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Tag Archives: Adam
Genesis vs. Evolution–with Edward Feser to Religion’s Rescue!
The cake God bakes. In Genesis, to get a community with souls, God has a simple recipe. He: spends six days making heaven and earth takes inorganic matter–dust–from the newly created ground forms the dust into a man and places … Continue reading
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Some Good Reasons to Think Adam and Eve Never Existed
First, there was never a bottleneck of two people that accounts for the diversity of humans living today. Second, geneticists tell us that the diversity of contemporary humans derives from no less than 12,500 black African ancestors, 2,500 of whom … Continue reading
The Man with the Hoe (Millet’s Painting and Markham’s Poem)
In the late 1890s, Edwin Markham was visiting San Francisco and found himself awestruck by Millet’s painting of “The Man with the Hoe” (which now resides as part of the permanent collection of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, if … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam, adam's curse, art, edwin markham, Genesis, literature, man with the hoe, millet, poems, poetry
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The Hair Cosmos: Ancient Greece Had a String Theory
The Greek word cosmos is related to the Greek word for comb. I stumbled on this curious little piece of etymology in a book on art appreciation from 1965 titled, The Book of Art: How to Look at Art (vol. … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam, art, cosmos, evolution, Genesis, gnosis, hair, life, physics, string theory
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Ontario Lacus: How Does It Feel to Live in an Alien World in Which Everything That Is Does Not Have to Be?
In a recent science article at the New York Times, the unpredictable blendings and contingencies of history jumped out at me in the way that Titan’s methane lake, “Ontario Lacus,” came to be named: In 2004 a camera known as the Imaging Science Subsystem on … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam, astronomy, contingency, Darwin, existentialism, fortuna, gay marriage, life, luck, Nietzsche, saturn, titan
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Red Brick and Clay
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The View from Adam’s Window
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Tagged Adam, art, dream, fruit, garden of Eden, life, longing, peaches, photography, tantalus
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Gay Children’s Gender Confusion Book Proposal: Eve has Two Mommies—Or Are Those Daddies?
This is a curious late-Medieval image. Gender seems oddly reversed—God the Father appears rounded, as if pregnant, and Eve comes out of Adam’s body, rather than the other way around. Perhaps Eve’s first words out of the womb were the same as Miranda’s in Shakepeare’s the Tempest: … Continue reading
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Prometheus Unbound 