Lincoln, Luther, and King

An internet blog comment yesterday reads: I am now making the offer of 100 gazillionmilliontrillion dollars and a steak to one single person or group to definitively prove the existence of a creator God or creation at all. The ground: - Must be physical proof that science will never be able to refute. - Must be proof that logic cannot defy. - Must have God itself present said proof. By 8bithero on October 14, 2008 8:33 PM At first glance, it sounds like an innocent question. But this is like saying, "I will only believe in God if he exists on a playing field of my own definition. Here's the playing field: Referencing only physical proof, prove the supernatural exists." But the logic is skewed. The logic problem is clearly seen when posing the same argument in the other direction: "Referencing only the supernatural, prove the physical universe exists." Essentially we've carefully padded our challenge against failure by insisting up front that all e...

Just wanted to let you know that this week is Fire Prevention Week. Per the official NFPA sign below, you are encouraged to "prevent home fires October 5-11, 2008". You may start home fires any other week.

I think this is an interesting article. The tack that our country has taken, to privatize profits yet socialize losses , puts the burden for someone else's mistakes squarely on the shoulders of you the taxpayer. Now that bank CEOs can no longer pay for their plush offices with remote-controlled La-Z-Boy, now I must make the La-Z-Boy payments myself. But I'm still not allowed to sit in the chair and enjoy its benefits. Yet when that CEO makes a good decision and makes a profit, he doesn't have to share it with me - he gets to keep it all to himself and his company. So at its core, this is Middle-Ages Feudalism, where us peasants (American Middle Class) have no choice but to pay to insure the lifestyles of the rich and famous. I agree that it is difficult to gauge the proper balance of government regulation of economic industries. But on the other token, I'm against socialized welfare to cover other people's bad decisions. It just perpetuates ...

Over the past few years I've read portions of a monster 1500 page standard college textbook titled "Molecular Biology of The Cell - 4th Edition". Commonly referred to by the acronym MBOC, the fourth edition was published in 2002, and the fifth edition is now out - due in part to the rapid increase (explosion) of knowledge in our current times, one of the two signs that Daniel the prophet was told would characterize the last days (Daniel 21:4). The authors are, to my knowledge, strict evolutionists. Yet these guys use all the descriptions you'd use for the greatest of engineered systems. This smacks of design! Here’s some of the phrases they use to describe the systems and processes that run life at the molecular level: "precisely engineered""with remarkable efficiency" "a highly regulated process" "requires the cooperation of many [other parts]" "self-correcting" "so efficient that there is no possibili...

I have discovered incontrovertible proof that the six degrees of relatedness is absolutely true. I discovered today that my wife's... father's... niece's... uncle's... daughter's... husband...  is me.

The case of Richard Cooey is ludicrous. The man claims he's too fat to execute. That they wouldn't be able to find his veins easily. That his migraine headache drug may prevent him from fully losing consciousness when injected with thiopental, the drug used to put inmates to sleep prior to administering the actual lethal drugs.  His attorneys say that his resulting execution could be excruciating. Haven't we missed the entire point? Where is the justice? How is this guy getting what he deserves? How does this circus provide a deterrent to rape and murder? How does it strike fear into the heart of the evildoer?

The case of Mary Winkler  sends a very interesting message. Mary, after serving 12 days in jail and 2 months in a mental health facility, was put on probation for the remainder of her 3-year voluntary manslaughter sentence. So a year and a half after murdering her husband, she was living her life with all the freedom afforded the rest of us, except she couldn't travel or spend time with her kids.  And now, less than 2 and a half years after pulling the deadly trigger, she has custody of her kids! It's home sweet home for Mary Winkler - sans a troublesome husband, of course. Wow! That was less painful than going through a divorce and having to sell the house, split the assets, fight over the 401k, and spend sleepless nights battling bitterness and resentment. Disciples of Mary Winkler now have a new approach: take action and get it over with...permanently. Then blame it on the heat of passion. Passion over...finances???

I've always found it curious that Jesus would heal people and then give them strict instructions not to publicize it. But we see that when they ignored his instructions, the crowds grew so great that Jesus could no longer move freely among the people and had to retreat to private places. So there was a legitimate reason to keep things hush-hush. No, Jesus wasn't a showman like Benny Hinn. But what about today's Christianity? I've been thinking lately of the tendency I've had in times past to promote my local church's brand instead of promoting Christ. And I'm beginning to conclude that we need to be Jesus-focused, not 'ministry'-focused. A local radio station (WMUZ, FM103.5 in Detroit) promotes itself as "the light", even though Jesus said that he was the light of the world. Jesus also stated that we (Christians) are the light of the world, but what about a Christian-based business? Is it also the light? I think not. WMUZ is definitely n...

Tim Horton's has proved the point why multi-word URLs and hashtags don't work. Is the above URL supposed to be read  Roll up the rim to win or Roll up ther,  i'm towin'!

Subclassing and instantiation are features of modern object-oriented computer programming languages. The efficiency of this methodology allows the programmer to reuse common code to define new objects. When defining a new object, instead of reinventing the wheel, the new object can inherit properties from an existing object, leaving the programmer only to define the new object's unique aspects. For example: Basic Object: House Its properties: Square feet # of bedrooms House style (ranch/bungalow/colonial) Address Year built Detailed Object: Rental House Its properties: Inherit all the properties of a house (sq ft, # of bedrooms, etc) Monthly rent Lease start date Lease expire date Instantiation is the act of taking one of these definitions and applying it to a specific instance (such as describing a specific rental house). Subclassing and instantiations are truly the brainchild of God. These ingenious features are...