Category Archives: Science

Cosmos and God

It’s easy to understand why Creationists are not pleased with Cosmos: A Space Odyssey. After all, the show’s host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, emphatically and repeatedly states that the universe is billions of years old — in contradiction to the Creationist’s calculated age of less than 7,000 years. … Continue reading

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Noah? No

Here’s a footnote to my prior article on Cosmos and God: If ever there was a Bible story that makes absolutely no sense, it is the story of Noah. It’s so easy to find logical fallacies in the telling that it … Continue reading

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Intelligence, Evolution and Politics

In the most recent Sunday New York Times, Frank Bruni argues that being “smart”, at least in the scholarly academic intellectual sense that President Obama is generally considered to be smart, is not a guarantee that a President will be … Continue reading

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Giffords’ Progress and “Miracles”

A recent New York Times article covered the “remarkable progress” of Representative Gabrielle Giffords following the shooting in Tucson: “In response to a reporter’s question about whether Ms. Giffords’s recovery might be considered miraculous, Dr. G. Michael Lemole Jr., the … Continue reading

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