“Reports from the time suggest that everybody enjoyed themselves immensely, and all went cheerfully off to dinner together afterwards.” — Michael Ruse, philosopher of science, commenting on the Huxley vs. Wilberforce debate As regular readers will remember, roughly a month ago I did a post about the infamous “conflict thesis” of science vs. religion. The […]
“The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order which has been imposed on it by God, and which he revealed to us in the language of mathematics.” — Johannes Kepler, 16th/17th-century mathematician and astronomer, known for his Laws of Planetary Motion If you are at all […]
“[M]any of the UFO reports now being published in the popular press recount alleged incidents that are strikingly similar to demonic possession and psychic phenomena which have long been known to theologians and parapsychologists.” — Lynn Catoe, a senior bibliographer for the Library of Congress, after reviewing 1600 books & articles on UFO phenomena As […]
“I want to believe.” — FBI Agent Fox Mulder, “The X-Files” In Part 1, we began to delve into the phenomenon of “residual UFOs” (aka RUFOs). We noted several questions/issues that need to be addressed by proponents of both the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) and the extradimensional or interdimensional hypothesis (IDH). This time, I want to […]
“You misunderstand me. I can only demonstrate that UFOs defy the laws of physics. That is not to say they cannot be real.” — Dr. Hugh Ross, in response to a challenge from a member of an audience of Russian scientists As mentioned at the end of “When Is a UFO Not a UFO?, Part […]
“The eruption demonstrated that geologic catastrophe can produce in hours and days geologic features previously believed to have taken millions of years. When we see what the volcano did in such a short time, we can better appreciate how the catastrophe of Noah’s Flood formed the much larger geological features on planet Earth.” — Dr. […]
You might read that title and think I’m a little weird. But, by the end of this post, you’ll be thankful for the lil fellas, too. (Though you may still think I’m weird.) A few years ago, I was having some digestive issues. (Nothing major.) I don’t remember the details — probably just as well […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
Have you heard about the “crisis” in cosmology? “Crisis” seems a bit alarmist to me, but that’s the term some are using. It comes down to the fact that cosmologists can’t figure out how to reconcile the most recent measurements for the age of the universe. See, there are two major methodologies to deriving it, […]
