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Mark Morgan By: Mark Morgan on 12/10/2003; 11:38 AM (E-mail Mark) AIM: MisterMarkM (Dispatches from the Dreamzone: Mark's (mostly) daily thoughts.) In my other life, I get paid to live at my house. No, really. I'm the live-in assistant at a home serving disabled adults. It's a minimal supervision program, so I've got plenty of time to maintain the 'zine and keep the Puppet Ruling Council in line. My future plans include going back to college to be a special ed teacher, moving, and getting the nanobots to cook dinner once in a while. It's time they pulled their weight around here, darnit. I also have dreams of being a world-class science fiction writer. For the beta test of that I'm seeing just how fast magazine editors can send manuscripts back. Zing! And they ricochet back at FTL speeds. So here's one solution: post them myself! Well, my essays; I'm still bouncing the fiction around, and around, and around.... Have fun on this website. Here are my personal writings: Jousting With the Dark Knight of Creationism Certainly this interview with Tom Willis is the most disturbing thing I've read this year. How can this man claim to be trained in logic and then say the things he does? I'm not afraid The Morgan Dilemna I've been thinking a lot recently about faith. I've written those thoughts up for you, in convenient hypertext-friendly pieces. Lots of questions, few answers. To be expanded in the future as more ideas come my way. Should We Trust Science? Marilyn Vos Savant, you're not Martin Gardner. So cut it out. For those of you who don't know who Martin Gardner is, he was the long-running writer of the "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American. He is also the skeptic's skeptic. The Subversive Nature of Scientific Inquiry Sure, there are probably any number of scientists who research what they're told, follow organizational procedures, and function as drones. But here's my current sig file: The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny....' -- Isaac Asimov. Science finds the unexpected--and the unwanted. Science is the tool of the radical. Star Trek Must Die Now, just stop right now all you Trekkies, Trekkers, and Seven of Nine love slaves writing to condemn me to the Klingon Hell. I watch just as much damn Trek as the rest of you. I even waste my time puzzling over life-changing topics like "Why is Harry still an Ensign?" But it's time to kill the show. To save it.
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