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Mar 28, 2014

My Coffee Mug and Genesis 1

By |2014-03-28T07:43:05-07:00March 28, 2014|Faith, Science, Secondary|2 Comments

This is my work mug.  I've been drinking from it since before my current students were born. There's much you can know about my mug if you study it as a scientist might. One of the tools scientists use is empirical observation. By this method they could determine things like capacity (32 ml), mass, (347.1 [...]

Jan 24, 2014

Fruit or Vegetable?

By |2014-01-24T17:35:30-08:00January 24, 2014|Faith, Science, Secondary|2 Comments

When I was 10, I was a fundamentalist. It was then that I learned in science class that the tomato was a fruit. It's likely that, armed with this new information, I sallied forth to do battle against ignorance—or, rather, against the ignorant. I'd approach my unsuspecting victim and say, "Tomatoes are fruit." Predictably, they'd [...]

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