Intelligent Design Blog goes into Hibernation

Uncommon Descent will no longer have new posts. I will take it off my links.

Oil Drilling in Alaska

This article makes a case for the oil drilling in Alaska. The unfortunate thing about the news is that seldom do they cite sources. The news itself is to be considered trustworthy. But when two news sources make equal claims and do not cite sources who am I to trust?

Relativism in Ancient Greece

Apparently, the Sophists promoted a form a relativism.

This is taken from Western Civilization: The Continuing Experiment by Noble, Strauss, Osheim, Neushel, Cohen, Roberts, and Hecht.
"Protagoras (b. ca. 485 B.C.), perhaps the best-known Sophist, summed up the spirit of the age in his famous dictum 'Man is the measure of all things.' In other words, human beings create the appropriate truth for a given situation--there are no absolute truths. Because they taught respect for success over truth, the Sophists acquired a reputation as word-twisters. Sophist became a term of abuse in Athens and remains so today."

This reminds me of some politicians.

The Sophists were also responsible for Socrates' execution.

This is what some like to think Protagoras looked like:

Elephants

A blog I ran into speaks about elephants and blind men.
Pensees: The Parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant: Does it Work?