Making God In Our Image
I have to chalk this one up to, “As if we didn’t already know that.” But it helps to have a little scientific research to validate the idea. Ryan Sager offers up a neat little experiment from a guy named Nicholas Epley at the University of Chicago. Ryan describes the experiment below. Epley asked different groups of volunteers to rate …
The Evolution Of Theory
This is an interesting video for all the wrong reasons. It’s a response of a group of people (Campus Crusade for Christ, Alliance Defense Fund, and Answers In Genesis) attempting to defend against the celebration the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species. At 3:00 into the video, Kirk says: “We’re working…to get (50,000) copies of Darwin’s Origin of …
Manufacturing Emotion
Popout [See Embedded Video - It's hilarious] What is our fascination with emotion? In this seven minute prank video, two friends engage in the second part of a prank war. The set up is amazingly elaborate and the payoff was perfect. It elicited exactly the emotional response the prankster was looking for. Watching it seemed to confirm something that I’ve …
The Wisdom Of Crowds
Are you adding your “bit” of value to the Kingdom, or are you letting the expert do it for you? I’m in the process of listening to the audiobook Crowdsourcing by Jeff Howe. It’s one of those rare books that offers a compelling look at a phenomenon as it is happening. Crowdsourcing looks at how ideas are developed through the …
The Goesintas & Goesoutas
I’m not really a science guy but I do love it when I see it show up in nature. Science has a way of making perfect sense, reminding me that it still knows what it is doing. And one that I find more and more intriguing is Newton’s 3rd law of motion. It states, “For every action there is an …
