Over the recent holiday I was fortunate to find several good films on DVD at my local public library. One I have just mentioned -- The Ox-Bow Incident. Another is a trilogy about evolution, produced by the BBC. The films are titled, "Walking with Monsters," "Walking with Dinosaurs," and "Walking…
I've recently seen an outstanding WWII-era movie called "The Ox-Bow Incident," starring Henry Fonda & Harry Morgan. The movie is ostensibly a western, set in a small Nevada town in the mid-19th century. However, unlike other western movies of its day, in which you can tell the good guys from…
Let's stop calling it a "bailout of the financial system." Instead, let's call it something like "Irresponsibly throwing precious taxpayer dollars at feckless and devious financial institutions who arrogantly and defiantly refuse to be transparent to the taxpayers." If getting money "into the system" is the plan, and it's done…
We're all evolving in many ways, but I'm specifically referring to the design of this website. In the near future we will start implementing a new "magazine" design that allows us to feature some of our articles and to more easily integrate images and text. It will also provide new…
The December 12, 2008 issue of Science Magazine (online only to subscribers) suggests that creationism is a growing movement in many Islamic countries. The author, Salaman Hameed, writes that: The Koranic narrative of creation includes a six day account of creation. The length of each day, however, is not clearly…