Archive for the 'science' Category

25+1 Most Influential Thinkers - Introduction

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Several years ago I watched a special on, I believe, A & E, documenting who they believed to be the 100 most influential people of the millennium. Lists like those are always controversial - are Spielberg (#91) and Jane Austen (#63) really worthy to be one of the top 100? - and their methods are […]

the penguin problem

Friday, March 9th, 2007

1. An infallible, inerrant, inspired Holy Book contains no fallacies or errors.
2. The aforementioned Book states that 'penguins do not exist'.
3. Penguins exist.
4. (3) conflicts with (2).
5. If (3) is true, (1) is false.
6. If (1) is true, (3) is a trick of the devil.
 
P.S. This post has nothing to do with my […]

harvard stuck in modernity

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Judging by the last two blog titles, you’re probably thinking that I have some sort of theme going on. Although it was not intentional, it was probably my last post (religion and post-postmodernism) that automatically had me responding to this article in this way. If you do not want to bother reading it, here are […]