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Those who were interested in my earlier post about NOMA are invited to read the modified version of atheist The last sentence of this short essay is: “Unresolved conflicts in debates about God usually result from absence of agreements on what the word God stands for." Ludwik

TWO KINDS OF MORALITIES, MARXIST VERSUS THEOLOGICAL I am reading interesting comments about communist morality, in a book devoted to Judaism, published in 1975. The authors are two rabbis, D. Prager and J. Telushkin. A Christian theologian would probably make similar observations. Marxists and...

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The following advice is from a prayer book: "Pray as if everything depended upon God, act as if everything depended on you." I think that this is consistent with the idea of NOMA, formulated by the biologist Stephen Gould. We exist in the material world; God exists in the spiritual world...

The fight for free religion in America This PBS video, broadcasted on 12/18/2012, is worth watching and thinking about. Video: First Freedom: The Fight for Religious Liberty | Watch First Freedom Online | PBS Video It is full of topics worth debating, either here or elsewhere. Please share...

Electing the US president; how to To simplify the matter, assume there are only 7 states State A counts as 5 votes (based on population of that state) Majority voted for X State B counts as 4 votes ( based on ...). Majority in that state voted for Y State C counts as 9 votes (based on...

Some of you might be interested in my very short article about causality. causality Please share this link with other potential readers. Thank you in advance, Ludwik Kowalski (see Wikipedia)*

My article about futile confrontations between theists and atheists*appeared in the April 2012 Issue of*American Atheist Magazine. The link is: atheist Please share this link with other potential readers. Thank you in advance, Ludwik Kowalski (see Wikipedia)*

A Digital Voice Recorder Digital voice recorders are much better than old tape recorders. About a week ago I finally bought one, for $50. It was Sony ICD PX-312. Frustrated by learning from the little booklet (which came with the device) I decided to write my own very short introduction. It has...

Nuclear Cold Fusion: 23 Years Later Some of you are probably not too young to remember what happened nearly 23 years ago, on March 23, 1989. It was a dramatic announcement of the discovery of the so called Cold Fusion. Some people think that this was the greatest fiasco of the last century...

Mission Control for Mac users A number of pages one can open on a computer screen--for example while browsing, or while writing a book (where each section might be in a different doc file)--can be very large. But working on a desktop overpopulated with windows is likely to be very inconvenient...

A mini-tutorial for some MAC users ................... I just wrote a free online mini-tutorial for those who want to quickly learn how to use Keynote, a MAC application for creation of slide shows. The link to this short guide is: keynote Feel free to share it with others. Ludwik Kowalski...

Radiation:Fukushima reactors update The accident phase was enden in Fukushima, as described at: Japan's Fukushima reactors finally contained But the process of “decommisioning reactors” is expected to take 40 years. Ludwik Kowalski .

Updating my mini-guide for Kindle users My free online mini-tutorial for Kindle users--“Kindle 3 How To: Notes to share”--has been updated. The added Note 11, for a potential writer of a Kindle book, describes how to create an active table of contents. Writing it was a real pedagogical...

Scientific methodology of validation of claims Some of you might be interested in an article (about a new invention) I have posted. The link is: Rossi's invention: unlimited, safe and inexpensive energy or wishful thinking? Reporting from Fort Lee, New Jersey It is an entry for a writing...