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Tomorrow morning I’m off to work. My first full-time job, at a wonderful company, in a wonderful city (Zurich, Switzerland), a wonderful new experience in life lies before me.
Tonight I sleep in a bed in my new temporary home (home for no more than 30 days, hopefully), in my new home town/city.
Tonight my mother sleeps [...]

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This month I participated in the inaugural edition of the new Carnival of the Africans by submitting Creation Ministries International Strikes Stellenbosch Again — Noah’s Flood?, in order to share my posts on the March CMI seminar. The Carnival of the Africans is an attempt to encourage scientific and skeptical blogging in South Africa. The [...]

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[Wrote first draft in Heathrow. One editing pass and the addition of the explanation of how one could perform a double-blind study, was done from my "fully furnished" temporary flat -- furnishings include Wi-Fi, yay!]
In a post two months ago, I decided to poetically end the post on a little climax, to leave a lingering [...]

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In this blog of mine, I don’t mean to talk about people, I mean to talk about beliefs. Unfortunately the impact of beliefs are sometimes best understood within the context of the human relationships involved. I try my best to maintain anonymity on this blog, trying to use as vague descriptions of the scenario as [...]

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I have not seen the posters, but a friend informed me that Creation Ministries International (CMI) is giving another talk in Stellenbosch, most likely again on the invitation of Shofar, most likely again renting the Sanlam hall at the top of the Neelsie. This time it is a Canadian, specialising on Noah’s Flood… I believe [...]

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The first couple of the Ten Commandments (numbering is non-trivial, traditions differ):
You shall have no other gods before me.
You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.
You shall not bow down to them or worship them
(From Deuteronomy 5, [...]

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In the wake of The Dark Knight, I thought I’d share a few posts I thought worthwhile. The posts do contain some spoilers, but if you still haven’t seen the movie, um, that’s your loss.
John Wilkins from Evolving Thought writes in The Dark Knight about dualities, order and chaos and Zoroastrian metaphysics (with [...]

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Methodological naturalism. Big word. Here’s what it means…
Consider the theory of gravity. An apple, unsupported by tree or table, falls. That is what it does. And it seems to do it every time. Hold an apple in the air, let go, it falls. It falls once, it falls twice, it falls a million times. And [...]

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As those following the comments may know, I was still wondering whether I should forward the Abusing the Story of Job post to my family or not. And so I continue wondering. If I do send it, I would include a cover letter that goes something like this:
Dear Family,
With some hesitance, I attach a piece [...]

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Over on Hugo’s Blog, um, My Blog, I babble a bit about Considerations for Starting a Blog or Website. I’m hoping those with the knowledge could add their advice? This is for Prophet, it’s worth it to add your two cents’. I’m especially interested in Johan Swarts’ contribution, who very, very recently made the transition [...]

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