“It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.” — Justice Samuel Alito (in the leaked opinion draft) If you are like me, you may feel a bit overwhelmed by all of the articles from the last few days talking about SCOTUS, the leaked opinion draft, […]
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, […]
“Waste is an apolitical issue that transcends socioeconomic status and has remained essentially unchanged since the time of the Romans. For generations, we have buried our trash in the ground and our heads in the sand, unwilling to break from a broken business model or take a serious look at how our waste impacts the […]
“In a world where decision makers, their advisers and the media were able to admit their mistake and the initial panic that gripped them, we would have long since returned to routine. The ongoing destruction due to the inability to admit this mistake, despite the epidemic’s small mortality numbers, is outrageous. History will judge the […]
“He who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind. And the wind is rising.” — Jordan Peterson, paraphrasing the Bible You’ve heard of Jordan B. Peterson, right? He’s the Canadian psychology professor who has become somewhat of a celebrity/pariah in recent years, mostly because he is outspoken against things like political correctness and identity politics. […]
“Job 37:18, which describes skies without rain as a ‘bronze’ expanse (cf. Deut 28:23), is figurative and does not support the common contention that the ‘expanse’ was considered a bronze dome by the Hebrews.” — Kenneth Mathews, Genesis 1–11:26 (New American Commentary, vol. 1a) For roughly the past couple hundred years, certain scholars (mostly higher […]
I was reminded the other day that this is Black History Month. I don’t normally go out of my way to note, let alone celebrate, this. As Ryan Bomberger (who is bi-racial) of the Radiance Foundation recently wrote, “There are so many incredible stories that should be intertwined in an educational fabric that celebrates every […]
“Show… me… the fossils!” — me, with apologies to Jerry Maguire and Rod Tidwell And by “new” I mean the remains of a newly-discovered species, not a newly-evolved creature that was found munching away in some marshlands. But, you probably knew that… Even if you aren’t into paleontology that much, you may remember seeing hadrosaurs, […]
No, that title isn’t meant to be a metaphor. I’m talking about actual diamonds and coal. As has been well-established, diamond is an incredibly hard, crystalline form of carbon that requires extreme heat and pressure to form. However, contrary to what you may have heard, read, been taught, or watched on TV, diamonds do not […]
As happens occasionally, I came across a “blast from the past” and thought some of my readers might appreciate it. Several years ago, I posted about David Snoke’s book, A Biblical Case for an Old Earth, and a reader commented with some follow-up questions. His name was Jason, and his questions touched on several topics […]
