In other news, the blogosphere is responding to a story about someone at the Texas equivalent of the department of education who was forced to resign after forwarding information about a presentation by Barbara Forrest. Censorship is indeed a big issue, but it isn\u2019t the young-earth creationists and cdesign proponentsists who are the victims. You can learn more at The Austringer<\/a>, Pharyngula<\/a>, Panda\u2019s Thumb<\/a>, Further Thoughts<\/a> and Traveling from Kansas<\/a>.<\/p>\n To cheer yourself up after reading that news, and in the process see a wonderful example of what living organisms have evolved to be capable of, take a look and see what this squirrel can do<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n Finally, there is a new interview with Philip Pullman<\/a>, the atheist author of a well-known series of children\u2019s books, one of which has been made into a movie about to be released in December. (Hat tip: Internet Monk<\/a> and In The Open Space: God and Culture<\/a>). Read it to find out what it means to him to be \u201ca 1662 Book of Common Prayer atheist\u201d, what he thinks of Narnia and Lord of the Rings, and other interesting things he has to say. I haven\u2019t read any of the books so I won\u2019t be commenting until I\u2019ve at least seen the movie, but I will note that there have been interesting suggestions that the deity that is the focus of the stories is essentially the Gnostic demiurge<\/a>. There is a book about Pullman\u2019s books (i.e. another book I have not yet read) that apparently explores this theological aspect further, called Killing the Imposter God: Philip Pullman\u2019s Spiritual Imagination in His Dark Materials<\/a> Gordon J. Glover, who has the blog Beyond the Firmament and a book by the same name, has shared a series of videos offering intelligent, articulate and respectful explanations of evolution aimed at Christians who have heard it blamed for atheism and the evidence supporting it called into question. I am posting the first one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0787982377\")
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