Here is a good article that sums up my perspective on Christianity, especially the bolded paragraph. There is no question n my mind that evolution has provided a sort of boobytrap in that it causes us to impute intentionality to all sorts of things that don’t necessarily have it, but that̵...

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Homo sapiens, the adaptable animal? I grew up reading a lot of science fiction that was written in the 1950’s and 1960’s, and for a variety of reasons (among them, a key editor named John A. Campbell) a very popular “meme” in that era was a rather triumphalist view of man as ...

Long-awaited and eagerly anticipated,a sequel to one of my favorite books of all time,  but disappointing. Confusing structure with opening scene running in parallel with a forward running flashback, I don’t see why they didn’t just start with one story or the other. Doesn’t have ...

First, let me note that I have not yet published any fiction, and am not likely to change my mind anytime soon. Even so, I still receive quite a few fiction manuscripts, which is what prompts the following comment.  I have yet to read a fiction proposal that punctuates dialogue the way I would. It ...

There are (or there should be)  two kinds of books to which I say “yes”: Those that I believe will be sufficiently profitable in the cool light of logic and with my business goals held firmly in mind. Those for which I consciously overrule my business judgment because the book is import...

The rest of the article basically admits that it will be hard to know anything for sure from a partial (60%) sequencing of a very small amount of DNA from two individuals. The genome is compiled from three shards of limb bone from Vindija Cave that turned out to be from two females. With publication...

Good grief, let’s have a little fearless candor. He was boring as hell, loved the sound of his own voice, and gave very few useful specifics.  He made George W. Bush look like a witty man of the people.  And he certainly wasn’t worth pre-empting House. Yay, our first law professor Pres...