Monthly Archives: September 2013

Yay for Modern Medicine!

Posted on September 20, 2013 by

Something that I don’t understand is the reluctance some people to use modern medicine. I’ve just been reading the biography, Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003 and for nine months he refused to … Continue reading →

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Getting Quoted

Posted on September 19, 2013 by

Once again I was asked about a topic in the news and then found myself quoted extensively in the resulting article: DOES THIS BIBLE VERSE CITED BY BILL NYE AND BILL MAHER REALLY PROVE THAT ‘RELIGION IS THE ENEMY OF … Continue reading →

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Extraterrestrial Religion

Posted on September 18, 2013 by

The only people who think that religion will die with the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence are the nonreligious. The actual surveys of religious believers that have been made find that believers are undisturbed by the concept. They don’t see it … Continue reading →

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The Legend

Posted on September 17, 2013 by

Luther wrote once that he threw ink at the Devil. When he wrote those words, he was thinking metaphorically about his translation of the New Testament into German that allowed ordinary people to read God’s word for themselves. Over time, … Continue reading →

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Heisenberg’s Uncertainty

Posted on September 16, 2013 by

The Heisenberg Uncertainty principle states that for a given subatomic particle, one may know its location or one may know its velocity, but one cannot know both at the same time. While this may seem ridiculous on a macroscopic level … Continue reading →

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Nix, Hydra and Wikipedia

Posted on September 15, 2013 by

Back on June 21, 2006 the International Astronomical Union announced that the two recently discovered moons swinging around Pluto have now been officially named. One is to be called Nix, and the other is to be called Hydra. They join … Continue reading →

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Bigotry’s Nature

Posted on September 14, 2013 by

Did you read about the girl, a year or two after the Columbine tragedy, who overheard a boy at lunch talking about his plans to shoot certain teachers and students? She reported what she had heard to the principal. After … Continue reading →

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The Needs of the Many

Posted on September 13, 2013 by

In Dostoevsky’s novel, The Brothers Karamazov, Ivan asks a question of his brother Alyosha: “Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at … Continue reading →

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A Man of War

Posted on September 12, 2013 by

The KJV renders Exodus 15:3 in this way: “The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.” Most modern translations simply render it “The LORD is a warrior.” The passage in Exodus is neither a pre-Christian allusion … Continue reading →

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Smog Check

Posted on September 11, 2013 by

I had delayed getting my Saturn Vue smog checked for a very long time; I paid the registration fee, but the vehicle needed to have the brakes replaced and getting a smog check costs money too, and so I put … Continue reading →

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