News and Views

I had a letter to the editor published in today’s East Valley Tribune. It was in response to a previous letter writer who made several stabs at evolution. I set him straight! 🙂

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Today is the reason that so many holidays happen to fall around this time of the year. In the northern hemisphere today is the shortest day and longest night of the year. Here in the Phoenix area the days are just under 10 hours long, while for my niece Robin in Anchorage the days are […]

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The trial “Kitzmiller et al v. Dover Area School District” in Harrisburg, PA was decided today. In this case a school board had required that biology teachers read to the students a statement about gaps and problems in Darwin’s theory and to make them aware of other theories of evolution including intelligent design. The ACLU […]

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There is always a lot of discussion this time of year about restoring the “true meaning of Christmas”. This usually means treating it as a Christian holiday, celebrating the birth of Christ. But of course, the true original meaning of the holiday is the celebration of the winter solstice. Almost all the year-end holidays have […]

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