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"Where many scholars in previous generations simply assumed that Christianity and science have always been in conflict—and not just over evolution—recent scholarship has decisively debunked that view. The main message from today's historians is complexity, not conflict."
Today's Origins News Round-up takes us from some cosmic data on the possible existence of life elsewhere in the universe, to some surprising theories about the origin of life, and some interesting general news and editorial items on science and religion.
In this series, Ryan Pettey offers several clips from his powerful documentary "From the Dust". This feature-length film is divided up into various sections, each of which wrestles with the difficult problems that arise when reconciling Scripture with the theory of evolution. A light of hope dawns on the science-faith conversation, however, as scientists and theologians engage in honest dialogue about tough issues such as the interpretation of Genesis, the nature of the Fall, and the idea of random design. Their profound insights are sure to enlighten all minds, raise deeper questions, and provoke new thought.
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For Darwin, both of these observations (that oceanic islands lacked terrestrial mammals, and that endemic species on islands were most similar to a species on the closest mainland) had the same explanation: his hypothesis that endemic, oceanic species were the modified descendants of a colonizing species from the nearest continent.
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God shows himself not just in the orderliness of nature, but powerfully, joyously and always surprisingly in its beautiful "non-order" as well.
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Spring hasn't sprung yet, but maple trees all over Michigan are getting ready for it – and families can see just how maple syrup is made at a variety of March 2013 events!
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Thought the sappy sweetness ended with Valentine's Day? You thought wrong! The theme continues in March, but instead of chocolate and roses, we're talkin' syrup. That's right, it's maple syrup season and it's being celebrated throughout southeast Michigan with everything from hands-on activities to hayrides. So put on some boots, grab your kiddies and head out to learn all about it. Don't worry about a snack, many programs offer a pancake breakfast or a sweet treat to tame that tummy. Note: Be sure to call ahead, some programs require advance registration.
Maple Sweetness at Wolcott Mill Metropark
Address: Historic Center of Wolcott Mill Metropark, 64100 Kunstman Road, Ray Township
Phone: 586-749-5997
Schedule: 12:30 and 3 p.m., March 2-3
Cost: $5/adults, $3/kids
Enjoy the outdoors as you explore the maple syrup process from beginning to end. Can you spot the right tree and figure out where to tap it? There's more to this process than you think. Register for this event.
Super Sugaring at Indian Springs Metropark
Address: Indian Springs Metropark, 5200 Indian Trail, White Lake
Phone: 248-625-7280
Schedule: 10 a.m. Saturday, March 2 and 9
Cost: $3/person, $15/sap collection starter kit
An advanced "Super Sugaring" class is designed for those who want to process their own maple syrup. After working up an appetite, head over to the Golf Course Starter Building for a pancake and sausage breakfast. Register for this event.
Maple Sugaring Through the Ages at Oakwoods Metropark
Address: Oakwoods Metropark Nature Center, 17845 Savage Road, Belleville
Phone: 734-782-3956
Schedule: 10 a.m. Saturday, March 2 and 9
Cost: $3/person
The sap is flowing and after tapping, collecting and boiling it, the end results are delicious! Check out a hands-on demonstration of sugaring and the tasty treats that are made from the process such as syrup, sugar and candy.
Maple Syrup Time at Lloyd A. Stage Nature Center
Address: Lloyd A. Stage Nature Center, 6685 Coolidge Highway, Troy
Schedule: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturdays, March 2-16
Cost: $7/person
Families can enjoy a tour of the property along with members of the Troy Historic Society and Troy Nature Society to learn how trees are tapped and how to collect sap to be made into syrup. Enjoy mini waffles with syrup after the tour. Register for this event.
Journey to the Sugar Bush at Hudson Mills Metropark
Address: Hudson Mills Metropark, 8801 N. Territorial Road, Dexter
Phone: 734-426-8211
Schedule: 10 and 11 a.m. and noon, March 2-17; 9 a.m.-2 p.m. breakfast
Cost: $3/person; breakfast: $3.50/kids, $5.50/adults
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Sam opened his eyes. The fan above him revolved slowly. He was used to waking up in Bobby's panic room. What was it this time then? Had he been possessed? Had he managed to lose his soul again? Or was he some kind of new monster?
