Monthly Archives: February 2009

Days of Waiting

I’ve been dropping the word “pneumonia” here and there around the blog for since the middle of January, and before that I may have mentioned I had bronchitis. This has been a winter of poor health, with one thing leading to another, but not yet to recovery. I saw a specialist last Monday and that …

February 28, 2009 – 8:15 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Knowing God, The Faith | Tagged , | Comments Off

Not that you’ll have much luck reading this…

… but I’m on the phone with tech support trying to solve the problem with this web site loading so slowly right now. Update 10:00 pm Eastern Time: It’s solved, except that some functionality will be turned off until sometime tomorrow at least.

February 26, 2009 – 10:01 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Comments (2)

How Wrong Is It To Suggest a Darwin-Hitler Link?

This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series Pennock, Monton, Matzke, Luskin

The estimable Nick Matzke has raised the issue here again whether we can appropriately draw any causal linkage from Darwin to Hitler or Nazism. He suggests that to make that connection is not only historically inaccurate but morally opprobrious. Some of what he has said is certainly exaggerated. Still, he has presented some new information …

February 26, 2009 – 8:48 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, Origins and Science | Tagged , , , | Comments (155)

Excellent Advice from “Intelligent Design Is Not a Theory”

I’m doing work on the status of Intelligent Design as theory, and I ran across this (emphasis added): So, realistically, what should we expect of a theory ? … Show what a skeptical student – mistrusting all claims from the theory’s proponents – would need to do to obtain the data which the theory purports …

February 24, 2009 – 5:44 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Comments (2)

Four Puzzlers from Michael Shermer

Michael Shermer on why science and religion can never unite: I don’t think a union between science and religion is possible for a logical reason, but by this same logic I conclude that science cannot contradict religion. Here’s why: A is A. Reality is real. To attempt to use nature to prove the supernatural is …

February 24, 2009 – 3:32 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Origins and Science | Tagged , , | Comments (3)

ESV Study Bible

I’ve been looking at the ESV Study Bible since it came out, so when Boomer in the Pew put up a post offering one as a prize, I thought, why not?

February 24, 2009 – 9:40 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Miscellanea | Comments (1)

Opponents, Not Enemies

This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series Pennock, Monton, Matzke, Luskin

Once I again just recently I have watched The Return of the King, from The Lord of the Rings trilogy, on DVD this time. How I love that story, both in the book and the film version! The DVD is accompanied by behind-the-scenes extra features, which included the actress who played Eowyn saying that though …

February 22, 2009 – 9:13 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , | Comments (52)