Why? Because it considers fantastic literature, or at least some of it, from many angles. (O...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Sunspots 307

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Science: Wired , on why (and how) veterinarians are performing v...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Can natural selection produce new genetic information? Yes.

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Lest there be any doubt, scientists seldom (if ever) sit around thinking up ways to discredit the Intelligent Design Movement . They just ca...
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Monday, March 28, 2011

Animal Death before the Fall, considered again

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I have previously posted on the topic of animal death before the Fall. I have concluded, and I am not alone in this, that death of animals b...
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Sunday, March 27, 2011

Prayers in the Bible: Jesus, fasting

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In a way, this post is not about prayer, and, in a way, it is: Matthew 4:1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be t...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

Intelligent Design and Providence: Oliver Barclay

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The Biologos Foundation recently posted a paper by Oliver Barclay. Barclay has been active in a UK organization which considers questions o...
Friday, March 25, 2011

The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien

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Nearly six years ago, I posted a series on several aspects of three of my favorite fantasy books, or series, namely the Earthsea books, by U...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature, by Robin Brande

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I recently read Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature (New York: Knopf, 2007), by Robin Brande . The book is aimed at the so-called Yo...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Sunspots 306

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Sports: The teams in the NCAA men's basketball tournament ha...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Get Low: Searching for Redemption

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My wife and I watched Get Low , a film starring Robert Duvall, Bill Murray and Lucas Black, and a fine supporting cast. I will try not to gi...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Ursula K. Le Guin on Equilibrium

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The graphic above can serve as a link to a larger version, in my Flickr photostream, which requires no password for viewing. The column st...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

Prayers in the Bible: Rahab's prayer

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The most important part of the story of Rahab, the prostitute from Jericho, is told here: Joshua 2:8 Before they had laid down, she came up...
Saturday, March 19, 2011

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Farthest Shore: Musings

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The Farthest Shore , by Ursula K. Le Guin , won the National Book Award for Children's Books. The book is the third in a series. (See he...
Friday, March 18, 2011

Sunspots 305

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Science: There have been claims that a petroglyph (prehistoric p...
Thursday, March 17, 2011

Green -- a re-post

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This post is modified from an earlier one . Green is the color of growth. We wouldn't be here without green plants. They make food fo...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

What about the earthquake? What happened? Did God cause it?

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I have just now read three fine posts on the recent earthquake in Japan. (Thank you, Google Reader.) One is by a geologist , writing at The ...
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Ursula K. Le Guin's The Tombs of Atuan: Musings

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 Ursula K. Le Guin's The Tombs of Atuan was a Newbery Honor winner. Tombs is a story of redemption. As in the first book in Le Gui...
Monday, March 14, 2011

Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea: Musings

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Ursula K. Le Guin is arguably the best writer of fantastic literature in English of the last half of the 20th century. (She is still alive,...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Prayers in the Bible: The Prayer of Jabez

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The genealogies of 1 Chronicles list a lot of people, but they don't give much information about most of these. They do give a little mo...
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Friday, March 11, 2011

Thank God for Evolution, by Michael Dowd

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An on-line contact of mine recommended that I read Michael Dowd's Thank God for Evolution . (The book has its own web site, here .) I go...