Quiet, not forgotten

So, I've been neglecting this blog. But for a few good reasons. Work has amped up, the summer drilling program has started, so I'm working longer hours. Also, summers in Calgary are best spent outdoors more often than not.

But the other reason is research. I have a few ideas for my next topic. I had said I was going to tackle the concept of Intelligent Design, but the more I read on this, the more I need to learn before I can share it. It's an interesting issue, bogged down by vague terminology.

I'm also planning a couple of reflective posts (which need less research) on my personal 'feelings' towards evolution, and reflections on the meaning it helps give my life (strange as it might sound).

Currently, I'm reading Evolutionary Creationism by Dennis Lamoreaux, a very interesting treatise on Evolution from a purely Christian and Biblical standpoint. I plan on rereading Cardinal Ratzinger's series of four homilies on the Catholic view of Genesis. I'm starting to get into material by the National Center for Science Education. Also, in the long run, I'm hoping to look into material from 2009 symposiums on evolution at the Vatican, as well as a rather dense collection of papers on philosophy and (not of) science which I bought in Rome in 2008 and have barely touched.

I will post more soon, once I get stuff soaked into my head. If anyone wants to talk geology, I can spew it all out now!