Darwin's sacred cause

An interesting article. Right at the intersection of theology and science, with interesting tidbits reminiscent of the current state of events in the God-science debate.

ironic that...

...I'm posting this in a place many might consider nothing more than a distraction.

horses and human bodies

A quote from Lewis' "Miracles", which I just finished (except for the epilogue and appendix). On God's and our earthly bodies

Who will trust me with a spiritual body if I cannot control even an earthly body? These small and perishable bodies we now have were given to us as ponies are given to schoolboys. We must learn to manage: not that we may some day be free of horses altogether but that some day we may ride bare-back, confident and rejoicing, those greater mounts, those winged, shining and world-shaking horses which perhaps even now expect us with impatience, pawing and snorting in the King's stables. Not that the gallop would be of any value unless it were a gallop with the King; but how else - since He has retained His own charger - should we accompany him?

on our educations

Originally posted by Tiff Yeh. The Disadvantages of an Elite Education.

Kind of strange though; I feel like time spent in grad school has helped me overcome some of the issues described here. I hope all you Ricers read it and let me know what you think.

ditchkins?

A great post from a friend on responses in the NY Times to Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. I like these a lot - rather than arguing with what Dawkins and Hitchens write as a starting point, they take a step back and argue that Dawkins and Hitchens have missed the point completely. From the post (which took it from a blog)

And, conversely, the fact that religion and theology cannot provide a technology for explaining how the material world works should not be held against them, either, for that is not what they do. When Christopher Hitchens declares that given the emergence of “the telescope and the microscope” religion “no longer offers an explanation of anything important,” Eagleton replies, “But Christianity was never meant to be an explanation of anything in the first place. It’s rather like saying that thanks to the electric toaster we can forget about Chekhov.”

In the same way, lets be careful that we as Christians don't turn Christianity into something it's not either.