About this blog
November 2, 2006 by markii
About my blog:
“darwinian remiix” just sounded kinda cool at the time i chose it. it does fit me, though. like a familiar song, now remixed, my life has also been remixed in many ways. but still carries the same melody.
‘nother thing: did you notice how terrible i write (see above…and the content of this blog for examples)? well with this bloggy blog of mine, i will actually strive to write gramatically incorrect, unfunny and downright boring at (most) times.
reason being that my audience and priorities for this blog run in this order:
1. to my family and prosperity, that they might be able to follow a trail of studies and journal entries (starting with One Dude’s Mormon Studies) down my path towards disbelief and skepticism. my reasons for this are for empathy for me and others of all types, and for educational purposes.
2. for my own gain. it’s my journal. also, i archive topics like “evolution” and “atheism” and when i need quick access to “the archives of my online studies”, *click, there they are.
3. my third purpose for keeping this online journal and canon of studies is for the online audience that find this through google or somewhere else. ocasionally i find friends through online discussions and my blog and it’s great to be able to converse with them.
so since that is the order of my priorities, i do not want to focus on the quality of my posts. sometimes it takes me an hour just to do a simple news item with links and pretty pictures and i don’t even end up putting my own thoughts on the subject because of time restraints. also, if i try to make my posts funny like a lot of bloggers out there are able to do, it simply takes up too much time of my brain’s CPU and i end up not even being able to get a “journal entry” post done at all.
so to sum up: i do this for me, my family, for archiving purposes and the friends i meet along the way. high-quality blogs on the topics that i blog about are readily and widely available elsewhere. i don’t want to “not write” because something takes an hour to write. i’d rather have a crappy-ass blog with more of me.
Okay, About Mark:
My name is Mark, I am 27 and work in sales. I was raised LDS (Mormon), served a two-year mission and am now figuring things out for the first time spiritually and intellectually as I piece together my ever-changing world view. I am interested in science and technology and most recently I have enjoyed stumbling upon the skeptic community and learning all they have to offer. If you know of any books or podcasts that might interest me- please let me know! The books I have at home can be found here. The podcasts I recommend to listen to can be found here and here. Thanks!
My Blog on Mormonism, Religion and Spirituality.
Nice blog. We seem to share many interests. LibraryThing, science, scepticism etc. Particularly liked the 6 big mistakes book review. In fact I pinched some bits for my blog.
Keep up the good work.
Best Regards,
Mark
Great blog.
Care to exchange blogroll links?
We’re apostates of Islam: mostly agnostics and some atheists:
http://towelianism.wordpress.com/introduction/
http://towelianism.wordpress.com/manifesto/
Hey Mark,
I thought I’d recommend A demon haunted world by Carl Sagan if you havent read it. It is a great book and its the one I tell everyone to read if they want to understand why I walked away from faith.
Enjoying your blog posts still.
Keep it up.
Gus.
Thanks, Gus! I’m actually reading Sagan’s book right now! It’s excellent! I wanna recommend Thomas Kida’s book as well as a great book on skeptical thinking. Thanks for the suggestion!
thanks mark for your comment — your blog’s on my feeder too — we need to be fed!!
Perhaps Mormonism is incorrect, but why not truly look into the true claims of Christ as in the Bible?
Justin - Lets just say that carbon dating, and all physics is wrong. Still, we have tree rings of living trees, the bristle cone pine for one, that has rings going back 4500 plus years. Other trees have been dated at 10,000 years plus. We therefore know by physical concomplicated proof that the earth is not 6000 years old.
Secondly, just because the religious of the day can’t accept fact over faith doesn’t mean God is full of BEAP. I have had too many experiences to know that someone up there loves me. But i have friends in all walks of life that tell the same stories of faith as i. So I know the facts. There is no world wide flood, no garden of eden, no Adam that ate an apple, although there may have been an Adam that started civilization as we know it, and put on pants for the first time but not in the sense that it is described in the Bible, at least if you take it literally, which i don’t.
From a practical point of view, you are in the right place at the right time simply because there is a tremendous amount of wisdom coming from Salt Lake. We less disease of all types, less death from most types including car accidents, and less birth defects than any group in the US except 7th day adventists. And to BYU’s credit, the science deptment is completely independent of the religion department. I have a graduate of BYU in my ward who is a science teacher and we both have a lot of fun trying to fit everything together.
So take heart. If you don’t want God to die, he won’t.
Tim, you said “we have tree rings of living trees, the bristle cone pine for one, that has rings going back 4500 plus years. Other trees have been dated at 10,000 years plus. We therefore know by physical concomplicated proof”
That is not true. See http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/docs/tree_ring.asp