In this week’s Newsweek, Richard Dawkins, author of the new text, The Greatest Show on Earth, agrees that belief in God and belief in evolution are not incompatible arguments, yet he thinks people who believe in the God of the Bible are ignorant and thinks its time for them to be educated.
When asked how he [...]
Just finished watching the video of notorious pop-scientist who declares evolution fact and ridicules those who read the Bible (or any other ‘holy’ book) with any degree of seriousness.
Dawkins thinks scientists have been falling down on their responsibility to proclaim the truthfulness of evolution. He considers evolution a relatively east concept to grasp. He thinks [...]
I hope you’ve eaten. Serious Eats, a great food blog, has several recommended resources on the regional variations of America’s favorite foods:
Guide to the Hamburger and Cheeseburger
Guide to the Hot Dog
Guide to the Pizza
Enjoy God’s gift of food and those who apply their gifts of creativity to the table.
Tough times for the higher education world. CT reflects on the innovations some campuses explore to keep enrollment afloat:
Hard Choices For Higher Ed
Sentence of the day: “Fatty acids derived from pork bone fat are used as a hardening agent in crayons and also gives them their distinctive smell.” Love it.
Christien Meindertsma endeavored to follow the life and death of a single pig. Not exactly the kind of book I find myself reading, but this intrigued me.
The 2009 [...]
Update: International Mission Board: President’s Report and Retirement Announcement
The head of the largest mission organization on the planet has announced he will retire in July 2010.
From the article:
JACKSONVILLE (IMB)—IMB President Jerry Rankin announced today he will retire July 31, 2010, ending a 17-year tenure marked by sweeping organizational changes and a steady personal calling.
“Everything I have done has been driven by an unequivocal [...]
Many tennis players practice and often hit this volley shot, but I have never seen one this timely.
Roger Federer says “it was the greatest shot I ever hit in my life”.
Well, Harvard only received $602 million in gifts this past fiscal year—an 8 percent decline from last year’s total, University officials announced yesterday.
Their endowment suffered more: Harvard Endowment, Largest in Higher Education, Plummets by 27% .
They did better that Yale, however:
Yale’s endowment fell $1 billion more than expected to $16 billion in the fiscal year ending [...]
Think outside the book. That is what humanity did before Gutenberg and what the two-thirds world does on a daily basis today.
As we step into the digital age and all of its possibilities, we should consider what implications the digital library project has for brick-and-mortar libraries, the public interest and trust, and scholarship.
To get up [...]
