People everywhere are asking, now that we’re firmly entrenched in the 21st century, “Dude, where’s my flying car?” There are places online where you can read about the obsession with this query, and re-experience (or for many of us, experience for the first time) the vision of the future that never was, from fifty […]
Take a look at your hands. The entire history of the universe is written in your hands.
Have you ever thought about where your hands came from? Naturally, you got your hands from your parents. They gave you the DNA which determined the size and shape of your hands. All the […]
When I was about 7 or 8, I visited my Aunt and Uncle, who had a summer cabin on a lake in Minnesota. One day my Uncle took me fishing, and with patience and a little help I caught myself a fine little bass. I was terribly excited to know that my fish […]
Continuing the series of science posts, last time I described how intelligent design leads us to the conclusion that we are nothing more than meat robots. However I failed to mention that what intelligent design advocates really believe is that we are meat robots with souls.
Although intelligent design advocates claim to be doing real […]
Last time I discussed the need for a series of posts on science and its meaning. First up: evolution.
When you think of evolution the image which probably comes to mind is that of a fish flopping out onto land, which then magically grows feet, becomes a dinosaur, then a monkey, and finally a […]
Recently among the scientific community there has been a discussion on how to better convey science to the general public. Much of this discussion has focused on the framing of science, particularly with regard to its philosophical (i.e. religious) consequences. On one side are the those opposed to framing science in such a […]
Happy Halloween gentle readers.
I’m not familiar with the customs in other parts of the world, but here in the United States Halloween is a time for costumes and trick-or-treat. It is also a time when we bring out many of our fears, real or imagined, about death, spooks, and spirits. It is a […]
This week Ann Coulter stirred the political pot yet again. On the CNBC show “Big Idea”, Coulter was asked for her views on the perfect American society. At first she spouted off the idea that it would be a Republican society, shifted so far to the right that Joe Libermann would be viewed […]
How do we know what is true and what is not? How do we weigh the validity of another’s opinion, or even the validity of our own?
Some time ago, Julia made a post on the comfort of knowing the truth. This resulted in a comment discussion on the nature of truth, […]
Recently I came across this photograph of a billboard:
To give you some context, it is an advertisement for Answers in Genesis, the fundamentalist Christian organization which promotes Biblical literalism, including the idea that the universe was created about 6000 years ago, and that the immense diversity of animals we now see on the planet traces […]
