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

...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 climatologists believe that other than the prospect of an all ...

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

...he things others claim but are not so.” After writing my book, I was asked why I chose Settled Science for the title because science, by definition, is never settled. I responded that I bo...

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

... should be respected, not 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 ag...

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

...have encountered and received commands from them are sometimes fascinating—THINK! Read Settled Science to learn how hard and long our ancestors struggled to get us here and how long, if we...

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

... to get the real low down on how you got here and where you might go after you die? My book, Settled Science, is a condensed easy to understand lay out for how most scientists now think the natu...

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

...epend on mutual respect and that mutual respect, of course, is built on moral behavior. Read Settled Science, think about it’s implications, and determine for yourself the source of human ...

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

...og like this one. These inspired pursuits have produced many great human achievements in art, engineering, science, architecture, and music, just to name a few. For some, however, fascism and co...

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

...alk to and receive messages from supernatural spirits religious terrorism cannot be defeated. Read Settled Science to learn how early humans invented religious beliefs, and why. ...

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

...“by chance” threatens this hope, and, therefore, must be strongly rejected. Read Settled Science to learn how we got here by”chance” events pieced together by natural sel...

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

...ychological needs of humans can only be satisfied by interacting with other humans. (Read my book, Settled Science, to learn how.) Self esteem and recognition by others is a basic need shared b...

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

...developed in humans. In my Blogs and the FAQ, I discuss other controversial topics concerning religion vs science. Soon after humans began to form and join groups, leaders selected some of thei...

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

...and explicit conditions for earning an eternal afterlife or not, most would choose NOT! Read Settled Science to learn how scientists think our universe and life began and then decide for yoursel...

13. Before the Here and Now
(Blogs/Science)

...rld so they leave, or should leave, speculations about supernatural possibilities to others. Settled Science is my attempt to interpret and explain, in layman’s language, how scientists th...

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

...ternative for how life got here is the more credible, a religious one or the scientific one. Settled Science is my attempt to explain to non-scientists how a large majority of scientists think o...

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

...rocess. Having these traits was so advantageous that all humans have now acquired them. Read Settled Science to better understand how the process of evolution over 3.5 billion years, evolution e...

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

... gases (mostly carbon dioxide), Earth would be too cold to sustain life as we know it. In my book, Settled Science, you will find an extensive discussion on how variations in the concentration of carb...

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

...ogether. This is the process by which all snakes, poisonous and non-poisonous, evolved. Read Settled Science to learn more about how snakes evolved, why giraffes have long necks, why birds fly, ...

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

...od for us” each of us must first determine what the definition of “is” is. Read Settled Science to see how natural selection chooses the most efficient traits and tendencies for the...

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

...e a greater pressure and temperature and would be broken down further into natural gas. Read Settled Science to learn more how other powerful geothermal and geophysical forces have shaped the wo...

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

...ould still be needed to produce all the life forms that ever existed on Earth was TIME! Read Settled Science to see how this first living cell, that required a billion years to form, in a matter...

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

... and became dominant because societies began to believe it was more rational to do so. Increasingly, science and technology are revealing new information about our universe and man’s place...

22. Opinions
(Blogs/Science and Society)

...his is true. It is a scientific theory. Most lay people use the word theory to mean a hunch or opinion. In science, however, a theory has been tested and re-tested by many scientists as to its accurac...

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

...ther, and that Earth is less than 10,000 years old, you will know how absurd they really are! Read Settled Science to get a better understanding of how long our home, Earth, has been here. ...

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

...l, thereby reducing our tax payments, and more time for reading good, inexpensive books like mine: Settled Science. ...

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

... are powerful motivators and the only hope for controlling them is to try to understand them. Read Settled Science to learn how our genes are programmed to make us who and what we are. ...

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28. About the Author
(About Us/Author)

...e most of the available information on the subject is disconnected, highly technical and complex. Settled Science is his attempt to simplify these complex topics so non-scientific readers can underst...

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

...ecimens in their museum but—as they have shown before—anything is possible. Read Settled Science to learn how the evolutionary process over a long period of time produced such a rema...

30. Chicken and Egg Question Answered?
(Blogs/Science)

... proof that chickens and all other birds evolved from dinosaurs. In an article published in Journal Science, researchers report that molecular analysis of the collagen (soft tissue) extracted f...