“You Presume Everything, Professor”
The history of science is one of my primary interests. What constitutes science, how scientific opinion and data has changed or appeared, and what sort of influence the whole field of science has on culture, as well as vice versa. Despite all its glory, science is,...
Ring Around the Origins, a Pocket Full of Folly…
...Asteroids, asteroids, we all fall down. "Evolution is so 'out there' that it's on its way out," a friend told me. She had many reasons to conclude that it is irrational of some scientists to proclaim that macroevolution is fact. But I'm unable to agree that it is...
It’s Official: An Asteroid Wiped Out the Scientists 150 Years Ago
After all, when in doubt, blame an asteroid. No other disaster will do. When I was a child I once acquired a mainstream "educational" coloring book about dinosaurs. The last page in the book featured two parrots with the caption, "This is what dinosaurs look like...
A “Kernel of Historicity” vs. the Faith of a Mustard Seed
I'm not sure why that title came to my mind. I suppose it's just another one of my tributes to the downright stiff-necked mankind's attempts at knowledge continuing to pale in contrast to the Bible. Not everybody realizes that faith can be reasonable and sometimes...
“I’m Going To Be Betrothed!”
When will you get married? Somebody needs to answer the question for the romantically absorbed singles! “I’m going to be betrothed,” I said in one way or another, with complete confidence overshadowing my ten year old social consciousness. Rachel, who was three years...
The Tea Party: An Independent 3rd Party In The Works?
Some readers of Sincerely Amanda might remember the satirical literary lashing I gave to third-party candidates, their supporters and any who refused to vote in the 2008 Presidential Election. Well, I called it like I saw it regarding any who turned their noses up at...
A True Story Is A True Story
Pam & Tim Tebow (AP Photo) So let'em tell it! Liberal women's groups et al are offended at the prospects of a Super Bowl ad featuring Tim Tebow and his mother, Pam. The reason? Because it is "likely to convey an anti-abortion message." In our ultra-sterile...
Two Decades Down…
Yesterday I turned twenty. Well, I can now say that the first decade of my life was spent spread across the globe, and the second decade of my life was spent in Alabama. The next decade is yet to be told. I had a great birthday. My twelve-year old sister Abigail...
The Bible Was Written Before It Was Quoted? No Kidding!
3000-2000 B.C. - Job exclaims how badly he wants his words written in a book - with an iron stylus and lead, to be specific (Job19:23). 1600-1400 B.C. - The Book of the Wars of the LORD is referenced (Numbers 21:14). 1525-1405 B.C. - Moses writes in a book as a...
Jesus Christ, The Narrow-Minded Bigot?
It's a commonplace scenario that was repeated recently: Christian invites unbeliever to salvation. Unbelieving onlookers wag their heads and proceed to enact the contemporary equivalent of stoning or the lion's den, whichever stamps the notion out quickest. "Wow,...
New Do
I've recently worked on a few life make-overs. My hairstyle, for one (with the help of my wonderful Grandmomma) and my websites, for another. In order to streamline my literary work, I have branched off Luke Historians and Not Just An Opinion from Sincerely Amanda...
The Star of Bethlehem
We could spend our entire lifetimes drinking in the evidence for the creative GOD of the Bible within the finite basin of our universe and still never find it dry - the fingerprint of an infinite Designer, no doubt! Are you not impressed by the design of the giraffe,...
