Via John Farrell.
20 April 2008
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Darwin's Tree of Life
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About Quintessence of Dust
About Stephen Matheson
- Steve Matheson
- Associate Professor of Biology, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan | Reformed Christian | developmental cell biologist | evolutionist | NCSE Steve | baseball fan | Bardolator
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Clashing Culture
Check out Clashing Culture, where I blog with three partners (so far). The subtitle says it all: "Conversations about science and faith." Anastasia is an agnostic of sorts, Thomas and I are Christians, and Mike is an atheist. We all like each other, and seek to engage interesting and difficult questions at the interface of science and belief, from our divergent points of view. We're looking for more partners, especially those who can increase our ideological diversity. Check out the conversation, and/or visit the superb blogs of the individual participants:
- Hope for Pandora (Thomas Robey)
- Genetic Maize (Anastasia Bodnar)
- Tangled Up in Blue Guy (Mike Haubrich)
Blogs of note
- An Evangelical Dialogue on Evolution
- Beyond the Firmament
- The Creation of an Evolutionist
- Jim Kidder's blog (evolutionary creationist)
- Holy Skin and Bone (Kevin Corcoran's blog)
- Farrellmedia (John Farrell's blog)
- Genomicron
- Sandwalk
- The Beagle Project Blog
- The Loom
- a simple prop (John Lynch)
- Evolving Thoughts (John Wilkins)
- Fors Clavigera (Jamie Smith's blog)
- An Examined Life (Scott Carson's blog)
- The Fire and the Rose
- Higgaion
- Threads from Henry's Web
- Mendel's Garden (genetics blog carnival)
- Gene Genie (human genetics blog carnival)
- Encephalon (neuroscience blog carnival)
- Tangled Bank (science blog carnival)
- Laelaps
Carefully selected links
If this blog were a course, these would be your textbooks:
- Science & Its Limits: The Natural Sciences in Christian Perspective, by Del Ratzsch
- Perspectives on an Evolving Creation, edited by Keith B. Miller
- The Beak of the Finch, by Jonathan Weiner
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard
- Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, by Antonio Damasio
- Phantoms in the Brain, by V.S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee
- Hamlet: Poem Unlimited, by Harold Bloom
- Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, by Harold Bloom
- The Extended Phenotype, by Richard Dawkins
- The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction, by David Quammen
- Biology Through the Eyes of Faith, by Richard T. Wright
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9 comments:
As funny as this video may be from one perspective, it's still in bad taste. It's going to be immediately classified "name calling." And while "ignorant fool" may be technically accurate, it in no way advances the discussion. The scientific community needs to stop playing solely off of it's argument from authority regardless of how cheap and easy the "folk science" tactics of the creationist community are. It's important for them to tell the public that evolution is more than just a hypothesis and that more than just atheists believe it is true, but they need to do a bit more than that and connect people to why they know they are correct about it. Otherwise things quickly fall into that "word of man vs. word of God" dichotomy and we know who wins that war in Joe schmo's mind. Of course the flip side of that is the difficulty in breaking down the presentation into something that is informative, accurate, not too lengthy, and not over people's heads. We can't cram a scientific education onto a billboard as easily as they can say "Not fair!" The scientific community needs to get over the emotionalism of confidence and they need to minister specifically to the needs of the public that has been conditioned to hear all the wrong things. It's understandable why they cheap out, but it's not going to get the job done, imo.
I disagree - it's perfect satire
Hey Steve,
I know you're on sabbatical but are you around GR at all? I'm helping to put together a video for the nursing pinning ceremony...we're taking a dummy from the nursing lab sort of re-creating our four(or five) years of Calvin (all our pre-nursing and nursing classes) and we have professors doing short monologues and inserting as many inside jokes as possible. So if you're around and you'd like to help, we're filming it on Wednesday. It's advising break, so we could just pop inside an empty classroom, make some jokes about sex and mitosis...or whatever. But if you don't want to that's ok too. Can you shoot me an e-mail at rmv5? Thanks. :)
P.S. Great video! I had to google "Expelled" to get the joke. It's a perfect video for your blog...creationist bashing and sex. ;) All the back-and-forth videos on YouTube might ruin "Bad to the Bone" for me, though.
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HAHAHA!
Oh, I am so the laughing. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you thank you.
(The problem with a lot of the ID-bashing that goes on is that it soon becomes spittle-flecked mania. This, although not subtle, avoids that trap nicely. And I like George Thorogood)
This video wasn't made to "advance" the discussion - it was made to be FUNNY for those of us who prefer science to myths for explanations about how our world works.
"I can sum it all up in three words: Evolution is a lie." (http://www.fstdt.com/)
Your blog is excellent, I'm glad I found it. Thanks.
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