“Misleading research like this is one important reason I have lost faith in the overblown claims of evolutionary biology. It‘s mostly smoke and mirrors.” — Günter Bechly, German paleo-entomologist and former curator at the State Museum of Natural History (SMNS) in Stuttgart In a recent study on the origin of feathers, Rory L. Cooper and […]
“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 […]
I found another section from Vivek Ramaswamy’s book, Woke, Inc., that I wanted to share. This is from Chapter 10, “Wokeness Is Like a Religion”, so it should be pretty obvious where this is going. The author discusses noted cases in the news, from James Damore to J.K. Rowling, in which individuals dared to question […]
“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 […]
“That’s insane!” — Jared Dirac, Special Forces soldier The following conversation — technically just half of a conversation — is an excerpt from the science-fiction novel The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi. Normally, I would be more likely to share something like this on my “Heroes and Aliens” blog. But, this section (and the book […]
Sometimes I want to comment on a thing, but I’m not sure I want to do a full article on it. So, this week I’m taking three of those things and giving each a paragraph or two apiece. They aren’t connected. Just think of it as “highlighted news items of the week” or something like […]
“[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 […]
“Did you know that it’s a lot harder for the government to arbitrarily cut off your access to power if you’re using gas as opposed to electric? Or is that really the point?” — Nick Freitas, Virginia state Delegate Some on the Left are trying to convince the American public that this whole we-want-to-outlaw-gas-stoves narrative […]
“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 […]
