May 18, 2014
Today was another one of those days, blog-wise. I just could not get inspired to write on, like, anything. I already published a smaller piece yesterday, so I figured I would just do another small one tonight. But, nothing appealed to me. Then, I remembered Joseph Gervais. Yes, Joseph is another Facebook friend of mine, […]
Tags: agri-chemicals, Assessing Toxic Risk by Trautmann, chemical toxins in food, dosage of toxic substance, food toxins, glyphosate, importance of dose, Joseph Gervais, perceptions of risk and danger, Round-Up, short-term vs chronic toxicity, synthetic chemicals vs natural chemicals, the dose makes the poison
Posted in Science |
May 17, 2014
The bill, recently approved by Connecticut’s General Assembly, was meant to reduce the sodium intake from beverages served to public school students. (Part of the national “fight against obesity”, of course.) An amendment disallows any drink with sodium added to it. Chocolate milk wasn’t targeted, but since it does contain about 60-90 milligrams of added […]
Tags: chocolate milk ban, Connecticut General Assembly, fight against obesity, food police, Gov. Dannel Malloy, pending legislation, public school menu, silly laws
Posted in Politics, Politics & Science, Science |
May 11, 2014
I take no credit (or blame) for what follows. It is the result, following a discussion on Facebook (which I was not involved in), of the reading, observation, and analysis by a friend of mine. I’ve mentioned him before on a couple other posts. That friend is the inimitable Eriku Mironasu (aka ECM), and the […]
Tags: A.I., AI, artificial intelligence, brain science, defining intelligence, Eriku Mironasu, limitations of materialist explanations, machine intelligence, materialist predictions, neuroscience, philosophical materialism, scientific predictions, scientific reductionism, Terminator
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
May 4, 2014
One day in Oklahoma in 1999, Clayton Lockett and a couple friends decided to rob a house. Unfortunately for 19-year-old Stephanie Neiman, she and a friend came “home” to that house, interrupting the intruders. I don’t know what happened to her friend, but Stephanie was beaten and bound with duct tape. Lockett shot her twice […]
Tags: botched Oklahoma execution, capital crime, capital punishment, Clayton Lockett, cruel and inhumane, death penalty, lethal injection, midazolam, Stephanie Neiman
Posted in Politics, Politics / Science / Religion, Religion, Science, Uncategorized |
April 27, 2014
Thanks to a video clip shown on liberal media (e.g., New York Times, “Media Matters”), a lot of people are up in arms (so to speak) about Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s latest public statements. In short, he has been accused of being racist and of claiming that Blacks were better off as slaves. It was […]
Tags: Bundy ranch, Bundy's racist comments, Cliven Bundy, federal government seizing state and private property, fight against Big Government, government overreach, Is Cliven Bundy a racist?, racist Bundy, unconstitutional action by government
Posted in Politics |
April 20, 2014
I have something different for you this Easter season. A real treat! A Facebook acquaintance of mine is Tom Graffagnino, Esq. (I added the “esquire” bit. Just sounded right.) Like me, Tom is a Bible-believing follower of Jesus Christ, who is also quite concerned about the moral decline (among other things) in this nation and […]
Tags: Christian artist, Christian holiday, Christianity, Easter, He is Risen!, Jesus Christ is Risen, Resurrection Day, Resurrection of Christ, Son of God, Tom Graffagnino, torn curtain, Without Excuse Creations
Posted in Religion |
April 13, 2014
The following guest-post is from a young man trying to grow his essay-writing business. He contacted me and offered to research/write an original post on a topic of my choice. Since I had been meaning to return to the subject — well, some aspect of it, anyway — of commercial spaceflight, I decided to let […]
Tags: commercial aerospace industry, commercial spaceflight, future of spaceflight, NASA, Obama space program, PPP, private sector space firms, private-funded vs government space programs, public-private partnerships in aerospace, U.S. astronautics
Posted in Politics, Politics & Science, Science |
April 6, 2014
Unless you somehow missed it (and how could you?!), the previous post was the first part of my response to a Young-Earth Creationist, who expressed several concerns about my Old-Earth Creationist comments at the STR blog. I don’t recall the exchange being contentious, but “Doc” sure did think I was in danger of compromising the […]
Tags: answering YEC concerns, astrophysics, Bible and science, biblical Hebrew, biblical integrity, Big Bang cosmology, Big Bang Theory, creationist claims, dealing with our own interpretational biases, evolution, explanatory power, fine-tuning arguments, general revelation and special revelation, harmonizing the Two Books, Hugh Ross, inerrancy, inference to the best explanation, Intelligent Design, OEC interpretation, plain reading, proper hermeneutic, Reasons to Believe, RTB, science/faith issues, scientific theories, YEC vs. OEC
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
March 30, 2014
Earlier this month, I posted (in 2 parts) a response I gave some years ago to a skeptic who questioned the cosmology represented in the Bible. The exchange occurred in the comments section of the blog for STR, and there were others involved in the larger conversation. One of them in particular was a Young-Earth […]
Tags: answering YEC concerns, Bible and science, biblical integrity, Big Bang cosmology, Big Bang Theory, creationist claims, evolution, evolutionary timeframes, fine-tuning arguments, general revelation and special revelation, harmonizing the Two Books, inerrancy, Intelligent Design, OEC interpretation, proper hermeneutic, science/faith issues, scientific theories, YEC vs. OEC
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
March 23, 2014
“You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.” — Alvin Toffler I would like to share an excerpt from a lengthy article I read recently. It was in the January 2014 issue of Hillsdale College’s Imprimis magazine. The author, Charles […]
Tags: anti-Obamacare, back to the Constitution, Charles Kesler, conservatism, efforts defund Obamacare, Hillsdale College, Imprimis, limited government, political strategy, populist origins, preserving constitutional government, recapturing our Constitutional freedoms, Tea Party, TP strategy, what the Tea Party needs to do
Posted in Politics |