Archive for October, 2007

quote of the day

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

“freedom of religion is much more than the freedom to worship; it is the freedom to act according to that belief in the service of others.” - Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor1

Quoted by Father John Flynn, LC in “Imposing ‘Tolerance’: Christians Obliged to Approve Homosexuality” ZENIT 2007-10-29 http://www.zenit.org/rssenglish-20867 ↩

quote of the day

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

“Which religion, whose adherents accept the tenets of that religion as the truth about God, does not regard adherents of other faiths as holding imperfect theological notions? If religious belief is important, then to accept more perfect beliefs is to be more perfect.” - David Klinghoffer1

Mr. David Klinghoffer. “Tribe and Truth: Ann Coulter, Theologian” [...]

quote of the day

Monday, October 15th, 2007

“Scientism’s dismissals are … self-refuting. Those dismissals are also vacuous, as if affixing the label non-science to an argument tells us anything meaningful about the strength of the argument. The “it isn’t science” response to contemporary design arguments is neither a reasonable nor a particularly stimulating reply. In such cases, the mathematical/empirical approach has degenerated from [...]

I appear in print

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

A few days ago several of us (Pidgin developers) were approached by Ms. Dahna McConnachie asking for an interview for the Australian version of PC World. Apparently I was one of the only developers to respond to her request, and as a result, I have now appeared in print.1 I only spent an [...]

extended quote of the day

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

Let me be clear. I am not saying the origin of life was simply an extremely improbable accident. I am saying the origin of life was deliberately, purposely arranged, just as the fundamental laws and constants and many other anthropic features of nature were deliberately, purposely arranged. But in what I’ll call [...]

In memory

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Six years ago today my father died. As I write this, I was either en route to the hospital, or just barely there. How I miss him. How I wish he could be here with me physically and not just spiritually.

Why?

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Saint Dominic is surely at this moment imploring God’s intercession. What in the world are the Dominicans in Holland thinking?1 Why is the Church not reacting more strongly‽

Mr. Sandro Magister. “In Holland, They’re Inventing Their Own Mass – Copyrighted by the Dominicans” Chiesa News. 2007-10-03. http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/170066?eng=y ↩

a very busy week

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

In no particular order:

The seller agreed to do the repairs. Andy got all the paper work he needs for our loan application. No word back yet. Notified the land lady that I will be moving the last weekend in October. Worked late four nights out of the last 10-11 business days, only one of which was to [...]