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IN 1988, Stephen Hawking, a British cosmologist, ended his best-selling book, “A Brief History of Time”, on a cliff hanger. If we find a physical theory that explains everything, he wrote—suggesting that this happy day was not too far off—“then we would know the mind of God.” But the professor didn’t mean it literally. [...]  The second in the series on apologetics at Above Bar Church, Southampton. This one is considering reasons why it is rational to believe that God exists. 2. Is God a Delusion? View more webinars from Tony Watkins. Handout available here. [...] Some very interesting stats on a Royal Pingdom post. Here’s a selection of those that particularly interest me: Email 90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009. 247 billion – Average number of email messages per day. 1.4 billion – The number of email users worldwide. 100 million – [...] This is the event at which I’m speaking on Friday evening:
Susan Bradley writes in Windows Secrets (8 October 2009): The ads served by Bing and Google along with your search results are linking more and more often to sites trying to infect your machine. Neither Bing nor Google effectively prescreens these bogus advertisers, so it's up to us to detect and [...]Image courtesy Icon Film Distribution © 2009 This article was first published on Culturewatch.org. © Tony Watkins, 2010 Today sees the release in UK cinemas of Creation, marking the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. Husband and wife Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly give beautifully nuanced performances as Charles and Emma Darwin experiencing a [...] As the world marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, his influence on the world is as enormous as ever. Whatever you think of his ideas, there’s no doubt that they have shaped science and profoundly affected many aspects of contemporary culture. Darwin’s meticulous work established the natural sciences as a serious scientific discipline for the first time. If this was Darwin’s only legacy, he would still be a towering figure in the history of science. But for most people, his name is linked only with On the Origin of Species. [...] [...] I recently interviewed Nick Spencer for a one-off Culturewatch.tv video on Creation, the forthcoming film about Charles Darwin. Nick is the author of Darwin and God.[...] [...] Nev Pierce has written a piece about Creation in the LA Times. . . . Darwin’s continuing relevance is one reason why “Creation” has been selected to open Toronto, which usually kicks off with a home-grown picture. “It’s a bit of a tradition for us to open with a Canadian [...] via tiltedtwister.com There’s video of this brilliant contraption. And building instructions – I can see where tomorrow might be going. The clever man who assembled this, Hans Anderson, has also built a sudoku solver using the Lego Mindstorms kit. I’m impressed. Posted via web from Tony Watkins [...] Charles Darwin: eminent scientist, loving husband, grieving father. The film Creation explores the different sides to the man who some believe had ‘the biggest single idea in the history of thought’. Even today, Darwin’s legacy is at the centre of contemporary debate about our understanding of who we are and what it means to be human. This film explores the implications of Darwin’s theories, and the way that tragic events in his family life influenced his doubts about God.[...] [...] |
Tony Watkins is a writer and speaker on Christian faith and contemporary culture, with a particular interest in film. He is the Managing Editor of Culturewatch. |
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