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Ramblebrain: 07/22/15

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Thoughts on nature, science, language, philosophy, old blues songs.whatever strikes my fancy. Wednesday, July 22, 2015. Why Oil Companies Don't Use Flood Geology. One of the best ways of testing young earth creationism and flood geology (the idea that most geologic structures above and below ground were created in the flood) is to ask whether they're useful in the real world. For example, do oil companies use flood geology to find oil? As well as paleobiology. Why I Left Young-Earth Creationism / Glenn M...

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Ramblebrain: Skeletons of Mardi Gras: How the Walking Dead Are Keeping Traditions Alive in New Orleans

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Thoughts on nature, science, language, philosophy, old blues songs.whatever strikes my fancy. Saturday, March 3, 2012. Skeletons of Mardi Gras: How the Walking Dead Are Keeping Traditions Alive in New Orleans. When I pulled onto Esplanade Avenue on Mardi Gras morning, the clouds over New Orleans were just losing their sunrise glow. I found a parking spot in the shadow of I-10, which sits right on top of Claiborne Avenue in the Fauborg Trem. Not long after leaving my car, I heard a faint crrrraww! By appe...

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Ramblebrain: 05/29/15

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Thoughts on nature, science, language, philosophy, old blues songs.whatever strikes my fancy. Friday, May 29, 2015. Saving Millions of Lives with this One Weird Trick. Inside of a Jail from the Spanish Inquisition. I know what you're thinking. "Millions of lives? What is this guy talking about? What trick could possibly do that? I know, I was skeptical too, but don't click away just yet! Could there really be a simple "trick" to keep this kind of thing from happening? What if didn't just prevent religiou...

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Ramblebrain: 06/28/15

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Thoughts on nature, science, language, philosophy, old blues songs.whatever strikes my fancy. Sunday, June 28, 2015. Ghosts in the Landscape. Not long ago, I was driving across the Colorado high plains when a pair of pronghorn crossed the road. When they saw me coming they ran, and I pulled over to admire their retreat. I was thinking, "Those things might be faster than deer." And then, as if affronted by the comparison, they decided to stop messing around and run. The fleet limbs of the antelope? Table ...

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Ramblebrain: 05/21/15

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Thoughts on nature, science, language, philosophy, old blues songs.whatever strikes my fancy. Thursday, May 21, 2015. Letter to a Curious Kid. I'm one of the librarians, and I noticed that humongous stack of books you were hauling out today. It reminded me of somebody: me. I did that too when I was your age, so I know how you feel. You know how sometimes you get so interested in something that you can hardly stop thinking about it? Yep, that's the kind of kid I was, too. So I remember why you bring that ...

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Ramblebrain: 07/05/15

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Thoughts on nature, science, language, philosophy, old blues songs.whatever strikes my fancy. Sunday, July 5, 2015. Praise Pictures and the Great Agnostic. A further irony is that the quotation comes from Ingersoll's defense of a fellow freethinker named C.B. Reynolds, who was charged with blasphemy in New Jersey for arguing against the infallibility of the Bible. Here's Ingersoll's quotation with a little more context:. What light is to the eyes, what love is to the heart,. Liberty is to the soul of man.

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Ramblebrain: 06/06/15

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Thoughts on nature, science, language, philosophy, old blues songs.whatever strikes my fancy. Saturday, June 6, 2015. The Best Defense: Thoughts on Arguing with Creationists. Rising in Noah's Ark, Aurelio Luini, 1556. That way lies madness! Mind about anything is extremely rare, so if your goal is to change minds, you're mostly going to be disappointed. (I've never fully learned this lesson.). The point is, the person attacking a complex idea usually has an advantage over the person defending it.* So...

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Ramblebrain: Big Brains and Southern Accents

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Thoughts on nature, science, language, philosophy, old blues songs.whatever strikes my fancy. Sunday, September 30, 2012. Big Brains and Southern Accents. Because I needed to find some examples to pass around. I had just seen a particularly painful example. Of a dumb southerner, and it was hurting my soul. The ones being foolish, not me. They're the victims of a fallacy: the idea that you can take a stereotype about a group of people, and conclude that an individual from that group. Will match the stereo...

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Ramblebrain: 05/13/15

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Thoughts on nature, science, language, philosophy, old blues songs.whatever strikes my fancy. Wednesday, May 13, 2015. How a Valley Became a Mesa, and Why a River Runs Through It. Photo by Ross Mays, from Lookout Mountain. Photo by Ross Mays, ancient landscape drawing based on Drewes, 2008 (see that paper for a more accurate diagram). So what's going on in these past worlds? What's up with those volcanoes? So how did the Rockies come back, and how did a valley become Table Mountain? As the great plains e...