“Global warming really has become a new religion”–Nobel Physicist Ivar Giaever
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“’It’s ridiculous,’ he says, to think we can measure global average temperature (GAT) accurately, and that we should consider an increase in GAT from ~1880 to 2015 from ~288 degrees Kelvin to ~288.8 degrees Kelvin (an increase of only 0.3%) frightening.” More on Giaever’s video lecture.
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"Mapping the brain won’t get us very far in understanding human motivation"
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“Science may have the key, but will never find the lock.” Brain Scam
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Scott Walker Says 'Faith & Science Are Compatible, Go Hand in Hand'
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“Both science & my faith dictate my belief that we are created by God. I believe faith & science are compatible, & go hand in hand” CPost
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WORLD’s 2014 anti-science list
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“The Daily Beast …gave WORLD a distinguished third place on a list of ‘top 10 anti-science salvos of 2014’ for our November coverage of The BioLogos Foundation….for daring to question the scientific orthodoxy of Darwinism. … we want to contribute to the effort to keep research on the straight and narrow.
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Vatican Astronomer Says Young Earth Theory Is 'Almost Blasphemous'
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“Now, if you’re turning the Bible into a science book, then you’re saying you should throw it out after three years and you don’t want to do that” - CPost
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The Incoherence of Evolutionary Origins (Part 5)
Read the series so far.
The definition of science
In the course of writing about the idea of science in his Systematic Theology, Reformed writer Michael Horton notes that “Britain’s Royal Society was founded by Puritans” (The Christian Faith, 339 n.48).
The Puritans saw no clash, either ontological or methodological, in pursuing science as a response to God’s revelation. The fact that God created the world and created man in His image meant that to find out what God had done was both legitimate, as to fueling an expectation of discovery, and meaningful, because creation had been endowed with its own integrity apart from God while being supervened by God. In this they were in line with the Reformers like Calvin, who said:
Meanwhile being placed in this most beautiful theater, let us not decline to take a pious delight in the clear and manifest works of God. For as we have elsewhere observed, though not the chief, it is in point of order, the first evidence of faith to remember to which side, so ever we turn, that all which meets the eye is the work of God, and at the same time to meditate with pious care on the end which God had in view in creating it. (John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, I. 14, 20)
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How Perversion Becomes 'Normal'
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Things like tax breaks and fiscal advantages are by and large a smoke screen. Their true goal is for us to move past toleration to approval, and they know this can only happen by changing the normalcy fields so what might once have seemed perverted and strange strikes us as simply one more lifestyle choice. - Salvo
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