Monthly Archives: September 2010

“Sex and stigma, with Francoise Barre-Sinoussi : Scientific American”

For your response and reaction: Françoise Barré-Sinoussi won her Nobel Prize for identifying HIV as the cause of AIDS. The virus is made more dangerous by the social stigmas that surround infection. [From Sex and stigma, with Francoise Barre-Sinoussi : Scientific American]

September 29, 2010 – 4:24 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Comments Off

“Apologetics 315: Responses to Stephen Hawking and The Grand Design”

Brian Auten on The Grand Design Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlondinow’s recent book The Grand Design caused a lot of buzz in the media and blogosphere prior to its release. For this reader, the new best-seller was a letdown. It was short, anticlimactic, and seemed lacking much new information or actual argument. However, the responses …

September 29, 2010 – 3:12 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Comments (4)

The Grand Design (Book Review)

Book Review Some of the thinkers most opposed to theories of design are also the most preoccupied with it. Richard Dawkins wrote The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence for Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design. Stephen Hawking’s recent book was titled simply The Grand Design. The two books share common purposes: to explain and defend …

September 26, 2010 – 7:39 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Comments (37)

A Test and a Link

I’m testing a blog posting feature from my mobile phone. And I’m also recommending this link: http://merecomments.typepad.com/merecomments/2010/09/the-locus-of-hatred-part-1.html

September 25, 2010 – 8:00 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Miscellanea | Comments Off

New Directions In Ministry

We’ve come to a turning point in a long journey. God has clearly been leading us, even though for many months all we saw was one step of the path ahead. We’re excited to announce to you a new direction in our ministry—still with Campus Crusade for Christ, but working on a unique assignment for …

September 24, 2010 – 8:32 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Service | Comments Off

Why So Quiet Here On The Blog?

You’ll find out tomorrow.

September 23, 2010 – 9:28 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Unfiled | Comments (7)

Do You Think Hawking Was Serious?

John Horgan, by no means a religious believer, doesn’t take Hawking very seriously: Cosmic Clowning: Stephen Hawking’s “new” theory of everything is the same old CRAP While I’m at it with Scientific American, I beg to differ with “Undifferentiated Ethics: Why Stem Cells from Adult Skin Are as Morally Fraught as Embryonic Stem Cells.” There …

September 13, 2010 – 7:38 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Comments (3)

“Spirituality can bridge science-religion divide”

Chris Mooney doesn’t get it. A focus on spirituality, then, might be the route to finally healing one of the most divisive rifts in Western society — over the relationship between science and religion. We’ll still have our evolution battles, to be sure; and the Catholic Church won’t soon give up on its wrongheaded resistance …

September 13, 2010 – 7:37 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Comments (38)