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		<title>Dashing Through the Snow</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The sea&#8217;s only gifts are harsh blows, and, occasionally, the chance to feel strong. Now, I don&#8217;t know much about the sea, but I do know that that&#8217;s the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong, to measure yourself [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mattsmonthlymusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28137938&amp;post=301&amp;subd=mattsmonthlymusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Physician</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[John 3:16 is probably the most well-recognized verse in the Bible. This is thanks in large part to America&#8217;s sports culture (beginning with Rollen Stewart&#8217;s signs in the 1970&#8242;s), but it shouldn&#8217;t be all that surprising, either. The short verse &#8211; spoken by Jesus during his interaction with Nicodemus &#8211; is a powerfully concise summary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mattsmonthlymusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28137938&amp;post=287&amp;subd=mattsmonthlymusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ant Argument</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received some great feedback in response to the article I wrote in December, &#8220;The (Unsurprising) Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences&#8221; (read it here). Thank you everyone! Two comments in particular (one on this blog and another offsite) have prompted me to pursue the topic a little further, if for no other reason [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mattsmonthlymusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28137938&amp;post=193&amp;subd=mattsmonthlymusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Concerning the Problem of Evil</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At some point, most Christians have probably encountered questions such as, &#8220;Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people?&#8221; or &#8220;If God is perfectly good, then where does evil come from?&#8220; These are challenging questions that don&#8217;t necessarily have simple or easy answers. But they do have answers. This post is by no [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mattsmonthlymusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28137938&amp;post=126&amp;subd=mattsmonthlymusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The (Unsurprising) Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 06:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If nature is really structured with a mathematical language and mathematics invented by man can manage to understand it, this demonstrates something extraordinary. The objective structure of the universe and the intellectual structure of the human being coincide.&#8221; &#8211; Pope Benedict XVI In 1960, physicist and Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner published a well-known article entitled, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mattsmonthlymusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28137938&amp;post=66&amp;subd=mattsmonthlymusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Proteasomes are Awesome</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From time to time, I plan to write about science-related topics that illustrate the elegance of God&#8217;s design. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse (Romans 1:20, NIV). This month, I&#8217;ll be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mattsmonthlymusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28137938&amp;post=80&amp;subd=mattsmonthlymusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Origins of the Moral Law</title>
		<link>http://mattsmonthlymusings.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/origins-of-the-moral-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CS Lewis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Another way of seeing that the Moral Law is not simply one of our instincts is this. If two instincts are in conflict, and there is nothing in a creature&#8217;s mind except those two instincts, obviously the stronger of the two must win. But at those moments when we are most conscious of the Moral [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mattsmonthlymusings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28137938&amp;post=29&amp;subd=mattsmonthlymusings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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