Dr. N. Burr Furlong's Page.



This site includes an index of titles and manuscripts of a variety of essays and papers I have written during the course of my career.  Some of these articles are also posted on my section of the Artifex site (see below).  To read a given selection, click on its underlined title; to return from another page or a transfer back from artifex, use the BACK button on your browser. Incidently, my monitor resolution while setting up the picture spacing was 1024X768.

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NEWEST ADDITIONS --

My Faith Statement for the St. Lukes Service on July 23rd, 2000
        The shortened one I actually gave.
        The longer one I wrote as first draft.

My March 2000 Series of Talks on "The Interdependence of Science and Religion"

#1. Science AND Religion vs. Science OR Religion - Notes from a talk based on Patrick Glynn's: "God - The Evidence"
#2. Darwinism Recreated - Why evolution isn't all that ungodly!
#3. From Aloof to Amaze - Cosmology Begets the Anthropic Principle!
#4. Blythe Spirit - Testimonials from The ER!
NEXT TO NEWEST ADDITION -- THE 1999 CAFE DU DOC PAGE Cafe du Doc 1999
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These are for your pleasure and analysis . Please send me any comments, questions, disagreements or discussion to the email address below. Thanks!  If you would like to find out more about me just click on the words and view some bio info (It may take some time to download).
If you have comments or suggestions, email me at burr@pdq.net

INDEX TO WRITINGS
[Subjects in square brackets are those not yet ready for posting]

A. Articles for Kinkaid Publications

A1. The Biology of Sex - for the October 1995 issue of Spin on Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll.
A2. Censorship in the Arts - for the November 1995 issue of Spin on Censorship in America.
A3. A Test for Christian Churches - for the April 1996 issue of Spin on Our 90's Culture.
A4. The Outdoor Club - for the October 1995 issue of the Falcon Magazine.
B. Various Literary Works Directed to Students
B1. A Conversation Idealized from One with Jeff Williams.
B2. A Class Session Similar to One with My 1993 AP Bio Class (names have been changed to indite the guilty.)
B3. A Commencement Address (in case I'm never asked to give one).
B4. Graphophobia - why do you suppose it is so rare to find students or even real people who enjoy writing?
C. Didactic Essays on Various Topics
C1. Offices in Salomon's House - appeared on the Perspectives page of the June 1985 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.
C2. Atheism and Theism - written in 1976 to help an exchange student rethink his professed atheism.
C3. Psychotypes - a theory that humans are evolving an ability to experience a more fundamental dimension of existence.
D. Through the Looking Glass Darkly - Alternative Views of Cherished   Beliefs
D1. The Mystery of Judas - Satanic or selfless?
D2. Eloi, Eloi Lama Sabachthani - God's doublecross on the cross?
D3. The Temptations of Christ - how ultimately he may have yielded to each.
E. Retirement Project #1: Book Summaries for "A Layperson's Guide to the New Theology"
E1. Introductions - for my Sunday school class and for my former students.
E2. John Spong's Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes.
E3. John Spong's Resurrection: Myth or Reality?
E4. [Marcus Borg's The God We Never Knew]
E5. [ " Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time]
E6. Dominic Crossan's Who Is Jesus? -
E7. [Dominic Crossan's Who Killed Jesus? - the Gospels' anti-Semitism reexamined.]
E9. [Evan Powell's The Unfinished Gospel - could John's Gospel have preceded Mark's?]
E9. [Pat Eddy's Who Tampered with the Bible? - an intelligence analyst presents evidence that propaganda colors, and often obscures, facts in the new Testament.]
E10. [Jack Miles's God, a Biography - reconstructs God concepts from Biblical reports of His behavior]
F. [Retirement Project #2: Reports of Physicists' Approaches to Metaphysics
F1. Peat: Synchronicity - Enrico Fermi and Carl Jung collaborated on this theory.
F2. Tipler: The Physics of Immortality - negentropy and our approach to the omega point.
F3. Charon: The Unknown Spirit - a French physicist postulates entropy reversal in mini-black holes, aka electrons.
F4. Talbot: The Holographic Universe - intriguing generalizations from holographic analogies.
F5. Kafatos & Nadeau: The Conscious Universe - the implications of the observer on that observed.]
G. Travel Reports
G1. [Europe Here and There September 1997 - from Di's funeral to Budapest and back.]
G2. [Greece and Turkey March 1998 - following the footsteps of Paul's second missionary journey.]
G3. Oahu and Hawaii February 1999 - highlights and hints for travel in our 50th state.
G4. Alaska June of 1999 - travel with the San Jose Chorus in our 49th state.
H. Miscellaneous
H1. Sir Nup - a play on words fairy tale written some 30+ years ago to entertain my kids. (It appeared in the 1997 Falcon wings.)

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