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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
From Christian Telegraph: Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II has twice written to support an emergent group of conservative Anglicans that rejects the ultra-liberal and sexually permissive direction of the Church of England, reports Hilary White, LifeSiteNews.com. The Queen recently wrote to the Fellowship of Confessing
Canada, which might not be as secularist as people have assumed, is undergoing a religious and political controversy occasioned by Prime Minister Stephen Harper going up for Communion at a Roman Catholic funeral mass. Here is what happened: It began last Friday when Canada’s Prime
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