Yesterday, I saw the following quote on a t-shirt in a little souvineer shop in Hannibal, Missouri: A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. This quote uses a formula that could work for many other verbs, too. Instead of "read," you can substitute "think,"…
I’m a newcomer to an extremely popular website called Lifehack. The site specializes in “hacks, tips and tricks that get things done quickly by automating, increase productivity and organizing.” There is obviously a lot to consider at Lifehack.org. One might wonder, though, how much time one should spend on productivity lest…
Dangerous intersection is now more than 1 1/2 years old. We currently have a couple dozen active authors who have contributed 1,500 posts on 60 categories. These posts have drawn almost 7,000 comments. Many of these posts (I'm guessing perhaps one-third of them) make reference to news of the day,…
If you read and listen to enough information and testimony by proponents of Intelligent Design, you’ll discover that the basic premise is: “If I don’t understand exactly how something happens, then it must have been done by a supernatural agent.”
This telling phrase is rarely used by Design Proponents, who evolved from Creationists via the missing link “CDesign proponentsists” that was excavated from a draft of their textbook during discovery for the Dover Trial (click to watch the Nova Documentary of the trial).
One Intelligent Design website has an article it calls Intelligent Design in a Nutshell. Anyone with an understanding of science or information theory will find the unsupported and largely disproved assertions laughable. However, by mis-stating the scientific method, and claiming as supporting proof scientific conclusions that have long been discarded, it makes a convincing case.
Former child actor, and aging teen heartthrob Kirk Cameron is a visible proponent of this odd IDea (sic). Here’s a short video of a Fox News report interviewing him after he taped a debate against Richard Dawkins. There are some annotations placed by the video editor, but the interview itself is untouched. Watch it and see that my initial assertion is correct. Kirk actually says to the unapologetically supportive Creationist (“unbiased”) interviewer, that if he doesn’t understand how it could have formed, then we must accept that it was obviously designed.
It's a gray and rainy day in St. Louis. Not a sad day, but a thoughtful day. I took a moment to read some Camus. I respond intensely to much of his work. His simple writing style elegantly carries deep thoughts. Here are some of my favorite quotes by Camus: A…