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An Open System Gathers No Moss, Only Mess

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 26, 2009 | Annotated Quotations

Image: photo of moss on a rock in Yosemite, California, by Allan Chen, used under a Creative Commons (CC BY-ND 2.0) license. In the 1984 Baker edition of The Biblical Basis For Modern Science, author Henry M. Morris refutes the argument that earth’s being an...

Theology Is Queen, Science Subject

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 14, 2008 | Annotated Quotations

Gordon H. Clark, in the 1963 Presbyterian & Reformed edition of his Karl Barth’s Theological Method, argues that letting Scripture-based theology reign as queen over the sciences yields the unity of knowledge that reason requires. He writes: Orthodox...

Christendom is Dead. Long Live Fundom (or Worse)?

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | May 1, 2006 | Annotated Quotations, Random Commentary

Image by Flicker user ellenm1, used under Creative Commons CC BY-ND 2.0 license. In his 1985 book, Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse In The Age of Show Business, Neil Postman suggested that the rise of television to its central place in contemporary culture...

How Can A Gospel Presentation Be Wrong When It Feels So Right?

by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jan 16, 2006 | Annotated Quotations

Photo by Flickr user Andreas Møller, used under Creative Commons license CC BY-ND 2.0.In the 1981 InterVarsity edition of his book Tell the Truth: The Whole Gospel to the Whole Person by Whole People, Will Metzger warned against using a watered-down “feel...