Category: Evolution
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Live Blogging Francis Collins Address at Christian Scholars’ Conference
[Cross-posted at Into All The WWWorld] I really dug the live blogging thing this morning and am going to keep it going for this afternoon’s Francis Collins address. You probably know that Francis Collins was the director of the Human Genome Project and is now the director of NIH. He is also an Evangelical Christian…
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Dawkins v. Heller, and Other Things I’ve Read, Heard, or Thought About This Week
Priest-Cosmologist Wins $1.6 Million Templeton Prize — Richard Dawkins was in Madison Tuesday promoting The God Delusion. Suffice it to say, reading about Fr. Heller this morning was a significant change of pace from Wednesday’s news. I’m grateful for the juxtaposition though, because in investigating it this evening I found a totally fascinating, though aging,…
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Shake a Tail Feather
So I’m up doing some work and watching a little PBS, and I just saw something I simply had to share. The special I’m watching is on evolution in rain forests and how a few pieces of new technology have affected some studies of same. Thus, thanks the wonders of high-speed (and regular-speed) camera equipment,…
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Wonderful Life
I haven’t talked much about faith on this blog. However, my faith is an important part of my life, so I’m sure that will change as time goes on. Case in point: On the precipice of the great contemplative wilderness that is Lent, I couldn’t help but reflect a bit on Pursing Synthetic Life, Dazzled…