September 18, 2022
Remember that business a few months ago with Biden’s new (now-disbanded) Disinformation Governance Board (within the Dept. of Homeland Security) and its controversial executive director, Nina Jankowicz? Well, this is sort of like that, only different. As reported by The Heritage Foundation’s Erin Dwinell, Homeland’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has been meddling where it […]
Tags: Biden administration, Big Brother, censorship, CISA, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Dept. of Homeland Security, disinformation, Disinformation Governance Board, Erin Dwinell, Foundation for Freedom Online, goverment overreach, leftist agenda, Ministry of Truth, mission creep, need to defund, redefinition of terms, The Heritage Foundation
Posted in Politics |
September 11, 2022
“… the cleverest man I ever knew, without exception.” — Jacob Bronowski on John von Neumann, The Ascent of Man In the title above, “they” refers to extraterrestrial beings. Does that make the title sound silly or insulting to natives of Hungary? It was in fact supposed to be humorous and somewhat of a compliment. […]
Tags: brilliant men, John von Neumann, Los Alamos, Martians, Phil Morrison, science humor, SETI, solution to Fermi's Paradox, Stephen Webb, wartime braintrust, whimsical story
Posted in Science |
September 4, 2022
“America’s children will be picking up the tab for this fiscal negligence for a generation.” — Lindsey M. Burke, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy and Mark A. Kolokotrones fellow in education Everyone is talking about President Biden’s plan to “cancel” student loan debt for millions of people, a move even a […]
Tags: bad biblical arguments, benefits upper-income students, benefits woke institutions, Biden administration, blatantly unfair, debt amnesty, doesn't address the real problem, economic concerns, encourages irresponsible behavior, fiscally negligent, income-based repayments, increasing national debt, incredibly expensive, Kevin McCullough, legal issues, lengthened pause on repayments, Lindsey M. Burke, not comparable to Christ's sacrifice, Office of the General Counsel, open-ended federal subsidies, Penn Wharton Budget Model, prolonging inflation, regressive, rising taxes, Samuel Sey, student loan forgiveness, The Heritage Foundation, The Week UK, U.S. Dept. of Education, unjust
Posted in Politics, Politics & Religion, Religion |
August 28, 2022
“I am usually baffled by the thoughts and accomplishments of humans in different cultures. I’ll be damned if I can state with certainty what some extraterrestrial source of intelligence might do.” — Stephen Jay Gould, noted paleontologist and evolutionary biologist When I wrote “SETI and the Fermi Paradox”, it was all I could do to […]
Tags: advanced alien civilizations, anthropic principle, astrobiology, Copernican Principle, Drake Equation, Frank Drake, habitable zones, much criticism, much speculation, naturalistic assumptions, Principle of Mediocrity, probabilistic argument, questionable value, Rare Earth hypothesis, search for Earth-like planets, SETI, stellar formation, Stephen Webb
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
August 21, 2022
“The legal justification doesn’t pass constitutional muster. There seems to be no crime committed, only that the National Archives grew impatient over record retrieval.” — Matt Vespa, Townhall.com Shortly after the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month, I started collecting and reading relevant articles, so I could, of course, keep track of […]
Tags: Biden administration, Christopher Wray, declassified documents, FBI raid, harassment, Jonathan Turley, Mar-a-Lago raid, Merrick Garland, Mike Davis, National Archives, Newsweek article, out-of-control Dept. of Justice, political hit-squad, Presidential Records Act, questionable warrant, Trump estate, unfair treatment, weaponized DoJ
Posted in Politics |
August 14, 2022
“Here [pointing to new, blown-up photo from Voyager] is the Earth in a sunbeam. And you can see it; it is in fact less than a pixel in size. And, uh, this is where we live — on a blue dot. There is no evidence suggesting life anywhere else. For me, that underscores the rarity […]
Tags: advanced alien civilizations, astrophysics, Carl Sagan quote, Enrico Fermi, extraterrestrials, MIchael H. Hart, observation, scientific speculation, SETI, Stephen Webb, the Fermi Paradox, Where is the hard evidence for alien intelligences?
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
August 7, 2022
“Nothing is more obstructive to the investigation of the truth than prior commitments to partial truths.” — Jacobus Arminius (1560-1609), Dutch theologian Most people with a little theological knowledge would have to think twice about putting the two words in this post’s title together. I mean, “Reformed” usually refers to Calvinism and the doctrines of […]
Tags: Arminian theology, Arminianism, Calvinism, Christ's priestly role, Classical Arminianism, F. Leroy Forlines, J. Matthew Pinson, Jacobus Arminius, libertarian-determinist debate, penal substitution, perseverence, personal election, Reformed theology, total depravity
Posted in Religion |
July 31, 2022
“We’re kind of the chimpanzee ‘fighting’ civilization. Some other civilization just may have a basically more peaceful personality, like bonobos do.” — Stuart Taylor, SETI astrophysicist The technology to send it isn’t in place yet, but JPL astrophysicist Jonathan Jiang and other researchers have already drafted a new message to broadcast to any alien intelligences […]
Tags: advanced alien civilizaton, asking aliens to help Earth, bonobos vs. chimpanzees, Jonathan Jiang, LiveScience, new technology, risking existence of humanity, sending new message into space, SETI, Stephanie Pappas, Stuart Taylor, too much information
Posted in Science, Uncategorized |
July 24, 2022
“LGBTQ Americans and those in interracial marriages deserve to have certainty that they will continue to have their right to equal marriage recognized, no matter where they live.” — Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), House Majority Leader With the Dobbs v. Jackson (2022) decision overturning Roe v. Wade (1973) and returning the abortion issue to the […]
Tags: anti-miscegenation, Chip Roy, codifying into law, demands for segregation, Dobbs, DOMA, federalism, interracial marriage, Loving, miscegenation laws, moral equivalency, Obergefell, re-visiting SCOTUS decisions, redefining marriage, Respect for Marriage Act, returning authority to the States, RFMA, same-sex marriage, skin color is morally irrelevant, SSM, Trevor Noah, wokeness
Posted in Politics |
July 17, 2022
In earlier posts, I cited Voddie Baucham’s concerns regarding the growing “fault lines” within greater Evangelical Christianity due to the infiltration of Critical Race Theory, “social justice”, etc. Baucham explained what these ideas were, their unbiblical nature, and how they have manifested in “evangelical” churches across America. In this post, I present much of the […]
Tags: anti-biblical concepts, antiracism, biblical worldview, contend for the faith, critical theory, CRT, CSJ, Fault Lines, forgiveness, honest exegesis, incompatible with Christianity, multi-generational guilt and reparations, reject ethnic-based guilt, stand firm against woke ideology, systemic racism, true justice only from Christ, underlying assumptions, Voddie Baucham
Posted in Politics, Politics & Religion, Religion |