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Archive for October 4th, 2005

Your Science is Too Small

Posted: Tuesday, October 4th, 2005 @ 5:17 pm in Christianity, General, Science | Comments Off

Through Swiftee, another instance of the tired “Intelligent Design is Creationism, and not Science” refrain, apparently in a science and engineering commencement speech at the University last spring:

I don’t mean in raising this issue to discredit, disparage, or in any way deny what each of us may believe about the higher or deeper [...]

Tournier on Aging

Posted: Tuesday, October 4th, 2005 @ 11:54 am in Christianity, General | Comments Off

Paul Tournier’s books are well worth reading, but hard to find. Tournier was a very shy and withdrawn orphan, who eventually developed a great interest in people and compassion for them, and specialized in the “psychology of the person”. I’m looking forward to meeting him in heaven.
Currently I am reading his book, Learn [...]

Behe lecture

Posted: Tuesday, October 4th, 2005 @ 9:14 am in General, Science | Comments Off

I went to Michael Behe’s lecture on Intelligent Design (sometimes abbreviated as ID) at the University last week. It was quite interesting, although as a public lecture there weren’t as many gory details as I would have liked. He stuck fairly close to the material in his book, Darwin’s Black Box. His [...]