Monthly Archives, October 2007

Disclaimer Evolution has been used as a justification for a good bit of hate and violence over the years, so let me take the first paragraph to state that this is a joyous and hopeful article about evolution which is meant to point out the positive aspects of this wondrous subset of evolution in which humanity currently finds itself. You see, we no longer evolve physically as a species, we evolve culturally. We learn all about evolution as a process for physical change in a species via genetic mutations over a period of time, but there has since been a definition of cultural change over a per...

  I'm a big Bill Maher fan, so I'll take a page from him. "New Rule: you can't say that God created all the good things in the world and all the bad things were created by Man." Science tells us that Good & Evil are human, conscious constructs and the Universe doesn't have an opinion. "Why are there bad people in the world", "Why does God allow all this suffering", "How could they change the original Chex Mix recipe". These are all questions that people ask in an attempt to understand "the mind of God". In doing so, you assume that God has a conscious mind and made things the way they ar...

Just saw The Secret Saturday night, and I must say I’m feeling inspired. Of course, the next day I looked up more on the internet and found a clip of a guy debunking the movie as nonsense and “snake oil”. Well, I don’t think it’s nonsense, but I understand how the more skeptical people in the world have a problem a) with the way the movie is set up, with all the mysticism and loose ends. and b) with the lack of consistent scientific documentation to support such a “Law”. I mean, they call it a law, but it’s not documented and tested and proven like say: The First Law of Thermod...

Yes, this is a gross generalization and no this is not based a specific scientific study and yes, I was going for the catchy title. Taste is a matter of opinion, not something quantifiable. But guys can attest, most women have bad taste in music. Enough guys have bad taste in music, but over a large population, men tend to listen to more artistic, intricate, and authentic music than women do. Guys like The Police and women like Sting. Get it? Why is that? Let us explore. Music? First off: what the hell is music anyway? I mean, why do humans take different sounds and put them together in an or...