The faith of George W. Bush
In keeping with this week’s “presidential exit interview” theme, I thought it would be good to take a look at President Bush’s interview with ABC’s Cynthia McFadden, which aired on Nightline earlier in...
View ArticleShould evolution be debated in public schools?
February 12, 2009, marks Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday. How fitting, then, that the Texas Board of Education is currently meeting to decide how the subject of evolution should be taught in Texas...
View ArticleThe Vatican: Evolution compatible with Christian faith
As the scientific community prepares to celebrate Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday tomorrow, the Vatican appears ready to fully embrace his theory of evolution within the Catholic Church. “In fact, what...
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So that would make God… George Lucas?
Source. Previously: The Vatican: Evolution compatible with Christian faith Angels, unicorns, and Giants Attempting to translate spiritual realities through scientific equations
View ArticleProfessors: Debating evolution in school ‘worrisome’
Students shouldn’t be allowed to debate. Students shouldn’t be allowed to draw their own conclusions. Students should never be taught that a controversial issue is in fact controversial and that not...
View ArticleEvolution and the null hypothesis
Could challenging the teaching of evolution in public schools be as simple as redefining the starting point? Possibly so, at least according to evolutionary biologist Stephen Sample, who recently...
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‘A Shot of Faith {To the Head}’: Or how to wage war on cranky atheists
I love The Matrix. (The first movie, of course. The others not so much.) One of the best scenes of the movie was when Neo was sat down, plugged into the Matrix, and force-fed a lifetime’s worth of...
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How accurate does ‘The Bible’ need to be?
Sunday is the premiere of The Bible on the History Channel, and it looks amazing. Described as a “10-hour docudrama”, the miniseries from Mark Burnett and Roma Downey recreates the biblical narrative...
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March Madness 2014: My picks
Well, kids. The calendar says it’s March, so it must be that time again in which for two weeks we pretend to know and care about college basketball while we inwardly pine for the beginning of football...
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The End. (Mostly)
Today Christy takes her last final exam of nursing school (her final final?). Next week she’ll have her official pinning ceremony and graduation and next month she’ll sit for the NCLEX exam to earn...
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Checking out of checking in
Haven’t you heard? Check-in apps are sooo 2009. At least that seems to be the lesson learned first by Gowalla and now by Foursquare. You remember Gowalla, right? The Austin-based David to Foursquare’s...
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40 years in the wilderness
Everybody drinks the water from the murky pool Surely as you think you’re well You know your belly aches Everybody learns religion at the blind man’s school Will you reach for heaven When the preacher...
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Fences and neighbors
We keep the wall between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each. And some are loaves and some so nearly balls We have to use a spell to make them balance: “Stay where you are until...
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The new normal
Well, it’s a new school year, just like last year except completely different. The past two years, I’ve had one daughter in middle school, one daughter in elementary, and one wife in nursing school....
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No coffee for squirrels
I have a confession to make. I’ve started another blog. Well, sorta. I’ve actually started a tumblr, which I don’t consider a “blog”, per se. But I guess technically it is. Anyway, you get the idea....
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A time to mend
My mom is dying. In the last nine months she’s spent maybe a week total at home. The rest of the time has been spent moving from the hospital to a rehab center to a managed care facility and back to...
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In defense of Spotify
Taylor Swift recently made a lot of headlines for pulling all her music from Spotify, arguing that the streaming service was hurting album sales and essentially driving her into bankruptcy, killing...
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Falling in
I don’t know how I feel about the word “introvert”. Introverted, extroverted, Type-A, melancholy, choleric, INTJ, ESTJ, ESPN, whatever. All ways we try to figure out how to measure each other, define...
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When Chrome gets rusty
Eric Limer of Gizmodo recently wrote about why he had finally given up on Google Chrome and gone back to Firefox. “These days Chrome is bloated, slow, and constantly crashing on me,” he complained....
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It is finished
When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. — John 19:30 I have a tendency to whine. A lot. Maybe not as much now as in the past,...
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