Category: Ionian Enchantment

In the Old Testament’s book of Deuteronomy, God lays out a very simple method for determining if someone is a false prophet: Does what they predict come true? Science predicts that if you smoke, you are more likely to get cancer. Science predicts that the Earth will take 365.25 days to revolve around the sun.…

What does all of this add up to? All of these observations of the world around us. All of these hypotheses we draw out of them. The ways we test these hypothesis, through experimentation and disputation. The theories that emerge from the Scientific Process. The Free Market of Ideas. Peer reviews. Egalitarianism. Pluralism. Predicting the…

What is Chaos Theory? Chaos theory deals with the ultimately unpredictable nature of our universe. The Principles of Chaos Theory were discovered by a meteorologist named Edward Lorenze, who was working on the problem of predicting weather patterns in 1960. One day in 1961 he ran a mathematical sequence through a computer that he had…

The Inner Ring Sun Size: 1,300,000 Earths Equatorial Radius: 695,000 km Rotational period (days): 25 (equator) – 36 (poles) Minimum Surface Temperature: – – Maximum Surface Temperature: – – Age (Billions of Years): 4.5 Composition: Hydrogen (92.1%), Helium (7.8%) Description For many, the center of our world is the Earth, but those with perspective know…

What is intelligence? It is a subjective concept, but Psychologist Howard Gardner’s Seven Types of Intelligence, as they apply to children, is a good place to start: Linguistic – Children with this kind of intelligence enjoy writing, reading, telling stories or doing crossword puzzles. Logical-Mathematical – Children with lots of logical intelligence are interested in…

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” – Sir Isaac Newton Closer to Truth A televised talkshow about issues in science. Discover Magazine A monthly popular science periodical. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) From the PNAS Website: “One of…