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Homepage for Lewis LoflinHello, my name is Lewis Loflin. Welcome to my homepage and website. This page will cover the three main parts of this website that are of personal interests to me: science/electronics, theology, and history. This website has been up for 11 years and features about 1500 articles. Broadly this is a skeptic website.I live in Washington County, Virginia between Mendota and Bristol TN/VA. I'm also a part-time adjunct college instructor and volunteer tutor for disadvantaged kids and help adults obtain a GED. Practical Electronics is a growing section of this website dedicated to my vocational students. Electronics and engineering are what I do and if I had to give myself an occupational title it would be technologist. This combines both four-year academics with hands-on vocational skills. My educational philosophy stresses the need for blue-collar workers in industry to have academic skills along with hands-on skills. My wife is disabled and uninsurable, so we are forced onto Virginia Medicaid to keep her alive. We were told by social services to get a divorce, or else stop working and live on government handouts. We did neither. I still hold a full time job, but was forced to take a massive pay cut to maintain eligibility for her medical care I can't possibly afford. We don't "milk" the system nor are we destroyed by it. I'm a 53-year-old veteran of the US Army and we have been married for 25 years. I am best described as a classical liberal. I champion individual liberty, individual rights, private property, equal opportunity, equality under the law, meritocracy, and education. The rule of law over mob rule is the best way to protect individual rights. I'm a political independent. Warning: this website rejects political correctness!
Blogging: this website covered in the Kingsport Times-News This website was featured in a special edition of the Kingsport Times-News. This website and writer have been quoted in the Richmond Times Dispatch, Los Angeles Times, Kingsport Times-News, and Bristol Herald Courier. Mass evictions at Clear Creek Mobile Home Park This involved my effort to expose the mass evictions of 50 low-income families from a local trailer park while Washington County Virginia Government handed out $10 million in corporate welfare to a strip mall developer. This illustrates the often criminal indifference of local government and why government programs never work. A picture of my duty station in West Berlin My interview with Dogma Free America
ScienceScience has been a life-long love and I'm very defensive of it. I reject the abuse of science to bolster various political claims and the invasion of money, religion, and politics. I define science as strictly the description of the physical operation of the universe as defined by my chemistry professor in college, a devout Christian. I've had college level physics, chemistry, and biology, but claim no expertise in these fields. I read every science text in the school library and have been an amateur geologist since I was a kid. I loved collecting fossils and rocks from the coal-mining sites near Norton, Virginia. Strip mines are great for collecting fossils. For more on Norton see Remote Area Medical 2008. I'm very strict on the scientific method and the proper use of it. To quote, "It is a process for making observations, recording data, and analyzing data that can be duplicated by other scientists...If a theory cannot be tested, it cannot be a scientific theory." That makes me a big skeptic of any claim that refuses to follow it. Without verifiable scientific proof I'm not going to buy into it for the same reason I reject literal Six-Day Creationism.
Scientists Excited by Arctic Ocean Ridge Finds This illustrates again just how little we really know about the earth when a series of new volcanoes formed under the Arctic. That is why we must question these things. 20th century not warmest, researchers find Extracts from a University of Delaware study showing climate change as normal and modern claims are mild compared to earlier historical trends. Ever wonder how Greenland got its name? In fact this very process of geological and climate change is what drives biological evolution, an ongoing natural process.
