Here is a portion of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's Letter from a Birmingham Jail. It's well worth your time to read the letter in its entirety here, or elsewhere around the web.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Flawed, still called
For the 28 NFL teams no longer playing, focus has already shifted from the triumphs and failures of the 2010 season to fresh hope in 2011. Over the next couple of months, dozens of finely tuned athletes will train harder than they've ever had to before, desperate to impress a host of scouts and coaches looking for a unique package of speed, power, strength, and positional skill. From playground competition to professional collaboration, it is in our best interest to surround ourselves with the best and the brightest. What if God worked this way? What if God chose us based on our ability to meet certain criteria or a particular skill set? Where would that leave the majority of us? Sometimes I think we'd rather have it that way. Would take some of the pressure off, wouldn't it?
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Evolution Exposed, Exposed, Chapter 2: The Big Bang?
Continuing our discussion of AiG's Exposing Evolution high school textbook supplement. There is both an earth sciences and biology edition available. For the sake of this series, I'll be using the most recent edition, which happens to be the one on Earth Science.
In this chapter we are told that the Big Bang was developed using naturalistic and uniformitarian principles. Over the last century, the Big Bang has won out over many other competing models, such as the Steady State model which attributed an eternal value to the universe, and is now widely supported as the model for the origins of the universe. The discussion in Chapter 2, as expected, questions the legitimacy of the Big Bang model as an explanation of material origins and hinges its discussion on Chapter 1 which, as we discussed in the last post, questions the legitimacy of science as a whole in order to legitimize its own version of pseudo-science. Once again, evidence for or against evolution and an old earth, although pertinent to the conversation, is not the subject of these posts. This book is aimed toward Christian high school science students. So, as a scientist and a Christian, I’m more interested in the underlying philosophies being fed to impressionable students. The facts will work themselves out if they choose to pursue an education and career in science.
In this chapter we are told that the Big Bang was developed using naturalistic and uniformitarian principles. Over the last century, the Big Bang has won out over many other competing models, such as the Steady State model which attributed an eternal value to the universe, and is now widely supported as the model for the origins of the universe. The discussion in Chapter 2, as expected, questions the legitimacy of the Big Bang model as an explanation of material origins and hinges its discussion on Chapter 1 which, as we discussed in the last post, questions the legitimacy of science as a whole in order to legitimize its own version of pseudo-science. Once again, evidence for or against evolution and an old earth, although pertinent to the conversation, is not the subject of these posts. This book is aimed toward Christian high school science students. So, as a scientist and a Christian, I’m more interested in the underlying philosophies being fed to impressionable students. The facts will work themselves out if they choose to pursue an education and career in science.
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