On my desk there is a slightly messy and seemingly bottomless pile of paper. The individual sheets are not pure white and blank, devoid of content. Rather, the pile consists of recent science findings in the form of select news releases spit from my printer. A few years back the title to one began with …
Tag Archive: evolution
Feb
18
Faith: Religion’s Achilles Heel
The word “faith” is short and appears innocuous. But it has caused much human misery in history and continues to do so presently. A good first step in addressing this problem is to appreciate that “faith,” like most words, has multiple meanings. The type of faith discussed in this essay will be confined to religious …
May
24
Book Review – Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, & the Battle for America’s Soul
“It is humanity’s unique blessing and peculiar curse to be the only species on Earth, as far as we know, that worries so obsessively and at such great expense about where we came from and why we’re here.” (Epilogue, pg. 339) Pulitizer Prize winning journalist Edward Humes is a consummate storyteller. In Monkey Girl, he …
May
14
Children of Imperfect Design
Many people will tell you that a god must exist — just look around! There’s all this incredible stuff, and where there is incredible stuff, there must be an incredible-stuff maker. In more sober wording, the argument goes, “There must be a creator because life on earth appears designed. And not just designed, but intelligently …
Apr
27