"Test everything; hold fast to what is good."
RJS at Jesus Creed reminds us that anyone who wants to know what the Bible says about creation can’t just stick with Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 (or with some half-baked attempt to harmonize Genesis 1 and Genesis 2). Citing William P. Brown’s book The Seven Pillars of Creation, RJS notes that there are many [...]
I enjoyed this trippy, riffing and rambling reflection from John Van Sloten at Think Christian: “Spiritual perception and the science of color.” It’s half sermon illustration, half stoner epiphany. I probably enjoyed the stoner-ish aspects more, but Von Slaten’s sermon ain’t bad either. He writes: Dogs are bi-chromates, meaning their eyes have two cones enabling [...]
Last month, NASA reported that 2011 was the ninth-warmest year on record: The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists. The finding continues a trend in which nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record have occurred since the year 2000. NASA’s Goddard [...]
So after going through a couple of bottles of Anbesol and walking around for a week looking like Caesar Rodney, I finally gave in and made an appointment with a dentist. I’d been putting that off partly due to the financial aspect and mainly due to six very unpleasant years of orthodonture and oral surgery [...]
Google Reader brings me a serendipitous, or perhaps providential, sequence of articles. First up is Douglas Starr’s Discovery article, “Spark of Truth: Can Science Bring Justice to Arson Trials?” At laboratories throughout the United States — some large enough to contain a three-story house — researchers have been lighting rooms and houses on fire and [...]
The big news last week on climate change wasn’t news at all, just more of the same. A lot more of exactly the same. The Guardian reports: “Global warming study finds no grounds for climate skeptics’ concerns: Independent investigation of the key issues skeptics claim can skew global warming figures reports that they have no [...]
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