What are you doing for Darwin Day?

Today is Darwin Day! A day in honor of the man who educated the population about the evolutionary process, Charles Darwin. It's a day with various events around the nation. Many places are having lectures and fun activities for kids. Some cities, such as Los Angeles and New...

On government promotion of religion and evolution

The first letter is one I wrote for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. They edited out a couple of lines, which I will keep in. The second letter is an excellent letter by a Stephen Ewbanks, of Kokomo, Indiana, published in their local newspaper. His letter deals with myths...

Does believing in evolution doom you as a Republican running for

 Jon Huntsman got out of the Republican presidential contest a few days ago but I am now just getting to writing about it. But, I have a couple of things to say. It is most unfortunate that a candidate who believes in not just the threat of man made climate change, but...

Why and how evolution is true

Some who argue against evolution bring up the First and Second laws of thermodynamics and entropy. Like Dracula in a bad movie, these arguments just won’t die. Basically the First law stated that energy level in a closed system is constant and the Second law states that in...

Evolution is not a religion of humanism

 I constantly hear statements by people who dont believe in evolution, that show a complete lack of understanding of the subject. If someone wants to not believe in evolution, that is fine, but I would urge them to at least try to get a basic understanding of it first...

Children can pray in schools

   It is commonly said that children can't pray in schools. That isn't true. I also hear that the Supreme Court has disallowed prayer in school. That also isn't true. All that ended, was organized prayer as led by a teacher, principal or directed by the school....

Altruism, Self-Interest, and Reason

There are some in Christianity who throw into question the idea that altruistic action is good out of the consideration that such action can be pleasurable, rewarding or fulfilling to the self. My response is that such action should be pleasurable, rewarding, and fulfilling...

The Observant Watchmaker

Intelligence has not been well defined lets start with some definitions.A strategy specifies goals, their desirability and, at what likelihoods to take what actions on what (set of) conditions.Strategizing is Deviseing a set of strategies. Devising strategies consists of...

The teaching of hell to small children is a form of child abuse

Is teaching children there is a hell where they will be tortured in a lake of fire, child abuse? Well, I would state, yes. Yes it is, at least mental and emotional child abuse. I was not raised in a church to believe that I will be tortured for all eternity if I don't...

Evolution and balanced businesses

i'm typing this in AbiWord on a Mac. Think about that for a moment and why i do this. i personally don't want to support any business/government that is exploitative, monopolizing, materialistic, commercial (in the sense of ego-aggrandizing advertisement), or unbalanced. If...