Oh, glorious humanity, to think up something this original. I saw a little news item about it last weekend and had to check it out.
Do you realize there’s actually a competition where scientists create and perform dances based on their scientific theories?
Please enjoy your Thanksgiving, and while you’re digesting, take a look at [...]
If you’ve been a reader here for long enough, you know I love Dr. Kenneth R. Miller. In a platonic, fangirl kind of way. He is a prominent science, a biology professor at Brown University, and author of the most excellent book Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground Between [...]
Seems fair.
Just so you know, the King James Version of the Bible really does refer to unicorns in Job 39:9-12. Modern translations have changed that to “wild ox.”
It’s a common complaint critics make about fundamentalist interpretations of the Bible: if you take some of it literally, you have to take it all.
Some of [...]
I don’t even know if I can stay awake long enough to type this, but I’ll see what I can do. I am so exhausted, but thoroughly happy with this fantasy writer day. It was so way better than I even expected.
It’s about 10:30, and I just got back to the room from [...]
Because I’m going to New York, baby! This week. And it’s a little ritual of mine to buy the Sunday Times before I go so I can pretend to myself that I’m even halfway in the know.
Not that I’m going to have any extra time AT ALL on this trip to go see [...]
Just when you wonder whether the whole evolution vs. God debate might be cooling down, you get a guy like this.
I’ll be setting aside a few extra copies of Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks of Nature for him to give his grandkids. And I might have to do a home visit.
Sheesh.
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Dang. I said I wasn’t going to post anything new until at least eight more lurkers stepped forward and said hi, but this is just too juicy to keep to myself.
I don’t know where to start. Is it the fact that once again a school district has bowed to pressure like [...]
As you may know, the novel I have coming out next year deals with the fight over teaching evolution in a high school.
Some people have asked me if the kind of discussions that go on in the classroom in my book really happen still in the real world.
As of this week, yes. Read [...]
Finally, we got to the important stuff in sign language class last night–a short list of the most useful swear words. Now I can go on Howard Stern.
Do any of you remember that movie Children of a Lesser God? Remember when Marlee Matlin cussed out William Hurt, her hands flying and gesticulating? [...]
Last night I attended a lecture on science and theology (because I know how to party), and one of the presenters handed out this great list of quotations from famous scientists.
The one that struck me most was by Blaise Pascal, the French physicist:
We are more easily persuaded, in general, by the reasons we ourselves discover [...]