Culture Wars

It's the first night away from home, without family, away from your favorite blanket and your favorite night-light. You're scared to death but excited at the same time. It's a new environment with sleeping bags spread across the floor and whispers echoing.  Read More »

I have mainly limited my blogging to modern evolutionary theory and the clash between science and religion. The main reason is that these are the areas that I felt knowledgeable enough to make a contribution to the debate that is engendered around them. However, I have been reading about another interest of mine, global warming.  Read More »

I am having a tad bit of fun this Christmas>
Carrying around a small Christmas Bell on a ribbon,
I ring the bell in my ear and say " Polar Express"

And in a crowd, doctors office, on the sidewalk, coffee shop,
it always brings chuckles from all.
Especially when I have on my conductor hat and black coat.

I like to see stone faces smile.

Is this over the top?  Read More »

I like to refer to myself as a vocal atheist. That means I have written several blogs defending atheism. Lord knows [intentional irony] with all the religious fundamentalists out there, atheism could use a few defenders. Sooner or later, though anyone with an interest in atheism will be exposed to the canard of Communism.  Read More »

… Or at least that is MY term for it. Other people, especially outraged Christians like to call it “Militant Atheist”. Recently here at ProgU a blogger came up with another term … “Evangelical Atheist”.  Read More »

I'm pretty sure this will offend somebody, and I'm happy about that. After all, enraging somebody at least forces them to think about their assumptions, and that's almost always a good thing.  Read More »

We claim to value differences in each other, but do we really?  The in thing in American mores is total acceptance of another's culture; just keep it away from our own!  I have a problem with this on many levels: first with our ethnocentrism, and then with our hypocrisy.  Read More »

One of the more common claims among creationists is that while microevolution has been observed there is no evidence for macroevolution.  Read More »