Polish priest and physicist Michael Heller has won the Templeton Prize. Heller’s two books on Lemaitre were key sources for my own book. In his statement released today, he has some interesting comments on that brand of creationism peculiar to the U.S.: “Adherents of the so-called intelligent design ideology commit a grave theological error. They… Continue reading
David Mamet stops being a liberal: I’d observed that lust, greed, envy, sloth, and their pals are giving the world a good run for its money, but that nonetheless, people in general seem to get from day to day; and that we in the United States get from day to day under rather wonderful and… Continue reading
The Bubble Dependence of the economy and its consequences: The dot-com crash of the early 2000s should have been followed by decades of soul-searching; instead, even before the old bubble had fully deflated, a new mania began to take hold on the foundation of our long-standing American faith that the wide expansion of home ownership… Continue reading
The Methodology of the Miraculous?Fascinating discussion on the Vatican’s determination of miracles going on at Scott Carson’s blog.
John Wilkens attended a recent lecture by Richard Dawkins. He was less than impressed.But don’t say that too loudly around his fans.