The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
I have never met Mark A. Noll; but, if we ever do have a conversation together, I expect I would find myself very much agreeing with him. He is the sort of intellectual writer who is unafraid to turn over all of the stones and search for every seed of truth. He desires to take…
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The CBC news site had an article about a Harvard research group that built 1,024 tiny robots. The “Kilobots” have three tiny legs and are powered by a rechargeable battery. They express a “hive mentality” in which the researchers can send a signal to the group of robots and they will assemble into groupings of…
Continue readingReality
According to one of the greatest mathematicians of our time, “there is no picture- or theory-independent concept of reality.”* What Stephen Hawking means by this is that we are all limited in our perception of reality. He compares all of us to a goldfish living in a bowl with curved sides. Gazing out, the fish…
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PUPPET STRINGS: I can’t keep from mourning for this topsy-turvy world / With all its strife and pain /Mourning for the lost and the desperatechildren / Who can’t remember theirnames And I can feel it in my soul / Now the endis getting near / I can hear the devillaughing / And its ringing in…
Continue readingSpiritual Experiences and Reason
As I work on a graduate course at Regent College I have been reading the works of Teresa of Avila. She was a remarkable person and one who always analyzed her experiences to see if they could be from God or from her own mind. This quote is from her and speaks to using all…
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