Other Ways of Knowing

Often I’ve thought about showing
All the other “ways of knowing”
Of which faithful often remind me.
Science, you see, can sometimes blind me.

All but the True Believers© are deranged.
The only constant of dogma is change.
Other religions are obvious fakes.
Just look at all of the false claims they make.

It is not really fair
To scoff at the faithful with derision,
As [...]

Evolution as symbol of the clash between Faith and Science

The New York Times ran an article, A Teacher on the Front Line as Faith and Science Clash, last Saturday. The article follows a teacher in the Florida education system and one of his Christian students. The teacher was instrumental in the adoption of the new Florida education standard that now requires all Florida public schools [...]

Odds and Ends

Mars Phoenix Lander

Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to prepare a proper post this week so in lieu of actually thinking and writing I’d like to instead offer up a pot-pourri of articles elsewhere on the web that have, in one way or the other, caught my interest in the past week or so.
However, before I [...]