Expections from Redefining “Life”

Big Think reports that Charley Lineweaver is arguing that “our traditional definition of life is too strict and therefore ill-suited to allow for the diversity of what life may look like on other planets” and seeks to replace the “biological definition” we currently use with a “physical definition of life” effectively increasing what we call life to include even things like a fire or hurricane.

What’s the Significance?

It’s clear that science is moving forward to search for life in other places.  Hence, future reporting will increase.   If these changes are adopted, Christian apologists must be ready and careful to discern what is being reported and to anticipate the need to defend against additional deception and hype..  Does  archeological reporting come to mind?

Memorial Day Reflection (#2) 2012

Memorial Day is a day for remembering the sacrifice of service members who died for our country. This deserves a solemn day of remembrance.

On Tuesday and days following though, while many today are focusing only on the sorrows and tragedies of war (to bring our troops home), we must keep in mind that because we live in a fallen world – at times war is just & necessary for things like defense, justice, reestablishing peace, etc.

Memorial Day Reflection 2012

Memorial Markers are erected at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, NC to honor individuals from Forsyth County who have been killed in action and have made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.

It’s but by the grace of God that my name is not found on a marker today.

This is no platitude for toward the end of Desert Storm with an opportunity to strafe a boat, I found myself in a section of aircraft circling low & slow over the boat we had been vectored to waiting to rain down bullets while getting lit up by a fire control radar from another boat under a mile away which was hidden underneath the fog but later destroyed by another aircrew on my ship.

On another occasion, my aircraft was surrounded by anti-aircraft artillery exploding all around us as we stayed on station to protect the strike package until they successfully exited the target area.

On yet another occasion, an explosion of light illuminated a cloud which my aircraft had shortly entered which proved later not to be a salvo of flares on our part.

Beyond Conservative Reforms

Fox News has published an important article entitled  “Faith leaders vow to fight threats to religious liberties in public sphere” which identifies key initiatives by the faith community uniting to fight back to defend religious liberty within the United States of America.

While Christ centered reformaton and revival is what our country needs, it’s also true that reformation means more than needed conservative reforms, and this may be a “political year issue” which culturally helps reform include a religious dynamic (even if in the political spectrum). Perhaps, by the Spirit’s power it may give momentum for reform to move even further to the spiritual spectrum of life.

 

Christ – the Solution to the Narcissism of our Age!

Daniel Honan in a post entitled Me All the Time: The Epidemic of Narcissism cites  Andrew Cohen who expands the commonly accepted application of narcissism which describes an individual to describe it as “a cultural epidemic”  – one in which its not just an individual who is narcisstic but a generation or more of people who have been conditioned to always think about themselves, to always be concerned about and reinforcing their self image, to feel an extraordinary sense of self-entitlement, etc.

Honan goes on to cite Cohen who suggests that since narcissism is habitual, the cure is a “matter of breaking a psychological habit” and to do this “we need to be very committed, or else “we probably won’t do it.”

Cohen’s diagnosis is correct but his solution is not.