I love science fiction and I'm well aware many of these writers such as Jules Verne and H. G. Wells were ahead of their times, but they also got a lot wrong. Verne for example predicted electric power for submarines because primitive submarines and electrical generation (batteries) existed at that time, but he had no inkling of nuclear fission reactors. This in no manner could be called a prophecy. Same thing with Darwin (1809-1882) who never used fossils or knew anything about modern genetics (Gregor Mendel 1822-1884) or radio-isotopes. In 1896 the French physicist Antoine Becquerel discovered the radioactive properties of uranium. Marie and Pierre Curie explored radioactivity and in 1898 found that it was associated with atoms. They discovered radioactive polonium and radium. Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895 discovered X-rays. Darwin knew none of this. That was how real science works when we have real things that pass the scientific method. Time travel, dark matter, and black holes are still speculation and science fiction. Consensus doesn't cut it without proof. The increasing use of computer models as hi-tech crystal balls that don't reproduce conditions in the real world must be rejected. Virtual science is just another role-playing game. Note once again: "If a theory cannot be tested, it cannot be a scientific theory." These points are vital in understanding science. Evolution debate in schools This is an overview of evolution and the conflict in local public schools. I am an evolutionist and always have been. Literal Six-Day Creationism as espoused by many well-meaning Christians is simply scientific nonsense. The fact is there is no conflict between a belief in God and science. There is a conflict with certain Christian' interpretations of the Jewish Torah or Old Testament. I never had any conflict because I've never been a Christian and that has nothing to do with evolution. Christians create atheists and I'm sick of religious fundamentalists and dogmatic Humanists tearing the system apart to promote their own political agendas. My view is simple in that God has no place in the science classroom because science isn't about God, but the mechanical workings of the universe and that God transcends the universe. A proper understanding of science and its limitations (and it's very limited) can't deny the fact there's a clear order to the universe, not a random jumble of atoms and molecules. The fossil record clearly shows purpose and design. The scientific method has not produced a shred of proof life began by random chance nor does it prove humans are just some cosmic accident in an empty and purposeless galaxy. There are clearly forces beyond mere science at play here and if these dogmatic Humanists are so accepting of "dark matter" then God is just as acceptable, in fact more so. The Evolution Wars Rage On in Bristol VA/TN by Lewis Loflin Thus evolution is the work of God and the method by which God made a habitable world for us to live in. One mentor I had growing up in an Appalachian coal town was a physicist on the development team that designed the atomic power plants (radioisotope thermoelectric generator or RTG) used on the Voyager 1 and 2 deep space probes that went to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. They were launched in the late 1970s. These amazing devices are powered by heat produced by the decay of plutonium-238 (half-life 87.74 years and not the plutonium 239 isotope used in nuclear weapons) and provided about 470 W at 30 volts DC. This is called the Seebeck effect using an array of thermocouples. For more on this see my section on thermocouples. Both probes are still operating today and have left the solar system! He was a devout Christian. There is no conflict between science, reason, and God.
Science Under AttackWhile many picture religious fundamentalists as being the enemy of science, there are secular enemies out there in dogmatic Humanism and pantheistic environmentalism. Both abuse science to achieve often mutual social and political goals. What New Age Religion? This is one of my top-ranked webpages with Google. It explores what I consider irrational nonsense that floods modern American society and a discussion of its origins and impact. It's a syncretism of of secular philosophies and Eastern religion. Environmentalism is closely related to New Age religion in it's pantheistic tendencies. New Age religion acts much like a virus invading and destroying other beliefs from the inside. Just what is the Synchronicity Foundation in Virginia? Here is an example of New Age cult here in Virginia. The Ages of Gaia Exposed My critique of James Lovelock and his book The Ages of Gaia. Highly influential in modern Green theology, it's a look at how pantheistic nonsense invades science. What is paganism? Paganism should be separated clearly from environmentalism and New Age religion. This was written by a pagan, not a irrational New Age mystic. Why Calling Environmentalists "Pagans" is Wrong I have no problem with rational pagans. To quote Frank Furedi Professor of Sociology at University of Kent, "...the authors of children's books and school officials also use environmentalism as a vehicle for socializing youngsters." This is not a function of schools that today produce millions of dysfunctional and illiterate graduates. If the Religious Right did this there would be screaming in the faculty lounge. What happened to separation of church and state? GnosticismGnosticism an Overview by Lewis Loflin. Gnosticism was the New Age religion of ancient times. Predating Christianity, it infiltrated Judaism producing what would become Christianity through the Apostle Paul. Gnostic ideas are highly sought after by modern News Age practitioners. As modern Christian and Jewish institutions continue their decline and import modern New Age garbage, what will they produce?Platonism and Christianity The Fathers of the early church sought to explain the striking resemblance between the doctrines of Plato and those of Christianity...
