Having received my degree in Biology from the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines, I was schooled in the disciplines of scientific research in ways that are slightly different from students taught here. When I moved here, I learned of the concept of “consensus science,” and realized just how much the science in this… Continue reading this entry

In response to Charles Johnson’s invitation for Conservative, anti-Creationists to share their thoughts, here I am, letting it rip: Let me begin with the definition of science as discussed throughout my college years: Science is knowledge through causes. The scientific method, as popularly and academically known, is the process by which causes are investigated and… Continue reading this entry

“Save the ocean. Kill a person.” When you think about the way “environmentalism” has grown over the past fifteen years (that I have been aware of, considering my old twenty-six years of age), it all boils down to that statement. One of the reasons I despise the most vocal—squeaky wheels—of the environmental movement is because… Continue reading this entry

Dean Esmay recounts something he’s been getting at for the past year (I think): You find yourself on a game show called “Let’s Make A Deal.” The game is very simple, as there are but three doors: door #1, door #2, and door #3. Behind one door is a million dollars. Behind the other two… Continue reading this entry

Apparently the story that broke the slow news cycle of this week was the President’s assertion that ID theory should be taught in public schools. There was no clarification as to what particular class in school it is taught, and as long as it isn’t taught in the science classes—especially Biology—I don’t have beef with… Continue reading this entry

Sometimes it’s really hard to give the loud, boohooey “Christian Right” the benefit of the doubt when it comes to their antics about governance. Yesterday, three articles made waves among political bloggers: Why I’m Rooting Against the Religious Right, by Christopher Hitchens, The Christian Complex by George F. Will (probably my favorite columnist these days)… Continue reading this entry

This is for you, Nathan. [...] I have made the general argument in my book Rocks of Ages (Ballantine, 1999), a book that expresses the consensus of a great majority of professional scientists and theologians, not an original formulation from my pen. In briefest summary, no dichotomous opposition can exist in logic because science and… Continue reading this entry

What I’m about to link to isn’t gonna be pretty. It’s not meant to be pretty, but it’s also something I wonder about a lot. Many of us—especially myself, bio background and all—have thumbed through books about diseases, and these books have pictures of how these diseases manifest themselves. Now, there is a purpose to… Continue reading this entry

There is now a vaccine against malaria: For the first time, researchers say, a vaccine against malaria has shown that it can save children from infection or death. The vaccine, tested on thousands of children in Mozambique, was hardly perfect: It protected them from catching the disease only about 30 percent of the time and… Continue reading this entry

Rob Smith speaks of Spaceship One very well: Mankind’s destiny is in the stars. We have too much imagination and too much curiosity to squat right here on our puny asses on our puny planet forever. We are explorers, always wondering what lies beyond the next mountain or across the next sea. We should go… Continue reading this entry