Opinions & Viewpoints

February 26, 2025                               From the Southwest Ledger   By James Finck, Ph. D.   This may be the most difficult column I have ever written. When it comes to the Department of Government Efficiency, I really have no idea what’s going on. How is that for an opener? What makes me feel better…

February 19, 2025                               From the Southwest Ledger Amongst the many perceived controversies of Donald Trump’s second term as U.S. president are some of his choices for cabinet secretaries. Of the 15 secretary positions, so far 11 have been confirmed by the Senate including controversial nominees like Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense and…

Is God Dead? The Bible skeptic Michael, whom we have been engaged with for many weeks, asks a very important question: “Isn’t all religion just a mind game?” After all, the German philosopher Karl Marx famously said, “Religion is the opium of the people. It is the sign of the oppressed creature, the heart of…

February 12, 2025                               From the Southwest Ledger   December 2024 and January 2025 may possibly go down in history as one of the most politically significant moments in recent history. In December then-President Joe Biden broke a record by issuing pardons or commuted sentences of more than 1,500 people. Several of his pardons…

  Evolution cannot explain biological complexitywithout violating some fundamental laws of nature, specifically, The Second Law of Thermodynamics. If you recall, we mentioned The Second Law of Thermodynamics a few weeks ago to help us establish that the stars have a limited fuel supply and that, eventually, all the stars will run out of fuel,…

February 5, 2025                                 From the Southwest Ledger   By James Finck, Ph. D.   As our Founding Fathers were discussing the creation of the Senate, or upper house in Congress, they had to consider qualifications for members to hold such important positions. What they determined constitutes Article I, Section III, Clause III, of…

Is God Dead?  Darwinian evolution says that complex systems arise through numerous successive, slight modifications over many generations that are beneficial for the survival of the species. However, we have shown that bacterial flagellum is a highly complex system that could not have been the product of numerous slight modifications over a long period of time…

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January 29, 2025                                 From the Southwest Ledger   By James Finck, Ph. D.   I have spent more class time discussing the barrage of executive orders and pardons from both the outgoing and incoming presidents this week. As a federal judge has blocked President Trump’s executive order to change birthright citizenship, that topic…