It was an indefinable moment in a dimly remembered future that is neither near nor far away. A radio chattered to itself distantly until a blast of fanfare sent the idle drifts of thought scurrying for cover.
Biblio’s Blood Chapter 1
Church Custodian
In September 1999, thinking that we were called to Christian service we took a job as custodian of a large Presbyterian church.
Blueprint for a Garden
During the time that we (that's me and the Holy spirit) were at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill we were the teaching assistant for Biology 43, Local Flora, for two spring semesters.
What’s a Tarheel?
In the fall of 1990 we began the graduate program in Plant Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. On our first day we were shown around Coker Hall by a senior graduate student
August 9th
In 1991 we (me and the Holy Spirit) scared the faculty at Duke by demonstrating a flaw in the use of cladistic phylogenetic analysis to study the Devonian fossil Archaeopteris.
August 7th
"Heavy rainfall and aridity?" An ecosystem had 40 days and nights of rain, was buried in sediment, and what was left afterwards dried out. The Devonian is one of the biggest jokes in human history.
The Slough of Despond
The slough of despond is a phrase which occurs in Paul Bunyan's "A Pilgrim's Progress." It's where the main character, Christian, toils heavily and has to be rescued by a character called the Evangelist.
Night Shift
In the spring of 2003 we were making a mess of things as usual because we thought that living by faith was abandoning all of life's normal responsibilities so that we could write our definitive work reconciling the Bible with science.*
The Theory of Evolution
Evolution, naturally, goes back to Sir Charles Darwin and his infamous book: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.