Freethinkers and AtheistsFreethinker does not mean atheism. Militant atheists hijacked this term when it really meant those liberal theists and Deists that apply reason to religious matters. My view is we need both God and traditional values in combination with humanism and reason. Classical humanism in no manner is anti-God. So-called "secular" and religious humanism are both just atheism today. Atheists are no more evil than Christians, most Christians are not like Pat Robertson.
Getting Beyond Political CorrectnessThis website is aimed at Americans, in particular preserving Western Culture against Marxist' political correctness and to counter irrational American bashing. The information is presented to promote debate and alternatives ideas. These are the questions I ask: Why does the left-wing ACLU team up with the US Chamber of Commerce along with labor unions to advance the interests of illegal aliens over legal American workers? Or we have far-left eco-extremists passing laws banning inexpensive incandescent light bulbs that's signed by a "Christian" conservative Republican president? What happened to Rule of Law and the Constitution? What is wrong when we have "war on terror" and one of the primary promoters of terrorism (Saudi Arabia and its state religion of Wahhabism) is protected, while our troops die fighting Saudis in Iraq? Why do we tolerate a racist' education agenda with No Child Left Behind? Why is anti-white racism acceptable including murder and assault, but flushing a Koran is a "hate crime?" Hate crimes laws need to be revoked. They are not equally enforced being targeted at certain groups and ignored with others. They undermine the ideal of equal treatment under the law when an identical crime for one group is considered worse for another. Who pays for mass illegal immigration? The working poor, mostly black, recent immigrants, and poor whites. They have no representation by anyone. The ruling class is white, uncaring, and out of touch with the typical American black, white, or otherwise. One study says White Families' Wealth Advantage Has Grown, while Paul Craig Roberts discusses costly immigration and who really benefits.
A Look at Radical Islam Reclaiming True LiberalismLiberal as used in America today should be called socialism. It puts the collective good over the individual good, denies property rights, and promotes massive government control. True liberals must renounce and disassociate themselves from closet Marxists, environmental religious fanatics, etc. Any "collective" ideology undermines individual liberty, the true basis of liberalism. Classical Liberalism as practiced by Jefferson, Washington, etc. includes the following:
Why such a rejection of socialism?
David Horowitz gives an excellent discussion of who this "Left" really is. He calls them neo-communist. Horowitz has an excellent definition I agree with: they are determined to intervene, regulate and control your life, or redistribute your income...the term "liberal" should be reserved for those who occupy the center of the political spectrum; those to the left should be referred to as leftists, which is what they are... Many on the Left (however defined) are silent about the murder of 500 Russian civilians, many of them children, but screamed week after week because some terrorist at Abu Ghraib prison that had his feelings hurt. They also cared nothing about the Saudi style beheadings of 12 Nepalese cooks or the car-bomb murder of over 50 Iraqi Muslim children. Quoting Dennis Prager, the left does not care about women, independent judiciaries, minorities, democracy, gays or almost anything else for which it marches...are noble-sounding covers for...the overthrowing of Western, especially Judeo-Christian and capitalist, values...America embodies all that the left dislikes...
