Archive for February, 2010

Randomness as a Sign of God’s Presence, Prior Post Updated to 2010

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

[I'm working on a series of books summarizing my thoughts and writings over the past 3+ years, building upon the contents of my first published book, To See a World in a Grain of Sand. As I review my work to-date, I'll be republishing some of the articles from my blogs, sometimes pretty much unaltered [...]

Why We Can’t Build or Rebuild the Countries of Other Peoples

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

I’m proposing this principle: A Creation meeting the plausible criteria of unity, coherence, and completeness, would most likely behave in a manner consistent with the manner in which it was created. In other words, if the evidence strongly tells us that the world and the entities within it develop at the level of individuals and [...]

Civilization for Dummies

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

There is no such book as Civilization for Dummies though it’s what a modern man might hope to find if, that is, he were aware of the nature or even existence of such a complex entity as a ‘civilization’. In fact, modern man has decayed into that barbarian child foreseen by Jose Ortega Y Gasset, [...]