I don’t get Calvinism. At all. There are several things that just don’t seem to make sense at all to me, if we assume that the Calvinist view of predestination is correct. My understanding of “Calvinism” (by which most people mean predestination, though I there’s more to John Calvin’s teaching than this) is that God …
Several weeks ago, a couple of team mates of mine had a disagreement, and fireworks ensued. This inspired my boss to buy us all a book and scheduled “negotiation workshops” to go over the material, and pain ensued. I’m not opposed to reading the book. We all have room for improvement in every area of …
This is a really funny read. Make sure you watch the video too.
I sure hope Bill Craig doesn’t sue me for posting this snippet, but I think his discussion of the problems with the Many Worlds Hypothesis is hilarious.
I don’t get all the breathless oohing and ahhing over Obama. Sure, he’s a good looking guy, and he speaks well, but so what? There’s plenty of politicians like that. What are his policy goals and initiatives? What experience does he have that qualifies him for the highest office in the land? (The answer is …
My Yahoo has a kinda neat, but mostly annoying feature on its news page. If you hover over a link, it gives you a preview of the article, which is neat. If you click on it, though, it *sometimes* pops up a dialog with a larger preview and you need to click another link to …
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 …
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 …
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, …
The new year is here and I’m going to try something a lit bit different, something, in fact, that I have actively avoided for many years: I’m going to make some New Year’s resolutions.