He moved his arms, then legs, slowly. He was quite surprised to realise he hadn't been restrained. Pulling himself up slowly on the cot he looked around the room. Instead of bare walls, the room was crammed with supplies. Bobby's notes were scattered across a table, and next to Sam, on a low box was a glass of water, a scrap of paper… And Dean's gun. And he knew he was alone. Dean and Bobby had left him in the panic room for his own protection, while they went and… Went and… Did what? He didn't know. He couldn't….remember.
He felt stiff. He had no idea how long he'd been out, or why he'd been unconscious. Carefully he stood and stretched, testing himself for wounds. No physical pain? That was a start. He bent down and grabbed the paper. It was Dean's handwriting. An address. Sam grabbed the gun and tucked it down the back of his jeans; he also stuffed the note in his front pocket. Quickly he took a swig of the water to clear his dry mouth. It tasted fresh.
He stepped away from the cot, toward the iron door…
And that's when the wave struck. A wave of pain. Of memories. Of glass under his skin and things crawling behind his eyes. Of burning and ripping and peeling flesh. Of blood and sin and sacrifice. And mostly, singularly, of loss. Of the loss that tears out your heart and leaves behind a chasm of darkness, a pit… Never to be filled.
Sam dropped to his knees and clutched at his head. He thought he might be screaming, but his blood was rushing so fast in his ears he couldn't tell.
Then he heard his name. Sam. A whisper in his consciousness.
He reached out to it. A piece of himself. Of Sam Winchester. Brother, son, friend.
The whisper vanished, the darkness tried to consume him and he screamed again. He could taste blood in his mouth.
Sam. Stronger this time. It called him with purpose.
Sam clung to the call. Shadows moved around his mind. Whispering then screaming. Trying to break his hold. Then the pain came again. Visceral and unending. His body racked and spasmed. But still he held on.
SAM. The voice was shouting now, gaining strength against the internal struggle. It felt like light. And love. And freedom. And hope. And home.
And then the darkness was falling away. The pain was fading as he was pulled back into himself. Sam gasped; drawing in lungful's of air. He thought he had the strength to open his eyes. After the darkness, the dim light in the panic room was almost blinding. He blinked and tried to focus.
He could feel hands, gently cradling his face, fingers pressing lightly on his temples. A light, tender, kind touch. When his eyes adjusted he saw a strange man kneeling before him.
"Hello Sam," said the man softly, "I'm The Doctor."
As the doctor spoke, Sam realised it had been that voice inside his mind. He hadn't heard it. He'd felt it.
Sam sucked in another lungful of air and tried to speak, "What…? Who…?" his mind was still clouded and his body ached now. His muscles screamed at him.
"Shusshhhh now", said The Doctor ducking under Sam's arm and looping it over his shoulders. He helped Sam to his feet and held him there, waiting patiently while he regained his balance and composure.
The Doctor, apparently satisfied that Sam wasn't going to topple over, released his hold and stepped in front of him. They were still inside the panic room, so The Doctor was apparently no demon. No angel either, Sam thought, remembering Bobby's recent addition of enochian wards.
Sam swallowed, and paused briefly, attempting to gather his thoughts before asking again, "Who are you?"
"I told you already. I'm The Doctor."
"The Doctor?" repeated Sam.
The man beamed at him like he was a child speaking his first words. "Indeed! I'm here to help you Sam Winchester."
Sam examined the man in front of him more closely. His age was…. difficult to determine. He appeared young, but when Sam had looked into his eyes he'd seen… something… Something not unakin to the eon old stare of an angel. He was tall, though he couldn't meet Sam eye-to-eye, slim built with wide shoulders, his hair flopped into his eyes, just like Sam's did. And he was dressed in tweed. And a bow tie.
The Doctor apparently noticed Sam's appraisal of him and twiddled with the tie. "Bow ties are cool." He commented with immense self-satisfaction.
"So!" exclaimed The Doctor, causing Sam to jump slightly, "Down to business then," he said rubbing his hands together like an eager child, he began pacing about the panic room.