The following was printed in the Kingsport Times-News and the Bristol Herald Courier in January 2007. Virginia state representative Virgil Goode was attacked for his refusal to pander to Islam and illegal aliens: Re: Virgil Goode flap, liberals (leftists) again have shown themselves to be hypocrites. Rep. Goode has every right to say what he did. He is correct that we must end illegal immigration and this racist "diversity" (or anything not white) lottery. One of those people (an Egyptian Muslim) shot up a ticket counter at LAX killing several people. In fact all Muslim immigration should be halted because of the massive violence and intolerance within the culture. To quote an example from the Koran (9:29), "Fight those who do not believe in (Islam, Mohammed) from among the people who have been given the Scripture (Christians, Jews) until they pay the tax, willingly or unwillingly." This is an extortion tax to keep Muslims form murdering you or until you convert to Islam. Ask them why under Muslim law it's a death penalty to leave Islam. Why does racism charges not apply to Iman Keith Ellison whom Weekly Standard (10/9) calls "Louis Farrakhan's First Congressman?" He came to Islam and still supports the Nation of Islam, a violent racist, anti-Semitic cult. They refer to black people as "original humans" and white people as sub-human. They advocate the mass murder of Jews (excuse me, Zionists.) Why is anti-white racism ok? What about Ellison's support by the Council of Islamic American Relations? CAIR is a supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah and financed by Saudi Arabia, the primary culprit behind 911. It's time to end this racist double standard among liberals. Any criticism of Islam (a religion by the way, not a race) is loudly attacked. Yet the leftwing racist' agendas of affirmative action (unearned rewards based on race), diversity (anti-white, anti-Christian anything), and multiculturalism (anti-white, anti-Christian, anti-American) is acceptable. End the double standard.
JewsThe Wall Street Journal reports (April 22, 2002) that some colleges are recruiting Jewish students to give them higher status in terms of SAT scores. The Journal also reports that highest three groups in SATs are Unitarians, Jews, and Quakers. I support Israel for the same reasons I support democratic Hindu India over Islamist Pakistan. Nor will I waste my time trying reason with irrational people obsessed with conspiracy theories. Jews don't seek converts, they don't rule the world or me, and I don't consider them or anyone else some special chosen anything. Jewish contributions to society are far out of proportion to their numbers. Their secret to success is the same for Unitarians, mainline Protestants, and Asian immigrants; hard work, education, and thrift. Jews are not a race or even an ethnic group anymore than Catholics are, but a religion. A Jew is one that practices Judaism as defined by at least a belief in one G-d that reveres Moses and Torah. An atheist born of two Jewish parents is an atheist, and one who converts to Christianity is a Christian, not a Jew. Let's not get into these absurd "neo-con" and Freemasonry conspiracy theories used inter-changeably with Jews. There is no known organizations of neo-cons and is often a leftist slur. As far as Freemasonry, many of the founding ideals of America come from them. George Washington and 27 signers of the Constitution were Freemasons.
Support Denmarkby Lewis Loflin Printed the Bristol Herald Courier February 20, 2006 Regarding this Muslim rioting and killing over some cartoons, all freedom loving people must stand with Denmark against Islamic fascism. This is further proof Islam is incompatible with civilized society and we must reconsider Muslim immigration into the West. It's time we start being "offended" by their barbaric behavior. Don't play the race card or political correctness with me. I have no problem with Arab Christians or Indian Hindus, often victims of Muslim violence as well. A play at a Christian Church in Egypt caused "offended" Muslims to riot and destroy seven churches. I believe women have equal rights to men, Islam doesn't. In Pakistan a man murdered his stepdaughter who was accused of adultery, then murdered his other minor three daughters for "family honor." All legal in Muslim society, so where are the Liberals on this one? (AP Dec. 28) When a Muslim woman wanted to marry a Christian man, the so-called Palestinian Muslims murdered her and firebombed the entire Christian community. It's illegal for a Muslim women to marry a non-Muslim, but not vice-versa. Who says they just riot over pictures? Muslims disseminate an endless stream of anti-Semitism and religious hate against Christians, Jews, Hindus, and Buddhists. Where's those yelling political correctness? The Left takes every opportunity to attack America, but makes excuses and blame us for Muslim violence. I don't see Christians or Hindus bombing subways or rioting. Muslims come to the West to enjoy prosperity their own bankrupt culture could never provide, then sit in silence as savages in the name of Islam create havoc everywhere. They want us to apologize for offending them? I posted those cartoons on my website and call on everyone to post them everywhere, including in the Herald Courier, in support of freedom. Freedom of religion, press, and expression are God-given rights, let's stand with Denmark. Muslim Problem in Denmark
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