Lecturer | Linguist | language researcher | PhD Candidate in Complex Systems
Since some have asked recently about my thoughts on evolution I will attempt to answer those questions… First, let’s address the elephant in the room: Do I believe in evolution? Absolutely. The fossil record serves as a remarkable testament to
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One of my favorite movie franchises is Jurrasic Park. I love the movies (both Jurrasic Park and Jurrasic World). In the first movie, they introduce how they were able to recreate dinosaur DNA. In the beloved explainer video, Mr. DNA
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Over the last three years, illegal immigration has totaled nearly six million people in the USA. Despite the Biden Administration claiming on multiple occasions that the border is secure, the situation is not, in fact, secure. This week the situation
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Recently I posted about a book I was reading and one of the comments was rather interesting. An acquaintance of mine commented in dissent of the Book of Mormon and said: “You are an intelligent and well-read man. What is
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If you didn’t know already, let me make it abundantly clear, I LOVE the Book of Mormon. I love it for the spiritual guidance it gives me as I study it to understand its purposes. I love it for its
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Recently John Dehlin claimed religion had two “secret ingredients” that keep people tied to religion. These traits, according to Dehlin, are He claimed that healthy secular communities don’t have these traits, making them better. I found this claim very odd
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The quest to reconstruct the past has long been a fundamental aspect of human curiosity and understanding. Historians and archaeologists have traditionally been at the forefront of this pursuit, utilizing various tools and methodologies to decipher the mysteries of bygone
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Many individuals unfamiliar with the intricacies of Mayan linguistics often hold the misconception that Mayan constitutes a singular, cohesive language that was prevalent across Mesoamerica. This assumption, however, does not hold true. In present-day Guatemala, there exist 22 officially recognized
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In Aristotle’s view of epistemology, to know something meant understanding something in preferably four different ways. Aristotle wrote that “we do not have knowledge of a thing until we have grasped its why, that is to say, its cause.” It
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I often pose this question to people that ask me about the constitution and more specifically the Bill of Rights, what is the most important word in that document? The answer…” the.” This determiner, or more specifically, this definite article
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