Author: jason

A Primer on Intelligent Design

A Primer on Intelligent Design

Intelligent Design, or simply ID, is a pretty fascinating area of study to me. Put simply, it postulates that life is too complex to have arisen by chance, and that the intricacies we can observe in the physical world demand that some sort of intelligence was involved in its creation. Despite all of the scientists involved in promoting the idea, its detractors insist that it is not science, which shows, in my opinion, that they either don’t know what they’re talking about, or that that DO know what they’re talking but really want to keep ID off the table for fear of losing their materialistic grip on science and education. With that in mind, it was with great joy that I came across a great primer on Intelligent Design at Salvo Magazine, which has several articles on the topic written by some the brightest minds in the ID movement. If the area is of interest to you, or if you think these ID people are religious nuts masquerading as scientists, you should check out the issue.

RSS (and Leftist Wackos) Killed the Slashdot Star

RSS (and Leftist Wackos) Killed the Slashdot Star

After (too many) years of reading Slashdot fairly regularly, today I removed it from my feed reader. The signal-to-noise ratio has gotten really, really bad (and has been forever), and I finally got tired of it. Far too often, a story about some piece of technology, or law/policy regarding technology, for example, inexorably leads to hard-left screeds about the Bush, the Republican Party, etc., even when there’s no clear link. And if Intelligent Design is ever mentioned, you can rest assured that people of faith (though ID in no way demands a faith of any kind. More on that in another post) will be betrayed as stupid, buck-toothed, back woods inbred imbeciles. These days, the site is a complete waste of time and bandwidth. I can get the same info, much less noise, and certainly fewer insults from my 100+ feed strong reader.

“Hi. My name is Jason, and I’ve been Slashdot-free for 15 minutes now.”
“Hi, Jason!…”

A Great Anti-Abortion Story

A Great Anti-Abortion Story

While there’s nothing explicitly pro-life about this story, I love how the doctors suggested abortion (Hippocrates must be spinning in his grave), but the mother refused and it ended up saving her life. It reminds me of this heartbreaking story. A mother refuses to terminate her pregnancy or start chemo for her liver cancer, saying, “If I am going to die, my baby is going to live.” A truly awful outcome for the mother, but what a beautiful picture of love and self-sacrifice. “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.”

I missed my calling

I missed my calling

I just found this REALLY cool Greek Study Bible website and pointed it out to a couple friends of mine who are also students of Koine.  One of them noted that, on this site, verbs are highlighted in red and nouns in blue.  He felt this contradicted the popular romantic poem.  My efforts to show that this was not the case led me to afflict the world with my attempts at poetry (ish):

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Datejs

Datejs

Wow.

“Comprehensive, yet simple, stealthy and fast. Datejs has passed all trials and is ready to strike. Datejs doesn’t just parse strings, it slices them cleanly in two.”