Though I want to refrain from politics, I’m afraid that some background information on political history is required here. Turkey is meanwhile also called Turkiye (what WordPress still doesn’t know) if referring to the country. It is a still quite big country and the second-most powerful in the NATO. The incumbent Turkish president Recep Tayyip […]

I learnt the following story during the course of learning Portuguese. Some years later, I learnt that the story is quite famous despite I hadn’t known it beforehand. So perhaps this story still is new to the one or other reader, who would prefer to be in the know. Firefighters due to a flood evacuate […]

The universe definitely is more than thirteen-billion years old. But could Creationists not at least be right with the Earth being only few thousands of years old? When the extinct species lived is known from stratigraphy. But indeed neither the sediment layers nor the fossils in it are telling how old they are. The only […]

A “prophet” told me that God would make me very rich. This “prophet” was respected as such in his religious community, but I for communication with God trust much more in something else. In astrology! Who knows something about astrology and wants to know something about wealth, will simply have a look at the second […]

Creationists have big difficulties in believing that the universe already is billions of years old. But this isn’t an issue of tenet versus tenet. This instead is an issue of whether or not understanding some simple math. The American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble, who lived from 1889 until 1953, discovered that the red-shift of stars […]

Steven Franz teaches: “You can’t disarm someone with a gun pointed at you as long as you stand right in front of it!” This is absolutely true despite him also claiming to already have defeated people, who wanted to shoot him. The gunman is superior because of the gun’s reach. A pistol is at best […]

In the next episode of the same show, Creationists again let real scientists talk and presented scientific fun facts about the Archaeopteryx. The fun facts were interesting and recalling the important facts, which the Creationists of course skipped yet I as a real scientist knew, was interesting too. The Archaeopteryx had a bony tail like […]

On December, 6th in each year is the USA’s National Microwave Day because the American engineer Percy LeBaron Spencer, who lived from 1894 until 1970 and worked for Raytheon, on December, 6th in 1945 noticed that the radiation of a radar system molt a chocolate bar in his pocket and thus invented the microwave oven. […]

The Parable of the Talents has a Catholic interpretation, which I prefer. The talents should not be mistaken for a currency, but represent spiritual gifts. So the rules of economics don’t apply! What is spiritual becomes more by sharing instead of less by giving away! Would the talents represent material currencies, then multiplying them would […]

On December, 5th in each year since 2002 is the World Soil Day and since 2003 is the International Day of the Ninja. The latter was invented by the Ninja Burger fast food delivery service, but is also celebrated by fans of the Japanese shadow warriors. Yet there is another meaning of NINJA. This word […]