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		<title>Generosity of Religious Americans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From OneNewsNow.com:
A new study shows that people of faith in America have a huge heart in terms of giving to Third World countries &#8212; and the study cites a surprising dollar figure.
Carol Adelman of the Hudson Institute cites the information in a study done with Notre Dame University. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t realize it would be as [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Generosity of Religious Americans", url: "http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/generosity-of-religious-americans/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Carnival CCXXIV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Posted at Evangelical Ecologist.
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		<title>&#8220;Darwin&#8217;s Gift to Science and Religion&#8221; Part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Darwin's Gift?University of California, Irvine biologist Francisco Ayala writes in his book Darwin&#8217;s Gift to Science and Religion (pages 174-175),
Scientific knowledge cannot contradict religious beliefs, because science has nothing definitive to say for or against religious inspiration, religious inspiration, religious realities, or religious values. There [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "&#8220;Darwin&#8217;s Gift to Science and Religion&#8221; Part 3", url: "http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/darwins-gift-3/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Darwin&#8217;s Gift to Science and Religion&#8221; Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Darwin's Gift?Book Review
In his book Darwin&#8217;s Gift to Science and Religion, Francisco Ayala suggests that evolution supplies the answer to a serious theological conundrum. I alluded to this in my first post on this book: Things that Seem Wrong About the World:
When I was studying [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "&#8220;Darwin&#8217;s Gift to Science and Religion&#8221; Part 2", url: "http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/darwins-gift-to-science-and-religion-part-2/" });</script>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/darwins-gift-to-science-and-religion-part-2/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Darwin&#8217;s Gift to Science and Religion&#8221; Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Darwin's Gift?Book Review
Francisco Ayala wants us to understand and appreciate what he considers to be Darwin&#8217;s Gift to Science and Religion. As the author of the book by that name, he certainly has a claim to knowledge on the issues: having trained as a seminarian in [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "&#8220;Darwin&#8217;s Gift to Science and Religion&#8221; Part 1", url: "http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/darwins-gift-to-science-and-religion-part-1/" });</script>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/darwins-gift-to-science-and-religion-part-1/</link>
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		<title>No Intelligence Test for the Family of God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.&#8221;
I ran across that rather jarring statement the other day on the Internet. It came from the mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), an extraordinarily intelligent man — and a very vocal atheist.

Those are the opening lines of [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "No Intelligence Test for the Family of God", url: "http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/no-intelligence-test/" });</script>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/no-intelligence-test/</link>
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		<title>Myanmar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One wants to say something about a tragedy like the one in Myanmar. But what can be said, other than to express grief, to pray for the survivors, and to try to help, at least from a distance. For those on the scene there have been barriers beyond logistics, however.

A U.N. official says the World [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Myanmar", url: "http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/myanmar/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (Revised and Expanded Edition)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Book Review
The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (Revised and Expanded Edition), by Philip Jenkins
Philip Jenkins is Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies at Penn State; the book is published by Oxford University Press. With that set of credentials it&#8217;s hard simply to sweep aside the rather astonishing central theses of his book:
&#8220;The [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (Revised and Expanded Edition)", url: "http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/the-next-christendom/" });</script>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/the-next-christendom/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Atheism Required for Science?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeff Laird answers this question with a nicely convenient list of scientists who didn&#8217;t think so.
Part 1
Part 2
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		<link>http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/atheism-required-for-science/</link>
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		<title>The Darwin-Hitler Question: Reflecting on the Process</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Darwin to Hitler?Before now, the one topic that has drawn forth the most anger on this blog has been homosexuality. Not any more. About 2 1/2 weeks ago I wrote about why the Darwin-Hitler link is so sensitive. I&#8217;ve been learning, since then, just how [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Darwin-Hitler Question: Reflecting on the Process", url: "http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/the-darwin-hitler-question-reflecting-on-the-process/" });</script>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/the-darwin-hitler-question-reflecting-on-the-process/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;What You Ought to Know About Intelligent Design&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blog entry deleted: see here.
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		<link>http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/what-you-ought-to-know-about-intelligent-design/</link>
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		<title>Is This Not Also Bullying?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Homosexual activists rudely shouted down an academic lecture, because they didn&#8217;t agree. That&#8217;s no more impressive than the bullies here.
And my wife just reminded me how similar this is to P.Z. Myers on this phone call. Is there a pattern here?
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		<title>Andrew Johnston and YouTube</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He&#8217;s big&#8211;really big&#8211;on YouTube right now: 13-year-old Andrew Johnston, on Britain&#8217;s Got Talent. Here&#8217;s one of the clips:

