Skip to main content

*** Blog Subjects ***

Religion
- Anthropology
   - Fossils
   - DNA
   - Dating techniques

- Geology
   - The Geologic Column
   - The Cambrian Explosion

- Archaeology
   - Epigraphic Database
   - Finkelstein
   - Mesopotamia (religion, history, etc.)

- Neurology
   - Unreliability of witnesses (memory)
   - Ease of tricking the mind (incl. NLP)
   - Neurological disorders
   - Physical damage and personality changes
   - NDE's
   - Free Will vs Determinism

- Biology (Evolution)
   - Atavisms
   - Biogeography
   - The Philogentic Tree (Cladistics)
   - Transitional Forms
   - DNA (endogenous retroviruses, redundant pseuodogenes)
   - Convergence

- History
   - Wrong history (OT & NT)
      - Exodus
      - The "Slaughter of the Innocents" and Census
      - Flood Myths and Noah

- Astronomy
   - Virtual Particles (Positrons)

- Biblical Criticism
   - Midrash and Homer in Mark
   - The Gospels in the Jewish Context
   - The missing voices (Philo, Pilate, 5,000)
   - Pilate

- Common Apologetics
   - Aquinas 5 Ways
   - Cosmological Argument
   - Minimal Facts
   - Biblical Literalism (YEC)
   - "Die for a Lie"
   - Josephus and The Testimonium
   - Intelligent Design
   - Evolution is "Only a Theory"
   - "You can add new information" (DNA)

- Common Counterapologetics
   - The Problem of Evil
   - Mythicism
   - Contradictions in the Bible

- Morality
   - God removing the Pharoah's free will.
   - Euthyphro's Dilemma
   - Bad Morality in the OT
   - What's missing from the 10 Commandments
   - Slavery in the Bible



Politics
- Minimum Wage

- Education

- Welfare

- Equal Justice

Book Breakdowns
- The Rejection of Pascals Wager
- The Free Will Delusion
- Biblical Literalism: A Gentle Heresy
- Faith vs Fact
- The Moral Arc
- The Soul Fallacy
- The Myth of Nazareth
- How Jesus Became God
- Why Evolution is True
- Jesus Wars
- Nailed
- The Bible Unearthed
- Evolution: What the Fossils Tell Us
- Born Believers
- The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark
- The Trial and Death of Jesus




Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Eve Online - Faction Warfare Missioning

Basics: Gain ISK and LP by completing and turning in missions. Missions are against npc's (non-player "rats"). They generally involve destroying an object (like a reactor), or a head honcho rat (like a Sector Commander). With ISK you can purchase whatever you need off the Eve markets. LP you use to purchase items in your corporations Loyalty Points Store (LP = Loyalty Points). How lucrative is mission running? It depends on the tier the faction is at in the warzone. If you complete 20 missions, you should on average at Tier 3 get a payout of about 40 million ISK and 450K-550K LP. At about 700 ISK/LP that translates to about 350 mil. ISK. At Tier 4, those same missions completed should pay out 650k-850k LP. This would translate to about 550 mil. ISK. What do I use to run missions? Current doctrine suggests that if you're Amarr fighting against Minmatar, the best ship to use on Level 3 and 4 missions is a Stealth Bomber called the Hound . You can stay at range...

Eve Online: FW - Why Choose 60 Squadron?

If you're a newbro Faction Warfare can be overwhelming. You came for various reasons from meeting up with and hanging around a bunch of guys (or gals) and make some friends, to get into some pvp action, or find a means of making ISK. The more you learn about Eve the more you find how expansive the environment is. What we can do for you What is your primary reason for joining Faction Warfare? If it's to get into fights, there's always pvp opportunities and small roaming fleets available. If it's to learn fleet operations, several times a week small and medium-sized fleets are organizing. Our fleets tend to be either frigates or destroyers as they are cheap and you'll lose a lot of them, but in the meantime you'll get into a lot of fights and in so doing will learn and become better at pvp and fleet ops. We sometimes venture into wormholes and at other times we may venture into high-sec for ops there. Primarily, our focus is on the Ammar/Minmatar warzone. Th...

My Day Trading Journey ep1: The Preliminary Plans of an Ignorant Fool

I remember a day in college where I accompanied my dad on some errand that resulted in us going into the off-hours floor of a local accounting firm. I was interested in possibly getting into accounting and saw a room crowded with desks, saying to him that it seemed they were full of people and couldn't use another. He told me that's not what he saw at all. He said when he looked around he saw a room so in need of people that they could hardly fit the desks in. I saw a business filled up and not needing anybody else. My dad saw it as proof they did. This stuck with me all these years. Perspective. Something my dad would often say was "You can't kid a kidder". I guess that was his way of saying 'Stop fooling yourself because you're not fooling me'. Search within yourself and when you get into something, do it with purpose, not a whim. This I've carried with me all my life. I have a wide assortment of interests, but in all of them I am obsessive. It...