Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Way back in 2003, Christianity Today ran an article that began like this: Elaine Pagels, the famous historian of early Christianity, once told a revealing story about the social world behind the scenes of high-powered biblical scholarship. As a young up-and-coming professor at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, she was invited …
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Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku lays it out: “I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence,” Kaku said, as quoted by the Geophilosophical Association of Anthropological and Cultural Studies. “To me it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped …
Glenn Harlan Reynolds laments the way campuses (or campi, really) have reacted to the lachrymose response to Trump's victory: The response to the shock has been to turn campuses into kindergarten. The University of Michigan Law School announced a ”post-election self-care” event with “food and play,” including “coloring sheets, play dough [sic], positive card-making, Legos …
Now that the tables have turned, the people who want secession have also: Since Donald Trump’s electoral victory was first announced, #Calexit has been trending on Twitter, with distraught Californians looking to form their own state. Liberal Californians who are serious about this should take comfort: you've got many conservative friends east of you who …
Back in January, I made the following observation on a study which showed that American female students tend to give male professors better ratings: Too much extrapolation is always a danger, but if American female college students can’t bring themselves to bump up their faculty counterparts, how are they going to bring themselves to vote …
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I saw an Facebook friend repost a prophetic piece relating a 2001 prophecy to this election. The following isn't exactly prophetic, but it dates from February 1999, when this site wasn't even two years old. It was written in the wake of Bill Clinton's unsuccessful impeachment. The impeachment trial is over with. The current occupant …
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...and there's nothing new about it. Consider this, from Philo Judaeus' The Worse Plotting Against the Better, XXI, written about the time Our Lord was on the earth: But it is the nature of sophists to have for enemies the faculties which are in them, while their language is at variance with their thoughts and …
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She's taken a stand, all right: On Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016, popular Bible teacher and speaker Beth Moore broke her silence on political issues and posted a series of tweets that sent waves through the evangelical community. Moore’s tweet-sized messages called out Christian leaders who have turned a blind eye to the plight of women …
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On my companion site vulcanhammer.info, I have posted several articles on Soviet (and after that Russian) pile driving equipment, such as diesel hammers, concrete pile cutters, and vibratory and impact-vibration hammers. These are very specialised topics, even by construction industry standards; here I want to present some photos of more general interest to you heavy …
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Jeet Heer thinks that the right has given up on democracy: Public-opinion polling shows that Trump’s low opinion of American elections has practically become Republican Party orthodoxy. According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday, Republicans have an “unprecedented” level of “concern and mistrust in the system.” Roughly 70 percent of Republican voters believe that …
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