(Following up to this post.)
Dawkins, and many of the BoingBoing commenters, assume that Christian faith and science are so incompatible that Christian scientists (small s) must be practically insane from the cognitive dissonance. They are wrong.
It is perfectly possible (and reasonable) to proceed with scientific research under the working assumption that no supernatural entities [...]
I read BoingBoing.net occasionally, ignoring the posts that are offensive to me as a Christian. But Richard Dawkins on the warpath against Christians is a bit much, especially when he is essentially arguing that Christian belief makes one mentally unfit for any professional career, even when superlatively qualified.
Science is impotent to prove [...]
It only just occurred to me how much of the boundary change process has been communicated only over the web. We have only received one print mailing on it, ever.
And since we live within the (old) boundaries for the elementary school that had 42% of its students receiving free or reduced priced school lunches, [...]
Last week, I was stupid and gave my computer a virus. It took more than a day to fight it off; I’m watching now to see if it’s really gone.
Before Christmas, I had a project of covering the plywood side of my enclosed loft/personal space, which is behind the couch. Originally, I was [...]
I got the employer health care packet for 2011 to review. Riveting reading, as always.
For once, our health insurance premiums are staying flat. The HMO accomplished this amazing feat by jacking the out-of-network deductibles Through the Flipping Roof. They compensated for this (slightly) by increasing the percentages of out-of-network expenses covered after [...]
I’ve seen this scenario play out a few times over the last few years:
Proposed legislation is reviewed by interest groups, who point out that vague wording could place their otherwise law-abiding members on the wrong side of the law.
Detractors say, “Oh, but it will never be interpreted that way! Of course they didn’t mean [...]
This weekend we took a drive up to our CSA farm for a party. Along the way, we passed a lot of newer houses in the country that I absolutely did not like: generic beige vinyl-sided McMansions. What really set me off was that so many of them had whole blank walls [...]
The book ends with profiles of the families that the author interviewed for the book. Most have incomes that are very close to our household income; I found it amusing that we were living more frugally, in the suburbs, than most of the families in the book were in the country; most of these [...]
Just read an article about newborn screening in an old issue of a parenting magazine from last spring. There’s a little steam coming out of my ears now, because the article lays out all the benefits of the newborn screen, but none of the risks, and paints parents who opt out as reckless and [...]
I just finished reading Radical Homemakers, by Shannon Hayes, and I thought it was mostly good. She lays out how American households transformed from centers of production to centers of consumption, gives the currently ascendant corporatism a sound thrashing, and presents what she has learned from families making the transition back to a home-centered [...]