"You, my dear boy, have just been blasted with the Trumpets of Jericho. Nasty business. Good at knocking down walls, eh?" The Doctor rounded on Sam and tapped at his own forehead. "Angel toys! Very potent, very effective, a little unrefined… but they do get the job done." The Doctor began pacing again as he continued, "Jericho, well now, that was quite the party town. Until all the…shenanigans", he waved his hands around. "Not a lot left afterwards… rather dusty though", he frowned.
Sam winced and clutched at his head again as another wave washed over him. He felt like he was falling. He felt like he would never stop falling. He looked down and he could see fire. And he knew. The fire would burn him but not kill him. And the torment would continue. And he would feel his skin peel and his muscles char and his bones turn to ash, over and over.
"Whoops!" He felt The Doctor grab hold of him and guide him back to the cot. "Just, take a moment," he said as he helped Sam sit down. "They've left you a bit scrambled…" Sam's vision cleared again and he could hear a strange buzzing noise. The Doctor was pointing a little green torch at him, running it up and down his body. He was staring at a display on the side of the device and tutting.
"Dean…" Sam muttered, "I need to get to Dean. He… He's…" Sam knew his brother needed him. He knew he had to find him. To… save him? From what? Sam gasped "Cas!"
"Mmm?" Questioned the doctor. "Oh yes. Castiel. He's being rather reckless at the moment isn't he? Angels!" The Doctor squatted in front of Sam and placed a hand on his knee reassuringly, "Don't worry about Dean. He'll be fine. We have plenty of time…"
Sam interrupted and pushed The Doctor away as he tried to stand, "No, I need to get to Dean… I have to help…" Sam struggled to his feet and launched for the door. He swung the heavy iron to the side and stepped out of the panic room, swaying slightly. His path to the stairs was completely blocked. A large blue police box (?!?) was directly between him and the exit. The path to Dean. He barely had time to wonder how it had gotten there when The Doctor stepped up beside him. Grinning, The Doctor snapped his fingers and one of the doors to the box creaked open. A soft glow emerged, it looked warm and welcoming. There was also a low thrum, like a finely tuned engine idling.
Sam stared down at the man, eyes wide. "What is it? What are you?" A whole host of possibilities ran through Sam's mind… Demon? No. Angel? No. Demi-god? Possibly. Minor deity? Likely.
The Doctor grasped at the lapels of his tweed jacket and stood up straight and proud, "Time Lord." He stated. "And this glorious sexy thing is my TARDIS. Isn't she beautiful?" He beamed at Sam.
Time Lord? Sam had never heard of a Time Lord before. Hadn't encountered the phrase in his father's diary (he'd pretty much memorised the whole thing), nor when hunting with the Campbell's, nor when studying the family archives at the Campbell's storage facility. What was he? Enemy, friend, malevolent, harmless…
The Doctor stepped into the light and held the door open for Sam, "Well? Come along then Winchester. Places to go, people to help, worlds to save…" He stood looking at Sam expectantly.
This man… thing… Time Lord…. was offering to help, and from what Sam had experienced so far, he seemed to be genuine. He'd pulled Sam back into himself, and at the moment Sam wasn't sure exactly how much use he would be to Dean even if he could find him in time. He was desperate. He needed help, and here was this strange man who seemed to know all about him, his brother and Castiel. He looked at The Doctor, standing, smiling in his weird box offering his assistance freely.
Sam stepped forward into the light.


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Gross Muhammad StoryFrom the book Moon-o-theism by Yoel Natan.
Re: Gross Muhammad StoryMy question to Ghaith and Eagle is this; why all the obsession with washing your feet and everything else before praying but it's perfectly acceptable to go into the mosque with sperm all over yourself? OMG Muslims are vile. It's all about sex, isn't it guys? And why are you having sex right before going to the mosque anyway? That's what Muhammad did with Aisha. Had sex then didn't even change his clothes before going to the mosque. Is that what you two do, Ghaith and Eagle? The ablutions are a joke now. What's the point when you're going to go in there with sperm all over your clothes?
Also, how was Muhammad getting sperm all over his clothes? I can't even picture what was happening there, nor do I want to. I don't even have to make up insults about Muhammad. I can just copy/paste Aiasha's own words and Muhammad looks like a disgusting old pervert, mainly cuz he was. This is now my favorite quote about Muhammad, and it's from a source which all Sunni Muslims consider reliable, Muhammad's wife.
