I think I stopped having this dream sometime when I was a postdoc. Or maybe I didn't shake free till I got a real job... Mine was always a language class, so everyone was jabbering away in Spanish or something, just to magnify the horror.
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
Topics
- Announcements (4)
- Baseball (2)
- Belief (11)
- Book Reviews (11)
- Carnivals (10)
- Cell signaling (3)
- Christian materialism (1)
- Common descent (21)
- Communicating science (11)
- Creationism (18)
- Design (25)
- Development (10)
- Explanation (8)
- Fun (14)
- Genetics (24)
- Genome (21)
- Homology (3)
- Introduction (11)
- Journal Club (10)
- Junk DNA (7)
- Neuroscience (6)
- Peer-reviewed blog post (3)
- Randomness (3)
- Recommendations (33)
- Selection (9)
- Signature in the Cell (2)
- Theology (12)
- Variation (6)
- Weekly Sampler (24)
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)
Blog Archive
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August
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- And I don't even eat mooseburgers
- A pop science book meme
- Should we expect design?
- Why I'm not a Behe fan, Part IIB: abusing genetics...
- Behe botches basic probability...how likely is tha...
- Does religion deserve respect from atheists?
- First blogiversary for Quintessence of Dust
- Why I'm not a Behe fan, Part IIA: the malaria scam...
- Why I'm not a Behe fan, Part I
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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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