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This month I participated in the inaugural edition of the new Carnival of the Africans by submitting Creation Ministries International Strikes Stellenbosch Again — Noah’s Flood?, in order to share my posts on the March CMI seminar. The Carnival of the Africans is an attempt to encourage scientific and skeptical blogging in South Africa. The [...]

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Methodological naturalism. Big word. Here’s what it means…
Consider the theory of gravity. An apple, unsupported by tree or table, falls. That is what it does. And it seems to do it every time. Hold an apple in the air, let go, it falls. It falls once, it falls twice, it falls a million times. And [...]

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My previous post took quite a bit out of me. I thought it a good excuse to take it easy for a week. But now more than a week has passed, I thought I should give you something more to read.
Go read The Value of Science by Richard P. Feynman, a legend of a scientist [...]

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This morning I came across an Op-Ed on the New York Times website by Brian Greene, titled Put a Little Science in Your Life. It’s a pretty good read… and I suspect it might only be readable by non-subscribers for a while, so go check it out now.
Some snippets from this article:
But here’s the thing. [...]

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Here is an example of what science is about…
Three weeks ago, I experienced what some might call a synchronicity (a concept introduced by Carl Jung). Wikipedia defines it as follows:
Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events which occur in a meaningful manner, but which are causally unrelated. In order to be synchronous, the [...]

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Scientists seem to have one really big secret: science can’t prove ANYTHING!

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Gary Bates spent three hours talking about “science”, using “science” to pull the wool over his sheep’s eyes. When I asked him “what is science?”, the best he could come up with, was “nobody really knows”. Yes, nobody knows, that’s what he said. I asked the whole “panel” at the seminar, “please tell me what [...]

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In some circles there is great conflict about “creation versus evolution”. The debate is a Vietnam. (While some see the Vietnam War as a civil war between communists and non-communist factions, it may also be seen as a Cold War conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.)
As Wikipedia points out, “other fields of science, [...]

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Yup, here goes. Lets see if I can tackle something like this without letting it get time-consuming…
For my international readers, a little background on why this relevant to me: I’m studying at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Stellenbosch is situated about 50km from Cape Town. The town is host not only to a University, but also [...]

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Take a look at this Hubble Space Telescope photo of a galaxy cluster. Looks almost fantastical, like an artist composited a bunch of fictitious galaxies into one pretty picture… It took my breath away!
Also, read some info about the photo.
I got this link from Auke’s website.

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