Re: Gross Muhammad StoryIt was a badge of honour. Mo was showing that he was still capable of turning little girls into prostitutes by raping them.
Re: Gross Muhammad StoryBless those early Muslims, they recorded everything. It's like having a team of spies all around Muhammad getting lots of dirt on him.
Re: Gross Muhammad StoryThis is to Marduk,
I feel sorry for people like you, who have such a tiny brain and a hardened heart that they cannot see and think beyond mere words. Please do not write personal insults in your posts. M I did not have to read twice this hadith, that you quoted in your blasphemous bunk, to understand it. Hadrat Aisha Siddiqa (RTU = Radi Allahu ta´ala unha) is mentioning here that a garment is deemed clean after when it is washed. It doesn´t matter if it´s still wet from washing. The mention of spots of semen is contextual. Once washed there was no semen on it. Where in the entire hadeeth it is mentioned that there was semen still on his garments? And it is quite possible to have a drop of semen here and there on your garments after having sex. Your second grossly insensitive remark about having sperm all over it, where it is mentioned that Rasool Allah (pbuh) still had the semen on his body? you are fabricating and mixing up things. There are hundreds of ahadeeth about washing the entire body after having sex and cleaning and washing clothes according to Islamic code. Yet you chose to ignore them and thought that you had found a gem by selecting this very simple hadith. You are really screwed up, you take a simple piece of hadith and twisted it into a completely different thing. Again I really feel sorry for your sick behavior. You have nothing better to do. Surah: 27 - An-Naml (THE ANT) [80] Truly thou canst not cause the dead to listen, nor canst thou cause the deaf to hear the call, (especially) when they turn back in retreat. [81] Nor canst thou be a guide to the blind, (to prevent them) from straying: only those wilt thou get to listen who believe in Our Signs, and they will bow in Islam.
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welcome to ffi Mr. ShamsTabrez., I am glad you explained that hadith little more in detail than what an infidel could understand. Please stay around your knowledge of explaining hadith will be very educational to the readers.. with best regards yeezevee
Re: Gross Muhammad StoryOh I'm starting to enjoy this semen issue. where is Marduk now? we need his clarification altho he has said that the hadith itself from Aisha's own word.....
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Good that you used the word issue otherwise you can read the sentence in red and see the meaning for yourself. Look around yourself and you'll find people with virtues are never required to demand respect since they automatically earn it. It is only those that are devoid of any virtues need to threaten and bully to gain respect. Needless to say that quran cannot be from God.
Re: Gross Muhammad StoryA Muslim here said the Hadith in question was not about sperm it was about cleaning and sperm was just incidental. So it is Normal to talk about sperm, sex and wetness when taking about only cleaning?
This is vulgar and time and time again we find this in Islamic books. These guys had Shame. Outside of Islam normal people do not talk like this. 9 year olds cleaning sperm off a 50 year olds garment. Or a child cleaning blood off a battle axe. But it is only talking about cleaning. You probably learned about Islam from one of those anti Islam hate sites. You don't want to know the truth and I'm not going to talk to you anymore.
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Those comments would be more appropriately addressed to your prophet, who was a liar, thief, paedophile, slave trader, adulterer, rapist, and murderer. May allah kiss my ass. The prophet of Islam was nothing more than a common criminal.
Please tell me if this is accurate: "I have fabricated things against God and have imputed to Him words which He has not spoken." ~MUHAMMAD (Al-Tabari 6:111)
Re: Gross Muhammad StoryShamsTabrez:
Please explain to us why we should be muslim. The prophet of Islam was nothing more than a common criminal.
Please tell me if this is accurate: "I have fabricated things against God and have imputed to Him words which He has not spoken." ~MUHAMMAD (Al-Tabari 6:111)
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I just posted the quote. Looked like Muhammad didn't even change his clothes. Did he only have one set of clothes? Why not just use a completely different one? I don't believe that a simple spot cleaning would do a thorough job. Pretty much have to wash the whole garment in a river or zamzam water. More important than this soiled clothing issue is the issue of Muhammad being a heartless killer. Do you deny that he had a poetess killed by hacking, in her own home, by one of his goons? You know it's true and yet you still worship the ground Muhammad walked on. That makes you, sir, a very sick individual in my opinion. Would a normal person love and admire a poetess killer? I think not.
