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Monthly Archives: February 2019
Movie Review: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
It’s the end of a great movie series. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World is the final installment in a beloved trilogy and one of the many highly-anticipated movies coming this year, giving us the final adventure of … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Reviews
Tagged How to Train Your Dragon, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, HTTYD
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Television Review: MythBusters Jr.
Last year, the Science Channel continued the long-running show MythBusters with two new hosts, Jon and Brian, selected by a televised myth-busting contest. The new episodes were…underwhelming. I reviewed Jon’s and Brian’s season at the time, and I couldn’t give … Continue reading
Posted in TV Reviews
Tagged Adam Savage, MythBusters, MythBusters Jr.
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Why Do Debates About Evolution Fail?
In a previous post, I analyzed the evolution debate between militant atheist Aron Ra and Christian creationist Kent Hovind. In short, I thought it was very unproductive, so I wanted to write a follow-up post describing how these debates could … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Debunking, Religion
Tagged Aron Ra, creationism, evolution, Kent Hovind, PRATTs
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A Completely Non-Political State of the Union Analysis
So…this is not the result I expected. No, I didn’t get Bingo with the card I made. But this is a good opportunity to make a brief analysis of President Trump’s speech—not a political analysis, but an analysis as a … Continue reading
Posted in Current events
Tagged bingo, sotu, State of the Union
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My Bingo Card for Tonight
I don’t normally talk about politics on this blog, but since President Trump’s State of the Union address is tonight, I thought I’d make an exception. I encourage you to watch the speech, a little bit so you can keep … Continue reading
Posted in Current events, Uncategorized
Tagged bingo, sotu, State of the Union
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State of the Blog
This won’t be a big speech or anything. I’ve leave that to certain people who enjoy making speeches on Tuesday. I just wanted to make a quick note because I’ve discovered something interesting about this blog. I’ve been maintaining this … Continue reading
Posted in General, Writing
Tagged keep writing, sotu, State of the Blog, State of the Union
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Aron Ra, Kent Hovind, and the Evolution Debate
Over the past several months, Christian creationist Kent Hovind and militant atheist Aron Ra held an extended YouTube debate about the evidence for evolution. (You can see Hovind’s challenge here and the first video of the debate, by Aron Ra, … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Science
Tagged Aron Ra, creationism, evolution, evolution debate, Kent Hovind
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Science Meets Fiction 