23rd April 2006
Over at The Owner’s Manual, the #126 Best of Me Symphony featuring Adlai Stevenson is published. The Best of Me Symphony is a weekly Carnival of posts submitted by different bloggers, which are then juxtaposed with appropriate images and quotes by a “Guest Conductor”. The only condition for submission of your post is that it be at least sixty days old. It is a good way to showcase your blog posts and hopefully invite new readership.
To submit your posts to the next Best of Me Symphony, check out this page. To view this week’s Symphony, visit the post here. My submission for this week is What Does Godel Turing and Chaitin Teach Us About Faith?. Also showcased in this week’s Symphony is Christianity and mental illness by Stingray: a blog for salty Christians. It has some good things to say about mental illness, a topic that is close to my heart.
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23rd April 2006
Several weeks ago, blogosphere and the media were abuzzed by news of a piece of social science research that attempted to draw what was obviously an ill-supported conclusion that some kinds of intercessory prayer may be ineffective. When I first read it, I decided to write a short post that simply ignored much of the glaring flaws of the report, arguing instead that we need not defend God. It’s because it was a piece of inconsequential social research. As I earlier pointed out, the underlying assumption that one might be able to test spirituality via scientific methodologies is highly questionable. Putting that suspicion aside, I want in this post, to highlight some other reasons why the research is simply flawed.
It is clear for instance Read the rest of this entry »
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