Monthly Archives: January 2009

Strange Day

It was a very strange morning for me, in a way I didn’t even understand until most of it was over. I got up before 6:00 today and drove 30 miles to a breakfast meeting a friend had invited me to. It was an excellent time. I met some new people, I discovered an opportunity …

January 16, 2009 – 8:37 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Unfiled | Comments Off

Save the Sea Kittens!

Values gone haywire. Who else but PETA? Of course, if you look at it another way, what all this really means is that fish need to fire their PR guy—stat… And we’re going to start by retiring the old name for good. When your name can also be used as a verb that means driving …

January 12, 2009 – 4:18 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, Life and Choices | Tagged | Comments (76)

No More Threaded Comments

Now and for keeps, for the last time, I’m giving up on threaded comments. Too confusing. I hope this doesn’t seriously interfere with any current discussions.

January 12, 2009 – 1:22 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Unfiled | Comments Off

“American Thinker: Christianity and the Round Planet”

With a tip of the hat to Holopupenko, who emphasized that Christianity Gave the World Science, here is this from Bruce Walker: Many people, like me, grew up believing that when Columbus sailed to America in 1492, Christians at the time thought that he would fall off the edge of the world. Not only were …

January 11, 2009 – 3:32 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Thinking Christianly | Comments (31)

I Don’t Get It…

… why is it called “hate” to disagree with same-sex “marriage”? Why is it not called hate to stage protests against those who disagree with same-sex “marriage”?

January 11, 2009 – 3:07 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Comments (12)

“Only Natural” on ID Arts Blog

I send my thanks to ID Arts for publishing my story, “Only Natural.”

January 11, 2009 – 2:58 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, Origins and Science | Comments Off

“Surprisingly High Tolerance For Racism Revealed”

The ScienceDaily headline reads, Surprisingly High Tolerance For Racism Revealed. So, where’s the problem? I thought (in today’s secular moral culture) tolerance was a good thing! Yet I think the authors of this study would like for you to believe that racism is not good. (That’s certainly what I believe.) How do we make sense …

January 9, 2009 – 12:46 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics | Tagged | Comments (27)

Minor Feature Upgrade

New for commenters: link to the comment you are replying to, by using the @ symbol before that comment author’s name, and following the name with a colon or line break. Example: to link to my most recent previous comment in the thread, type @Tom Gilson; Or as the developer wrote it: Inside a comment, …

January 8, 2009 – 5:23 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Unfiled | Comments (2)