Note from Bob (May 18, 2017): My brother Rich was kind enough to salvage the information on this site after an earlier website appeared to have been hacked, and disabled. Thank-you Rich! Had he not done that, none of the information on this site would be publicly available. Years after I should have done so,…
Written between August 5 and October 2, 2006 Read the entire document in PDF format: Complex Adaptive Systems Essay v2 Table of Contents Complexity Theory for Dummies (Like Me) 2 Introduction 2 Complexity Theory in Context 2 What is an SOS or CAS? 4 The Universal Diagram 5 How Patterns Form in Complex Systems 7…
Review of Michael Ruse’s “Mysteries of Mysteries – Is Evolution a Social Construction?” bob mccue July 26, 2005 A friend asked some time ago that I write a review of Michael Ruse’s (“Michael”) book “Mysteries of Mysteries – Is Evolution a Social Construction?” (“Mystery”) and post it to a science list on which we both…
I watched Lyndon’s you tube presentation to the Red Mountain Community Church near Phoenix, and thoroughly enjoyed it. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECjddl…. He is an eloquent spokesman for the post-Mormon movement. His personal style is folksy, and pleasant. He is the kind of guy that most people would probably love to spend an evening chatting with. I certainly…
Introduction The word “truth” is among the most diversely used, and abused, in our vocabulary. This essay’s purpose is to explore three ways in which that word is commonly used, the reasons for confusion between them, and how disciplining ourselves to distinguish between these kinds of perceived truth and thinking in terms of what can…
As often happens these days, I had a fine experience a few nights ago as a result of tagging along with one of my children. My 17-year-old son brought a movie home — “The Namesake” — at the suggestion of his girlfriend’s mother. I decided to sit down and watch it with him. Time well…