The poetess had a valid point, the Medinan pagans shouldn't have fallen for Muhammad's ruse of pretending to endorse the 3 goddesses of the Kaaba and changing the Qibla to the Kaaba while the statues of the 3 goddesses were still inside. They should have ended the problem right when Muhammad arrived, because history has shown that Muhammad was two-faced and would deny his former words after getting the support of the pagans, blaming the ever handy scapegoat, Satan. You, ShamsTabrez, are probably a very nice person. In which case Islam is beneath you. Why would any person with class choose such a crude and pointless religion. That's what you have to ask yourself. Is it because your family was Muslim and you were brought up that way? Well, your family are only human and can be wrong. Hard to accept but true.
Re: Gross Muhammad StoryDon't forget these gems on Islamic hygiene
. The compantions rub their face and fight over Mohammed's a$$ water. 187 Narrated Abu Juhaifa: Allah's Apostle came to us at noon and water for ablution was brought to him. After he had performed ablution, the remaining water was taken by the people and they started smearing their bodies with it (as a blessed thing). The Prophet offered two Rakat of the Zuhr prayer and then two Rakat of the 'Asr prayer while an 'Anza (spear-headed stick) was there (as a Sutra) in front of him. Abu Musa said: The Prophet asked for a tumbler containing water and washed both his hands and face in it and then threw a mouthful of water in the tumbler and said to both of us (Abu Musa and Bilal), "Drink from the tumbler and pour some of its water on your faces and chests." 188 Narrated Ibn Shihab: Mahmud bin Ar-Rabi' who was the person on whose face the Prophet had ejected a mouthful of water from his family's well while he was a boy, and 'Urwa (on the authority of Al-Miswar and others) who testified each other, said, "Whenever the Prophet , performed ablution, his companions were nearly fighting for the remains of the water." Where do muslim get that they are much cleaner then the rest of us? You probably learned about Islam from one of those anti Islam hate sites. You don't want to know the truth and I'm not going to talk to you anymore.
Re: Gross Muhammad StoryFact is, unless they use alcohol on their body the germs are still there. You can't really get clean just by simple washing. The water itself contains some dirt and remains of dead creatures.
Re: Gross Muhammad StoryI wonder what they make of the drinking water in London? It's probably been through several infidels before it reaches their taps!
Re: Gross Muhammad StoryYou all guys forget very simple fact that in days of our prophet (PUBH) there were no laundromats, washing machines, TIde, clorox, bleach and other detergents in Mecca or Medina. There were no big lakes, rivers or stream there where prophetess Ayesh and others can wash clothes daily. They have to go to some Oasis or fetch some saline water for washing purposes. This was done perhaps every week or every month. Fresh water was pretty precuous commodity in Arabian desert.
Re: Gross Muhammad StoryAnd salt water also rare, to the extent that Mo thought it wouldn't mix with fresh. In fact, he thought it was islamohydrophobic.
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Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 7:44 am
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How eye focus works for pistol shooters
Brand new to the site, so I thought I should introduce myself. My name is Art Neergaard, I never shot competitive pistol, but I am a Service Rifle shooter, so Im not a novice to the concepts of sight alignment.
I'm a mechanical engineer, photographer, I studied optical physics as part of my engineering degree, but never really worked in the field as a profession. Over 50 years old, presbiopic, can't see the front sight anymore, so I looked at the optics of apertures and lenses to figure out what the optics in your eye ought to do, and why they dont anymore. Eventually, I developed a couple of products to help shooters see better, and aim better, and started a small company that I run in the evenings and weekends, ShootingSight LLC, to sell these for Service Rifle use. To be clear: I am not an eye doctor. I know nothing of eye diseases, and I cannot diagnose. But I do know optical physics, and I understand lenses from a mathematical formula perspective, so I can offer insights that sometimes an eye doctor cannot.
