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When I was living in Colorado Springs my house was a few blocks from the South Gate of the Air Force Academy, and I would drive by it every day going to work. Then about three years before I moved away, I noticed they were bulldozing an area next to the gate. They had stripped…
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What is faith? To the non-religious it is the complete abandonment of logic, reason, evidence, and science. In short, it is blind and unthinking. Let’s consider the field of physics. In classical times the universe was seen as split into two realms, the terrestrial and the celestial. In Aristotelian physics, the observations of these two…
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In 1955 as part of his IRobot series, Isaac Asimov wrote in the short story Risk, about the world going robot crazy. One of the characters complained how everything required a robot. As he put it, “If you need a step then just get a robot with an extra thick foot.” Asimov was quite prophetic.…
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The Carl Sagan quote, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” is the biggest load of bull I’ve ever heard. It is almost always given by atheists to the religious with a smug grin as if proves something. However, they never define “extraordinary evidence.” Atheists will often say they can’t accept a miracle because it can be…
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Most Americans when asked if they believe there’s intelligent life somewhere else in the universe will give an enthusiastic yes. They will site that with all the billions of stars in the Milky Way and with the trillion of galaxies in the universe the odds prove there has to be life out there and intelligent…