From the Editor
11 January, 2010
By Bryan Lower
Religion and science are the topics of the week.
Photo by Pere Figueras
I’m very proud to bring you a couple writers who are new to the pages of Grindstone Journal, and the return of Tristan Vick, who has contributed a couple enjoyable pieces.
Our second week with the new format brings very diverse points of view, and should provide some fun lunchtime reading at the office. Don’t forget to check out GJTV!
I’m already working on next week, searching for new content and preparing my own entries. As always, I would be happy to receive your submissions at journal@grindstonejournal.com. Let us know what you think! You can write a rebuttal of an article you read on Grindstone Journal, or you can submit an original work on a topic that interests you.
Cheers,
-B
GJTV: Democracy and Liberalism
11 January, 2010
By Bryan Lower
Discussing a liberal view of democracy... with drinks!
Wow, I should really stop drinking while making these videos. I misspoke a couple times, and even invented a new word or two. To top it off, I showed the wrong John Stuart Mill book. Screw it! I'm not re-recording it! WE'LL DO IT LIVE!!
Watch the video!
What’s So Great About Dinesh D’Souza?
11 January, 2010
By Tristan D. Vick
A Literary Critique and a Pen Warmed Up in Hades
Photo by Bryan Lower
Dinesh D’Souza in his book What’s so Great About Christianity takes great effort to misrepresent Darwinian theory and atheism nearly every chance he gets. In this critique I’m going to reveal D’Souza’s bag of tricks, expose his rhetoric, and show how he does a great job of running in circles, shifting the blame, and avoiding having to offer any real tangible answers to the atheist’s inquiries concerning religion.
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Why We Fight - For Science
11 January, 2010
By Marc Merlin
Marc Merlin's Blog: Thoughts Arise
The triumph of our civilization is the elevation of our culture.
Photo by Goingstuckey
A couple of nights ago, on the edge of the meadow at Piedmont Park, over a convivial dinner that included an appropriate amount of beer and wine, the conversation turned to science - more precisely to how to promote interest in science to the public at large. What, in conventional circles, would have been an unusual dinner-time topic, was an unexceptional one with this group, since we were members of the Atlanta Science Tavern, and we are given to talk about science every chance we get.
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In the Beginning there was the Universal Consciousness
11 January, 2010
By Tricia Tuggle
A pagan creation tale
Photo by Topsoft
I get mistaken for an atheist quite often.. I'm really not, more just a science loving pagan, but still a theist. I believe in nature, I am a part of it after all. I believe there is more, and I even believe there is magick.