Aliens

I used to be fearful of being abducted by aliens. It was a phobia I had, I guess. When in my teens, I was interested in the supernatural, cryptozoology, extraterrestrials, and the like, and I would watch TV shows about aliens and aliens abducting humans. I found the shows fascinating — (I even did myContinue

My Problems Are Trivial

My problems are trivial. I’m just a man, one of many, and a male of just one species, out of many, that the cold, uncaring universe doesn’t really care about. All human problems are trivial, on the grand scheme of things. The universe is about 13.8 billion years old. For billions of years, up untilContinue

The Meaning Of Life

I used to think that life is what you make of it. Or, to put it another way, I used to think that life has a meaning, but you have to make that meaning yourself. But lately, I’ve been too aware that the meaning life isn’t as malleable as I thought before. It’s all quiteContinue

Dark Matter: Not An Element

Yesterday, I wrote an article in part of which I discussed what Aristotle meant when he wrote about aether. I wrote:  In a time when the terrestrial realm was thought to be of a different kind than the celestial realm, Aristotle believed that the four terrestrial elements were earth, wind, water, and fire; the celestialContinue

Neighbor Claims Flat Earth, Part 2

A little while ago, I wrote about a neighbor of mine who is certain that planet Earth is flat. In that article, I forgot to mention that he added, almost as an afterthought, that Neil deGrasse Tyson claims that Earth is pear-shaped. I found this to be an odd statement, and I treated it withContinue

People & Everything

To make an apple pie from scratch, you’d have to begin with the making of the universe. Cosmogony had to conspire to provide the developments that led to the ingredients for the pie, and the universe had to provide the people to make the pie. Ah, the people! Don’t take them personally. They’re just animatedContinue

Big Bang & Creation

A friend of mine told me that she believes in Creationism. I asked her why, and she responded with her own question. “You believe in the Big Bang. Right?” “Yes.” “Then what creates the energy that starts the Big Bang?” she replied to my affirmation. I told her, rightly or wrongly, “We can’t say becauseContinue

Where Did This God Who Loves Me Come From?

I posted the following on my Facebook timeline yesterday: If God created Man, then who created God? See the built-in regression with the God hypothesis? And if you say that God has always existed, then why not simply say that natural entities or processes have always existed? If Man were created by a Watchmaker, thatContinue

An Overview of Aristotle’s Universe

Let us pose a question, that question being this: From Thales to Aristotle, did concepts of matter’s reality and of its composition change, or did those concepts remain the same?  The method I will employ in answering this question will be to relate the ideas of matter’s reality and composition from the thinkers before AristotleContinue

The Night Sky

Nonetheless, we are obliged to reside in such an improbable universe, because we could exist in no other. – John Barrow, The Origin of the Universe I am a night owl who often goes for walks or jogs at night. The town that I live in is very small, and not all the streets are well-lit.Continue