Category: soul-ish
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Summary and comments on debate: William Lane Craig v. Christopher Hitchens, “Does God Exist?”
I was speaking to a Christian friend lately and so got in the mode of thinking through various arguments about evolution, existence of God and whatnot. I’ve been watching various debates on YouTube on the topic as a refresher, and wrote up some notes on one of them. They grew far too long for a…
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Prof. Mark Davies’ ouster at BYU
Mark Davies was a professor of linguistics at BYU who created tools for analyzing large collections of text, a method known as corpus analysis. He ran a website, corpus.byu.edu, where these text collections were available for anyone to use. The site, now at english-corpora.org, and Dr. Davies’ website, describe a process of administrator mismanagement that…
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Christmas Carols in Prose #14: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
On Christmas day I heard the bells play their old familiar carols, and they repeated wildly and sweetly the words “peace on earth, good will to men.” I thought how at the coming of day the Christian world’s belfries had rolled along the unbroken song, “Peace on earth, good will to men.” I bowed my…