Monthly Archives: February 2008

Christian Carnival 213

It’s the Bookstore Edition at Jevlir Caravansary.

February 28, 2008 – 10:43 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Miscellanea | Comments Off

The Design Matrix

Book Review A friend of mine has an overly strong commitment to things she learned when she was growing up. “Doctors say you need to drink eight glasses of water a day” is one. I ran across a repot in which a leading researcher in this field told of his attempts to track down the …

February 28, 2008 – 9:54 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , , , | Comments (14)

Reading Opposing Views

I ended my last post with this: Agree or disagree with what he has to say–either way, you’ll find a lot to learn in it. I got to wondering as I wrote that: do you read authors you disagree with? I’m especially interested to know if atheistic/agnostic visitors here read good Christian authors. I commend …

February 26, 2008 – 10:04 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Thinking Christianly | Tagged | Comments (6)

On Blogging a Philosophy Book

A few days ago I confidently announced I was going to blog my way through J.P. Moreland’s Christianity and the Nature of Science: A Philosophical Investigation. What I failed to recognize was that the first chapter is considerably more “bloggable” than the rest. I’m scaling back my plans now. Moreland’s book began with the difficulty …

February 26, 2008 – 9:43 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

An Interview with Timothy Keller

In his new book, The Reason for God, currently No. 18 on the New York Times bestseller list, Keller offers what one might call his summa: the meat of his preaching, teaching, and confession of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior for a world of unexamined materialist presuppositions, genetic determinisms, and endless digital cross-chatter. I …

February 25, 2008 – 12:43 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences | Comments Off

This is What Not Discriminating Looks Like?

Homosexual activists in the Keystone State are blasting a public school principal simply because he is a Boy Scout leader…. the president of an organization that claims the Scouts practice discrimination by prohibiting homosexuals to be leaders said the school should not support the Scouts and should never have allowed them inside the building in …

February 25, 2008 – 10:52 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged , , | Comments (21)

Christian Carnival 212

Christian Carnival 212 is up at Evangelical Ecologist.

February 22, 2008 – 8:21 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Miscellanea | Comments Off

“The Irrational Atheist”

First Things has published Anthony Sacramone’s review of Vox Day’s book, The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens. It includes: To take just one of many examples, a common trope among atheists is that religion is the No. 1 cause of wars in history. “If religion were an important element …

February 21, 2008 – 10:35 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism | Tagged , , | Comments (19)

A Dying Man’s Demand for Definite Answers

This ER clip on a dying patient’s intense spiritual questions has gone viral, according to viralvideochart.com, which ranks it at number 11 on their list this afternoon. (The list is apparently generated by the number of blogs referencing each video.) This patient was asking for–no, demanding–straight answers to straight questions. The chaplain couldn’t answer (SteveK …

February 20, 2008 – 2:18 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Thinking Christianly | Tagged , | Comments (5)

Links

Banishing Christianity from the public square (From Gene Veith) A letter-writer to the “Washington Post” fulminates at the way NASCAR allowed the Daytona 500 to begin with a prayer. Not only a prayer, but one that “invoked Jesus Christ by name.” This, says the letter-writer, is another step in the effort to make Christianity into …

February 18, 2008 – 2:43 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Miscellanea | Comments Off