What Every Parent Needs To Know About Spanking
If you’re ever at a loss for how to piss a lot of people off in one fell swoop, criticize parents for spanking. That will do it every...
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The Upside Down World ~ The Blog
- Jan 12, 2017
- 8 min
Why Donald Trump Talks the Way He Does – and Why It Works
Back in college, I made some halfway decent money selling high end knives in people’s homes. One of the perks of the job was that the...
- Jan 11, 2017
- 1 min
Snowy Day Play
I love videos of animals playing. This one from the Oregon Zoo showing animals in the snow is particularly cute. Isn’t it weird how we’ve...
- Dec 21, 2016
- 7 min
All People Are Real
I’ve mentioned a couple of times now that I have a dissociative disorder. A derealization disorder, in fact. Which means that when my...
- Dec 13, 2016
- 1 min
This is not how reality works
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- Jun 3, 2014
- 1 min
Sleep Tight Under the Stars
The heavens declare the glory of God; the sky displays his handiwork. Psalm19:1 See that? It’s a picture of a tiny patch of empty space...
- May 30, 2014
- 9 min
The Process is Life
Scriptures say that creation testifies to God. Science is simply the study of creation. It is the gathering and studying of the testimony...
- May 19, 2014
- 4 min
The Seed Planters
I need a gardener. I have joked for years that I’m not a very good gardener, but in 10 years I will be. I have now come to the conclusion...
- May 13, 2014
- 2 min
Animals and Religion
Did you know that animals engage in what appears to be ritualistic behaviors which appear to show some awareness of the luminous, if not...
- Apr 24, 2014
- 4 min
All About Pain: The Toughness Fallacy
I don’t know what the weather is like where you are, but it’s cold, rainy and windy here by me so I’ll use that as my excuse for being a...
- Apr 9, 2014
- 2 min
So Much For Soft Hearted and Squishy Headed
There’s a popular stereotype which says that people who worry about the homeless, racism, poverty and other social ills have soft hearts...
- Apr 7, 2014
- 1 min
Not So Red of Tooth and Claw
I’ve mentioned before that I’ve long wondered what it says about God that we live in a world of predator and prey. Sometimes it helps to...
- Apr 4, 2014
- 2 min
The First Brain
You know, y’all are an unusually quiet bunch of readers. I would bet money I don’t have that a freakishly high percentage of you are...
- Mar 25, 2014
- 2 min
Playing With Our Lives?
Did you know that all animals play? I knew some did, but hadn’t realized how widespread play is in the animal kingdom: the existence of...
- Dec 6, 2013
- 2 min
The Tree, The Fish and The Light
Once upon a time, in the deep recesses of time on this planet, there was some slime. Or maybe it was bacteria. Slimey bacteria? I don’t...
- Jul 10, 2013
- 9 min
Consciousness and Genesis 1
I want to share my personal theory on the story of creation told in Genesis 1 today, but I of course first need to grab everyone’s...
- Feb 21, 2012
- 1 min
Fundamentally Flawed Podcast With Rebecca
Alex Botten on his podcast show Fundamentally Flawed regarding the perils and problems with teaching kids literal creationism. We had...
- Jan 22, 2012
- 3 min
In Which I Call Creationism Demonic
From “Thinking SciFi” “O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.” (Psalm 139:1) Perhaps the most frightening attribute of God is that...
- Nov 28, 2011
- 2 min
Apparently My Week Has 8 Days In It
I started to do these “Best of the Week” posts a few weeks ago and it seems that my week is consistently 8 days long. Which I have no...
- Nov 19, 2011
- 2 min
I Love Evolution! (A Christian’s Perspective)
Interestingly, the set of details which religious people are most likely to insist aren’t there – evolution – points us to those...
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