Shooting is all about focus and depth of field, because you are trying to juxtapose a nearby object (the front sight) and a far object (the target). People who prefer to memorize quips, rather than actually understanding a subject like to throw out "the eye can only focus at one distance at a time". This comment is at best shallow, and under certain circumstances is downright wrong. Yes, in a theoretical sense, a lens has only one focal length, but when the image sensor (your retina) has a maximum resolution, degrees of blur which are less than your maximum resolution will still be perceived to be perfectly in focus. So, there is a range of distance that you can move an object slightly closer than your focal point, or slightly further than your focal point, where the amount of blur will be invisible. There is an even bigger range of distance where the amount of blur is so small that the image is good enough for your brain to use. This range over which an object appears to be in perfect or nearly perfect focus is called your depth of field. It ranges from some point closer than your focal point, and extends out to some range beyond your focal point.
The optics of shooting are all about:
a) Getting your focal point in the right place, so your depth of field is spread evenly between the front sight and the target, and
b) Getting your depth of field to be as big as possible, so you can see both front sight and target at the same time without your eye having to refocus between them.
In order to get the best vision of both a front sight and target, the first thing you want to do is focus your eye on a point between the front sight and the target, so that while the eye is relaxed, the amount of blur on the front sight (because it is closer than your focal point) is equal to the amount of blur you see on the target (because it is further away than your focal point). When you see the same amount of blur on near objects as on far objects, it means your depth of field is centered between them.
This focal distance which exactly divides your depth of field between the front sight and infinity is known to photographers as the hyperfocal distance of the front sight. You can calculate the distance quite simply because the math works out to be exactly 2x the distance from your eye to the front sight. When I shoot an AR-15, the sight radius is 20 and there are usually 2 between the rear sight and my eye, so eye to FS is 22. That means my hyperfocal distance is 44.
Next question is how do you focus at 44? In the relaxed state, a healthy human eye will focus at infinity. The cilary muscle around the lens can then exert itself to squeeze the lens to make it focus up close. When you are young, and the eye lens is soft, you can focus as close as about 10, so making only a slight shift from infinity back to 44 is a breeze (it is not zero effort, but most young people ignore it).
As you get older (usually around 40), the lens starts to get harder, and the eye muscle can only focus up close with great effort, or else cant focus up close at all. You can still focus at distance fine, but need reading glasses (or longer arms). These people lose the front sight, especially at the end of the day, where they have forced the eye muscle to maximum exertion all day long, and then tried to get the muscle to hold still in that exerted state while they aim. After a few shots, the muscle cant hold, and starts to slip or tremble, and your focus fades. Im sure at my age I can still do a snappy pullup. But he second one will be slow, the 3rd one might not happen. Same thing for forcing your eye to try and focus up close. As a sidenote here, I have seen claims about nutrition or exercise programs to get your eye back in shape. I think they are a scam. Yes, if you exercise a muscle, you might build it up, but even if this were true for the eye, you have at best created a compensation; you have not fixed the underlying problem that the lens in your eye is hard, and does not focus as well.
If the eye muscle cant exert to get your eye to your hyperfocal point for the rifle, the other solution is to add a lens. Positive diopter lenses will shift your focal point closer, so you can see up close without the eye muscle having to make the effort. This is what reading glasses do. Difference is that reading glasses shift your focus way close, to arms length for reading, which is much too close for shooting. To shoot, you need only a mild corrective lens to shift your focus from infinity to the hyperfocal point. To be clear, older shooters might NEED this correction to see, but young shooters can benefit from a lens as well - it will give them the same image they see with their unaided eye, but they will see it while the eye muscle remains relaxed, rather than having to hold the eye muscle still in the flexed state. This is why almost every Olympic shooter wears a lens.
What lens to use? Lens math for this is pretty simple. Lens power (measured in diopters) is simply the inverse of the focal length, in meters. A 2.0 diopter lens in reading glasses will focus at ½ meters. A 3.0 will focus at 1/3 meters, and a 1.5 diopter will focus at 1/1.5 = 0.66 meters.
You can easily work the math backwards if you know the distance you want to focus at, convert it to meters, invert the value, and that is the lens you would want. Using the AR example, if you want to focus at 44, that is 1.12 meters, and would require a +0.9 diopter lens (1/1.12 = 0.9) to shift your eyes relaxed focus from infinity to the hyperfocal point. Since lenses typically come in ¼ diopter increments, you would round this to a +0.75 diopter. (I wont go into why you always want to round down, but you do). Unfortunately, reading glasses from the drugstore usually start at +1.25 diopters, which is much too strong these would give you a really sharp front sight, but the target will be gone in a blur.
