Category Archives: Science

Mind Boggling Time… November 3, 2019

Posted on 2019/11/03 by drenn1077

Numbers, big numbers… are difficult to imagine. In your mind you can imagine ten people standing in a row… maybe a few more, twenty, thirty… but then when you get up to say one hundred, envisioning a hundred people standing … Continue reading →

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Global Warming is a Killer… December 16, 2018

Posted on 2018/12/16 by drenn1077

In the January/February issue of Skeptical Inquirer Amardeo Sarma founder and chairman of the German skeptics organization GWUP has a short piece that is critical of the new IPCC report on Global Warming. The report is available at http://www.ipcc.ch/report/sr15/ The … Continue reading →

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Circumcision… The Mutilation of Male Offspring……….. October 6, 2014

Posted on 2014/10/05 by drenn1077

Circumcision… Why the controversy? Circumcision was common but not all encompassing among ancient Semitic peoples. The reasons for it are not known with solidity. Many think it began as a religious rite or rite of passage for boys into adulthood. … Continue reading →

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Stinkin’ Birds… They Were the Ancestors of Stinkin’ Birds

Posted on 2014/08/03 by drenn1077

How did evolution produce birds? From an article in Reuters it seems dinosaurs were the result of “shrinking” a dinosaur for 50 million years. A recent story, source not known, reported that feathers have been a more common feature of … Continue reading →

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MJ–Touted as Cure-all … March 03, 2014

Posted on 2014/03/02 by drenn1077

Various postings I have seen on Facebook have asserted, actually asserted, health benefits in smoking Marijuana. It is, I admit, a proven fact that marijuana can inhibit pain in some suffering individuals, but, they need not smoke it. Some of … Continue reading →

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In This World, We Are, But Perhaps Not of It … October 21, 2013

Posted on 2013/10/20 by drenn1077

Abiogenesis, the creation of life from non-living materials, is presently undergoing much scientific work. It is my understanding that presently scientists have been able to: manufacture the amino acids necessary produce RNA Cell walls They have yet to produce a … Continue reading →

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Who Was Darwin?

Posted on 2013/02/17 by drenn1077
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