1. Global Warming—We Got Trouble
(Blogs/Science and Society)

...f climatologists. The only question remaining is how much of it is due to man’s activities. In my blog, Global Warming and Death, and in my book, Settled Science, I point out that most climatolo...

2. Ah, The Comfort of Knowing
(Blogs/Science and Government)

Webster’s definition of the verb “to know” is “to be sure of” or “have true information about.” To know something, we must be aware of it and believe it to

3. The Most Futile Debate Of All Time
(Blogs/Science and Society)

...t ridiculed, especially by those that claim to love everyone. In my book, Settled Science, and several blogs on this Web site I urge readers to beware of those with special agendas who champion ignor...

4. Space Aliens: Red, Yellow, Black, Or White?
(Blogs/Science)

...ve. Therefore, flatworms, chordates, amphibians, and all other ancestors of humans (see the chart in my blog, What Is A Human Being) would have developed body forms and features that would have made h...

5. Play Poker Blind Folded?
(Blogs/Science and Religion)

It’s my guess you would not play poker without looking at your cards, so why blindly gamble with the future of your soul? As far as I know, all religions require their practitioners to strongl

6. Change The Creator's Rules?
(Blogs/Science and Religion)

All around the world change is in the air. The hue and cry for changing our political leaders and old arrangements between nations is raging. What about changing some of our old religious beliefs to

7. Come, Let Us Pretend Together—Or Else!
(Blogs/Science and Religion)

...to the building of western civilization, which is based on individual freedoms that allow me to write a blog like this one. These inspired pursuits have produced many great human achievements in art, ...

8. Religious Terrorism and You
(Blogs/Science and Religion)

Terrorism, and the war on it, are not new. Terrorism has been with us ever since man began to think and respond to his emotions. Whether for religious or political reasons its tactics are committed

9. THINK: You Can Do It If You Try
(Blogs/Science and Religion)

Why do many people feel compelled to offer excuses for the actions or inactions of the Good Spirit?  They always claim the Good Spirit lives among us, is all-powerful and loves us.  I

10. Stock Market Volatility and The Media
(Blogs/Science and Society)

It’s not your fault. Your incessant demands for easy credit had nothing to do with it. The recent stock market crash and credit crisis was caused by those despicable Wall Street tycoons.

11. Religion: Desperate Quest For Salvation
(Blogs/Science and Religion)

... About the Book, I discuss how morality, spirituality, and religious beliefs developed in humans. In my Blogs and the FAQ, I discuss other controversial topics concerning religion vs science. S...

12. Fertilized Egg: A Person?
(Blogs/Science and Religion)

Here we go again, another legal skirmish attempting to outlaw all abortions. In November, Colorado voters will be asked to decide if a females’s egg cell becomes a “person” when it

13. Evolution or Creation: A Credibility Issue
(Blogs/Science and Religion)

Religious opponents of the scientific theory of evolution frequently point to some of its still–hotly debated details as proof that the theory is not a credible explanation for the great diver

14. What Is A Human Being?
(Blogs/Science)

Biologists classify humans as just another primate. Most people, however, consider human beings as completely separate from the animal kingdom. What Makes Us Human? It is the kind of in

15. Global Warming And Death:
(Blogs/Science)

...e for future storms, and at least try to minimize them, there is probably nothing anyone could say in a blog such as this one that would. Climatologists warn us that if we fail to correct the global w...

16. Faith, Idiots, and Common Sense
(Blogs/Science and Religion)

Say it ain’t so! It has come to my attention that some individuals and groups make it a practice to manually handle poisonous snakes to demonstrate their faith and trust in the Great Spirit. M

17. Why We Lie-Is It Good For Us?
(Blogs/Science and Society)

Like spirituality, and all our other human tendencies that evolved before it, lying was naturally selected for us because better liars survived longer to have more offspring. Soon after early human

18. Fossil Fuels: Fetishes of Our Times
(Blogs/Science and Society)

Every day now either on TV broadcasts, in print media or on the Internet some mention is made about our reliance on fossil fuels for our energy needs. What are they? How were they made? How did they

19. First Life and Death On Earth
(Blogs/Science and Society)

We often hear skeptics of the theory of evolution say something like, “Scientists can’t even tell us for sure where the first living cell came from so they can’t possibly know how

20. Scientific Knowledge: A Threat To Some, An Opportunity For Others
(Blogs/Science and Society)

In order for any new product, idea or “ism” to be successfully marketed it must first be considered useful, or perceived to be, by the people it is being offered to. The product, if purc

21. Opinions
(Blogs/Science and Society)

Opinions are a person’s assessment of things, situations, ideas, and other people. Each person either forms his own based on what he already knows, or thinks he knows, or just blindly accepts

22. Humans Walking With Dinosaurs?
(Blogs/Science and Religion)

There seems to be no limit to what some of us claim to believe. Some are now offering “proof” that humans lived on this planet at the same time as dinosaurs. Do they not have any concept

23. High Prices, Weak Economy, and Good Books
(Blogs/Science and Society)

Grudgingly, most of us have finally been convinced of our economic plight. For several years, many journalists, politicians and broadcasters have worked tirelessly to convince us our economy was ste

24. Arrogant and Superior or “Woe is Me”: Which Best Describes You?
(Blogs/Science and Religion)

 Been Talking Down to another group lately? Almost everything about us as individuals was determined for us before we were born. The particular combination of genes we inherited from our ance

25. Jet-lagged Intelligent Designer
(Blogs/Science and Religion)

Many people have experienced the awful feeling of jet lag that results from crossing international time zones. Some of its symptoms include disorientation, grogginess and irrational thinking. Now

26. The Slippery Slope of Irrational Hope
(Blogs/Science and Religion)

Increasingly, or so it seems to me, news stories appear that shock us into questioning anew how it is that humans can willingly allow themselves to be motivated into committing suicide while murderi

27. Lobbyists and Government
(Blogs/Science and Government)

Lobbyists represent every interest group in America. Representatives from the business, religious, labor, science, medical and other communities try to influence governmental policies. They someti

28. Warning To Intelligent Designers
(Blogs/Science and Religion)

Adam and Eve From Space Indeed! I am often wrong making predictions, but I feel very confident that school children will find bizarre the notion that space aliens visited Earth thousands of years

29. Culture Warriors:
(Blogs/Science and Religion)

WISE UP! Tired of feeling like a puppet? Sometime when you are alone, ask yourself, and honestly try to answer this question. What is the major reason there is so much resentment, intolerance, and

30. Bird Singing and Human Speech Connected
(Blogs/Science)

A recent article in the Richmond Times-Dispatch newspaper, written by Dr. Walter Witschey, reported that Sebastian Haesler at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics located in Berlin, Germa