Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Sunspots 230

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Humor: Jan tells us why women go to the bathroom/restroom/lava...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Sorry, NCIS: Los Angeles

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We taped the first episode of the new CBS series, NCIS: Los Angeles , last Tuesday. (This program is a spin-off from the long-running NCIS ,...
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Monday, September 28, 2009

The Last Safe Place on Earth, by Richard Peck

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Richard Peck is an award-winning author, mostly writing for young people (which means that I can understand what he writes). My wife and I ...
Sunday, September 27, 2009

Blessings on the righteous in the Old Testament: musings

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Psalm 1 and Jeremiah 17:5-8 say about the same thing, namely that those who trust in God will flourish like a tree planted by a stream, wh...
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Saturday, September 26, 2009

Kudzu

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Kudzu has been discovered growing in Canada, according to the Toronto Globe and Mail . As you can see from the photo above, kudzu is a ...
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Orson Scott Card's Ender books

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Orson Scott Card is one of the giants of present-day fantastic literature. The Wikipedia article on him says that he is the only author to ...
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Friday, September 25, 2009

Was Psalm 51 performed in public?

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Psalm 51 sets forth David's confession of sin, related to his actions concerning Bathsheba . He committed adultery with her, with or wi...
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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Matter, by Iain Banks

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Matter , by Iain M. Banks , was published in 2008. Apparently, Banks is an important writer, but this is the first time I have read his wo...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Sunspots 229

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else:     Science: Wired tells us that a 48 pound trout has been c...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

A little about Intelligent Design astronomy

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The He Lives blog is written by a physicist. Like me, he has some problems with one of the central ideas of the Intelligent Design (ID) mov...
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Monday, September 21, 2009

Cautions on interpreting what the Bible says about end times

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I believe that you can get a larger version of the graphic below, by right-clicking on it. You may feel free to use the graphic, as long ...
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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Strength in the New Testament

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The New Testament mentions strength, and related words, a few times. I used the ESV search facility to find some of these (other versions m...
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Friday, September 18, 2009

Why we really make decisions the way we do

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John Stuart Mill had this (and a lot more) to say: So long as opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses ins...
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Thursday, September 17, 2009

The Morality of Richard Dawkins

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I have read In Defence of the Soul , by Keith Ward . He argues that a completely materialistic view of life makes no sense, and points out t...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Sunspots 228

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Science: It looks like the USA is not sending anyone to the moon...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009

More than one universe? Robert Mann's take.

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As you may be aware, there are physicists who believe that there are multiple universes. They believe, for example, that the universe I am i...
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Monday, September 14, 2009

Norman Borlaug, Nobel prize winning botanist, dies

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Norman Borlaug , architect of the Green Revolution , has passed away, at age 95. The categories for the Nobel Prizes were mostly determin...
Sunday, September 13, 2009

Some thoughts on church choirs

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The entire range of human experiences is present in a church choir, including but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, inco...
Saturday, September 12, 2009

Michael Jordan, David Robinson, John Stockton

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Michael Jordan, David Robinson, and John Stockton were recently inducted into the National Basketball Association's Hall of Fame, and ri...
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Friday, September 11, 2009

Musings on an anniversary

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Today is a September eleventh. I am very sorry for what happened. Real people died, and real people who didn't die had their lives shatt...