Of all the Micah Tillmans in the world — and there are at least three — … I am this one.
Posted in Science on Apr 26th, 2010
Faith in science was on the way out before Climategate, because science has turned into stuff like this: People who are depressed eat more chocolate than people who are not, U.S. researchers said on Monday (Reuters) Next week, of course, another group of “researchers” will be out with a “study” that says people who are [...]
But, then again, nothing is. Evidently. At least, the only time you ever hear the word used, it is to deny that something is it. Anyway. Got into an interesting discussion with some fellow congregants today about creationism. Evidently, some of them had met someone who didn’t believe dinosaurs actually existed. ____ I, eavesdropping, thought [...]
Posted in Culture, Philosophy, Science, Scripture (Religion) on May 27th, 2009
I’ve finished The Historical Reliability of the Gospels by Craig Blomberg, and am now reading The Jesus Legend: A Case for the Historical Reliability of the Synoptic Jesus Tradition, by Paul Rhodes Eddy and Gregory A. Boyd. One of the issues that both books take up is the question of whether the stories of miracles [...]
Dr. Thomas is now talking about election (in his “Theological Foundations” lectures), which, he keeps insisting, happened “before time.” *shakes head sadly* He understands that what happens “in God” happens “outside time,” and therefore cannot be ordered using time words. There he gets points. What he doesn’t get is that if God is outside time, [...]
Posted in Science on Feb 25th, 2009
Some colleagues were discussing biology, chemistry, and physics, in an attempt to figure out whethere there was ultimately any difference betwixt them. (Is that a proper use of “betwixt”?) For example, they were discussing whether getting a degree in “biochem” was equivalent to getting two degrees — one in “biology,” and the other in “chemistry.” [...]
Posted in Culture, Events (Politics), Philosophy, Science on Jan 11th, 2009
My weekly article was posted back on Thursday at The Free Liberal, but my computer went on the fritz (it came down with a bunch of trojans, most notably csrssc.exe) and I didn’t get a chance to post a link.
That’s the headline of a new Belfast Telegraph story. (h/t Drudge) Love what he has to say about how this period in time will look to us in the future, and what he has to say about efficiency. There’s a beauty to efficiency, and I’d much prefer to do things for the sake of beauty [...]
That’s the headline from Christopher Booke’s column over at the UK Telegraph. He makes three rather simple points. And I’m glad he did.
Posted in Science on Nov 20th, 2008
Saw this on Drudge. I, personally, like the idea. More time to figure out how to do life right.
I’m glad people keep making films about global warming. At least, I’m glad they keep making films of this type. Haven’t seen it, of course. But it’s good to combat the illusion that climate science is a unanimous democracy (when it’s really run by a fallible priesthood).