If you wear daily glasses for corrective purposes, the good news is that diopters simply add, so if you are farsighted and need a +1.00 sphere to see distance, you would simply take the +1.00 in your prescription and add the +0.75 we worked in the above example, and your ideal shooting lens would be a +1.75. You do have to beware of signs. If you are nearsighted, and need a -1.00 to correct for distance, adding +0.75 to the -1.00 value would net you a -0.25 lens.
Now, there is an addendum to all of this for pistol shooters. In rifle, the rear sight drops out of the equation, and logically you balance focus between the front sight and the target. In pistol, the rear sight does not drop out of the equation, so there is a subtle shift in the logic. In my gut, I think you want to balance your focus between the rear sight and the target, not the front sight and the target. The difference is subtle, but it is not zero, so it is worth figuring out. Im still gathering information on this, and welcome input from shooters.
After you have achieved focus at the hyperfocal distance, the next step is to reduce blur across the whole range of distances, and this is done by reducing your aperture size. The amount of blur you see on an object is linear with aperture diameter. Your eye naturally has an aperture (the pupil) of about 0.125 on a bright day. If you try and aim without a rear aperture (ie using notch sights), you will see considerable blur on the front sight and the target, even if your eye is at the hyperfocal distance. Using a 0.0625 diameter aperture will cut the amount of blur by half.
The dark side of apertures (pun intended) is that the total open area of the aperture limits how much light reaches your eye. As you make the aperture smaller, the image gets dim. In theory, if you used a 0.012 aperture, the focus on the front sight and the target would both be at the resolving limit of the eye, and would be in perfect focus. Unfortunately, most people need about 10x as much light as this to see a good image, so a 0.040 aperture is about as small as most people can tolerate in an AR-15.
In pistol, you have the option to put an aperture on your lens, since you do not form a cheek weld to the rifle stock, and can thus move your head slightly to get proper alignment. These small apertures will do a huge amount of good in crisping up the focus on sights and on the target at the same time.
There is a subnote on apertures, which bears on my products: apertures focus is a particular direction, based on how big they are in that direction. In other words, a horizontal line has its vertical blur limited by how tall the aperture is, while a vertical line can blur side/side based on how wide an aperture is. If you look at a front sight post through a standard round aperture, it will exhibit the same amount of blur on horizontal and vertical edges. However if you keep the total area constant, but make the aperture wider and shorter, so it becomes oval or rectangular, you will improve focus on horizontal lines, and give up focus on vertical lines, even though you have not given up any brightness. For a post shooter, this is a benefit. Windage aiming, and elevation aiming are two different things for your brain. In windage, you are judging the symmetry of the target to the front sight. Centering a target between two sharp vertical edges of the sight, and centering it between two fuzzy edges is the same thing, so focus is not important for windage estimation. Elevation, however, requires determining exactly where the top edge of your sight is, and for this you need sharp focus. Net, a slit shaped opening will bias your focus on the top horizontal edge, giving you improved focus ion elevation, without any sacrifice in windage aiming.
Remembering that most AR shooters find that an 0.040 diameter is as small as they want to go, a rectangular aperture of 0.025 tall x 0.050 wide has the same open area, so the same image brightness as the 0.040 round aperture, however since blur is linear with aperture dimension, dropping the vertical opening from .040 to .025 will reduce blur on the top edge of the post by about 30%.
Bottom line: for pistol shooters, if you do not wear glasses to see far, you would benefit from a +0.50 or +0.75 lens. If you do wear glasses, adding +0.75 to your distance prescription will do the same thing for you.
In the interests of full disclosure, I do sell the products I am discussing here, so apply the appropriate skepticism to my recommendations. But I developed these products in accordance with the laws of physics, I am not trying to spin the laws of physics to justify my products, so you will find many shooters who insist they work.
I do sell safety glasses that have +0.50 or +0.75 lens inserts in them.
I cut custom round lenses for shooters to fit into Knobloch and similar shooting glasses, including prescriptions for astigmatism.
I am working on making self adhesive foil apertures. I have 0.042 and 0.054 apertures. These are in the range of sizes rifle shooters use for outdoor light. Ill give some of these away to any pistol shooter who buys a lens, just to get feedback on if these sizes work for indoor lighting. If you want a set for free, send me a self-addressed stamped envelope by July 1, and Ill send a pair out.
