Archive for the 'Random Things' Category

Everyday Evolution

Monday, May 12th, 2008

I’ve always been an inquisitive person, but for most of my life I avoided anything having to do with the biological sciences.  Not because they are uninteresting — far from it.  But for no other reason than the plain and simple fact that nothing in the biological science makes sense apart from evolution.  For anyone […]

An I.D. Thought Experiment

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

I’m taking a brief interlude from my series on Science and Christian Education to talk about Intelligent Design.  Before I became comfortable studying biology, I would read anything and everything I could get my hands on that had to do with physics.  One of my favorite things was to read ”thought” experiments designed to help one ponder the strange […]

My Expelled Review (sort of)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

One doesn’t usually perform a review of another person’s movie review, but I came across this review of Ben Stein’s movie, Expelled, that was so full of either inexcusable ignorance or downright dishonesty that, even though I have not yet seen the film, I feel as though I should comment on the comment. So, while I have […]

Carl Sagan/John Walton

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Two seemingly unrelated things happened to me this past weekend: (1) I had a delightful email exchange with Dr. Walton, and (2) I tried to rent my favorite movie, Contact, from Blockbuster.  No joy on Contact, but I was pleased to hear that Dr. Walton will be recommending BTF to his colleagues.  Other than both being […]

Puzzled by Evolutionary Bias?

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Opponents of evolution often claim that such conclusions are “inevitable” when you approach the data of natural history from a Darwinian framework.  They are partially correct.  For instance, when I sit down to solve a puzzle, the image on the front of the box is the framework by which I make sense of the many pieces […]