{"id":1168,"date":"2010-06-24T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/06\/faces-of-the-clergy-letter-project\/"},"modified":"2010-06-24T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T14:55:00","slug":"faces-of-the-clergy-letter-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/06\/faces-of-the-clergy-letter-project.html","title":{"rendered":"Faces of the Clergy Letter Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The Clergy Letter Project has a new feature on its web site, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/blue.butler.edu\/~mzimmerm\/Resources\/Faces2.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Faces of the Clergy Letter Project<\/a>,\u201d which provides more about those who have signed the Clergy Letter and their perspective on science and faith. The first person listed is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.butler.edu\/las\/bov-biographies\/lori-bievenour\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Lori Bievenour<\/a>, a local minister who is a\u00a0Butler graduate and on the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences board of visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Also on religion and science in the blogosphere:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/06\/23\/creationists-suffer-another-legal-defeat\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BadAstronomyBlog+%28Bad+Astronomy%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Many<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/pandasthumb.org\/archives\/2010\/06\/icr-hits-a-snag.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">have<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencestandards.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/texas-scores-big-win.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">drawn<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/dododreams.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/how-to-piss-off-federal-judge.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">attention<\/a> to a federal judge\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local_news\/court_rules_against_creationism_degree_96926154.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">rejection<\/a> of the Institute for Creation Research\u2019s appeal after their attempt to get accreditation for a \u2018degree\u2019 program was turned down. A key quote from the judge about the ICR: \u201cPlaintiff is entirely unable to file a complaint which is not overly verbose, disjointed, incoherent, maundering, and full of irrelevant information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biologos Forum has a number of interesting recent posts, including most recently a <a href=\"http:\/\/biologos.org\/blog\/behes-b-cell-bravado-part-2-why-irreducible-complexity-fails\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">continuing critique of Michael Behe\u2019s argument for design based on \u201cirreducible complexity.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0There are other interesting recent posts by <a href=\"http:\/\/biologos.org\/blog\/my-faith-shouldnt-be-alive-but-it-is-and-heres-why\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rachel Held Evans<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/biologos.org\/blog\/gilgamesh-atrahasis-and-the-flood-part-3\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pete Enns<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/biologos.org\/blog\/would-you-like-fries-with-that-theory-part-two\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Karl Giberson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Stevens on <a href=\"http:\/\/revdmarkstevens.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/23\/bruce-waltke-creation-knox-seminary\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bruce Waltke, creation and badges of conservatism<\/a><br>Creationism has made an appearance in <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceandcreation.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/more-trouble-in-northern-ireland.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Northern Ireland<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-9066454687714977274?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Clergy Letter Project has a new feature on its web site, \u201cFaces of the Clergy Letter Project,\u201d which provides more about those who have signed the Clergy Letter and their perspective on science and faith. 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