Warning: A Serious Blog Post Occurs Somewhere Below Some controversy recently erupted in the Twitter-sphere when a number of us including Dave Dixon and Dallas Hartwig were recently discussing Denise Minger’s angular hypothesis of atherosclerosis, in which she proposed that increased concentrations of serum bananas and increased concentrations of other plasma constituents with pointy ends or sharp edges penetrate the …
Philosophy
Against Dietary Dogmatism
According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word dogma comes from the Greek dogmatos, literally meaning “that which one thinks is true.” This dictionary further states that it derives from dokein, meaning “to seem good” or “to think,” a root which also gave rise to the English word decent. Basil the Great, a fourth-century bishop …
The Pursuit of Happiness Does Not Require Feet (A Brief Thought About Life)
Those of us living in the United States have enshrined in our founding documents the inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness, a concept that has older roots in European philosophers such as John Locke. These documents, of course, provide not the slightest bit of instruction about how to embark upon this pursuit, wisely leaving …
Addiction to Noise and Stimulation (A Brief Thought About Life)
Stephan provides some interesting insights about the ability for overstimulating food to dull our senses and contribute to addiction, in which he expands the concept to stimulation from other sources such as drugs and video games, and notes the powerful effect that meditation can have in reversing these effects: Simple Food: Thoughts on Practicality I …
Understanding Weston Price on Primitive Wisdom — Ancient Doesn’t Cut It
New post over at Mother Nature Obeyed: Understanding Weston Price on Primitive Wisdom — Ancient Doesn’t Cut It Enjoy!
Can Christians Be Paleo? Christianity, Faith, Evidence, Dobzhansky, Evolution, and More
Jimmy Moore recently raised the question, “Can a Christian Follow A Paleo Low-Carb Diet?” He raised the question because he has received emails from people who find it difficult to answer why God created grains if they are bad for us, why God put Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden eating a vegetarian diet if we are not …
Reductionism and Holism Go Hand in Hand
In a new blog over at WestonAPrice.Org, I argue that reductionism and holism are not at conflict with each other unless they are used improperly, and that for science and any other type of problem-solving we must use both of them together. I also provide a critical analysis of a recent study that used a …
The Importance of Humility in Science — A Philosophical Musing For the Weekend
Socrates once said, “All I know is that I know nothing.” Centuries later, St. Paul, the great expounder of Christian theology, ethics, and mysticism, said that “any man who says he knows something does not yet know as he ought.” A very wise faculty member and department head of a science program I once spoke …