July 16, 2009

Let me just repeat for all to see what I replied to tODD when he asked me why I was so fascinated with Dr. Lanza and his book Biocentrism: I’m not fascinated with the man and his book, I’m fascinated at how even some atheist

July 16, 2009

From Democrats’ reaction to Sotomayor’s Catholicism reflects double standard – WSJ.com: If Ms. Sotomayor is confirmed there will be six Catholics on the Court — a higher percentage than almost any Notre Dame starting lineup of the past three decades. It’s also true that notwithstanding

July 16, 2009

President Obama has nominated Francis Collins to be director of the National Institute of Health. Collins led the project to sequence human DNA. He is an outspoken evangelical, though he is also a theistic evolutionist. Click the link for an interesting discussion of his ideas

July 15, 2009

The Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. in convention voted to defy the worldwide three-year moratorium on ordaining gay bishops that world Anglicanism agreed to. This may mean American Episcopalians will be expelled from the world Anglican communion. From the BBC: Bishops of the Anglican Church

July 15, 2009

More weird science: A quantum entity, such as a photon of light or an electron, behaves either like a particle or a wave, but not at the same time. Which way it behaves depends on how it is being observed. That’s weird enough, an example

July 14, 2009

Picking up from yesterday, Robert Lanza is a scientist who has written a new book entitled Biocentrism that uses the latest findings of physics and quantum mechanics to posit a new scientific worldview. Here are the seven principles of Biocentrism (via Mike LaSalle): 1. What

July 14, 2009

Newsweek has another big article that is unintentionally humorous because it is so theologically clueless. But it is telling nonetheless. A sample excerpt from Is Obama More Catholic Than the Pope?: Obama’s pragmatic approach to divisive policy (his notion that we should acknowledge the good

July 14, 2009

A judge has ruled that the University of Colorado had the right to fire Ward Churchill, the professor of Native American studies who called 9/11 victims “little Eichmanns” who deserved what they got. What much of the coverage has skimmed over is that Churchill was

July 13, 2009

As George F. Will describes it, President Bush gave us Stimulus I: $168 billion, when unemployment was 4.8%. Then President Obama gave us Stimulus II: $787 billion, when unemployment was 7.6%. Without it, we were warned, unemployment would reach 10% in 2010. Well, here we

July 13, 2009

Robert Lanza is a scientist who has written a new book entitled Biocentrism that uses the latest findings of physics and quantum mechanics to posit a new scientific worldview. One aspect he thinks cosmologists have to factor is the Goldilocks Effect. From Mike LaSalle’s review


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