Category: everything else

  • On “Is Genesis History?”

    On “Is Genesis History?”

    Is Genesis History? is a 2017 feature film which interviews various believing, literalist, Christian PhDs about how they reconcile their belief in a young earth with their scientific training. And by “young earth” they mean literally 6000 or so years old. Given the fact (in my worldview anyhow) that the planet is vastly older than…

  • City water caused my acid reflux; filtering eliminates it

    City water caused my acid reflux; filtering eliminates it

    For over a decade I’ve had on-and-off heartburn. But mostly it was no big deal—just one of those discontents of modernity—until a few years ago, when out of nowhere I started to have acid reflux. Not just any acid reflux—it was nasty. I’d wake up with pains shooting through my entire body. Or not be…

  • Harris and class

    First I’ll mention race: Harris’s ancestry is so mixed that in a sense it’s an error to assign her to any one of the traditional (and arbitrary) racial categories. She truly is a product of globalization of the gene pool, and is a taste of the inevitable future when Americans broadly have ancestors from all…