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Folks, my presence on this blog will be light in the days to come. I’ve just received terrible news of a critical family medical emergency, and will be getting on a plane for Louisiana this afternoon. I’m not at liberty to share details right now, out of privacy concerns, but I do beg your prayers…

Not much, either for science or religion, says physicist Stephen Barr. Excerpt: None of this is to say that the conclusions the ID movement draws about how life came to be and how it evolves are intrinsically unreasonable or necessarily wrong. Nor is it to deny that the ID movement has been treated atrociously and…

Shorter Ben Greenberg: Because it’s the antidote to Moralistic Therapeutic Deism among Jews. From the longer essay by Greenberg, who is the Orthodox rabbi at Harvard: What changed in the half century since 1952? If anything, the America of today is even more pluralistic than the America of the 1950s. The majority of Americans of…

Artist Dan Hillier’s portrayal of Icarus has the mythical figure being dropped from the sky by a seraph, one of the higher angels. Interesting what it says about hubris as a form of defying divinity. In this image (at least as I interpret it), Icarus did not fly so high on his own power, as…
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