Monthly Archives: October 2008

I wish I were not such a moron…

…but apparently I am according to this web site. The main web site is www.drdino.com/ but the topic I want to talk about here is that scientists are morons, more or less. I’d like to examine this web site by looking at some of the articles posted on it by people who obviously must be geniuses and certainly not morons like me. One article I’d like to comment on can be found here: www.drdino.com/articles.php?spec=95. It is written by John Hinton who must be a very intelligent and perceptive person to have so thoroughly destroyed in only 6 short paragraphs, the geological observations of thousands of scientists over the last 200 years. John Hinton begins his article with this statement: Standing at the bottom of the Grand Canyon and concluding that the multiple bands that line the canyon walls are products of millions of years of sedimentation is just plain stupid. … Continue reading

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Run 87, 2008

OK I have a major problem with my knee. I started out fine, at well under a 7 minute pace until km 7 where the old knee popping/swelling thing reared it’s ugly head. The knee popping is especially bad going uphill, and the swelling really takes off on the downhill. So I had to walk a lot on the way back home and my total time was 1:27. I’ve been puzzling over this knee problem for quite a while, at least since the spring as far as I can recollect. I think I finally have a probable cause. I considered muscle imbalances causing my knee to not track properly, but now I think it is my IT band. Possibly both are contributing to the problem. I am going to get some professional help to resolve this. And I am going to focus a lot more on stretching my IT bands. … Continue reading

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I’m looking forward to Sunday…

…because I can treat it as the start of my training week, which makes it easier psychologically somehow. I missed karate this morning mostly because I felt too lazy to go. I don’t often miss classes so I don’t feel too guilty. I still have to alter my Gi a bit by shortening my sleeves and legs but I decided that it is beyond my skill level because the darned things are tapered. It is not beyond the skill of Marilyn, however she is still down with a nasty bug and so I have to wait until she is feeling better. I still have a lot of yard work to do before the snow flies and that includes filling in some gopher holes in my driveway. Just about a half dozen at most should do it. I have to because the badgers have widened the holes big enough to cripple … Continue reading

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God spoke to me last night…

He said I should take my friends and family and everyone where I live and move into Calmar, which is a community across the river from where I live. God told me that if I obeyed him and you obeyed me as a representative of God Almighty himself, that peace, harmony, joy, riches, a good life, and eternal salvation will be yours. We must move to Calmar. Unfortunately, Calmar is infested with Calmarians and they must be destroyed because they are evil anyway. God has commanded that we do not negotiate, nor have mercy on, nor spare any Calmarians. We must go there and kill all of them including the women and children. Especially the women and children. We must kill them all, then burn everything to ashes, saving nothing, not even are we allowed to take their animals, they also must be destroyed. Do not fret because these Calmarians … Continue reading

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I got an email today and the greatest trophy ever…

…from a virtual friend I “met” through a running blog. In the interests of her privacy I won’t name her but she has been reading my blog and she wrote me to tell me that I inspired her to take up karate and she had her first class recently. I initially started this blog for two reasons. The first reason was that as part of my business in computer repair I needed to keep up with technology so I had to learn what blogging was all about the hard way so I could help others. The second reason came after when I wondered what the heck I would write about. I decided to write about my journey from middle age death to a new level of fitness and lifestyle through running. Much later I took up karate. I thought who the hell cares? But then I wondered if there was … Continue reading

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On looking for the truth…

There is a huge controversy today about whether the world was created by God, or by strictly natural processes. There are many other beliefs and opinions, but here I want to talk about two opposing beliefs in an unavoidably stereotypical way. On one side we have the creationists and intelligent design advocates, who believe there is a God who has created the universe. On the other side we have the scientists and atheists who feel they do not have to resort to supernatural forces to explain the creation of, and the evolution of the universe. Obviously, there are many gradations of belief between these two extremes. But how do we decide who is right? How can we make intelligent judgments in the face of some possibly unanswerable questions? In other words, how can we employ the best possible critical thinking skills when we try to make sense of the world? … Continue reading

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Some observations on the Bible and Creation Science…

This is a topic of extreme importance to me and so I have created this category of posts “Science and Creation” to contain my thoughts on this controversial and complex topic. THIS post is special in that it is a must-read post for those who need to understand that putting things in writing is permanent, whereas the ideas that led to the writings are not. People change, ideas change, I change. I change when presented with more evidence or when the evidence I based my ideas and conclusions on change or are found to be false. In this sense, a writing, or a series of writings is a snapshot in time and not a dogmatic thing. Because it is such a huge and complicated topic I had, and am having a hard time organizing and beginning this category. Where do I start? What do I write? I don’t know so … Continue reading

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