21 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
Benjamin Franklin Discovers Electricity
As every circumstance relating to so capital a discovery as this (the greatest, perhaps, that has been made in the whole compass of philosophy, since the time of Sir Isaac Newton) cannot but give pleasure to all my readers, I shall endeavour to gratify them with the communication of a few particulars which I have from the best authority. The Doctor [Benjamin Franklin], after having published his method of verifying his hypothesis concerning the sameness of electricity with the matter lightnin...An account of his kite experiment.
16 SEP 2011 by ideonexus
The Watch Implies a Watchmaker
When we come to inspect the watch, we perceive . . . that its several
parts are framed and put together for a purpose, e.g. that they are
so formed and adjusted as to produce motion, and that motion so
regulated as to point out the hour of the day; that, if the different parts
had been differently shaped from what they are, if a different size from
what they are, or placed after any other manner, or in any other order
than that in which they are placed, either no motion at all would have
been...The original quote that inspired the argument still in use by creationists today.