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		<title>&#8216;The Signature in the Cell&#8217; Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Hollifield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regis Nicoll recently posted this incredible article in the All Things Examined column at BreakPoint.org.  The article is a book review of Dr. Stephen Meyer&#8217;s new book The Signature in the Cell.  This looks to be a landmark publication in its contribution to the design/evolution conversation. I encourage you to read this insightful review and then exercise the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatandwhy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=431669&amp;post=496&amp;subd=whatandwhy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A quick note on the fairy tale of evolution&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 02:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Hollifield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A brief little segment from a harmless article on the impending cicada invasion provides a great opportunity to illustrate something that a lot of people miss about the theory of evolution. First, here&#8217;s the quote from the article: Scientists believe this long dormant stage evolved as a means to outlive predators, such as the circada [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatandwhy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=431669&amp;post=488&amp;subd=whatandwhy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Killing in the name of&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://whatandwhy.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/killing-in-the-name-of/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2011 19:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Hollifield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Today's Entry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bioethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[end of life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[euthanasia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post at bioedge.org a frightening portent of the American future was brought to light.  If our legislation continues its current trajectory, killing the elderly, disabled, terminally ill, unwanted, and even unproductive of our society is coming.  This will all be done in the name of &#8220;quality of life&#8221;, expediency, and cost-effective health care. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatandwhy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=431669&amp;post=479&amp;subd=whatandwhy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rob Bell and &#8220;Love Wins&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Hollifield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new book by Rob Bell called &#8220;Love Wins&#8221; is causing quite a stir, even before its release to the general public.  The controversy centers around the ideas of universalism (i.e. everyone goes to Heaven) that Bell seems to overtly espouse in the book.  I have not read the book as of yet (I will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatandwhy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=431669&amp;post=475&amp;subd=whatandwhy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Responding to Sam Harris&#8217; Bible Contradiction Illustration</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Hollifield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The guys at The Resurgence have actually done a fantastic job at with a response. Check it out below, and be sure to visit the Resurgence site for some great resources in the future. Referring to the claims of the above chart, Fast Company said, “So to anyone who thinks the Bible’s the last word on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatandwhy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=431669&amp;post=466&amp;subd=whatandwhy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hawking Fails to Deliver on Materialistic Explanation for Origin of the Universe (again)</title>
		<link>http://whatandwhy.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/hawking-fails-to-deliver-on-materialistic-explanation-for-origin-of-the-universe-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Hollifield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well &#8216;ol Stephen Hawking is @ it again. In an article for Yahoo ( http://yhoo.it/dk9jSV ) about his new book &#8220;The Grand Design&#8221; Hawking says, &#8220;God did not create the universe.&#8221; His explanation? &#8230; wait for it&#8230; &#8220;Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatandwhy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=431669&amp;post=465&amp;subd=whatandwhy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Failed Notions of Salvation from Stephen Hawking</title>
		<link>http://whatandwhy.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/failed-notions-of-salvation-from-stephen-hawking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Hollifield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent article, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, a man considered by some to be the most intelligent man alive, has again issued a dire warning that the only hope for human beings is to abandon planet earth.  Numerous impending disasters, says Hawking, should prompt us to leave.  They are: The planet is heating up. Earth&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatandwhy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=431669&amp;post=451&amp;subd=whatandwhy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First Artificial Life Created&#8230; Again!?</title>
		<link>http://whatandwhy.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/first-artificial-life-created-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 13:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Hollifield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article this week from the BBC had this title, &#8220;Artificial life&#8221; breakthrough announced by scientists. The quotation marks around the words &#8220;artificial life&#8221; are indeed appropriate, but may go largely ignored. The article reports that the &#8220;artificial life&#8221; was created by this process: The scientists &#8220;decoded&#8221; the chromosome of an existing bacterial cell &#8211; using a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatandwhy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=431669&amp;post=444&amp;subd=whatandwhy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Right and Wrong&#8230; Are They So Obvious?</title>
		<link>http://whatandwhy.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/right-and-wrong-are-they-so-obvious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Hollifield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How often do you find yourself involved  in the discussion of ethics?  Ultimately, nearly every conversation with any depth at all comes down to some issue of morality.  Christians get frustrated that others don&#8217;t share our morality. Postmodernists, Naturalists, and  those of  cultural savvy get frustrated that Christians think ethics are something written on some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatandwhy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=431669&amp;post=441&amp;subd=whatandwhy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Redemption: LOST and Found</title>
		<link>http://whatandwhy.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/redemption-lost-and-found/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Hollifield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who watch the show LOST, you saw last night what may have been one of the most powerful pictures of redemption ever seen on broadcast TV; especially given outside of a Christian context.  I don&#8217;t know if the writers intended this to be another veiled allusion to the Christian view of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatandwhy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=431669&amp;post=429&amp;subd=whatandwhy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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