Darwin Agrees with God More Than You Know
In the 13th Century there was an interesting Franciscan friar named Ramon Llull (pronounced “yoohl”), who, like another philosopher 400 years later named Pascal,...
Mark Twain, Caiaphas and the Mystery of Satan
During one of his stand-up routines late in life, Mark Twain said he'd always wanted to meet Satan. Shake his hand. (I paraphrase from...
The Nature of Good pre-Civilization? The Civilized Older Days? Part II
(Picking up from Part I, a framing of the general question; Which came first, Good or Evil?):
The kind of heavy-handed Evil we have been describing here can...
How Things Work
After spending 20 years learning how things worked on the upper floors of government (military) bureaucracy and Fortune 500 corporate management I spent another 20 years...
Satan’s Falling Out With God, News You Need
In the story I'm developing about Satan's battle against God I'm relying on JRR Tolkein's fictional rendering of their primordial relationship... in part because...
The Times They are A’Changin’, So, Do we Need to Change the Names?
…just to avoid confusion between “classical”, “modern” and “new-and-improved” Republicans and Conservatives.
I watched Peter, Paul & Mary sing this live in 1964 on the...
The Hero in Nature, and the Pagan Ideal of Good
In 1840 Thomas Carlyle gave a series of lectures in London about "Heroes and Hero-Worship". I'm trying to condense some of them into modern easy-to-read...
In the End, Natural Law Decides
If you have studied God from the viewpoint of Natural Law then you know He was never a fan of kings, or their systems...
Science and History and Facts
Science began as a logical and reasoned inquiry into how Nature works. Isaac Newton and gravity always comes to mind first with me. You'll...
First Principles About America: First Questions
Is America an accident? A freak of Nature? Or, is America the product of Intelligent Design?
I don’t intend to try to answer the second half of...
