Thoughtful Blog

Is God Necessary for Us to be Moral Last night I listened to a 2008 debate between Christopher Hitchins and Frank Turek on the existence of ...

A friend returned from a fascinating visit to the SNO lab, the slow neutron observatory in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. He describe...

What if Tests Don't Test What You Want to Test? When my daughter was in elementary school, she came home with a couple of quizzes on whi...

Faster Than The Wind I was wrong. A year ago, my future son-in-law asked me if a sailboat could travel faster than the wind. I said no. If t...

Phony e-mail "News" On Remembrance Day yesterday, someone I love and trust sent me a wonderful email about the origin of the bugle...

Non-missing links...Creationist's error... My friend Bob is a creationist. He has asked me more than once, "What about the missin...

Wii Fit...Recommendation and Spoiler I strongly recommend Wii Fit (and especially Wii Fit Plus. Get it for sure.) In addition to the hand se...

The other day, my friend Ray called Obama a Nazi, a socialist, a danger to Western democracy, a man intent on bringing down ...

Lying for Christ ... Three questions. I just received an email that contained a religious PowerPoint presentation created, apparently, by Br...