Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
I've gotten a whiff of a sentiment about the engineering program currently being developed (full disclosure, I'm a participant in that process) at Lee University. I understand that some are of the opinion that it's being brought into the university as a way of moving things to the left. Since I came into Lee in …
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It's done: Late last week, Christian geneticist Francis Collins resigned abruptly as a researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). On Wednesday this week, the U.S. Senate held a confirmation hearing for a new NIH director, Stanford University medical professor Jay Bhattacharya, a fellow Christian who Collins privately disparaged as one of “three fringe epidemiologists” during the COVID …
The wildfires in the Los Angeles area are terrifying, but that hasn't stopped people from blaming the victims. It also hasn't stopped speculation on how they started. Arson? Spontaneous combustion? Terrorism? We still don't know and, given the way everything has a political slant to it, may not know anytime soon. The reason why these--and …
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My posting on this blog is sparser than it used to be, and especially these last few months. But that doesn't mean I've been inactive online; I've been doing a lot of posting, but not here. So perhaps it's a good idea to bring everyone up to date. It's worth reminding everyone that this blog …
https://sciencemeetsfaith.wordpress.com/2024/07/08/st-augustine-on-the-literal-meaning-of-genesis/ It's interesting to note that, in this passage at least, Augustine bases his reticence on insisting on a literal six-day creation based on the fact that it would be an embarrassment! In our day, where too many Christians (especially Evangelicals) are in "play up to the world" mode, one would think that this argument …
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The news that Cornerstone University in Michigan is ending all humanities and arts programs (with booting of professors following) has shaken many in the Christian collegiate community. It's also something that comes close to home: this fall, Lord willing, I'll start teaching engineering at Lee University, which has been a liberal arts college for a …
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http://thechristiannerd.tech.blog/2024/03/22/gods-answer-to-overthinking If there's one thing that frequently drives me crazy in my teaching engineering students, it's their tendency to overthink problems and get lost in the process. This is good advice.
Recently I did a "link post" to The shadow of Pax Romana —Unherd. It's an interview with Tom Holland about "Roman sex lives, Christian morality, and the rise and fall of empires." In it Holland makes an interesting statement the likes of which one doesn't see very often: I think that the thing that enables people …
The Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie (VRT), the national public-service broadcaster for the Flemish Community of Belgium, has found in its archives an interview with Georges Lemaître that was thought to be lost. The cosmologist from Leuven was the founder of the big bang theory in the 1920s and 1930s. He was interviewed about it in […] …
From R.G. Manley's Waveform Analysis, this observation, at the start: At a not very remote period in the past, a university education in Natural Philosophy, together with a small amount of private reading, enabled a man to claim fairly the he knew the whole of science, so far as it was at that time revealed. …
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