Time for another contest, people! Here’s the question: What was Erik’s favorite brand of guitar? Email your answer to emedhus@gmail. com. I won’t have time to answer each of them. I’ll just announce the winner after the deadline which is tomorrow at 9:00 AM CDT. Good luck! The post today is a “Best of Erik” one…
Evolving Here or There?
My son, Lukas, and I are engaging in a big project, all his idea. (I’m just the slave.) He built a big raised garden bed, and, in it, he’s planting all sorts of vegetables like spinach, beans, tomatoes (yuck), potatoes, onions, garlic, poblano peppers, bell peppers, etc. He already has pots of various herbs that…
Odds and Ends
It’s a beautiful day here in sunny Houston so I’m writing outside today, keeping an eye on my three pound Yorkie to make sure she doesn’t get swept up by a hawk. It happens. Not long ago, I found two squirrel paws freshly lopped off, I guess the hawk doesn’t care for dark meat. Enough…
Evolution, DNA and All That Junk
Me: Tell me about evolution. It seems weird that, in 50,000 years or whatever, we’ve gone from a little microbe to this point by evolutionary pressure alone. Erik (chuckling): Why? Cuz what we are now is pretty lame? Me: Oh, Erik! Seriously. We’re so complex, biologically. How can it just be from spontaneous mutations? Erik:…
The Origins of Life
Update of the Jesus EVP: I had a YouTube comment from a filmmaker who has all sorts of equipment to analyze voices/sound. He says it’s definitely a man saying yes. So, this is probably the first time anyone has heard Jesus’s voice in over 2000 years. Wow. And he has researched Jesus’s life (I suppose…
