http://wip.powerblogs.com/ A work in progress en-us 2006-08-01T04:08+00:00 http://wip.powerblogs.com/posts/1154406272.shtml As any Christian can testify, faith is a very difficult virtue. When my faith has flagged, it has sometimes consoled me to think about how unbelievable most of the world is.... Chris 2006-08-01T04:08+00:00 http://wip.powerblogs.com/posts/1148406715.shtml I was just watching a Simon and Garfunkle concernt, when I started looking at the guitar and thinking how strange it is that plucking metal strings can produce such emotions in... Chris 2006-05-23T17:05+00:00 http://wip.powerblogs.com/posts/1144777382.shtml Until very recently in history, it was generally acknowledged by both sexes that men and women are very different sorts of creatures. Some time around the 1900s, some women (and some... Chris 2006-04-11T17:04+00:00 http://wip.powerblogs.com/posts/1143054259.shtml It is difficult to date when western culture stopped being intellectually Christian. The most probable date is the Enlightenment, though not because of any of the prominent atheists of the day... Chris 2006-03-22T19:03+00:00 http://wip.powerblogs.com/posts/1123846221.shtml If my memory serves, that happens to be the name of a TV show which is currently running, but that's not what I want to talk about. What I want to... Chris 2005-08-12T11:08+00:00 http://wip.powerblogs.com/posts/1123625340.shtml I was thinking about irreducible complexity and the mouse trap recently, and I realized how you can reduce the complexity of the system. The key to this (as it is... Chris 2005-08-09T22:08+00:00