Posts by The prodigal species
Emails with an early description of my theory
A different conversation, with Friend#16 2019|9|24 From: Ray Gangarosa To: Friend#16 (and others) Subject: installment 1: some background information I hope you’ll find interesting Hi Friend#16 I’m struggling with writer’s block on the summary I’m preparing for you and others, so I’ll turn my attention to introducing myself and describing the very few (but highly…
Read MoreBlogs and blog-like communications shared with friends
2020|5|15 From: Ray Gangarosa Subject: Re: The Monkey Business Illusion 2020|5|15 text message exchange with Friend#6 Ray Gangarosa: Hi Friend#6 I hope you’re doing well and staying safe. I am looking for a conservative friend who can explore how progressives and conservatives might reconcile their differences. I have been developing a conceptual and analytical framework based…
Read MoreTrump’s patriotic duty? or just repayment of the debt?
2020|7|3 email to various friends: From: Ray Gangarosa Subject: Trump’s patriotic duty? Or has it just been just repayment of the debt? Happy Independence Day, everyone! My parents came across this great Mike Luckovich cartoon! blog #3 July 4, 2020 musical and literary interlude: 1. This is the way we always heard Hamlet, act 2, scene…
Read MoreEmail about “right” and “left”
2020|7|7 From: Friend#6 Subject: Barriers To Black Progress: Structural, Cultural, Or Both? Thank you for your response on sending you the Black Hills speech. And Move on email. I sent you the typed speech , in case you might see it’s meaning with out the speakers voice. ( and your request to read more) .…
Read MoreFoundational flaws of fundamentalism
I respectfully submit that the paradigm of biblical literalism is grossly out of step with God’s will during our changing times of rapid transition and imminent transformation, but it’s important to communicate diplomatically to well-intentioned evangelicals why this is so. That perspective is always looking backward to times that could not have imagined where we…
Read MoreEmail about sculptures and plagues
From: Ray Gangarosa musical interlude: I know Friend#5 is also a big fan of Kate Wolf, who died in 1986 at age 44 of leukemia. Here is my favorite song of hers, “Poet’s heart”, which reminds me of a gifted poetess, pianist, and diarist whom I had a deep crush on the year after I…
Read MoreEmail about “Frustration”
2020|5|23 From: Friend#6 Subject: Frustration Ray G I remember as young engineers , in med school voicing our concerns to each other, On the lack of discipline of our new field of study Had in math processes / and application. I remember a red faced physiology professor , when I confronted him after a class…
Read MoreIdentification of a path toward humanity’s co-creative partnership with God
Raymond E. Gangarosa, MD, MPH, MSEE August 26, 2020 Christian believers have long thought of history in terms of an inversion process, in which catastrophe rebuilds life: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” However, modern…
Read MoreReview principles that will go into my “proof of the existence and nature of God”
2020|5|15 Review principles that will go into my “proof of the existence and nature of God”, centered around the analogy that we are like cells in the body of an intelligent, enlightened, compassionate unicellular Organism Who has our interests at heart but also has an overarching agenda — on a much longer, civilizational, timescale than…
Read MoreRecent evidence I’ve collected about the existence and nature of a purposive God
2020|10|1-2 Recent evidence I’ve collected about the nature and existence of a purposive God 2020|10|1-2 Posted at theprodigalspecies.com on 2020|10|2 Also pasted into “DRAFT 1 of contribution 8, recent evidence about the existence and nature of God 2020|10|2.docx”: Contributions I offer to for defending God’s kingdom, part 2 Contribution 8. Recent evidence I’ve collected about the existence and…
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