Dan Rayburn is not impressed by the new deal between Apple and Youtube: Some have predicted that this is now the first real integration of web video and the TV but I beg to differ. Is there any business model behind it? No. Will Apple they sell more Apple TV’s now? No. Does this give… Continue reading

CustomFlix will soon be providing the re-issue of Doctor Janeway’s Plague as a trade paperback available on demand at Amazon. Their system is currently in beta phase, but once all the kinks are worked out, a new edition of the book will be forthcoming, with corrections and some revisions based on the excellent feedback I… Continue reading

Scott Carson is on a roll. For people with a morbid fascination for the moronic, there is a commercial available at the Creation Museum website that features funky 1950s-style art (pretty much right out of the era from which most of these ideas themselves emanate) and melodramatic music. Although the museum’s designers manifest a rather… Continue reading

Over at Evolution News, Michael Egnor is straining–and I mean straining to score a point: Ironically, we owe much of our modern understanding of the universe to pro-intelligent design astronomers. Georges Lemaître was the astrophysicst who pioneered the Big Bang Theory. Fr. Lemaître (above, with Einstein) was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest, honorary prelate, and… Continue reading

Chesterton isn’t for everybody. “All I got from that tome [Orthodoxy] was that Chesterton is enthralled by– even distracted by– the sound of his own words; his tangents are intolerable.” Thus wrote a friend of mine some years back, reminding me of a bad habit–responding to a philosophical question not with an answer, but with… Continue reading