Happy New Year!
It’s 2010, a new decade, “The Year We Make Contact”, whatever. I feel a sort of melancholy hopefulness mixed with dread. 2009 was the worst year of my life, yet in the midst of it all, some pretty cool things happened along the way. So what do I want for 2010, well, I think the Goo Goo Dolls said it well a couple of years ago:
My New Year’s Resolution is to update this blog more often, let’s hope it lasts longer than all the diets.
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January 9th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
I bet you feel dread. Oh no, stem cell research might happen and diseases might get cured and women might go to college and get degrees instead of crapping out kids and cooking men dinner. Oh no, global warming won’t be dismissed as a myth. For someone who majored in physics, you seem to have it in for science. How does that work? How does a religious freak spend his college career studying something that contadicts his whole world view?
January 9th, 2010 at 5:47 pm
Oh where to begin? Well, let’s start with stem cells. First, no cures or treatments have been successfully derived from embryonic stem cells, that’s right none, zero, not even one. On the other hand, dozens of cures are in clinical trials which have been derived from adult stem cells. I support, even champion this research. Now, the “argument” for embryonic stem cells (if you can call it that), is that they are pluripotent, and pluripotent stem cells are capable of becoming any sort of cell, and this might lead to cures someday. Were it not for the inescapable ethical problems, this might make some sense. However this is a non-issue, because researchers have discovered ways to create pluirpotent stem cells from adult skin cells, and I support this research also. Now as for global warming, well let’s just be honest and admit that all this is a red herring. I guess I’m going to have to address this at length. As for physics, nothing I studied in any way contradicts my worldview, and quite frankly, I think that the scientific evidence comes out strongly in favor of the existence of an Intelligent Designer, I’ll have to address this at length too, I suppose. Oh, and I guess I should take you to task for the “religious freak” comment, I don’t really know what that means, but I studied physics, and earned my degree in it, just like everyone else who has a degree in physics (which I’m guessing you probably don’t), and no, I did not graduate from a “religious school”, and as far as I know, most of my professors were not Christians (though some of them were “religious”), and a couple of them were Muslims, and the rest, I don’t know, I never asked, it didn’t seem to matter too much. I’m sure that all of them knew about my faith, and I had a very good relation ship with the entire department. I love reminiscing.