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Back in February, this humanist introduced me to Family Man, a graphic novel (aka comic) by Dylan Meconis. I’m not exactly sure how to sell this, but I’ve known for many moons that I will eventually try - it was just a question of when. Let’s give it a shot:
It’s brilliant!
There, that should do it. [...]

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Thanks to Cobus for providing a link to this video clip in a comment on the previous post — John Dominic Crossan on The Dangers of Fundamentalism:

Please watch this video clip, especially if you are religious. It contains the food for thought that we need to think carefully about the dangers of certain ideological strains [...]

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A blog newly added to my neglected reading list is teo @ UP, an Afrikaans blog by a couple of theology students at, or from, the University of Pretoria. (One of the bloggers is Cobus van Wyngaard, who also blogs in English at my contemplations.) A recent post by Cobus, generasiegapings, emerging, en ander dinge [...]

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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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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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About four weeks ago, Theo Geyser introduced me to Peter Rollins — unfortunately not personally, he just mentioned his latest book. At home, I immediately took a look at Peter’s blog. One of the first posts I read, as it caught my eye and resonated with my ways and thoughts:
To be an atheist you need [...]

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