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There is a very long blog post coming up, probably tomorrow. I started writing it on Sunday, and I’ve just “finished” it. Out of respect for my readers (or maybe just out of a selfish desire to increase the quality of my writing), I have not yet hit publish. I want to give it another [...]

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A recent email exchange with a creationist brought up this sentiment again:
He has to believe in evolution because that is the career he chose. He sucked up what they told him.
This creationist tactic is disingenuous. They are taught that the reason scientists accept evolution, is because they would not otherwise get a job, and thereby [...]

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A quick note: Akismet, the WordPress spam filter, seems to have some trouble with false positives lately. I.e. a number of valid comments were flagged as spam.
I try to eventually de-spam these comments in order to train the filter. This causes some duplicates when people have written a new comment to replace the one that [...]

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Much of the high rate of posts on this blog come from a place of wondering what direction to take. I probably contradicted myself often. This weekend, as I was doing a couple of thesis corrections before final publication (highly depressing to make minor corrections to something that seems majorly weak), and as I was [...]

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Great, another night of cannot-sleep. I’ve decided to publish a number of the posts I have drafts for, without applying too much perfectionism. Here’s the first. For the record, for Religion posts, I’m leaning all the more in the direction of “disable comments”, or filtering comments heavily, allowing only those that I deem valuable. I’m [...]

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Today is just another day. Just another revolution of the earth about its axis (or another trip of our sun around the earth). Just another meaningless moment in existence, as the earth orbits the sun and the seasons change, as the sun travels with many other stars around our galaxy, as the galaxy meanders purposelessly [...]

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This past year has been very liberating for me. In my search, I finally managed to drop all the baggage weighing me down by the side of the road. While I could say “good riddance”, there is always the possibility of someone else picking up that same baggage. So I hope to retrace my steps, [...]

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For those that have been waiting patiently for me to return to the Creationism Seminar thread: I will do so this week.
I intend to do daily postings, but I don’t expect everyone to read daily. As such, I like the idea of interleaving a number of threads. The aim is thus to have a Creationism [...]

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On the weekend of 1 and 2 December, I gave lousirr control of my blog. lousirr used that opportunity to write about two dozen “poems” and some other things, sharing some rather interesting and/or bizarre ideas. They were scheduled for publishing every four hours, for four days. Madness. And here I thought he/she would be [...]

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Lousirr has been reprimanded. He was supposed to sanely keep an eye on my blog. I thought he could be trusted. Well, this blog is on hiatus until further notice. When my thesis is finished, I will be building a new building. Who knows, a Cathedral, a Bazaar, something in between. I’ll explain everything later. [...]

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