Archive for September 19th, 2007

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The study1 findings were released in book form, not in a journal. I suspect that means that its findings are useless and meaningless. Still, a pair of real researchers, working for institutions of higher learning (a college and a university respectively), found a 67% success rate in changing sexual orientation through a program of “group discussions, counseling, journal writing, Scripture reading and prayer.”2

However, since it is not in a peer reviewed journal, their effort is wasted, their study might as well not exist.


  1. Mr. Stanton Jones and Mr. Mark Yarhouse. Ex-Gays? A Longitudinal Study of Religiously Mediated Change in Sexual Orientation. ISBN unknown. Referenced at “Study finds sexual orientation can be changed through religious mediation” Catholic News Agency. 2007-09-19 http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=10430 

  2. Catholic News Agency. “”Study finds sexual orientation can be changed through religious mediation” Catholic News Agency. 2007-09-19 http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=10430 

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“The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.” - W. B. Yeats1


  1. W. B. Yeats. “Mere anarchy” This quote found following up on a reference from baranoouji

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Periodically I get challenged on my repeated assertion that Evolution, to the (limited) extent it can be called a single theory, is inherently opposed to theism. Mr. Casey Luskin is here today to back me up on this one, having taken the time to summarize some recent examples of this.1 Such statements as these lend credence to my assertion that evolution is not, in fact, a scientific theory at all, but is rather a philosophical one. His examples come from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature, Cell Cycle, Microbe Magazine, and Gene. They also come from a variety of authors.

This listing of examples is short, and is by no means definitive proof. Still, it does lend at least some credence.


  1. Mr. Casey Luskin. “Scientific Journals Promoting Evolution alongside Materialism” Evolution News & Views, The Discovery Institute. 2007-09-19 http://www.evolutionnews.org/2007/09/scientific_journals_promoting.html 

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Yesterday the air conditioning service guy recharged the freon in the air handler here at the office. Today for the first time in MONTHS, it is cold here at the office. At least upstairs. There is a nine degree difference between up here and down by the thermostat (colder up here) and another nine degree difference when you go into the server room.