Recently a couple of articles, one about DNA pioneer Dr. Watson getting suspended for tying race and intelligence together and another about renewed opposition to school integration, are evidence that “race” as a valid concept is alive and well. So, it seems worth saying what’s been said may times before: race is a myth, [...]
Entries Tagged as 'science'
Deconstructing “Race”
October 25th, 2007 by Jason · 3 Comments
Tags: race & ethnicity · science
Something Instead of Nothing
April 28th, 2007 by Jason · 4 Comments
In my half-awake slumber this morning I kept trying to picture what Hawkins describes in The Theory of Everything: our tiny world speeding around a tiny sun, which in turn is part of a galaxy that is steadily speeding away from every other part of the galaxy which is all slowly cooling off, burning out, [...]
Evolution or Intelligent Design: Which Makes a Better Bedfellow for the Faith?
December 9th, 2005 by Jason · 14 Comments
Can you tell it’s exam time with all these papers being posted? This is my last paper for the Science & Theology class, and perhaps the most controversial. I grew up a Creationist, transitioned happily (because I had intellectual misgivings about Creation Science) to Intelligent Design in college, and now find myself relatively [...]
Tags: papers · science · theology
the earth and evil
April 6th, 2005 by Jason · 1 Comment
Awhile ago Camassia blogged a bit on natural evil, which got me thinking about how Christians are to think about the evil that seems inherent in some of the structures of the earth (i.e. earthquakes, survival of the fittest, etc.). Then Telford, from whom I was taking Medieval Church History, gave us the task [...]