Monthly Archives: December 2008

“The Christendom Review”

Thank you to Anthony Esolen of Mere Comments for linking to the new Christendom Review. Its first article, by Lydia McGrew, is The Irrational Faith of the Naked Public Square. It’s all good, but this, near the end, was downright arresting. She’s speaking to those who say, out of some vaguely held religious or moral …

December 18, 2008 – 5:50 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, Thinking Christianly | Tagged | Comments Off

Slaughter of the Dissidents–Book Review

Book Review I suppose I ought to start this review on a more positive note, but here I go anyway: If you didn’t like the movie Expelled, you are really not going to like Jerry Bergman’s Slaughter of the Dissidents: The Shocking Truth About Killing The Careers Of Darwin Doubters. It’s one thing to sit …

December 18, 2008 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, The Faith, Unfiled | Tagged , , , | Comments (3)

“The Latest Face of Creationism in the Classroom”

This entry is part 1 of 8 in the series Is ID Creationism?

Glenn Branch and Eugenie C. Scott write in a Scientific American article dated today, Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever changing guises Such is the expected stance from leaders of the National Center for Science Education, …

December 16, 2008 – 10:46 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , , , | Comments (31)

New on the Blogroll: “Tritone Life”

Tritone Life: “Christ in the dissonance of my culture, mind, and senses,” it says. What in the world is a tritone? It’s the musical interval between (for example) a B natural and an F natural, a dissonance that begs for resolution when the two notes are sounded together (example–courtesy of Wikipedia). It has been called …

December 15, 2008 – 7:03 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, The Faith | Comments Off

That Which Could Explain Anything…

Here, from Michael Egnor, is one of the better criticisms of evolutionary speculationism I’ve seen in a while. It’s centered on the point that evolution can be used to explain just about any phenomena whatever. A paper by Nathaniel Dominy and George Perry on human saliva suggests that it was our spit that originally made …

December 13, 2008 – 8:09 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Comments (8)

“What God Hath Not Joined”

On the same-sex “marriage” front: Christianity Today: What God Hath Not JoinedUp For Debate Mere Comments: What do the extortionists want? Albert Mohler: Turning the Bible on its Head — Newsweek Goes for Gay Marriage Two or Three.net: Newsweek: Shoddy Journalism or Wretched Exegesis? Between Two Worlds: Newsweek’s Revisionist, Religious Case for Gay Marriage Ben …

December 13, 2008 – 8:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Comments Off

“Discover God”

New on the blogroll: Discover God. Highly recommended!

December 9, 2008 – 3:50 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Comments (1)

“Happy 400th Birthday, John Milton”

Great words from the great poet: Let [Truth] and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? … I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland …

December 9, 2008 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, Thinking Christianly | Tagged , | Comments (1)

No One Sees God: The Dark Night of Atheists and Believers by Michael Novak

Book Review Michael Novak is convinced that Atheists and believers in God can and should open civil, reasoned conversations about questions important to each. Who really are we? What may we hope? How ought we to live? In the face of such questions, both the atheist and the theist stand in similar darkness. The atheist …

December 8, 2008 – 3:30 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences, New Atheism | Tagged | Comments (3)

“Turning the Bible on its Head — Newsweek Goes for Gay Marriage”

Introductory The national news media are collectively embarrassed by the passage of Proposition 8 in California. Gay rights activists are publicly calling on the mainstream media to offer support for gay marriage, arguing that the media let them down in November. It appears that Newsweek intends to do its part to press for same-sex marriage. …

December 8, 2008 – 3:06 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged | Comments (1)