Daniel Morgan replied to my recent recommendation of Sewell's article concerning the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics with the following:

I strongly suggest you consider that thermodynamics is not, unfortunately for Sewell, mathematics. It is, instead, physics. And as such, it is probably best that you read the critique of a physicist to Sewell's ( Read more... )

Jonathan Witt over at ID the Future posted a great article by a mathematician Granville Sewell. The focus of the article is the relationship of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (the Law of Entropy) to Evolution. Like me, most of you have probably heard the arguement that Evolution violates the 2nd Law, which dictates that order will decrease in a ( Read more... )

In response to a post by SumthinCompletelyDifferent and something it seems quite a few people are thinking these days:

Allow me to begin by repeating my previous comment on Sumthin's post before he added the homosexual issue:

He [President Bush] certainly isn't perfect, but he does not do everything. I do not particularly remember Campaign ( Read more... )

Last week was finals week here at Western and finished off my first quarter here. In all, I guess it was a good quarter, despite most of the classes being boring. I passed Ada (a pass/fail class), 4.0s in Macroeconomics and Linear Algebra, and a 3.7 in Chemistry, giving me a 3.88 GPA this quarter. For some odd reason, instead of number grades, ( Read more... )

Today, I was reading a newspaper article concerning the recent Congressional Witch Hunt in the Oil Industry for "absurd profits", which apparently total around $33 billion. As I read, I began to wonder how this compared to government profit on the oil industry via taxation. A brief internet search quickly confirmed my suspicion that US ( Read more... )

A reply to Josh's response.

I will agree that simple emphasis is part of our disagreement, but I do not think it can account for it all. We still seem to have a fundamental difference on the proper outlook on a Christian in viewing the present and the future. You assert that:

I am of the opinion that the future stuff is nice, but the things of ( Read more... )

JDKIn response to Josh's response to my last post, he made three comments or questions. My response is as follows ( Read more... )

Josh Kerr argues in a recent post that "...eternity is here and now. If I miss that--if I miss the present--then I've missed everything."

In a dissenting comment, Adria remarks that:

I think the idea of acting for now is important. I think forces every action to be important, instead of distant consequences ( Read more... )

Heston posted an excellent piece on Abortion hereWhile I completely agree with most of the post, he tags a brief section on Harriet Miers on the end, an issue which I have previously avoided commenting on, primarily because I am undecided. On one side, I am, like Heston, disappointed by the lack of clarity on Miers regarding her position due to ( Read more... )

I highly recommend this post on ID the Future. It provides a great discussion of the relationship between science and the unobservable, an oft cited argument against ID, which demonstrates that Evolutionary theory actually makes appeals to unobservable events and beings as well. The post lists 3 other parts of the series, which are also fairly ( Read more... )