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This is by Ed Gungor and appeared in Relevant Magazine. Apart from not being into "belief" personally, I think this is a good piece.

Can we believe in evolution and a Creator?

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Here's the next in the series of conversations that David Jorm and I recorded on his recent visit to Brisbane. This one is about evolution and fundamentalism.

You gottta hear this. I wish I knew who recorded it. If you know then tell me please.

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(Thanks Jaya Tirtha Carana Prabhu)

and that he has a totally badass sense of humor:

Read the article: The Real Spinal Tap

And listen to an interview with the director:

For some time I've been quietly following the "Texas textbook" debate. In Texas the Discovery Institute [wikipedia] has been pushing to modify the way evolution is presented in schools. They want the "strengths and weaknesses" of evolution to be taught, and time given to alternative theories.

Christopher Hitchens wrote about this:

Here's an interesting song found on YouTube; it's quite funny, but the lyrics are deep.

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Its funny; doing my research on scientists' understanding of consciousness, what I found is that they don't really have any! It always goes back to the philosophers. Why? because they can't give an answer to the nature of consciousness, "not yet anyway," as they like to say.

I found an article that says it all, and way better then I could. so here it is:

Urmila devi dasi wrote me about my recent posts. She left comments on this blog here ["science"] and here ["Induction and Deduction"].

She also wrote me on a proprietary platform that is not accessible to non-members (facebook). I've extracted the conversation here to make it accessible to google indexing.

Urmila devi:

Haribol! I remember the wonderful time I had visiting your family. I've been reading/watching your blogs on evolution. You keep saying that there is evidence for genetic mutation and natural selection. Indeed no one doubts that both of these are real. But can you share the evidence for how these two things produce a new species, or a new useful and functional body part, etc.? I'm not familiar with even one piece of evidence in this regard and would be interested in what you have to share.

In response to my twitter/facebook status "reading up on the current state of thinking on dog evolution, on shiva das' prompting", Braja-raj Suta writes:

i read some of your current posts s-p prabhu. interesting. but your above quote. there's gotta' be a joke in there. 'reading up on the current state of thinking on dog evolution.' the gbc's must be saying, 'what in the world is going on here?' 'dogs!? evolution?! jeesz.'

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