Monthly Archives: January 2010

Signature in the Cell: A View of Its Reviewers

I have a telephone interview scheduled with Dr. Stephen C. Meyer, author of Signature In the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design, this afternoon (update: find that interview here). Part of my preparation has been reading through reviews of the book on Amazon, where I noticed some patterns that I decided to quantify. …

January 11, 2010 – 12:05 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , , | Comments (13)

The Mac and the Droid

The following off-topic article is written strictly as a service to Macintosh users who may be getting started with a new smartphone, and who I would hate to see making the needless mistakes I made with mine. Can A Mac User Get Along With a Google Phone? I travel a lot, my work involves a …

January 9, 2010 – 8:25 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Miscellanea | Tagged , , , | Comments (3)

Strong Links (January 7)

Hume’s Gentle Witness, by Peter Wehner (National Review Online) J. P. Moreland on Human Persons and the Failure of Naturalism (Part One) by Bill Vallicella, at the Prosblogion. Excellent introduction to a vital topic. Make Way for Non-Human Persons? by Albert Mohler (note that human non-persons have supposedly existed at least since the start of …

January 7, 2010 – 2:46 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Miscellanea | Comments (2)

The Theology of Scientific Naturalism

Book Review When I picked up Cornelius Hunter’s Science’s Blind Spot: The Unseen Religion of Scientific Naturalism, I expected the “unseen religion” of the title to refer in some way to atheistic naturalism itself. Whether naturalism is a form of religion depends on definitions. If religion is defined as a system of beliefs involving the …

January 5, 2010 – 10:43 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , , | Comments (34)

Strong Links

Some of today’s strong links: The Right Way to Think About Unborn Children from Touchstone Magazine – Mere Comments Four Reasons Why Leaders Stop Leading from Perry Noble The Rebirth of Virtue: An Interview with N.T. Wright, at Kingdom People and here’s an encouraging, relatively new Christian blog: Walking With God

January 5, 2010 – 5:08 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Miscellanea | Tagged | Comments Off

“Jesus Christ Offers Tiger Woods Something Tiger Woods Badly Needs”

“He needs something that Christianity especially provides and offers, and that is redemption and forgiveness.” True story, unrelated to Tiger’s situation except for the topic matter: A psychiatric hospital in Lansing, Michigan phoned the pastor at the church I was attending at the time. They asked him, “Do you Christians have any help to offer …

January 5, 2010 – 1:12 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices, The Faith | Tagged , | Comments (100)

Mobile Device Support

Just days after a commenter (Hank) said, “Thank you for making your blog nicely accessible by phone,” something went wrong with the mobile version. I got time to do some research today and I found a fix. As far as I can tell it’s working again. Please let me know, mobile users, if you’re not …

January 4, 2010 – 1:59 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Unfiled | Comments Off

Happy Palindrome Day!

It’s a new decade (depending on how you divide your decades), and, Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era? Is it a new era? Who knows. But it is Palindrome Day: 01/02/2010.* Hence my theological ruminations for the morning, beginning with: Dennis and Edna sinned. In fact, Dennis, Nell, Edna, …

January 2, 2010 – 7:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Just For Fun | Comments (4)