AboutLife - Science

Why are we so small?

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 10:05:51 -0700

If GOD is SO HUGE that he created the WHOLE UNIVERSE, why on earth did he make us so incredibly small?

If you stand on the moon you can't see a single human being, we are smaller than ants!
If you stand on the edge of the universe...

God must have been doing something more intricate than keyhole surgery when he knitted us together in our mothers womb!

Quit Complaining!

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 08:42:30 -0800

Why we are meant to be like stars...

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 23:55:27 -0700

I was thinking about this after hearing a recent sermon given by Paul Maconochie, the pastor at the Philadelphia Campus (attached to St Toms’ in Crookes, Sheffield). He touched on a theme that has always resonated with me – that as Christians, we are meant to be like stars.

'I'm not a Christian....I'm a scientist'

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 18:26:32 -0700

Bertrand Arthur William Russell (b.1872 - d.1970) as all of you will know I'm sure, was a British philosopher, logician, essayist, and social critic, best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy.

He was indeed the atheist of my father's times. Dad trained under FF Bruce during my father's theological studies. However, coming from a atheist background Dad kept himself routed on the outside world. A crucial technique to keep oneself alert and self-aware.

Why do I write about Russell? Well, I come from a science background, the two most influential men in my life were my father and my father's brother. Both trained at Oxford Baliol, one stuck to his atheists' roots, and became the first man to build the reliability program for the first rocket that landed on the moon and the other, my father, dropped lecturing mathematics in his early twenties in Germany, and became a theologian.

During my father's studies, Dad attended a lecture of Bertrand Russell to hear exactly what he had to say about his views of the existance of matter,and whether it continues to exist if we are not looking at it.

Equations for Russell would look like below:
Russell's most famous example of his "analytic" method concerns denoting phrases such as descriptions and proper names. In his Principles of Mathematics, Russell had adopted the view that every denoting phrase (for example, "Scott," "blue," "the number two," "the golden mountain") denoted, or referred to, an existing entity.

The Pale Blue Dot

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 10:43:37 -0800

This is a photo of our solar system taken by Voyger 1 as it left our solar system at a distance of more than 4 billion miles from earth. From Voyager's great distance Earth is a mere point of light, less than the size of a picture element even in the narrow-angle camera. Earth was a crescent only 0.12 pixel in size. Coincidentally, Earth lies right in the center of one of the scattered light rays resulting from taking the image so close to the sun.

Wind Up Torch

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:32:04 -0800

While I was in Cornwall recently, I was given a wind-up torch. Blacks were doing a special deal where you could get it half price if you made a purchase.

The wind-up torch is brilliant. It requires no batteries. You just pull out the handle and wind it for about a minute. It then has enough power for about half an hour. That's what the info says anyway. I didn't test it. I had better things to do on my holiday than sit in a darkened room with a torch for half an hour. Anyway, so it sounds very eco-friendly (which is good news for a tree-hugger like me).

Jet Man!

Thu, 15 May 2008 03:36:36 -0700

The Pale Blue Dot

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:17:37 -0700

I was hoping to logon today with some good news. Some news of how Robert Mugabe was swept from power in the last elections. Some news of how change is on the way, how the tide is turning, how things will be different from now on. It seems as if before our very eyes, by some kind of evil magic, Robert Mugabe is succeeding yet again in retaining power. I fear that things are about to get darker still. I just hope that I’m wrong.

The Great Climate Change Swindle?

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:07:27 -0800

Did anyone watch The Great Climate Swindle from Channel 4, back in March? It was quite a while ago, but makes for very interesting viewing. It presents some very serious and alarming holes in the popular climate change theories going around. Whilst one can argue over the exact scientific credibility of some of the information (even the programme’s website acknowledges these), the basic claims it asserts still show a lot of truth and are more alarming to me than concerns about rising sea levels.

Moon Jar

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:22:45 -0800

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Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:56:55 -0800

On Learning

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:57:55 -0800

I found a quote I liked and decided to share it with you. I think it's quite pertinent for our 21st century mostly middle-class evanglical churches, even though it was written in the 15th century:

“A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences. Yet learning itself is not to be blamed, or is the simple knowledge of anything whatsoever to be despised, for true learning is good in itself and ordained by God; but a good conscience and a holy life are always to be preferred. But because many are more eager to acquire much learning than to live well, they often go astray, and bear little or no fruit. If only such people were as diligent in the uprooting of vices and the panting of virtues as they are in the debating of problems, there would not be so many evils and scandals among the people, nor such laxity in communities. At the Day of Judgement, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done; not how eloquently we have spoken, but how holily we have lived. Tell me, where are now all those Masters and Doctors whom you knew so well in their lifetime in the full flower of their learning? Other men now sit in their seats, and they are hardly ever called to mind. In their lifetime they seemed of great account, but now no one speaks of them”

Forget I asked....

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:06:02 -0800

So anyway, the move's over, but I've kinda lost the motivation for blogging at the moment. Have fun reding your's tho. Maybe the site could do with some new articles as well. Sorry for being so finicky.

Just a thought: Should we be asking "What Would Jesus Do?" or "What Is Jesus DOING"?

My flatmate's trying to kill me

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:59:43 -0800

He has a fluey cold thing and the worst type. The full blown head version with coughing, spluttering, sneezing, sniffling and deathly stare. I fear I may not see out the month.

I was also watching the first half of the BBC's In Search of Shakespeare which is very interesting. He was a Catholic in a Protestant era, he married at 18 and his main rival was a spy who was killed in a fight over a hotel bill (likely story). It'll be interesting to see what he did with the rest of his life. Rumour his it that he may have written something famous and had a fling with Gwyneth Paltrow.

That Gunk on Your Car

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:50:22 -0700