Category: Science and Religion
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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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Percy Paper and Slides for Christian Scholars’ Conference Presentation
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…
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Live Blogging Ted Peters Address at Christian Scholars’ Conference
[Cross-posted at Into All The WWWorld] The final plenary session speaker at the Christian Scholars’ Conference is Ted Peters. Peters is a systematic theology professor at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s task force on genetics, and author of Sacred Cells?: Why Christians Should Support Stem Cell Research. 20.13…
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Live Blogging Simran Sethi Address at Christian Scholars’ Conference
[Cross-posted at Into All The WWWorld] This morning’s plenary speaker at the Christian Scholars Conference is Simran Sethi, a prominent environmental journalist who got her start at MTV News. I know much less about Sethi than the other speakers here, practically nothing in fact. But she’s got an impressive CV and should be an engaging…
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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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Live Blogging John Polkinhorne Address at Christian Scholars’ Conference
[Cross-posted at Into All The WWWorld] I’m going to live blog the John Polkinghorne address at the Christian Scholars Conference. Two notes: (1) Read from the bottom, obviously. (2) Forgive my EDT time stamp; the talk began at 11 a.m. PDT. 15.15 Now an organizer is reminding me that I won’t be able to go…
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New, Temporary Haven
I’ve not made it a secret that I don’t much like Northern Virginia. Mostly because one almost has to drive to get anywhere, and the traffic is as bad as any place I’ve traveled stateside except maybe Chicago. So it feels very good to be in new, albeit temporary, environs after my second year of…