Simon liked his singing&#8211;a lot. (So do I.) He said in the introduction that he had been bullied for his singing. Well, the comments on YouTube are right in line with that. They&#8217;re piling on with profanity, all [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Andrew Johnston and YouTube", url: "http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/andrew-johnston-and-youtube/" });</script>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/andrew-johnston-and-youtube/</link>
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		<title>Zombies: The Movie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paul, frequent commenter here, sent me this link by email: Overcoming Bias: Zombies: The Movie. Some excerpts:

DOCTOR: David! David Chalmers! Can you hear me?
CHALMERS: Yes.
NURSE: It&#8217;s no use, doctor.
CHALMERS: I&#8217;m perfectly fine. I&#8217;ve been introspecting on my consciousness, and I can&#8217;t detect any difference. I know I would be expected to say that, but -
The [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Zombies: The Movie", url: "http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/zombies-the-movie/" });</script>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/zombies-the-movie/</link>
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		<title>Jesus: Full of Grace and Truth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series What Kind of Man Was Jesus?And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.&#8211;John 1:14
Jesus&#8211;referred to here as &#8220;the Word&#8221;&#8211;came with glory reflecting his Father [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Jesus: Full of Grace and Truth", url: "http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/full-of-grace-and-truth/" });</script>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/full-of-grace-and-truth/</link>
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		<title>Christian Carnival: The Not-Room-222 Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Posted at Brain Cramps for God.
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		<link>http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/05/christian-carnival-the-not-room-222-edition/</link>
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		<title>Do We Really Know It&#8217;s True?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I gave this talk at Seaford Baptist Church on Wednesday, April 23, 2008. Some portions have been edited out because they&#8217;re not applicable to a wider audience. 
 
Option-Click (Mac) or Right-Click (Mac or PC) to Download mp3, or listen directly online:
 
 

 
 
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		<title>Jesus: Fulfiller of Scripture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series What Kind of Man Was Jesus?It all revolves around one man: Jesus Christ. Either he was the greatest person of history, the unique Son of God, or he is nothing at all to us today. What kind of man was he really?
We&#8217;ll have to take [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Jesus: Fulfiller of Scripture", url: "http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/04/what-kind-of-man-was-jesus/" });</script>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/04/what-kind-of-man-was-jesus/</link>
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		<title>Darwin-Nazi Link: Fundamentally Wrongheaded?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Darwin to Hitler?A few days ago Tony Hoffman suggested,

Expelled’s charge and the constant revival of this aspersion on this website — that Darwin leads to Hitler — seems fundamentally wrongheaded&#8230;.
Tom, you keep saying that although you concede that there is no philosophical link from Darwin [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Darwin-Nazi Link: Fundamentally Wrongheaded?", url: "http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/04/darwin-nazi-link-fundamentally-wrongheaded/" });</script>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/04/darwin-nazi-link-fundamentally-wrongheaded/</link>
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		<title>Study Suggests Math Teachers Scrap Balls and Slices - New York Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This reminds me of so many other untested beliefs. Parents and teachers have been of the opinion lately that students will understand math better using real-world objects to illustrate abstract concepts. Research now suggests this is wrong.

“The motivation behind this research was to examine a very widespread belief about the teaching of mathematics, namely that [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Study Suggests Math Teachers Scrap Balls and Slices - New York Times", url: "http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/04/study-suggests-math-teachers-scrap-balls-and-slices-new-york-times/" });</script>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2008/04/study-suggests-math-teachers-scrap-balls-and-slices-new-york-times/</link>
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