by Gary Ivey | Sep 17, 2016 | Politics
There was a kerfuffle yesterday when Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump of starting the “birther” movement, which questioned whether Barack Obama was born in the United States and therefore might not be qualified to be president according to the...
by Gary Ivey | Jul 20, 2016 | Current Events, Politics, The State of the Union
I haven’t written anything on my blog or on Facebook or Twitter for a very long time, which is unusual for me because ordinarily I would be very active on my blog and social media during the political campaign season. However, this time has been different. I...
by Gary Ivey | Sep 5, 2015 | Current Posts
The conventional wisdom is that people who work in science MUST be evolutionists and are rational in their conclusions, which are always based on incontrovertible evidence. On the other hand, people who believe the universe was designed intentionally by a super...
by Gary Ivey | Aug 17, 2015 | Current Events, Current Posts, Politics
This is shaping up to be one of the strangest presidential election seasons I can remember. And I voted for the first time in 1976. The obvious factor that makes for strangeness is the mob of Republican wannabes. While pretty much any of them would make a better...
by Gary Ivey | Jun 5, 2015 | Current Posts
If you listen to the media and the self-appointed spokespeople for the scientific community, it appears that The scientific community is monolithic; everybody agrees and speaks with one voice. That if you accept the statements of Science you have no choice but to be...
by Gary Ivey | Mar 12, 2015 | Current Posts
Scott Walker, governor of Wisconsin, has been scoring high in the early polls of Republican voters looking forward to the 2016 primaries for the Republican nomination for president. This early, it means little, but he is being asked some pointed questions because of...
by Gary Ivey | Jan 25, 2015 | Current Posts
This week I saw two movies with “Exodus” in the title within six days. Both concerned the biblical story of the Israelites’ Exodus from 400 years of slavery in Egypt over 3,000 years ago. The first was the documentary “Patterns of Evidence:...
by Gary Ivey | Jan 12, 2015 | Current Posts
“Settled Science”. That’s what they tell us about Global Cooling / Global Warming / Climate Change, etc. But there have been enough fraudulent incidents that have tarnished the reputation the vaunted “scientific method” that it’s...
by Gary Ivey | Jan 1, 2015 | Current Posts
I am an optimist. I am so optimistic that every morning I wake up thinking it’s going to be 72 degrees and sunny, and when I discover it isn’t, I’m disappointed. So I have to apologize for this post. It’s going to be a downer. That’s...
by Gary Ivey | Nov 5, 2014 | Current Posts
Some pundit said the election of 2014 was “The Seinfeld Election” or “The election about nothing”. That’s true to a large extent. For Republicans, it was “We’re not Democrats”. For Democrats, it was “We’re...
