It's always bothered and/or amused me that believers in materialistic evolution can't seem to avoid saying that evolution, or nature, designs living things. Google the phrase "designed by evolution to" (include the quotation marks) and you'll see some examples. It seems to be a verbal reflex that's very hard to suppress, even though it sends…

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I just saw two of them from my office window, maybe three quarters to a mile and a half away. Fascinating. They were quite small, not the city-destroying kind. They were like tentacles coming down out of the cloud (the really dark cloud), feeling around, then withdrawing. One of them found something: suddenly a stream…

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Reveries of a Mostly Retired Smoker Just as there are no ex-Marines, there are no ex-smokers. You may retire from active service, but if you ever smoked, you are a smoker, and always will be. —John Derbyshire I vividly remember my first cigarette, or perhaps I should say the sensation it produced, which I can…

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Too many of them just don't seem to get the idea that you're supposed to dig in your heels as either a Progressive or a Traditionalist. Distressing as it may be, here's another sign that an end to the liturgy wars may be in sight, from the Shrine of the Holy Whapping. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js

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ZZ Top: Tres Hombres Ok, wipe that smirk off your face: you know you like “LaGrange.” If you don’t recognize that title, click here to refresh your memory (Windows Media sample). I’ve been wanting to hear the whole album for a while, since I read an interview with some famous guitarist, can’t remember who, in…

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