Today was a landmark day. After two and a half years of patience, my permit was issued today. Hallelujah! Now, the hard work begins. I am the general contractor for this project and will end up doing most of the work myself. I need to learn to do good plumbing, framing, electrical work, roofing, and…

I don’t expect strangers or friend to be that interested in my mudante health updates and thank God, this one is mundane. I was planning on suspending such postings, unless there was some important information. However, I thought about the fact that my children and extended family get their news about my health here, I…

I am on the home stretch of the grueling process of working with a professional editor for my manuscript. She completed her work yesterday, and now I must do one more rewrite (this will be rewrite number 24) to incorporate her corrections and suggestions. After that, then one more pass through the proof-reader, then cover…

 I don’t know when I fell in love with old things, but it must have been a long time ago. My dad had his tenure as the president of the Tennessee Archeology Society during my formative years. So, it was typical during my early teens, I would spend my Saturdays with my dad, “in the…

This is not an article about grammar, which I assumed most are delighted to hear. But it is on something more complex. It is about gender specific pronouns, their use and how that relates to the pursuit of truth. Last week, on a physician assistant (my profession) professional online forum, I posted a link to…

Introduction: This my final installment of a long series of articles on the age of the earth. Today I want to look at radiometric dating techniques. While they are not the only way we date things in nature, it is often the “whipping boy,” of the young earth creationists (YECs), who put out volumes of…

The Problem One third of Americans say they believe in a six-thousand-year-old earth. They say they believe this because they are Christians and their Bible tells them to. But while the Bible says nothing about the age of the earth, a group of conservative Christians (Young Earth Creationists or YECs) are promoting the idea that…

While I can’t see what each person reads on my blog space, I can see how many read each post. When I do a “health update” it always warms my heart to see the sudden uptick in readership, sometimes tenfold. It tells me that most people care about me as a human, not necessarily about…

Because these articles float in cyberspace independently, I must state my purpose with each one. Bear with the redundancy and feel welcome to skip to the next titled section if you have read previous articles in this series. The Problem One third of Americans believe that the earth is just six thousand years old, despite…

God’s Other Word The more than 30% of Americans who claim they believe in a 6,000-year-old-earth do so out of a religious conviction. As described before, this religious dogma comes from the notion that the Bible must be taking literally in all cases, although the Bible never says it is to be taken that way.…