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		<title>The God Chemical? (and I&#8217;m not dead)</title>
		<link>http://valenced.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/the-god-chemical-and-im-not-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 06:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caseyww</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[However I&#8217;ll grant that depending on your definition of death you may be able to make a decent argument for whether I’ve been alive or not the past months. Where has Valence been?  Unfortunately the answer is quite mundane and I’m tempted to make up a more interesting explanation than confess the truth… (I’ve been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=valenced.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5093792&amp;post=275&amp;subd=valenced&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Faith Healing and Neglect</title>
		<link>http://valenced.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/faith-healing-and-neglect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caseyww</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://valenced.wordpress.com/?p=261</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve said before I&#8217;m a bit of a podcast junky.  One of my favorites is called The Skeptic&#8217;s Guide to the Universe which is, you guessed it, a podcast dedicated to what they brand as scientific skepticism.  A far cry from what many imagine skeptics to be (that is, cynical), these guys do a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=valenced.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5093792&amp;post=261&amp;subd=valenced&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Misquoting Jesus</title>
		<link>http://valenced.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/misquoting-jesus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caseyww</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s easy to mistake the Bible for a Stephen King novel.  I&#8217;m tempted to try and construct an elaborate argument for how Misery was really an allegory for the obsessive tortured love that is the relationship between man and divinity.  Would Kathy Bates be God or mankind in that scenario? Luckily, I&#8217;m not going there.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=valenced.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5093792&amp;post=252&amp;subd=valenced&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Darwin Does It</title>
		<link>http://valenced.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/darwin-does-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caseyww</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week marks the culmination of our trifecta of evolution discussions here at Valence. February 12th is Darwin Day (his 200th birthday, except I don&#8217;t like counting dead peoples&#8217; birthdays, do you?) and this year is the 150th anniversary of his release of On The Origin of Species.  The media is awash in Darwin controversy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=valenced.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5093792&amp;post=246&amp;subd=valenced&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intelligent Design?</title>
		<link>http://valenced.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/intelligent-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caseyww</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://valenced.wordpress.com/?p=235</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, in order to discuss the strategy of &#8216;academic freedom&#8217; which intelligent design proponents are hiding behind, I introduced the evolution vs. intelligent design (ID) debate briefly.  Apparently, judging by the lack of push-back I got in the comments, it is a fairly safe opinion to hold here at Valence that ID has no [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=valenced.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5093792&amp;post=235&amp;subd=valenced&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>cdesign proponentsists</title>
		<link>http://valenced.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/cdesign-proponentsists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The evolution &#8216;debate&#8217; is certainly a can of worms but, with Darwin&#8217;s 200th birthday coming up next month and recent creationist battles in Louisiana on the news wire, it&#8217;s a can that&#8217;s due to be opened here at Valence. Before we go too far, let me just be clear, evolution kicks ass.  Since Darwin published [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=valenced.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5093792&amp;post=225&amp;subd=valenced&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Faithful Inauguration</title>
		<link>http://valenced.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/faithful-inauguration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caseyww</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nestled comfortably, if not ironically, this week between Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the inauguration of President Barack Obama, your heart would have to be frozen solid with the tears of unicorns to not pause and take stock of our nation.  Hope is in the air after all.  I&#8217;ve even been reading A Testament [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=valenced.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5093792&amp;post=215&amp;subd=valenced&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tough Question Indeed</title>
		<link>http://valenced.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/tough-question-indeed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>caseyww</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The beginning of each year at Coast Vineyard the pastor endeavors on a preaching series titled &#8220;Tough Questions&#8221; where he solicits questions from the congregation which are supposed to address the areas that faith is most challenging to live out in the real world.  Past flavors included: Should Christians legislate morality?  Does God work through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=valenced.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5093792&amp;post=205&amp;subd=valenced&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How We Believe</title>
		<link>http://valenced.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/how-we-believe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve put the holidays to good use and finished reading Michael Shermer&#8217;s book How We Believe: Science, Skepticism and the Search for God.  You may have noticed his quotes creeping into Valence over the past couple of months as one or two of his ideas stood out to me.  In How We Believe Shermer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=valenced.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5093792&amp;post=194&amp;subd=valenced&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Science 2008 &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://valenced.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/2008-top-science-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody have their water wings on?  It&#8217;s time to continue our swim through Valence&#8217;s Top 10 Science Stories of the Year! 5. Pica Pica Perception This year researchers in Germany showed that the European Magpie (Pica pica) deserves to join the elite class of animals we consider to be self-aware. A rudimentary &#8220;sense of self&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=valenced.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5093792&amp;post=170&amp;subd=valenced&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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