Today’s Cool, Wise, and Scary

What’s cool:

Dan Collet’s essay in John Frame’s Festschrift, Speaking the Truth in Love. For those who think that the transcendental argument for God’s existence is really nothing more than a spiffed up version of some formal, logical argument (i.e. reductio ad absurdum, modus ponens, etc,), you will be thoroughly challenged.

What’s wise:

“He must increase, but I must decrease.” – John the Baptizer, Joh 3:30

What’s scary:

“It’s Google’s world; we just live in it” is how Salon.com announced the giant’s latest incursions into social networking and telecommunications. What began as a humble search engine now has a finger—or an elbow—in every digital pie and clearly aims at becoming the one-stop shop. The company motto is “Don’t be evil,” and to all appearances, management’s goal is simply to provide the quickest, easiest way for consumers to meet all their networking needs. J.P. Morgan did the same for American railroads when he bought enough controlling interest to standardize track gauges nationwide. But Morgan never wished, as Google co-founder Sergey Brin has, for the development of a wireless chip to be implanted directly into the human brain. What would that mean but the standardization of human consciousness?” – Janie B. Cheaney in WORLD Magazine, March 13, 2010