Monthly Archives: August 2009

Who’s Afraid Of Big Bad Science?

Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum ask in today’s LA Times, Who in the United States will read Dawkins’ new book (or ones like it) and have any sort of epiphany, or change his or her mind? Surely not those who need it most: America’s anti-evolutionists. These religious adherents often view science itself as an assault …

August 11, 2009 – 10:44 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , | Comments (150)

“A Texas-Sized Defeat for ‘Western Civilization’”

My college friend Rob Koons was putting together a concentration on “Western Civilization and American Institutions” at the University of Texas, but he got the plugged pulled on him in a manner that was not only unceremonious but also confused, contradictory, and educationally unwise. He learned some lessons from the experience, including: Our program was rightly …

August 7, 2009 – 5:25 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (6)

Sam Harris Contra Francis Collins as NIH Head

I was thinking of writing a response to Sam Harris’s recent bleat against Francis Collins. Collins, a world-class researcher, is also a medical doctor to whom my family owes considerable gratitude; when he was actually practicing medicine years ago, he treated one of our family members. But that’s not why I would want to respond …

August 6, 2009 – 4:20 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Origins and Science, The Faith | Tagged , , , | Comments (16)

A spiritual path to helping veterans with PTSD

Just a quick note to say that some friends of mine have been involved in leading the charge on this in Campus Crusade for Christ’s Military Ministry: Ministries pave a spiritual path to help veterans with PTSD – USATODAY.com

August 5, 2009 – 6:55 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Deep Social Change, Service | Comments Off

Scientific Bias and Its Cures, or Why Intelligent Design Is Essential to Mainstream Biology

Update inserted at 5:45 pm, August 1: There is a group I call “the loyal opposition” who have frequently disagreed with me and other Christians writing here. Of that group, my logs indicate that David Ellis, Ordinary Seeker, Tom Clark, Jacob, Tony Hoffman, and doctor(logic) have visited this blog since I posted this entry. All …

August 1, 2009 – 8:06 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , | Comments (140)