{"id":2316,"date":"2009-06-11T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/06\/evolution-and-faith-in-the-blogosphere\/"},"modified":"2009-06-11T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T12:59:00","slug":"evolution-and-faith-in-the-blogosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/06\/evolution-and-faith-in-the-blogosphere.html","title":{"rendered":"Evolution and Faith in the Blogosphere"},"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>I\u2019ll leave it up to each reader to decide whether the title refers to \u201c<em>evolution and faith<\/em> in the blogosphere\u201d or \u201cevolution and <em>faith in the blogosphere<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>The latest issue of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metanexus.net\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Metanexus<\/a> magazine <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metanexus.net\/magazine\/Default.aspx\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Global Spiral<\/a><\/em> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metanexus.net\/magazine\/tabid\/68\/id\/10865\/Default.aspx\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">piece by Nancey Murphy on non-reductive physicalism<\/a>. It meshes nicely with the recent discussions here about topics like emergence and reductionism.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/ncseweb.org\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">National Center for Science Education<\/a> web page has added <a href=\"http:\/\/ncseweb.org\/creationism\/legal\/creationism-law\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">resources on creationism and law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been having an interesting discussion over at <a href=\"http:\/\/sandwalk.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/accommodationist-position-at-ncse.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sandwalk<\/a>, in a post that was part of the whole discussion of \u201caccomodationism\u201d that seems to still be going on.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Wiley-Blackwell sent me some of their most recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiley.com\/WileyCDA\/Section\/id-WILEY2_SEARCH_RESULT.html?query=science%20fiction\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">books on philosophy and science fiction<\/a>, and I\u2019ll be blogging about them in the coming days.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-749871621362167632?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll leave it up to each reader to decide whether the title refers to \u201cevolution and faith in the blogosphere\u201d or \u201cevolution and faith in the blogosphere\u201c. The latest issue of the Metanexus magazine The Global Spiral has a piece by Nancey Murphy on non-reductive physicalism. 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