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- Climate Change Sceptics please note:
The Great Global Warming Swindle Swindle. Go here for the real story. POST UPDATED AND EXPANDED 16 July 2007.
See also How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic from 3 Quarks Daily.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Nine Lies About Climate Change (2008).
Real Climate: Climate Science from Climate Scientists -- blog.
The Discovery of Global Warming -- on the Web site of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics.
Tag Archives: Bible
The literary genre of Acts. 1: Ancient Prologues
While this is on a “rationalist” blog, it is also excellent Biblical scholarship which fundamentalists really need to take seriously — indeed anyone interested in history or theology.
Against certainty
Julie Galambush interview. (If that doesn’t work… or here.) Allow me to recommend a book as a Top Read of 2007 even if only three people in Australia have read it. The Reluctant Parting by Julie Galambush (Harper Collins 2006) … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural and other, Faith and philosophy, Reading, Religion
Tagged Best Read of 2007, Bible, Christianity, interfaith
PC not, but in a healthy way
I so bridle at the term “political correctness” that I resolved at the beginning of this year to avoid it. One reason for that is that the term often becomes a fall-back position for those who want to justify their … Continue reading
Book of Job revisited
I mentioned The Book of Job back on the 26th of August and promised a snippet from the old Catholic Knox version. You have to be careful with snippets from Job as it is best read as a whole work rather … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural and other, Faith and philosophy, Reading, Religion, writing
Tagged Bible
Book of Job
My eccentric following of the US Book of Common Prayer Lectionary has moved on from the mixed blessings of Judges to one of those books everyone should read at some time in their lives: The Book of Job. There are … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural and other, Faith and philosophy, Reading, Religion, Web stuff
Tagged Bible
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Wet Sunday, slow start — reading homilies!
The word “homily” does have, deservedly sometimes, negative associations. It is certainly not a genre that most people rush to read, unless rebadged as in today’s Sunday Telegraph, a topic for my Journalspace blog, as an editorial by Glenn Milne. … Continue reading
Posted in Aussie interest, Cultural and other, Faith and philosophy, Personal, Reading, Religion, Surry Hills
Tagged Bible, Sirdan, South Sydney Uniting Church