7 Quick Takes (6/18/10)

Last updated on: April 9, 2012 at 5:14 pm by Leah Libresco

7 Quick Takes (6/18/10) 2012-04-09T17:14:23-04:00 Leah Libresco

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

–1–

First things first: I’m very excited to announce that I will be debating Justin of The Faith Heuristic on the merits of evidence for the existence of God. His first salvo is up today, and I’ll be responding this weekend. Justin always has an open challenge for atheist debaters. You can check out some of his previous debates and future topics here.

–2–

And speaking of evidence, Iamanatheist.com has a great post up that asks us to apply the standards of testimony that apply to courtroom witnesses to the witness of the Gospels.

–3–

I can’t speak to the quality of the website yet, but I’ll confess, I’m excited to see what it is that the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences writes about.

–4–

A recent post by The Anchoress had a number of links I really liked. The first one is this amazing, interactive graphic that represents scales of the universe, from quantum foam to galactic superclusters.

–5–

The other item was a video embedded at the bottom of her post. A great call to Catholics to embrace the intellectual side of their faith. The priest is a very engaging speaker.

–6–

Chilling news from Israel (beyond the flotilla disaster) is detailed in this AP article. I don’t know why Israel is so frequently referred to as the ‘only democracy in the Middle East’ when a significant proportion of its people have such strong theocratic leanings. Tens of thousands of Ultra-Orthodox came out to protest an Israeli court decision requiring a religious girls’ school to allow Sephardic Jews to attend class with Ashkenazim. One particularly sobering quote:

Esther Bark, 50, who has seven daughters, said the issue is keeping the girls away from the temptations of the modern world. “To suddenly put them in an open-minded place is not good for them”

–7–

Finally, it’s summer time! A time for beach reading and book groups! I’m joining up with the folks at Less Wrong in their group reading of E.T Jaynes Probability Theory: The Logic of Science. Full details for the book club can be found here.

[Seven Quick Things is a blog carnival run by Jen of Conversion Diary]

7 Quick Takes

Previous Post

June 17, 2010

Follow up to yesterday's evangelism post

Next Post

June 20, 2010 Rebuttal to Justin Martyr (Part 2)

Browse Our Archives

Select a Category 7 Quick Takes Apologetics Atheism Book Conversion Debate Tactics Debates Epistemology/Philosophy Housekeeping Ideological Turing Test Marriage Morality in Practice Parsing Catholicism Possibly Heretical Radio Reviews/Recommendations Sequence Index Spiritual Practice Uncategorized

Select a Month April 2017 March 2017 January 2017 December 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010

TAKE THE

Religious Wisdom Quiz

Which book includes "A time to weep and a time to laugh"?

Select your answer to see how you score.

Judges Genesis Malachi Ecclesiastes