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Friday, March 28, 2014

The Accidentally on Purpose Driven Life

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This post is either a leisurely ramble through hyperspace or a self-indulgent burden on loyal readers. Either way, you might need to read i...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Rebelling Against God and Darwin

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If we're going to fall, we need a space in which to do so. This would be vertical space. The fact that we fall provides the space wi...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

An Urgent Memo from the Centers for Spiritual Disease Control

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Don't get me wrong. I don't want to minimize just how rotten I think mankind is. It's just that the folks are okay. People I ...
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Monday, March 24, 2014

Thoughts on the Fall of Man: How Low Did We Go?

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How low did we go when we blunderwent our primordial calamity, or whatever you want to call it? Probably better not to name it at all, whic...
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Friday, March 21, 2014

Even God Can't be a Little Bit Pregnant

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As we've discussed in the past, we are confronted with a number of irreducible complementarities -- we call them orthoparadoxes, but tha...
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Thursday, March 20, 2014

Shhh! The Liberals are Sleeping!

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Must every post be important? You know, in the old days, I had the occasional post consisting of unalloyed frivolousness and bleating heart...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

The Insanely Powerful Intellect of Paul Krugman

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Almost no time this morning... Speaking of infinite variables, complex systems, nonlinear behavior, and human freedom, there is a relevant ...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

The Thou of Physics

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What must physics be like in order for something as queer as an "I" to exist? And what must metaphysics be like in order for phys...
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Friday, March 14, 2014

Adventures in God

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Although Buber (as mentioned two posts back) denies the implications of his own theology, he writes in his most famous work, I and Thou , t...
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Thursday, March 13, 2014

I Can Get You a TOE by 9 O'clock this Morning

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Let's play a theological game of SPOT the FALLACY (or EXPOSE the THEO-ILLOGIC). Hartshorne's essay in The Philosophy of Martin Bube...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

I AM, IRS, and You are IT

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I would like to expand upon some of the ideas discussed in yesterday's post, including the conflict between theo-logic and theology, or ...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Theology, Theologic, and Theomena

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Excuse me? Theomena? That would be the best word I can think of at the moment for spiritual facts and divine data (a variation on phenom...
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Friday, March 07, 2014

Between Cynicism and Faith

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Because science is science, it can never be settled. Nor can it have any absolute content per se. That is, it is a relentlessly skeptical ...
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Thursday, March 06, 2014

What's the Big Idea?

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One more post on the Noble Savages and ignoble ones. I wanted to say savage Nobelists, but no anthropologist has ever been awarded one. P...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2014

Praise Marx and Pass the Ammo

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It seems that Isaiah Berlin, whose first book was a biography of Marx, never got over the experience. In a good way. He tips his hand in...
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Tuesday, March 04, 2014

My Time Among the Savages of the Left

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Upon returning to 1966 after his seventeen-month time-travel to the Stone Age, a colleague invited Chagnon to lecture her class on his find...
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Monday, March 03, 2014

Ignoble Savages and Tenured Apes

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I have barely any time this morning, so I can only lay a foundation for the insultainment to follow. Noble Savages provides fascinating in...
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