“To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.” – Henry David Thoreau In a bizarre synchronicity, after I wrote this blog I went to a local hospital to have some lab work done. A middle-aged couple was sitting next to me. … [Read more…]
https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/07/12/buckminster-fuller-ever-rethinking-the-lords-prayer/ Buckminster Fuller is described in Wikipedia as a: “designer, inventor, engineer, mathematician, architect, cartographer, philosopher, poet, cosmogonist and visionary.†He wrote over 30 books and qualifies as a true renaissance thinker. Among his many inventions is the “geodesic dome,†which inspired scientists who discovered “Carbon 60†(hollow carbon molecules) to name them “Buckminsterfullerenes,†or … [Read more…]
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.†– Mark Twain This is a wonderfully interconnected triad that gifted naturalist Annie Dillard would regard as a “bright snarl.†Without a Creator there would be no “astronomy†or evolution. Without evolution the universe … [Read more…]
In his own words, “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin:†“When thus reflecting [‘on the universe, including man’] I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man’ and I deserve to be called a Theist.†Shame on Richard Dawkins, and other science atheists who … [Read more…]
Typically, it is a literary travesty to reveal the end of a book to those who have not read it. In this case, however, I think it is justified. Readers seeing the words “INTELLIGENT DESIGN,†on a book are likely to mistake its meaning and importance. Ironically (and unfortunately) the term has become toxic, in … [Read more…]
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.†– Albert Einstein There are a growing number of practitioners of “scientism†who become exercised when their critics suggest that science may have some wrong conclusions. Paraphrasing Einstein’s logic, all scientists have been wrong … [Read more…]
Although I am not an authority on “Intelligent Design,†due to a very strange mystery over 40 years ago, along with some very curious high school students, we discovered the “ID†concept before it was named “Intelligent Design.†In a collective act of brilliance, the students questioned the efficacy of the traditional educational model of … [Read more…]
Friday, 3-16 turned out to be a “red-letter-day.†Ex-student Jared Grummer was returning to Seattle from Argentina and wanted to share some of his adventures. He had just completed a 5-month field-study exploring the genomes of the lizards of Patagonia. This involves the last leg of his efforts to obtain a PhD degree in herpetology … [Read more…]
“Everything You Need To Know Is Contained In a Flower.†Buddha Excerpt: “The Immense Journey†[How Flowers Changed The World] by Loren Eiseley. “A little while ago—about one hundred million years, as the geologist estimates time in the history of our four-billion-year-old planet—flowers were not to be found anywhere on the five continents. Wherever one … [Read more…]
The walls of the world’s hall of shame are covered with millions of portraits of mostly men who have committed heinous crimes against individuals and humanity, sometimes their own children. Most of these men had the misfortune of being raised by one or more abusive parents. John Muir had all the qualifications to end up … [Read more…]