What is beauty? Is it a sunset? A flower? People? Truth? What is it that gives something its beauty? These are the sort of questions we all ponder, and yet the answers always seem to elude us until by chance or perhaps fate we literally bump straight into them. In this post I share what I discovered about the connection between nature, science, and beauty and some of the deeper implications. Continue reading The interdepence of nature, science and beauty
What’s in your cat’s litter box?
Let’s face it. maintaining the litter is a smelly, messy chore that can leave you with a bad taste in your mouth. Until now!
Training Day
The God Stone: The stone paradox resolved
For centuries, cynics, skeptics, and atheists have tried dethroning God with various semantic arguments that lead to logical contradiction. One such class of paradoxes are the “omnipotence paradoxes.” These have been used to argue omnipotence is logically impossible and that God, if there is God, cannot be omnipotent. The connotation of the argument, however, seems to be that there is no God at all. The most famous example of omnipotence paradoxes is the “paradox of the stone.” In this To Wit exclusive, we humbly resolve the stone paradox, preserve the omnipotence of God and restore the natural order of human affairs. Continue reading The God Stone: The stone paradox resolved
Understanding general relativity
This is a comic I created on my smartphone using a free Android app called “Rage Comic Maker.”
Why dogs eat homework
We have all heard stories about dogs and homework. Every day, the hard work of thousands of hapless children is consumed by their otherwise faithful and trusty K-9 companions. To Wit interviewed animal psychologist Ima Strudel to find out why. Continue reading Why dogs eat homework