Phil Plait gives an excellent summary of some seriously spooky quantum experiments on the international space station.
Month: June 2008
Book NotesOut last month, and I happened to stumble on it at Borders: Herbert McCabe’s On Aquinas. McCabe died in 2001, and by all accounts was one of the most interesting modern interpreters of the man from Aquino. He was a Dominican, teaching at Fordham, and never published any books. His lectures survived, though, and… Continue reading
Steve Matheson has an excellent two-part essay at ‘An Evangelical Dialogue on Evolution‘ concerning the teaching of biology at Calvin College. Part one is here. And the follow up was just posted. Not to be left out, Scott Carson has a good post on evolutionary theory as it relates (or rather doesn’t) to Catholic theology.
Fouad Ajami on Iraq: Need we recall that the abolition of slavery had not been an “original” war aim, and that the Emancipation Proclamation was, by Lincoln’s own admission, a product of circumstances? A war for the Union had become a victory for abolitionism.
From the latest New Yorker: Anthony Lane rips Sex and the City. James Woods on ‘new’ atheism: God doesn’t exist (oh, and by the way, He sucks).