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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)

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

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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.'

My reply:

A reader writes:

E F Schumacher [wikipedia] the economist and statistician who founded "Buddhist economics" gave a good summation well over 30 years ago in his book "A Guide for the Perplexed".

This is from the Wikipedia article on the book:

Evolutionism

Since I published Arguing against "Evolution" = Falling into a Trap a month ago, I've engaged in a lot of conversations with people (special thanks go out to Shiva das for recommending Denton's book) and read a lot of material. Here's an update based on that.

Language is important. Language can be used to obscure issues, or to clarify them.

Param Satya and Bronwyn doing their weekly Bible study

Every week Bronwyn, our local Jehovah's Witness, comes around and does a Bible study with Param.

This time I was taking lunch on the deck and listening to their conversation. Bronwyn asked Param: "How do we know that God's purpose for the universe will be realized?"

I think the answer that came out was something along the lines of: "Because of the multiple times that He says it will in the Bible."

An interesting book by a Christian author:

The Darwin Delusion - $4.99 for the ebook. Excerpts available on the website.