Welcome to MentisCopia, abundance of the mind
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"Starfield" (in the milky way or some other galaxy as seen through a powerful telescope?)
Wrong. Looks can be deceiving. This is actually a photo of Christmas lights on a porch railing seen from inside the house through a window covered with frost.
One of many examples of self-similarity of scale we can find in our incredible universe.
This is a blogsite where the primary author, Carlos F. A. Pinkham, will slowly launch some of the many ideas, interests, insights and experiences he has been blessed with over a lifetime of thinking and living before they slip away into oblivion (like the frost, then the Christmas lights, and eventually, the stars they mimic).
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Ultimately, this website will provide an introduction to who he is and feature his faith, his family, his patented ideas and those that are not patented, his contributions to science, especially the Pinkham-Pearson index, his insights on life, his insights on faith and science, his insights on Christianity, his interest in astrobiology, his thoughts on his hobbies: sea shell collecting, stamp collecting, coin collecting, fossil collecting, mineral collecting, and bird watching, his contributions during his military career, his contributions during his teaching career, his artistic endeavors, and other snippets of his life. Some of these will have broad appeal; some will be interesting only to him. Some will generate much discussion; most will be effective antidotes for insomnia.
Carl (I) hopes and prays that it will not be regarded as a platform for self-aggrandizement, but rather as a vehicle for sharing with the world how an active mind over a lifetime (enhanced by an always-ever-deepening relationship with the Almighty Lord God, Creator of the Universe), can't help but generate interesting and even useful thoughts and encounter wonderful adventures - thoughts and adventures that would often never be shared beyond a narrow group of acquaintances, except for that potential for instant dissemination, the Internet.
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To learn more, click on any of the following topics. Each active link (underlined and in blue) brings you to a page where the topic is explored further. If they are in a larger font, the page is inside MentisCopia. Headings in red provide some of the topics on that page. Some of these pages invite your comment and some pages provide resources for your use and enjoyment. If they are in a smaller font, the page is outside MentisCopia, so you might want to bookmark the page you are on before you leave. Those pages with an inactive link just serve as a page holder for an idea.
If you'd like to discuss anything you see here with Carl, send him and email at pinkhamc@norwich.edu. Opinion posts are not proclamations as much as they are current understanding. Carl enjoys respectful disagreement.
He is available to present any of these entries in a thoughtful and sensitive manner to your church or Bible study group.
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"‘Never bother a Pinkham when he is thinking.’ They [are] on their way to great spaces of light!”
Sinnett, Charles Nelson, Rev, 1908. Richard Pinkham of Old Dover New Hampshire, and His Descendants, East and West, Rumford Printing Company, Concord, NH, 334 pp. p7.
Follow me @pinkhamc
Faith
Mission Trip to Anajali School in Kibera Slum, Kenya, June 28th-July 10th, 2012
Carl's Testimony
How to Create Your Own Testimony
Intervening Years
Recent Testimonies
My Struggle with Self
Follow Up
My Prayer Life
The Evidence for Belief
Introduction - Is Faith Justified?
The Holy Spirit in Our Lives
Concordance vs Accommodation-Will the Twain Ever Meet?
Controversies
Witnessing Tools
Witnessing Realities
A Simple Witnessing Question
Not So Simple, Yet Vital Witnessing Questions
God is Holy
Bell Shaped Curve
The Tree of Life
God is oh, so Clever
The Difference Between Christmas and Easter
Easter 1994
Why we Need the Gift of Faith
How Can God Both Love the Sinner and be Wrathful Toward Him?
What is Sin?
Why We Don't Witness
Quick Shots
If You're an Atheist, Why you should embrace Christianity
Desire to Please God and Eternal Life
Is Jesus our Lord and Savior or our Savior and Lord?
Who Owns You?
Twelve Fundamental Principles of Christianity
The Underlying Precept of Christianity
One of my Favorite Bible Verses and How it Relates to the Twelve Principles
These Principles Rendered as the Message of the Cross
Wisedrop, a Christian fable
Christianity is not for the Weak-Minded
The GOSPEL in 25 Words
The Great Commission
Truth and the Bible
Everything in the Bible is true. Not everything in the Bible is the truth.
Agape
Loving the "Unclean"
Loving the "Unclean," Part 2
Gay Marriage?
God's xxx is so...
God is BOTH Republican and Democrat
God is Not Eternal-God is Eternal
Jesus is My Lord and Savior. So Why Do I Feel Like Something's Missing?
Insights on Faith
Weak Faith
Sufficient Faith
Where Did the Joy Go?
Can a Christian Mimic an Unbeliever?
Response to a Request for Comment
Thoughts on Words in the Shema
Learning the Books of the Bible
The Problem of Theodicy
What is Theodicy?
