The Miracle of the Earth (and us)

Around 1960 a group of scientists got together for a serious discussion on the possibility of intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy. A lot of people were convinced ETs were out there but up to that point there hadn’t been a concerted effort to do anything about it. One result of this meeting was the Drake equation, which, assuming I get it all right, looks like this: N = R * fp * ne * Read more…

Cognitive Dissonance

OK – so why am I here? Why bother with a website at all really? There are plenty of apologists probably able to do a better job than I. The problem I have, and have had all my life is cognitive dissonance, or my inability to hold to multiple conflicting views. Honestly, I am not sure how others do it because it drives me crazy every day. It is on the topic of the cross Read more…