It occurs to me that it could be useful for my readers if I was to regularly post links to the best blog posts I’ve read.
So, without further ado here’s the latest list in this semi-regular feature:
Productivity
If you’ve made it to this point using Visible Ops to help you get a handle on your process, you have stopped firefighting and are starting to lead your business. After all, that was the original goal of going through these steps.
Some benefits you will see at this point include:
Instead of spending 50% or more [...]
Recently, I was sitting around with my Bomber Jacket Levenger Circa, going through some notes I had taken. My wife sat down next to me and started talking about some subject that meant a lot to her. So I stopped what I was doing and listened. Then she finished her point and paused. “Are you [...]
“Jesus Saved my Soul. GTD Saved my future.” Now there’s a blog opener that will get someone’s attention. It’s from a blog post, How GTD Rescued Me, by Scott Gould. Scott’s sharing his experience implementing GTD and specific the impact it’s having on his life and ministry. I know that there are a significant number of people in ministry that have implemented the GTD methodology to help them cope with a constantly changing set of priorities. For these people ministry is all about getting things done. David Allen lovingly refers to these folks as ClerGTD. … (Read more at source)
GTD Secrets: True Confessions of a GTD Coach – Episode 4 One of the things that I have seen over the years is a lot of incomplete Project Lists. And I think some of it is because we have a tendency to have a narrow view about what a project is. Years ago, David said in [...]
Leadership
We’ve all heard the aphorism, “The devil is in the details.” Conversely, Oprah likes to say, “Love is in the details.” But which is it? Actually both. The details matter—more than you might think. Related posts:
Friction and the Consumer Experience
More Details on the Amazon Kindle
The Gift of Shoes
Impressive First Week for Captivating
Turning Bad Customer Experiences into Wow Experiences
Bad customer experiences can be great opportunities to transform not-wow into wow. When people have a bad customer experience, their expectations are lowered. Usually, this results in the customer abandoning the product or service and moving to a competitor. But it doesn’t have to be that way. In fact, it can be an opportunity for organizations to win customers and generate positive word-of-mouth. Related posts:
The One Thing You Need to Create Wow Experiences
Customer Service and the Butterfly Effect
Creating WOW Product Experiences
The Wow Is in the Details
Turning Failure to Your Advantage
Technology
Windows/Mac/Linux: VLC Media Player, the open-source solution to media players that can’t play your media files, reaches the 1.0 milestone today. What’s new? Support for HD and other new formats, finer speed controls, customizable toolbars, AirTunes streaming, and much more.
On top of new features, this 1.0 release has been, as software types would expect, given a serious bug scrubbing and annoyance reworking. Obsessive-compulsive playback types will appreciate the better live recording, instant pausing, and finer-grained playback speed controls, while those working in non-common formats may find VLC’s newfound support for AES3, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Raw Dirac, and other expensive-sounding … (Read more at source)
Other
In this two-part series I will sketch and defend Alvin Plantinga’s proposal that evolution should not be taught as “the sober truth” in state schools. In Part I, I will sketch Plantinga’s position and the arguments he provides for it; in Part II, I will look at what should be taught and then I’ll defend this position against the most significant critique offered of it by Robert Pennock. I have developed this position partly out of reading and reflecting on the published debate between these two men but also through correspondence with Alvin Plantinga over the issue.Part I. The Argument … (Read more at source)
In Evolution should not be taught in State Schools: A Defence of Plantinga Part I, I articulated and defended Alvin Plantinga’s proposal that evolution should not be taught as “the sober truth” in state schools. In this post I will address what should be taught in state schools and look at Robert Pennock’s objections to this argument.Part II. Plantinga’s Proposal: What should be taught in State Schools?After drawing the above conclusion, Plantinga asks what should be taught regarding origins in state schools? He suggests two answers; the first is to teach nothing on matters of origins,
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Excuse me, but what does the anti-science rant “Why evolution should not be taught in state schools” have to do with productivity? And how on earth could one even hope to be productive without an adequate education?
There is simply no credible scientific alternative to the body of knowledge that tells us that life originated billions of years ago via evolution by natural selection. Tens of thousands of scientists worldwide in hundreds of different disciplines have all conducted independent research contributing to this vast body of knowledge. Yet this religious-based “it’s controversial, let’s not touch it” nonsense is still casually discussed as if there really is a debate.
The “debate” such as it exists is simply this: do we want our children to have an adequate science education or not? Your answer seems to be on the side of ignorance, and your credibility is thus diminished.
