Kyle Matthew Oliver

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  • Presentation: “Faith Seeking Understanding”

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    [Cross-posted at Into All The WWWorld] An invitation to those in the Washington DC area: Kyle will be giving a short presentation on faith and reason at St. Mary’s Court on 24th St. NW tomorrow (Thursday, Nov. 10) at 7 p.m. Please contact him if you are interested in attending. See below for more information!…

  • Motorz Skills

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    The line in my bio about doing some freelance writing and editing “when circumstances allow” is not completely outdated. I wrote, during some time off in August, this article about Chris Duke and his Motorz.TV operation, and it’s in the print version of EventDV going out to subscribers now. I had a blast working on…

  • Last week’s sermon

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    I keep forgetting to post last week’s sermon. The main text is Ezekiel 18. All in all, the experience of preaching for the first time at St. Paul’s, K Street, was a good one. Like so many readings from scripture, our lesson from the Book of Ezekiel this morning can be summed up like this:…

  • An “experiment on ourselves”: The German energy picture

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    So Germany has decided to make permanent its decision, post-Fukushima, to shut down its eight oldest nuclear reactors. Today’s New York Times has a story analyzing Germany’s energy situation, and the sense one comes away with is partially captured by a quotation from Jürgen Grossmann, who runs the utility that owns two of the deactivated…

  • Publication in The Living Church

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    I recently won second place in a student essay contest sponsored by The Living Church. I’ve heard from some friends who get the print mag that it is now available, so I feel comfortable posting the excerpt from the digital copy I got from the publisher. The essay is called “The Wisdom of (Small) Groups:…

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    [Cross-posted at IntoAllTheWWWorld.org] As I mentioned briefly when I live blogged the Francis Collins presentation at the Christian Scholars Conference, some evangelicals do not accept the scientific conclusion that the human race descended from a pool of not less than about 10,000 distance ancestors rather than from one historical couple, Adam and Eve. NPR religion…

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    “We answer that …” a proper updating of the scientific worldview, one that incorporates the findings of quantum mechanics and chaos/complexity theory, brings us “into a wider world” indeed. In this world, it is not so hard to conceive of God’s divine action having a place, and it is perhaps impossible to rule such action…

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    “On the contrary …” the worldview that began to emerge with the rise of disciplined scientific thinking was fairly hostile to the idea of God’s action in the world. At the heart of this worldview was an awareness of mechanisms, the increasingly complex machines that began to emerge during this period with the help of…

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    “We answer that …” both the religious and scientific perspectives have important and complementary insights to offer to any worldview that takes full and proper account of the complexity and wonder of life of Earth. From a religious perspective, we take as essential that life, and especially human life, does have purpose and meaning. From…

  • Percy Paper and Slides for Christian Scholars’ Conference Presentation

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    For the benefit of people in the audience and for simple access for anyone else who’s interested, I’m posting my paper and slides for tomorrow’s talk. I hope you find these helpful and/or interesting. “No end to the mystery”: Scientist-as-prince, scientist-as-scientist, and what one has to do with the other in Lost in the Cosmos…