Choice, Proof of God, Theodicy, and Numbers 35:33
God Allows Persecution of Christians and Jews?
"God saw that the xx was good."
"God's Permissive Will and Theodicy"
The Trouble with the Trinity
Norwich Christian Fellowship
The NCF Story
The Battle
Out there with the Lord
How old were Simeon and Levi when they killed the circumcised Shechemites?
Is God a deistic god?
The Path Ahead and Behind
To Judge or Not to Judge-That is the Question
We are the Church
Faith and Science
Natural Revelation
How the Intricate Simplicity of the Cell and the Heme Molecule Reflect the Trinity and the Gospel
Uses of Different Symbols for a Spiritual Truth
The Three in the Two Protestant Sacraments or Ordinances
Why Would God Use Leaven as a Metaphor for Sin?
How does Cancer Fit into this Example of Natural Revelation?
The Name as a Breath Prayer
A New Way Salt May Metaphorically Serve as an Example of Natural Revelation in the Bible
A Real Stretch?
The Author of the Bible HAS to be the Holy Spirit
The Earth is a sphere that rotates on an axis
The Earth orbits around the Sun
The Earth's axis is tilted to the Earth's orbit around the Sun
The spherical Earth's rotation on its tilted axis and orbit around the Sun produces weather (winds)
The Holy Spirit as a Catalyst
Further Examples of Natural Revelation
Jesus' Crucifixion
A Scientist's Musings on Communion
Each of Us is Really Unique. [and how that relates to abortion]
Why are Our Thoughts Always There?
Are Our Thoughts Our Own?
Are Our Cells Our Own?
The SCUBA divers
Scuba divers
Archaeologists
Faith Aphterisms
Time
The Oxford Round Table and Related Material
How Astrobiology and Faith Came to be Woven together in Carl's Life
Evolution vs Young Earth Arguments
Evolution is not the Enemy; Intelligent Design is not the Solution
Hypothesis, Thesis, Theory, and Beyond
Eight Phenomena Which Recur Often in Cosmological, Chemical and Biological Evolution That Suggest a Creator
Fibonacci Numbers, Proof of God?
Two Kinds of Teleological Thinking - One Wrong; the Other Right
Smithsonian Museum's Hall of Human Origins
Conversations with a Seeker of Comprehension
Conversations with a Brother in Christ and Science
What About Genesis, Chapter One?
Bill Nye and Ken Ham Debate, '14 02 05
I can't claim this, but I wish I could-Wisdom of Richard Rohr
the American Scientific Affiliation, a network of over 1700 Christians in science
ASA Resources Worth Considering
Biologos, inviting the church and the world to see the harmony between science and biblical faith
When God & Science Meet, Surprising Discoveries of Agreement
John 10:1-18
Macht Nichts
How to Engage an Atheist if You Are a Believing Scientist
Science is Wearing Blinders for Miracles
Scientific Believers vs. Atheists
Not mine, but a scholarly URL answering the question, "Is Jesus God?"
Science
The Vermont State Science and Mathematics Fair
The Vermont's ESTEAM Network (VEN), promoting "esteam" for Entrepreneurship, Science, Technology, Engineering, And Math in a TEAM setting unique to Vermont
Memorization in the Internet Age
Science Humor
Career
The Short Version of Carl's Military, Academic, and Faith Careers
Carl's Military Career
Respect for the United States Flag Rendered by Veterans
Military Retirement
Carl's Academic and Teaching Career
The Four R's of Remembering
Dimensional Analysis
Repetition Versus Rehearsal
Vermont Science Teachers' Network [this is no longer a valid link--unfortunate since it was a valuable organization.]
BI 360, Pathophysiology
BI 215 and 216, Human Anatomy and Physiology
How Hearing Works
Course Mnemonics
BI 275 Environmental Biology
Carl's Testimony at the Vermont Yankee Public Service Board Hearing
Aldo Leopold's, "A Sand County Almanac" and Global Sustainability
Creation Care
Letter to My Representatives re Vermont's Bottle Law
PE 101 Community and Public Health
Feeling Good and Healing Good Go Together
The Pinkham-Pearson Index
TerraCopia and the Wallo'Water Plant Protector
Flash cards
Family, Hobbies, Home, and Country
Family
Family Anecdotes
Pinkham Genealogy
Solar Panels on our Roof
Old Mill Hill Loop Neighborhood
Bird watching
Mistaken Identity
Vermont Sparrow Key;
Christmas Bird Count, Northfield West, 2011
Carl's North American life list north of Mexico et al.
Opportunistic Birding in Kenya (and additional locales)
Birding in Sweden (18 04 19-22)
Gardening
Photography
Art
Poetry
Entertainment
Scuba Diving
Lessons Learned While Diving on Aruba
Profundities and Door Sayings
General Aphterisms
Hold it!
Proper writing
Coding Practice
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