From Allusions to Illusions
Science starts with observation, makes a theory, and from this theory attempts to predict occurrences from other situations. Wrong predictions are used to refine, or even discard, the theory. I don’t see this working in the religious world at all. Folks used to believe that heavier objects would fall faster than light ones. Galileo showed […]
Via Coralville
The issue is not fallibility. The issue is whether there is knowledge that lies beyond the capacity for science to find. If such knowledge exists, should we ignore it or should we use nonscientific methods to find it?
Before making my point let me say it isn’t clear to me that there is knowledge beyond […]
…Mark Twain’s Notebook. In it, Sam Clemens demonstrated once again that he was light-years ahead of his — or, apparently, our — era. Twain wrote:
There are two kinds of patriotism — monarchical patriotism and republican patriotism. In the one case, the government and the king may rightfully furnish you their notions of patriotism: in the […]
Bush Rests Comfortably After Surgery to Implant Pacemaker in Brain
Posted on Friday, July 13 @ 09:34:24 EDT By Tom McNichol, Salon
WASHINGTON — In the second White House health scare in little more than
a
week, doctors Wednesday night implanted a sophisticated pacemaker in
President Bush’s […]
If you receive an e-mail entitled “Boosh the Good Time Prez”, delete it immediately. Do not open it. Apparently this one is pretty nasty. It will not only erase everything on your hard drive, but it will also delete anything on discs within 20 feet of your computer. It demagnetizes the stripes on all […]
After the Great Britain Beer Festival, in London, all the
brewery presidents decided to go out for a beer. The guy
from Corona sits down and says, “Hey Senor, I would like
the world’s best beer, a Corona.”
The bartender dusted off a bottle from the shelf and gave
it to him.
The head of Budweiser said, […]
During the heat of the space race in the 1960’s, the U.S. National
Aeronautics and Space Administration decided it needed a ball-point pen
to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules.
After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was
developed at a cost of $1 million U.S. The pen […]
A Meditation for De-stressing
Picture yourself near a stream.
Birds are softly chirping in the crisp, cool mountain air.
Nothing can bother you here. No one knows this secret
place.
You are in total seclusion from that place called “the
world.”
The soothing sound of a gentle waterfall fills the air with
a cascade of
serenity.
The water is clear.
You […]
A college professor had just finished explaining an important research project to his class. He emphasized that this paper was an absolute requirement for passing his class, and that there would be only two acceptable excuses for being late. Those with a medically certifiable illness or a death in the student’s immediate family.
A smart ass […]
In
the
beginning
there was the
Hospital Adminis-
trator And He said,
“Let there be others to do
My work, that I might watch
over them”. And so He created as-
sistant administrators, each with the
power to beget others to do his work, that
he, in turn, might watch over them. And […]
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