Science
When Did It Happen…?
…or did it even happen at all?
Yesterday I was perusing my feeds and came across a rather interesting story from the AP.
Using a variety of Earth and space telescopes, astronomers found a giant exploding star that they figure has shined about five times brighter than any of the hundreds of supernovae ever seen before…
This is [...]
My Thoughts from the Dawkins Interview
I almost hate to write another post about this because of all the awesome conversation going on in the comments of yesterday’s post, but since I said I would, here it is.
First of all, my thoughts on the interview. The main thing I noticed was the cordial behavior of both men, something not generally [...]
Richard Dawkins / Bill O’reilly Interview
Take a look at the following interview with Richard Dawkins on the O’reilly Factor (Bill O’Reilly’s TV show). Take a look at the video below, and read the response by a commenter at the forums at RichardDawkins.net.
Dear Mr. O’Reilly,
I wanted to respond to your recent interview with Mr. Richard Dawkins regarding Atheism. I [...]
Dangerous Questions
The announcement of my series on Young Earth Creationism has caused a bit of uneasiness among some of my Christian readers/commenters. This has caused me to do some serious thinking on the topic of asking questions.
Unfortunately, for too long, Christianity has been defined by ignorance, not necessarily widespread or broad ignorance, but more like [...]
Young Earth Creationism
I know I give you Darwinists a hard time on this blog, so for the next several weeks, I’m going to be periodically posting some common arguments for Young Earth Creationism, and giving the reasons why I do not believe it to be a valid scientific position.
There are tons and tons of organizations out there [...]
Micro-Evolution vs. Macro-Evolution
Before any of the science geeks jump on my case, I AM NOT defending the terms in the title, in fact, this will be a post criticizing them.
In my journey over the last few years, I’ve learned quite a bit about the evolution/creation/ID debate. It’s embarrassing how naive I was just a couple of years [...]
The War on Dembski
There are few men in the Intelligent Design movement more hated than William Dembski. He’s got degrees coming out of his nose, an academic background that makes me look like a third grader, probably has an IQ in at least the low 170’s or higher, and has has decided to (shudder) apply mathematics to [...]
Roy Spencer on Global Warming
As promised, this is the interview with the climatologist Roy Spencer. Dr. Spencer is a principal research scientist for University of Alabama in Huntsville. He has awards up and down, and is certainly not a political hack (although if you search for his name on google you will find plenty of people [...]
Global Warmin, oh my!
Notice that I put this post in both the science and politics categories, because this issue, Global Warming, IS a political issue.
Now, just because I’m a libertarian doesn’t mean that I lay aside my critical faculties in favor of “freedom at any cost”. I still want to think through every issue in detail (although [...]
Who’s the Designer?
I’ve talked both personally and virtually to a wide variety of people on the heated topic of Darwinism vs. some flavor of design. I’ve gone toe to toe with the most literal of creationists, and the most convinced Darwinists. Let me be clear, I find no more valor in the irrational creationist than [...]