Did anyone get to observe the conjunction of the Moon, Venus, and Jupiter last night? We were mildly overcast here in Indiana, but in some ways that actually worked in our favor since the clouds blotted out all the stars and let only the light from those three heavenly bodies through. I kept wishing I [...]
Science
Link Roundup
I don’t generally do link roundups, but in this case, there are a handful of notables, and I don’t really have the time or energy to write about each one individually.
Antibiotics for Sinusitis – This article from Science-Based Medicine sums up exactly my thinking about the germs floating around out there right now. I’ve been sick twice this [...]
A Conflict of Viewpoints
Man, I really hate falling under a label that seems to generate so much animosity and antagonism from folks in the scientific community – that being, in this case, Creationist (as opposed to the term ‘denialist’ that is also mentioned). It honestly makes it difficult for those of us who are genuinely interested in the study and [...]
Comet McNaught
Looks like yet another cool astronomical phenonmenon is going to pass me by before I’ll get to see it. I’ve been checking the horizon every night for the past several days in hopes of being able to see Comet McNaught, but unfortunately, I’ve been hampered by consistent cloud cover. And the weather report for the [...]
Christians and Scientific Discussion
I stumbled across another interesting science blog yesterday, this one focusing primarily on Earth Science. In this entry, Chris Rowan makes a couple of statements that all scientists (especially Christian scientists) should take into consideration:
Furthermore, to properly interpret criticism you need a firm theoretical understanding of the theory you’re criticising.
This is one the primary reasons why [...]
Arguments
Boing Boing: Dawkins: Why There Almost Certainly Is No God
I grow weary of continual “he said, she said” rhetoric. It’s a major part of why I’ve more or less tuned out politics, why I’ve even, to some extent, tuned out of religious and philosophical discussion recently. This is more of the same.
It’s interesting to me that [...]
Finite to Infinite
I’ve been delighted that a friend of mine has joined the ranks of bloggers. He never fails to stimulate my thinking, and his entry from the other day is no exception:
As to another application, while studying philosophy here in seminary, I’m curious about Plato & Natural Theology. Philosophy has always been ‘searching’ for a conception of [...]
Bits of Burning Rock
I hadn’t realized until my wife and I moved back out to the country just how many shooting stars fall in a given night. Nearly every time I am outside, in the dark, to feed the horses, whether it be early morning or after sunset, I usually see at least one or two.1 I [...]
Attraction Kills?
Men Pay the Ultimate Price to Attract Women – Yahoo! News
Personally, I like this part:
“Women live longer in almost every country, and the sex difference in lifespan has been recognized since at least the mid-18th century,” said Daniel Kruger at the University of Michigan. “It isn’t a recent trend; it originates from our deep evolutionary history.”
So, what, an observation of [...]
Finite to Infinite
Science and rationality cannot disprove the existence of God, just as they cannot prove the existence of God because God is far larger than anything that exists. Nothing that we have available to us can ever explain something that large. It’s just like the way the created can never be anything but less than the [...]