I was watching the Discovery Channel’s “Wild Pacific” tonight with my son and they featured “the world’s heaviest parrot” (this is the parrot whose amorous adventures were noted here before). The narrator is Mike Rowe, but I am sure he did not write the script. At one point we were told that because of the [...]
Posts under ‘Science’
A modest proposal regarding the climate change debate
Might I suggest that the argument that the climate change debate is like Galileo and his confrontation with the Church (with, of course, the climate scientists playing the role of Galileo and the “deniers” in the role of the Magisterium) is a poor analogy. Surely it should be something like Newton v Einstein or Luther [...]
Evolution & Climate Change: Trojan Horse or Straw Man?
(You can tell this will be an academic-type post because I used a colon in my title.) In the past few weeks we have had several different events, two conferences and one speaker, on campus relating to climate change. Conservative Christians, I was told, refuse to accept climate change because they feel that it is [...]
Francis Collins named new head of NIH
This announcement was a long-time coming. I actually spoke with Dr. Collins several months ago to invite him to PSU to speak on science and religion and he declined. He did not say way (“taking some time”) but I had a pretty strong hunch, as did anyone else following this nomination process. I read the [...]
Happy Birthday Space Station!
This is the last project my father worked on in his career with NASA. This year is the 10th birthday of the station, although it continues to grow and be rebuilt. CNET has some great photos. The space station as it looked in August 2005. For most of its habitable history (about eight years), the [...]
