Wednesday, January 21, 2009

GREAT nature and landscape photography

This next section may take a while to build, but the following links (many gathered from Earth Shots) showcase some of the fineset nature or travel photographers in the world.


Philippe Sainte-Laudy: Photographie nature (French)
countryside, flowers: images range from traditional landscapes to higly stylized photoshop adaptations. Superb.

Dirk Ehrenraut: The World is Unique
German photographer

Kevin McNeal:
Astonishing landscape photographer based out of Washington State. Beautiful light and motion studies. Large format vistas.



Monday, January 5, 2009

Theism v Atheism debates



On occasion, I try to follow exchanges between those who affirm faith in a God-made and directed universe, and those who see the same as the end of a soley material process. Here is a growing list of links.
Douglas Wilson and Christopher Hitchens (from a Christianity Today sponsored series: Is Chrisitanity Good for the the World?
Original Written exchange
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/mayweb-only/119-12.0.html
secondary debate at Westiminster University
http://blog.beliefnet.com/reformedchicksblabbing/2008/11/the-doug-wilson-and-christophe.html
(I was dissapointed by Douglas in this particular exchange, but see that he is stronger in print.)



(A ten-part series between Dawkins and Lennox)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRPSsKIOOoQ





(A series of debates between Christian William Lane Craig and a series of persons.)

http://www.leaderu.com/offices/billcraig/menus/debates.html








(the Great Debate 1985, Greg Bahnsen, Gordon Stein: Both now dead)


transcript: http://www.bellevuechristian.org/faculty/dribera/htdocs/PDFs/Apol_Bahnsen_Stein_Debate_Transcript.pdf

MP3's:
http://veritasdomain.wordpress.com/2006/12/05/greg-bahnsen-vs-gordon-stein-the-great-debate/