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Author Archives: Thomas Alderman
The Infinite Complexity of Cells/Is Following Jesus a “Politic”?
Two essential reads from this morning’s mail: Excerpt — The Infinite Complexity of Cells Is Following Jesus a “Politic?”
And this on “White Fragility”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/dehumanizing-condescension-white-fragility/614146/
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User-friendly Reorganization!
You may have noticed (or if you haven’t, please do) that the website has been reorganized by subject area. Formerly it was merely chronological, which was pretty useless in finding anything unless you already knew when it was published. Now, … Continue reading
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Existential Reasons for Believing in God
Everyone should check out Paul Copan’s web site, Worldview Bulletin Newsletter (https://worldviewbulletin.substack.com/), and in particular, in the July 26 edition, Clifford Williams’ “Existential Reasons for Believing in God.” I am provoked to think: If God exists; if He created us; … Continue reading
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Fine-Tuning for High-Tech Civilization
Astronomer Hugh Ross of Reasons to Believe (reasons.org), of whom much is heard in these pages, has long emphasized that all of natural history prior to mankind was fine-tuned to prepare the cosmos not for mankind simply, but for mankind … Continue reading
Toward an Epistemology of Love
N. T. Wright, Loving to Know: The 2019 Erasmus Lecture (First Things Magazine, February 2020, pp. 25-34.) To transcend the divided field of knowledge – the antitheses between fact and value, objective and subjective, reason and faith, science and … Continue reading
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Climate Change Notes
Here are the notes I took while listening to Dan Britt’s lecture. 21:00 When India collided with China, the uplift of the Himalayas resulted in greatly-increased rock weathering, which pulled 80% of the CO2 out of the atmosphere, rending the … Continue reading
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Climate Change
Much is being said about climate change: is it real? Are we causing it? What can be done? I have recently come across three fascinating discussions of how human-caused increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide may relate to various natural cycles, … Continue reading
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Pray for the Church in the Middle East
May God strengthen and protect our faithful brothers and sisters. Read this message from Martin Accad of the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary, here.
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