Sunday, March 29, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Relative Excusability
“Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable." - G.K. Chesterton
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
My Second Blog
I wish I posted to this Thoughts Transposed blog more often, but perhaps you didn't know that I actually write two blogs. Yes! As part of my role as Communications Coordinator, I update a blog of the developments of collaborative work in the south side neighborhood of Chicago called Woodlawn. I spend the majority of my blogging time updating my second blog. Check it out! Click HERE. and become a follower today!
Islamic Creationist Stirs Up Controversy
This morning's Wall Street Journal cover story, "An Islamic Creationist Stirs a New Kind of Darwinian Struggle" caught my attention. The subsequent article was a provocative one.
This piece tells the story of Adnam Oktar.
As scientists around the world celebrate the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's seminal work on evolution, Adnan Oktar, a college dropout turned theorist of Islamic creationism, is working on the fifth volume of a 14-part masterwork that he says will bury Darwinism once and for all...
"Darwin and his theory are dead," says Mr. Oktar, founder and honorary president of the Science Research Foundation, an Istanbul outfit dedicated to debunking the Victorian-era English naturalist. Darwin, says his 52-year-old Turkish scourge, is "Satan's biggest trick on humanity."
I suppose it's not a big surprise that Oktar's work and influence has pushed the buttons of the outspoken atheist & Oxford University professor Richard Dawkins, who has worked with child-like fervor to ban websites that publish the work of Oktar, etc., etc. etc. The truth about their interpersonal dynamics is one in which you have to read between the lines.
I'm used to the Christian Creationist - Atheist Darwinist battle that is covered by the media each time a bigwig from either camp comes out with a new book or late night TV spew. For me, (and now I point to my own ignorance) my fascination with the dialogue was slightly renewed by the article. A light bulb went on as I realized the magnitude of this interfaith conversation - a conversation that is no less heated when you bring in other faith traditions.
While I am not, necessarily, a six-day creationist, I will admit (for better or for worse) to some strange satisfaction in knowing there are those of other faiths ganging up Darwinians like Dawkins, chiding the other camp to present more proof that this world isn't millions of years old and that divine, creative design was the generator of it all. I could let the whole how-the-world-began discussion go if it wasn't for all the other inherent convictions that spill forth from this one conversation.
What is your reaction to the article?
This piece tells the story of Adnam Oktar.
As scientists around the world celebrate the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's seminal work on evolution, Adnan Oktar, a college dropout turned theorist of Islamic creationism, is working on the fifth volume of a 14-part masterwork that he says will bury Darwinism once and for all...
"Darwin and his theory are dead," says Mr. Oktar, founder and honorary president of the Science Research Foundation, an Istanbul outfit dedicated to debunking the Victorian-era English naturalist. Darwin, says his 52-year-old Turkish scourge, is "Satan's biggest trick on humanity."
I suppose it's not a big surprise that Oktar's work and influence has pushed the buttons of the outspoken atheist & Oxford University professor Richard Dawkins, who has worked with child-like fervor to ban websites that publish the work of Oktar, etc., etc. etc. The truth about their interpersonal dynamics is one in which you have to read between the lines.
I'm used to the Christian Creationist - Atheist Darwinist battle that is covered by the media each time a bigwig from either camp comes out with a new book or late night TV spew. For me, (and now I point to my own ignorance) my fascination with the dialogue was slightly renewed by the article. A light bulb went on as I realized the magnitude of this interfaith conversation - a conversation that is no less heated when you bring in other faith traditions.
While I am not, necessarily, a six-day creationist, I will admit (for better or for worse) to some strange satisfaction in knowing there are those of other faiths ganging up Darwinians like Dawkins, chiding the other camp to present more proof that this world isn't millions of years old and that divine, creative design was the generator of it all. I could let the whole how-the-world-began discussion go if it wasn't for all the other inherent convictions that spill forth from this one conversation.
What is your reaction to the article?
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Back on the Scene.
One of my favorite soul-filled voices is arriving back on the scene. Lizz Wright, my friends, has a new number out. (See video clip)
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