More than 800 highly qualified scientists support evolution

Oh, and they're all named "Steve."  It's all part of "Project Steve," begun in 2003.   These Steves are mostly biologists and they are mostly PhDs.  They are all highly qualified and the are each affiliated with highly reputable institutions.  They've all publicly agreed to this statement, in honor of Stephen J.…

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Don’t stare at dead things or animals having sex.

I bristled yesterday as I read yet another faux-controversy concocting article in my misguided home town paper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.  You see, Body Worlds is coming to my town and the morality “experts” are getting restless. The “concern” is that maybe we shouldn’t be staring at dead bodies.  The morality experts quoted…

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Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself

But what’s puzzlin’ you is the nature of my game... That’s about the only song I can stand to listen to the Rolling Stones do.  Musically, thematically, it all comes together for them.  It’s perfect.  Beyond that, while I certaiinly like a lot of their songs, I cannot abide listening…

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Update on Clive Wearing

The New Yorker recently published an article by Oliver Sacks, the famous neurologist and author, with an update on an equally famous patient: Clive Wearing, a British musician who suffered an attack of viral encephalitis in 1985. Although Wearing recovered, the infection destroyed the areas of his brain associated with…

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