Apr 25

  Last week I talked about the chasm that appears to exist between religious beliefs and scientific explanation of the origins of our world and everything around it.  This relationship has troubled me for years.  It seems ironic that religion and science, both having the same goal of discovering the “truth,” are often viewed in […]

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Apr 18
He’s Back!
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  One of the goals on my “bucket list” is to make a movie.  My wife is on board with the project.  We are both fans of movies, well, good movies – movies that show in every scene that there was a great deal of time, and effort, and thought put into them.  I am […]

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Apr 12
Good Enough?
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  The Hubble Space Telescope took over 13 years to build and cost about 200 million dollars.  The engineers who built the telescope took the term “meticulous” meticulously. Everything needed to be right.  Everything needed to be perfect.  And when the the first pictures were sent back from the telescope, while press cameras rolled and […]

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Apr 4
Sensing spring
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  One of the most unique things about spring in the northeast is the rich smell of the dirt.  Not dirt, really, but some combination of land, rain, and air.  It is the smell of the earth soaking in water and sun.  It is the smell of wet leaves, of damp wood, of a thick, […]

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