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New Red Spots

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Why is Jupiter getting warmer near the equator?1 I thought all climate change was due to humans. It is not even worth considering whether nor not whatever is warming Jupiter might also be affecting Earth.

NASA, ESA, M. Wong, I. de Pater (UC Berkely), et al. “Jupiter’s Three Red Spots” Astronomy Picture of [...]

quote of the day

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

“This does not mean that we should never take action to prevent evil, or should sit back and wait for God to do something. It does mean that we should not panic, or become needlessly anxious, or jump to rash conclusions, which may cause more harm than good.” - Melinda Selmys1

The “This” above refers to [...]

Everything in moderation

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

The New York Times reports that there is a study released in the Journal of the American Medical Association stating that there are health benefits to being overweight.1 Those classified as being “overweight” have a lower risk of death than any of the other 3 groups (”underweight,” “normal” and “obese”). Apparently such [...]

quote of the day

Monday, October 15th, 2007

“Scientism’s dismissals are … self-refuting. Those dismissals are also vacuous, as if affixing the label non-science to an argument tells us anything meaningful about the strength of the argument. The “it isn’t science” response to contemporary design arguments is neither a reasonable nor a particularly stimulating reply. In such cases, the mathematical/empirical approach has degenerated from [...]

extended quote of the day

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

Let me be clear. I am not saying the origin of life was simply an extremely improbable accident. I am saying the origin of life was deliberately, purposely arranged, just as the fundamental laws and constants and many other anthropic features of nature were deliberately, purposely arranged. But in what I’ll call [...]

homosexuality as a disease to be cured

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

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 [...]

Evolution is anti-religion

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

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 [...]

A Y2k bug in climatology

Monday, August 13th, 2007

It appears that not all Y2k bugs have been fixed; one was found in NASA’s handling of raw climate data.1 After the corrected figures2 have been released, it turns out that 1934, and not 1998, is the warmest year on record. Why a Y2k bug would have changed the readings for 1998 I [...]

Natural forces offset global warming

Friday, August 10th, 2007

Global warming is real. We have not seen it in much of the recent data1, the ice at the antarctic is increasing2, and other parts of the southern hemisphere are getting colder also,3 but it is real. Scientists everywhere assure us of this fact.

Not only is it real, but it is our [...]

Sunshine is healthy

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

It appears that maintaining adequate vitamin D is linked with avoiding cancer.1 While the article primarily looks at breast cancer, it also mentions colon and prostate cancer, and one researcher quoted thinks that it might be true of cancer in general.

Mr. Nigel Hawkes. “Sunshine helps in the fight against breast cancer” Times [...]

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