Quiz: Why do people have trouble believing in God?
Michelangelo‘s Creation of Adam with a significant 21st-century alteration. Can you find it? Source: www.fotodiario2.it That’s the question I’m asking after reading physicist Marcelo Gleiser’s post published last week at 13.7. Pointing to the problems with creationism and the fact that that belief in evolution decreases as church attendance increases, he asks, “Why do so [...]
McGrath and McGrath on the insufficiency of science
Alister McGrath. Image source: Wikimedia Commons Alister McGrath says a lot of things that make sense. And when he joins up with his wife, Joanna Collicutt McGrath, things get even better. Back in 2007 the couple published an utterly generous and blessedly short response to Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion. Entitled The Dawkins Delusion?, it [...]
Percy’s conundrum
Walker Percy (1916-1990). Image source: Wikipedia. Here’s a wonderful excerpt on Percy from HiLoBrow (“middlebrow’s not the solution”): “So, if you want to be Walker Percy, here’s what you do: have a father (whose own father committed suicide) who shoots himself with a shotgun when you’re twelve. Have a mother who might or might not [...]
Michael Ruse on Darwin and atheism. Thinking like Jesus
Julia Margaret Cameron, Charles Darwin, 1866. Image source: Wikimedia Commons Today an interesting article showed up at the Huffington Post. Written by Michael Ruse, an atheist who is interesting, the piece is about Darwin and atheism. It was written in the wake of Darwin Day, which occurred this last weekend. He points out the oddity [...]
Is the whole thing in there?
The Tutor, from your friends at The Highpants Resistance. No children were harmed in the making of this video. This may not be the best way to teach the Bible to children. But it’s all in there. And for those who don’t know already, the Good Book gets much more brutal and misogynistic than the [...]
Dinosaurs in church? We’re for that
Photos by Andrea Tintori. The small inset box is not in the correct location; it should be under the rail on the far right side. The measuring rod and the fossil itself are visible in the larger photo. The image was taken from discovery.com; this is obviously not Mr. Tintori’s mistake A small-town cathedral in [...]
Who are you? Explain yourself! Thus spake the Caterpillar
Who are you? Explain yourself! The Caterpillar smokes his hookah and gives Alice the what-for. Image source: Wikimedia Commons This, from the fifth chapter of Lewis Carroll‘s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and addressed Alice in a languid, sleepy voice. “Who are you?” said the Caterpillar. Alice [...]