Hi there Madame_Furie
Thanks for taking the time to comment.
You’ve asked a few questions and made a few statements which I’ll try to address individually.
Excuse me, but what does the anti-science rant “Why evolution should not be taught in state schools” have to do with productivity?
Although this blog is primarily about productivity and leadership I keep my reading wide and these posts were the first time I had seen a Christian paper that addressed the issue sensibly, logically and rationally. So I thought some of my readers might like to click through to read it. If not, they could simply ignore it.
And besides, maybe it is all about productivity because, as you point out, And how on earth could one even hope to be productive without an adequate education? Hopefully this explains why I put the link in.
Unfortunately, the rest of your comments suggest that you may not have actually clicked through and actually read the articles in full. You say, Yet this religious-based “it’s controversial, let’s not touch it” nonsense… as though Plantinga actual says not to teach evolution at all. Actually, his premise is that it should be taught as the currently most credible, and I quote from the article:
Evolution can be taught as the most probable theory relative to the current scientific epistemic base. This, he thinks, is uncontroversial and not likely to contradict anyone’s comprehensive beliefs; even a creationist, for example, can grant that, if one brackets various theological claims and operates on methodological naturalism then evolution is likely. What schools cannot do is teach that any particular epistemic base is the correct one to start from or that what follows from a particular epistemic base is true. Plantinga thinks that creationism could be taught in a similar conditional way in state schools.
Happily, the writers also set out the opposing view to enable the reader to come to his or her own conclusion.
Madame_Furie, you say The “debate” such as it exists is simply this: do we want our children to have an adequate science education or not? Your answer seems to be on the side of ignorance, and your credibility is thus diminished.
I would suggest being not willing to enter into a debate of this nature is more likely to reduce one’s credibility.
By the way, although I believe wholeheartedly in a Creator God, I have no real idea on the methodology he used to bring his creation into being. I’m quite open to the idea of evolution being one of God’s tools.
As always, feel free to disagree (life would be so boring if we all agreed on everything!)
Of course – it’s your blog and you have every right to include whatever the heck you want.
I will simply thank you for responding and suggest some reading material of my own: http://bit.ly/QvtPj
“Creationism” \ “Intelligent Design” especially the “young earth” variety is not scientific theory and has no business in a science class – any more than does a “stork theory” of reproduction, or a course on divination.
Evolution is not simply the “most credible,” it represents the *only* credible, rational body of knowledge that tells us about life’s origins on earth. Yet your suggested reading suggests it should not be taught in schools – hence its title. Please tell me again I’ve misconstrued the tile of both articles: “Why evolution should *not* be taught in state schools?
On the other hand, evolution by natural selection is under-represented in the curriculum. We as a society will probably suffer for it – our very existence during this time of anthropomorphic climate change depends on skilled, critical minds steeped in a solid, rational knowledge of our natural world.
Muddying the waters by bringing faith-based agendas into our schools will not further our knowledge. You can believe in a magic fairy in the sky all you want – just don’t let it influence the course of education in a secular society.
Thanks for that link Madame_Furie. Please be assured I will look at it soon.
Once again, some of your comments require a response:
“Creationism” \ “Intelligent Design” especially the “young earth” variety is not scientific theory and has no business in a science class – any more than does a “stork theory” of reproduction, or a course on divination.
I absolutely agree that the “young earth” variety has no business in a science class – it clearly is at odds with the facts and truths we have learned through scientific research. Intelligent design by a creator isn’t at odds. It’s neither proven nor disproven.
Straight evolution however is neither proven nor disproven either. It remains a theory. That’s fine except that it’s taught as if it’s proven fact. I think that’s the issue here.
Please tell me again I’ve misconstrued the tile of both articles: “Why evolution should *not* be taught in state schools?
I think the original poster of the article used a little licence to headline and therefore attract readers. I maintain that if you read both articles in full, Plantinga is really suggesting a (in his opinion) more balanced approach to teaching.
On the other hand, evolution by natural selection is under-represented in the curriculum.
I think we’ll just have to disagree on this statement
Muddying the waters by bringing faith-based agendas into our schools will not further our knowledge.
Probably your most interesting statement! It implies that the evolution theory is not faith-based. Any theory has to have an element of being “faith-based” and as such, if we were to accept your thought process then evolution would not be taught in schools either.
Yes, I know it a productivity blog but thr’s a gd discussion starting on evolution & schools http://bit.ly/36p9JW Hv ur say
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