eVolution
From the
daily bulletin of the Holy See. The Holy Father addresses the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
To state that the foundation of the cosmos and its developments is the provident wisdom of the Creator is not to say that creation has only to do with the beginning of the history of the world and of life. It implies, rather, that the Creator founds these developments and supports them, underpins them and sustains them continuously. Thomas Aquinas taught that the notion of creation must transcend the horizontal origin of the unfolding of events, which is history, and consequently all our purely naturalistic ways of thinking and speaking about the evolution of the world. Thomas observed that creation is neither a movement nor a mutation. It is instead the foundational and continuing relationship that links the creature to the Creator, for he is the cause of every being and all becoming (cf. Summa Theologiae, I, q.45, a. 3).
So God is cause of the transformation of being from an intelligible form to a different intelligible form. Written down.
Labels: Thank God., The Pope
Found...
...Something, maybe. It's called
Handbuch der babylonischen Astronomie by Ernst Friedrich Weidner.
Does it contain a map of the babylonian sky or just a description of its subdivision?
Labels: Astronomy, Scripture study support.
According to
Spiegel, on the 20th of November there should be 2 million objects online, linked to European culture, in a sort of gargantuan encyclopedia on the Internet.
The number is supposed to grow to 10 million by 2010, in an effort to keep up with the competition started by Google book search, that has already digitised 10 million volumes.
Martin Selmayr, a spokesman for Reding's office at the European Commission, said the project involves organizing various digital projects already underway at Europe's state libraries and national archives, so the books and films and photos and paintings can be clicked through on a single site.
No one at the European Commission scans books. But Reding's office does have to smooth out compatibility problems, and make sure all the scanned files work with all the other scanned files. The libraries also need to avoid duplicating their efforts, since Europeana has no particular need for twenty-seven digital copies of Goethe's Faust.
The decision about what to scan first is not made by politicians, rather, the EU entrusted the decision to librarians and archivists, and each of them have clearly their different priorities.
Again, it seems to me, that the model for the organisation of this project is that of network of networks, and the main concern of the top level is compatibility and data durability. The metadata seem to be on the site.
Labels: Databases, Technology
Nearly there...?
Plastic logic has announced a new e-ink display. It may change something...
Labels: Technology
Psalm 119
Your Word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.
Labels: Ora
The reading continues...
News about it from
BBC and
Zenit.
Labels: The Bible, The Pope
Day and Night
The integral reading of the Bible starting with Pope Benedict XVI.
From
RAI.
The news is also reported
by BBC as an activity meant to mark for the opening of the synod of Bishops.
Labels: The Bible, The Pope
Ecclesiastical networks.
A Franciscan nun runs the team that build the
vatican site.
Sister Judith Zoebelein, editorial director of the Holy See, explains how her purpose is to form local communities over the global Internet:
The idea is to use the medium of the Internet, the energy of the Internet, to bring together a group and from that group create local Church, we call it, local community and then bring that local community back into the actual world...
Here. And at
LIFT.
Labels: Technology, Third Millennium Church, Those religious people...
Installed.
Pope Benedict XVI has become the first pontiff to harness solar power to provide energy for the Vatican.
According to
BBC news.
Labels: Technology, Thank God., The Pope
