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[Eng] Merrill Davis: “Darwin and Fundamentalism”

History of Science & Scholarship2007.01.23
[Eng] Merrill Davis: “Darwin and Fundamentalism”
[English] Merrell Davis: Darwin and Fundamentalism, translated by Zhang Zengyi, Peking University Press, March 2005 I had read this book once before, but apparently I didn’t take any notes. Today I reread it at great speed. A couple of random remarks, by the way: this “Postmodern Confrontation Series” is, in terms of content, all quite good, but… alas, such a thin little book, with only 70,000 characters, already takes 5.375 sheets, and still costs 12.8 yuan! Also, Mr. Jin Wulun’s general preface to the series and Mr. Wang Zhihe’s Chinese translation preface are of course very good, and generally speaking they are not especially long in terms of word count,…
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2007年1月23日
[French] Émile Noël: “Darwinism Today”

History of Science & Scholarship2007.01.23
[French] Émile Noël: “Darwinism Today”
[Fr.] Émile Noël: “Darwinism Today,” trans. Zhu Xiaojie, Peking University Press, April 2000 Reading this book was basically just to pad the list; for such a slim little volume, I didn’t read it through from cover to cover either. The book consists of a set of interviews about Darwinism, but although it is in interview form, it still feels a bit dull to read—perhaps because I didn’t read it carefully enough. This book is only a beginning. During this winter break I will read many more books about evolution, focusing on the relationship between modern biology and religion. This will serve as an important part of my principal’s fund paper—if…
book reading notes Peking University evolution
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2007年1月23日
[U.S.] Joseph Mazur: “Euclid in the Rainforest—A Narrative Brief History of Mathematics”—★

History of Science & Scholarship2007.01.22
[U.S.] Joseph Mazur: “Euclid in the Rainforest—A Narrative Brief History of Mathematics”—★
[U.S.] Joseph Mazur: *Euclid in the Rainforest—A Storyed Short History of Mathematics*, translated by Wu Fei, Chongqing Publishing Group, Chongqing Publishing House, December 2006 A new installment of Xiaogu’s quarterly recommendations has appeared! This is the most surprising, most unusual popular science book I have read in recent years! It is no exaggeration at all to say that the chair of Harvard’s mathematics department commented that the author “has pioneered a highly attractive way of writing”; at the very least, I have never read anything remotely like this style of popular science writing! The subtitle and the review of this book may easily give one the wrong impression—that this is…
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2007年1月22日
[English] John Hick: “The Rainbow of Faith—A Dialogue with Critics of Religious Pluralism”

Philosophy & Thought2007.01.21
[English] John Hick: “The Rainbow of Faith—A Dialogue with Critics of Religious Pluralism”
[Eng.]John Hick: Rainbow of Faith — A Dialogue with Critics of Religious Pluralism, translated by Wang Zhicheng and Sizhu, Jiangsu People’s Publishing House2000, February2. Pages2~3. The purpose of dialogue between theology and philosophy is not necessarily to reach agreement—though that is what the interlocutors hope for, and sometimes agreement really is reached—but rather, more precisely, to find out where they differ from one another, and to look at the issues from both the affirmative and the negative sides,////—I very much appreciate Hick’s view of dialogue. Page32. Kant held that perception is not a passive recording of perceived objects, but is always an active process of selection, grouping, association, inference, and the conferring…
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2007年1月21日
[Eng.] John Hick: “Reason and Faith — Problems of Religious Pluralism”

Philosophy & Thought2007.01.20
[Eng.] John Hick: “Reason and Faith — Problems of Religious Pluralism”
[Eng]John Hick: Rationality and Faith — Questions in Religious Pluralism, translated by Chen Zhiping and Wang Zhicheng, Sichuan People’s Publishing House2003January pp. 15–16 P14 Religious language expresses our understanding of God in mythic patterns. That these patterns are human in character and culturally conditioned is a fact, and to some people this fact reveals the following possibility: in depicting divine reality, the different mythic systems of the major religious traditions are less in competition with one another than complementary to one another. However, in such theological work there is a genuinely internal problem or tension. Religious life is practiced primarily on the basis of symbols and myths. The eternal Son…
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2007年1月20日
“The Soul of Science,” “The Dragon-Slaying Saber of Calculus,” “The Stolen Harvest”

History of Science & Scholarship2007.01.20
“The Soul of Science,” “The Dragon-Slaying Saber of Calculus,” “The Stolen Harvest”
[U.S.] Lancy Peirce Charles Thurston: The Soul of Science—A 500-Year History of the Interaction between Science, Faith, and Philosophy, translated by Pan Bitao, Jiangxi People’s Publishing House, December 2006 The very first book in my reading plan was already disappointing—the theme of this book is undoubtedly one I care about deeply, yet the book itself is not outstanding at all (perhaps because I had expected too much). In terms of content, its account of Christianity’s role in promoting science may seem strange to the general public, but to me there was not much that was new. For the history of the interaction between science and religion, books such as Brooke’s…
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2007年1月20日
Winter Break Reading Notes, 2007: The Launch Manifesto

Life & Notes2007.01.19
Winter Break Reading Notes, 2007: The Launch Manifesto
Winter Break Reading Notes for 2007 Launch Manifesto I remember that in the middle of last winter break I suddenly threw myself into a spurt of effort, reading dozens of books straight through at an average pace of one book a day. Although none of them could be called especially specialized works, I did indeed feel I gained quite a lot; more importantly, I read with soaring morale and doubled confidence. But the good times did not last long. Not long afterward, for certain reasons, and then because of a whole string of external and internal problems, my morale plunged to rock bottom. It was truly a case of collapsing…
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2007年1月19日
In the Epistle to the Romans, how did Paul understand Jesus’ Passion?

Philosophy & Thought2006.12.04
In the Epistle to the Romans, how did Paul understand Jesus’ Passion?
At the very opening of Romans, it is already said that “this gospel [is that] which God had before promised by his prophets in the holy scriptures concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was descended from David according to the flesh, and was declared with power to be the Son of God according to the spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead. Through him we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the nations for his name” (1:2–5). We can see that Jesus’ death and resurrection are, first, the “promise,” second, the “declaration,” third, “grace,” and fourth, what teaches…
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2006年12月4日
Al Gore: An Inconvenient Truth (2006) / A Truth Hard to Ignore

History of Science & Scholarship2006.11.21
Al Gore: An Inconvenient Truth (2006) / A Truth Hard to Ignore
Al Gore An Inconvenient Truth Highly recommend this film. A documentary about global warming. Starring former U.S. Vice President Al Gore (the same one who ran against George W. Bush back then). It’s deeply shocking. Even though I already had some awareness of the environmental crisis, I was still very shaken. For some people who remain unmoved by the environmental crisis, or who keep speaking in vague and equivocal terms, it is truly “their duty” to watch this film. Screenshot: the upper line shows changes in the level of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere over the past 650,000 years, as examined through Antarctic permafrost ice cores, while the lower…
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2006年11月21日
Film and Television Appreciation Midterm Assignment

Life & Notes2006.11.17
Film and Television Appreciation Midterm Assignment
Midterm Assignment for Film Appreciation A、“Request for Feedback” Questions: 1. Is the difficulty and depth of this course appropriate? Is there enough knowledge content? Please give examples. I feel the difficulty is appropriate. As for the depth, since I don’t have much else to study as a point of comparison, it’s hard to say. Through this course I learned a great deal about the artistic and technical aspects of film, and came to understand that film, as the “seventh art” and as a kind of “culture,” is something very special and important. Compared with the vast topic of film art, the “knowledge content” a general elective course can provide is…
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2006年11月17日