Suggestions?

In each meeting, we will be discussing some reading which examines an aspect of Christian faith – either a challenge or support. The topics are likely to include the sciences, technology, ethics, origins. The readings will be fairly short, similar to one book chapter or journal article, or even shorter (newspaper columns, websites). It’s not all “evolution or special creation!”

This is a general page where we can leave suggested readings for future meetings. If you find something, such as a magazine article, a webpage, or even a video or event to attend, please leave a comment on this page with the details.
Some suggestions:

• Video night: Krista & Loen have several general, intro-level videos on Creation. One is rather better than the other. Viewing and then discussing the type of evidence used, or the apologetics strategy used, is one idea.
• The Problem of Genetic Improbability by A. Camp http://www.carm.org/evolution/evodds.htm , on the CARM website. This was a candidate we looked at before the giraffe (Lonnig) article. It’s only 4 pages long, and continues with the genetics / evolutionary theme. Possibility for the autumn 2008.
• Discussion of taxonomy (so-called ‘tree of life’), the organization of living creatures into classification groups based on supposed nearness of relationship or similarity. Does this type of arrangement support evolution? Here’s one blog post:http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/the-sound-of-taxonomy-exploding/An interesting article here: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/104/7/2043.pdfAnd another, longer article, which goes through some of the main problems with evolution as the origin for what they call “higher taxa.”:http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2177
• An overview of the Anthropic principle, such as one from Hugh Ross at bethinking: http://www.bethinking.org/resource.php?ID=276 (audio lecture plus outline notes)

Also note that this group welcomes suggested topics of discussion which fit our theme and interests. Whoever is attending gets to participate in selecting the next reading.