Monthly Archives: February 2013

Transitions and predictions

Posted on 09/02/2013 by Jon Garvey

BioLogos has re-posted a video on transitional fossils from 2011, which would have been more useful if it had tackled some of the doubts many have had over the incompleteness of the fossil record since Darwin’s time. Instead it set up a Creationist strawman in the form of Kirk Cameron and his notorious crocoduck. It’s hard to believe Cameron ever took his hybrid animals seriously, but if he did it’s certainly a comment on the lack of intellectual sharpness amongst some US Fundamentalists – but we knew that already. It’s also obvious that his arguments are not those which have been discussed by serious critics of Darwinian evolution, and particularly … Continue reading →

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Just fearfully and wonderfully this time

Posted on 07/02/2013 by Jon Garvey

I found this rather nice meditation on what is is to be human in Gregory of Nyzanzius’ Second Theological Oration, XXII. I reprint it for no better reason than that it appeals to me:

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Jesus is too conservative for Christians

Posted on 05/02/2013 by Jon Garvey

Today the UK Parliament discusses enabling homosexual marriage and thereby totally redefining marriage. We are assured that, although there is a free vote, it will pass its second reading because all three major parties are for it. The political élite appears, therefore, to have disenfranchised the Christian churches and the other main religious groups, which have come out almost universally against the move (barring the infinitesimally small number of Unitarians and Quakers, as I mentioned here). There is no longer a political party representing Christian teaching – a sobering point to have reached.

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King Richard’s descendants

Posted on 05/02/2013 by Jon Garvey

I guess the whole world knows that King Richard III’s skeleton has been found in Leicester. Two things about it particularly interested me.

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Aristotelian musings

Posted on 01/02/2013 by Jon Garvey

Ed Feser has a helpful discussion on the way that, in Aristotelianism-Thomism, efficient causes can both be real, and subject to God as teleological first cause. In this way, the concept of evolution can be perfectly compatible with the God of Chriostianity who disposes all things according to his will.

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