What computers say when we’re not around
For a while now programmers have been trying to develop chatbots that can fool people into thinking their human. They’ve gotten pretty good, but in the competitions the judges can […]
2011
Thursday Question – Is naturalism justified?
I will again be responding to an excerpt from an email from my old college buddy “Bill.” The excerpt is printed without further editing, so please excuse the grammatical errors. […]
Gnosticism Part 3: The destruction of a heresy
By the fourth century, Gnosticism was on the decline. Libertine Gnosticism was always a very minor view point, even among Gnostic circles, likely due to people having a hard time […]
Tuesday Science News – stem cell conservation, jumping genes, lunar pizza, and more!
Scientists have created stem sells from the skin of a northern white rhino, a species that may now be extinct in the wild, and the drill, an endangered African monkey. […]
Not again
I hate to bring this up again, but then again, I also wish it hadn’t happened again… Over the last two and a half months I’ve had more opportunities to […]
Gnostics – Part 2: They at least had one thing right
Gnostics had a lot of stuff horribly wrong. For example, dualism is absurd and illogical. The concept the the flesh is evil and thus either needs to be punished or […]
Jesus Fades
Another good one from Jesus and Mo: Next week, the satire will be my own original work.
4-Year-Old Southern Preacher
The world’s youngest preacher? Did you catch his answer to why he likes to preach? “Because I just want to, I see my daddy preach all the time.” The kid […]
“I wish more people were like that”
So on my lunch break today I went through the Taco Bell drive through. The cashier asked me if I wanted to donate $1 to a diabeties research foundation they’re […]
Thursday Question – Why did I pick dwnomad as the name for my blog?
For the last few week’s I’ve been addressing excerpts of an email from “Bill.” I’m not done with it, but the next few will take more time to adequately address […]