God’s Voice
In a previous post I wrote about guidance from God. This present post must be understood within the context of that broader article. In the previous article I spoke of God’s guidance coming through God’s word, God’s voice, God’s reason, God’s people, and God’s circumstances. Today I would like to write about one part of…
Continue readingFollow-Up to “Margaret Atwood and the Future of Food”
In the television series Fringe, there is an exchange between two scientists who recognize that they have gone too far in some of their research. Quoted here is a portion of the script as Dr. Walter Bishop (played by John Noble) and Dr. Nicholas Boone (played by Jefferson Mays)1 reflect on past mistakes, souls, redemption,…
Continue readingMargaret Atwood and the Future of Food
Most rolled their eyes when they heard of it; others laughed at the silliness of creating synthetic meat in a petri dish when millions of cows walk the earth; some were simply nauseated. Margaret Atwood had a quiet smirk. A Dutch lab invited the media to a press conference at which a researcher sat down…
Continue readingV’Ger Has Left The Building
One of the more philosophical Star Trek movies was Star Trek: The Motion Picture released in 1979. The plot line wrestled with what makes humans human; what makes a machine a machine; what makes a sentient being sentient; and what might happen when an alien race encounters a human-made probe. The story revolved around a…
Continue readingThe Second Coming
In 1919 William Butler Yeats wrote a rather dark poem that matched the mood of the time subsequent to the end of World War I. Yes, there was celebration of the end of the war but there was also a sense that something had changed. A darkness had crept into the world. The Second Coming…
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