Reimaging Xianity in the wake of Modernism's passing
Science
The pain of Asians in the Modern Age
Jun 26th
The effects of commodition , rationalization, and a host of other features of the modern age produces a profound sense of disconnectedness in our lives. Those of you that have worked in an office or factories know what I am talking about. Tetsuya Ishida lamented the effects of the modern age on the lives of the people of Japan in his surrealist paintings. Check them out. How much do they mirror our souls in this modern age?
Faith or Evidence First?
Jun 12th
I have a sneaking suspicion that if we believe in the truths of the Bible about God the world’s meaning because of rational arguments and empirical evidence (Lee Strobel/Josh McDowell, anyone?), then we actually have faith in rationality and empiricism. I tweeted about it the other day and had a fun conversation with my good [...]
Truth is just over that Horizon
Jun 11th
In my philosophy classes, I often try to help my students distinguish between that set of beliefs that we think are true and a description of the world-as-it-is. Another way of putting it, between Little-T truth and Big-T truth. Little-T truth is everything we think is true, but it is limited by our perspective of reality and contained within our language.
Big-T truth, on the other hand, is impossible for humans to achieve. We all have limited horizons and in order to be able to speak of the world-as-it-is, we need to get beyond that horizon, we need perspective.
This kid for the win.
Mar 12th
Upset kids tell off Neil deGrasse Tyson for declassifying Pluto as a planet in an exhibit he is in charge of. Here are some of them. Read more about it here.
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Can’t Touch This!
Jan 7th
Over at Nature, I just read that roughly 8% of our DNA (and the DNA of all mammals) comes from viruses. I wonder how people that view Genesis 1-11 as Rein Geschichte[1] deal with such discoveries, as it would imply that humans are the result of a long developmental process instead of created ex [...]
Textbooks, Revolution, Patches and Paradigms
Dec 4th
Tonight, as I was watching Reed as he woke up in the middle of the night (full happy awake – he has gas), I pulled The Structure of Scientific Revolutions off the shelf and began re-reading it. I came across this insightful quote:
Textbooks being pedagogic vehicles for the perpetuation of normal science, have to [...]
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