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Undefining Sex with Edge Cases
In a chaotic world, all is undefined and undifferentiated. In a world of order, some things are this, others that. Whatever the topic, skeptics and subjectivists are wont to undo that fundamental childhood skill of discriminating between shapes, and animals, and boys and girls. If we are able to successfully delineate reality at its seams, the skeptic’s epistemological pessimism is defeated and the subjectivist’s creativity is constrained. Today, for those who want to transcend our innate and created sexes, male and female, fuzzying the lines is imperative. The strategy goes like this. Instead of working from clear cases to understand edge cases, the chaos agent argues from edge cases to deny there is any order or categories at all. Science News offers a typical example: “Biological Sex Is Not as Simple as Male or Female”. Surveying a variety of developmental sexual disorders and anomalies, Nathan Lents concludes: “These are not hard categories with clear definitions.”
Undefining Sex with Edge Cases
In a chaotic world, all is undefined and undifferentiated. In a world of order, some things are this, others that. Whatever the topic, skeptics and subjectivists are wont to undo that fundamental childhood skill of discriminating between shapes, and animals, and boys and girls. If we are able to successfully delineate reality at its seams, the skeptic’s epistemological pessimism is defeated and the subjectivist’s creativity is constrained. Today, for those who want to transcend our innate and created sexes, male and female, fuzzying the lines is essential. The strategy goes like this. Instead of arguing from clear categorical cases to understand edge cases, the chaos agent argues from edge cases to deny the categories. A typical example of this strategy is at Science News, “Biological Sex Is Not as Simple as Male or Female”.
Undefining with Edge Cases
A quintessential example of denying categories by arguing from edge cases is this article at Science News, “Biological Sex Is Not as Simple as Male or Female”.
Arguing from the Edges
A quintessential example of denying categories by arguing from edge cases is this article at Science News, “Biological Sex Is Not as Simple as Male or Female”.
Science and Christianity: Conflict or Coherence?
Professor Henry F. (Fritz) Schaefer is one of the most distinguised physical scientists in the world. The U.S. News and World Report cover story of December 23, 1991 speculated that Professor Schaefer is a “five time nominee for the Nobel Prize. “He has received five of the most prestigious awards of the American Chemical Society, as well as the most highly esteemed award (the Centenary Medal) given to a non-British subject by London’s Royal Society of Chemistry. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Moreover, his general interest lectures on science and religion have riveted large audiences in nearly all the major universities in the U.S.A. and in Beijing, Berlin, Budapest, Calcutta, Cape Town, New Delhi, Hong Kong, Istanbul, London, Paris, Prague, Sarajevo, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Sofia, St. Petersburg, Sydney, Tokyo, Warsaw, Zagreb and Zurich. In the present book, Dr. Schaefer’s university lectures have been expanded to full length essays. Thus we have a first-hand account of the lively current science/Christianity discussions by one of the major participants. Finally, the present book describes why and how Dr. Schaefer became a Christian as a young professor of chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley. Throughout, the books retains the highly personal character of the university lectures, general respect for those with whom the author disagrees, and a delightful sense of humor.
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War and Apppeasemnt
We are in a world at war, but we do not wage war as the world does. In a society that is ruled by a secular and increasingly post-Christian elite, Christians face an inescapable choice: go against the flow and be relegated to the eddies and backwaters of the culture, or go along and be tolerated in the mainstream. Faced with this dilemma, the choice that many evangelical leaders and laymen have made is to lay down their arms and seek peace through appeasement. Silent, if not swayed, in the face of anti-Christian policies and principles, they spend their powder trying to get their brothers and sisters in Christ to fall in line. Exasperated at the surrender of their Christian leaders, others have become all too willing to wage war as the world does, to seize the sword of the state and to use it to enforce
In many different political and cultural contexts, Ever since Jesus gathered his first followers, Christians have struggled with what is owed to Caesar, and with what is entailed by being in the world, but not of it.
Peace Through Appeasement
Because it challenges one of the three primary planks of our secular mythology, submission to the undirected origin of life and of the evolutionary origin of the species. Creationists and Intelligent Design theorists have been mocked, fired, and deplatformed at universities and barred from news aggregators like Apple News. Aptly named, Joshua Swamidass’ online magazine and forum Peaceful Science self-consciously seeks a truce by acceding to every
The Case for (Spiritual) War
It is to be expected that the spirit of the times will be at odds with the Spirit of God. The calling for the Christian is spiritual war.
Ours is not unlike the situation faced by Frenchmen after the Battle of France. Whether under the military’s complete control in the north and west of France, or with nominal independence under the Vichy government in the south, the price of peace was submission.
War and Apppeasemnt
We are in a world at war, but we do not wage war as the world does. In a society that is ruled by a secular and increasingly post-Christian elite, Christians face an inescapable choice: go against the flow and be relegated to the eddies and backwaters of the culture, or go along and be tolerated in the mainstream. Faced with this dilemma, the choice that many evangelical leaders and laymen have made is to lay down their arms and seek peace through appeasement. Silent, if not swayed, in the face of anti-Christian policies and principles, they spend their powder trying to get their brothers and sisters in Christ to fall in line. Exasperated at the surrender of their Christian leaders, others have become all too willing to wage war as the world does, to seize the sword of the state and to use it to enforce
In many different political and cultural contexts, Ever since Jesus gathered his first followers, Christians have struggled with what is owed to Caesar, and with what is entailed by being in the world, but not of it.
Peace Through Appeasement
Because it challenges one of the three primary planks of our secular mythology, submission to the undirected origin of life and of the evolutionary origin of the species. Creationists and Intelligent Design theorists have been mocked, fired, and deplatformed at universities and barred from news aggregators like Apple News. Aptly named, Joshua Swamidass’ online magazine and forum Peaceful Science self-consciously seeks a truce by acceding to every
The Case for (Spiritual) War
It is to be expected that the spirit of the times will be at odds with the Spirit of God. The calling for the Christian is spiritual war.
Ours is not unlike the situation faced by Frenchmen after the Battle of France. Whether under the military’s complete control in the north and west of France, or with nominal independence under the Vichy government in the south, the price of peace was submission.