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The Bottleneck Story We Keep Getting Wrong
The thread that kicked this off had that familiar shape. A sharp claim, some intuition folded into evolution, and then the leap: “Homo sapiens… passed through a genetic bottleneck of fewer than 15,000 individuals.” From there it builds into something… Continue reading
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The God Who Changed and the Problem That Didn’t
I tend to think of the problem of evil less as a philosophical puzzle and more as something that refuses to stay solved. You can smooth it, reshape it, theologize it into something almost elegant, and then a single real-world… Continue reading
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Not Quite Two
I used to think binary was the cleanest idea we had. On or off. True or false. Yes or no. It felt honest in a way other categories didn’t. You get to stop thinking once the switch flips. You don’t… Continue reading
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The Quiet Weight of Nothing
I’ve always had a soft spot for statements that sound wrong at first pass and then refuse to go away. “Absence of evidence is evidence of absence” is one of those. People push back immediately. They’ve been trained to. It… Continue reading
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The Smallest Black Hole You’re Not Supposed to Build
I still remember the moment it landed. Intro astrophysics, back row, me already halfway convinced I had chosen the wrong major. Too much spacetime curvature, not enough molecules behaving predictably. The professor was walking us through gravitational collapse, the usual… Continue reading
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Space Exploration Day: A Northwest Guide to Honoring July 20 (and Avoiding Cosmic Shame)
Anniversary of Apollo 11 landing, 1969 Every July 20, while the Pacific Northwest braces for its annual “summer is here but also maybe wildfire smoke?” season, a quieter ritual unfolds among those of us who grew up staring at star… Continue reading
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A Question from Earth
Ok, a quick post with a question and answer in response to Consciousness Is Not Magic. So first the question from I Am I – Earth on Bluesky: Error-correction, integration, vulnerability is a sharp triad, and the third is the… Continue reading
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Hands Still on the Scale
A follow up to Hands on the Scale I didn’t expect this conversation to take shape the way it did. My original essay “Hands on the Scale” sat in that familiar posture, americano cooling, rain doing its small steady work,… Continue reading
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Credotheism, Moral Realism, and the Quiet Drift of “Objective” Morality
There’s a familiar move that shows up whenever moral arguments start to wobble. Someone insists that morality must be objective; written into the structure of the universe, grounded in God, immune to opinion. The claim lands with confidence, like a… Continue reading
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One Reality, Many Names, and the Problem That Never Leaves
Is Hinduism Monotheistic, or Is That the Wrong Question? I remember the first time I noticed the tension clearly. Not in a temple, not in a theology text, but in a comparative religion class that was trying a little too… Continue reading
