Category Archives: Subjectivity

What does it all mean (I Think I Believe)

Posted on March 19, 2011 by

Arni Zachariassen of I Think I Believe has a wonderful post today entitled What does it all mean? So good I include it all here: Why do I find my daughter to be so darn cute? Why do I enjoy … Continue reading →

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Risk/reward of objectifying the personal

Posted on March 12, 2011 by

Can science address the personal? In studying the subjective objectively, have we reduced it beyond recognition? Two loosely related excerpts to ponder on this fine Saturday… one from philosophy, the other from biology. John Polkinghorne in Beyond Science: The Wider … Continue reading →

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The abstract and hard to adequately define word, ‘I’ (part 2)

Posted on August 4, 2010 by

Last week I put up a short post in which I asked readers how they would personally define the word ‘I’.  There was no real lead-in, just a couple of sentences followed by the question.  The link is below: http://scienceandtheology.wordpress.com/2010/07/25/the-abstract-concept-known-as-the-word-i/ … Continue reading →

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Teaching, my spirit, and the swear word ‘materialism’

Posted on July 31, 2010 by

I just finished teaching a 4 week intensive summer school course (Microbiology).  This go-round was particularly grueling as I had enough students to need 2 lab sections which meant an extra ~2 hours there a day.  My wife (and child … Continue reading →

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The abstract and hard to adequately define word, ‘I’

Posted on July 25, 2010 by

Let’s play a game.  An intellectual game, but a game nonetheless.  I know that I’m supposed to start us off with a short to medium length post that can promote a hopefully active and engaged discussion. One problem with that… … Continue reading →

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Exopotent vs. endopotent truth and the problems this presents in intellectual discussion

Posted on July 22, 2010 by

Exopotent And Endopotent: Examining More Than One Truth by Ursula Goodenough and Varadaraja V. Raman When is a person right? When is a person wrong? What’s involved in making the call? A useful way of framing the matter is to … Continue reading →

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BioLogos post on Evangelicalism, Adaptation, and the Personal

Posted on July 13, 2010 by

They’ve posted my guest blog for BioLogos.  Please feel free to discuss, analyze, improve, debate, fix, etc. as you see fit… http://biologos.org/blog/evangelicalism-adaptation-and-the-personal/

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Houston, We’ve Had a Problem (RJS)… Jesus Creed blog

Posted on July 6, 2010 by

The below link has made for a great day of discussion on the Jesus Creed blog.  RJS shared a letter (and her personal comments on it) from a personal friend of Scot’s, who is/was going through a crisis of faith … Continue reading →

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Acknowledging the subjective in an objective world

Posted on June 23, 2010 by

I recently had the chance to attend the BioLogos-Gordon College Conference 2010: “A Dialogue on Creation”.  Over four days, we listened to lectures and had vibrant discussions on evolution and creation.  Drs. Claudia Beversluis, Karl Giberson, Peter Enns, and Darrel … Continue reading →

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