Art Neergaard
ShootingSight LLC
607 Redna Terr., Suite 600
Cincinnati, OH 45215
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First, I would like to start with the proposition that the target is the only thing in sight allignment and the aiming area that does not move. Next is the fact thar any error in front to rear sight allignment is multiplyed by the number of times it is repeated by the distanse to the target. It would seem that simply using a longer sight radius would be advantagious but the apparent increase in movement is difficult to accept and continue the steadily increasing pressure that in so necessary to delivering consistantly good shots. I advise the shooter to not only establish perfect point focus on the front sight and have a short enough sight radius so as to have the rear sight as near to perfect as can be achieved. Without very good vision on both sights you may not be able to have suffecient perfection in allignment to produce the desired results. You should be shooting tens my friends Good Shooting Bill Horton
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I experimented with your idea a bit. Your .040 wide by .025 tall is obviously to large to attach to shooting glasses for pistol because of the distance from the eye. When I tried just scaling it down proportionally it didn't work for me. For the lighting conditions that I have it worked better at about .075 wide by .017 tall. Although in the end I did not see an advantage over a round hole. Of course I didn't put anywhere near the time into it that you have so all I have stated was opinion not fact. Also my lens is made to provide focus at the front sight. I would like to try your idea having the focal point beyond. I think that sounds like a good idea.
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The dimensions of the aperture are not strongly driven by distance from the eye. What affects the 'entrance pupil', which is what actually drives depth of field, is the projection of the aperture from your focal point to the front surface of your cornea. An inch more or less will not matter.
As to trying the idea, do this: get a set of calipers, and hold them in front of your eye, so the gap between the jaws is horizontal. Hold them about eyeglass distance from you, and look through the tips of the blades, where they are ground thin. With your other hand, either hold a pistol, or just hold up a finger. As you roll the wheel to increase/decrease the gap between the blades, you will notice that the blur on the edge of your finger is greater than the blur on the top of your finger. At some point, as you set the jaws too narrow, the image will go dim, so then you can just read out on the calipers what gap that was. This experiment is light sensitive, so if you do it outdoors in bright light, you can tolerate a narrower gap than indoors, but it gives you an idea.
If you want to mock this up, just lay two horizontal strips of electrical tape on your glasses. If you are careful you can eyeball a gap of about 0.025 to 0.030. Add two more vertical strips to create the sides, though frankly, these are not sensitive, just make sure the gap is less than 1/8".
Also note, the effect of the rectangular aperture is real, but it is not huge. To see it, you would need to shoot 10 rounds with a round aperture, then 10 with the rectangular, and actually plot the score. I did this with several shooters on a military team, and plotted the results here:
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Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 2:34 am
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Some interesting theories. Just trying to work out how to create the rectangular aperture to easily fit to my Knoblock glasses.
At present I have my iris aperture almost stopped down completely to prevent the forsight from "blurring" out.
The next really interesting development would be the adjustable rectangular aperture, although I suspect that the physical construction is going to somewhat complex to achieve.
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Interesting, did you perform any t-tests? You mentioned that the significance is open for debate in the conclusion but I can't see any p-values.
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I did mention in the method discussion that I calculated group size based on the probability that 95% of shots would be within that diameter for any one shooter, which is +/-2.81 standard deviations.
However, the percentage improvement used the same method both times, that is unaffected by the confidence interval.
What I do not remember, and I would need to dig out the original data, is that I think I actually calculated x standard deviation, and y standard deviation separately, then calculated varience,and added the two variences to calculate the overall standard deviation, so I went in with the assumption that windage and elevation SD might not be the same, but I did this over 3 years ago, and my memory is not backing me up ....
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I did see the CI calculations and I must say you did a great job with the data. Most people wouldn't take it this far. I just wished there were some p-values as well to back it up.
Do you remember if there actually were any differences between vertical and horizontal SD's? did you perform any calculations based on group center and spread from this? (to see whether results holds up)
Anyway, this is just me being curious, don't answer in case you don't remember (or are not interested). Thanks for the reply!
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I just skimmed the wall of text in the OP, but in pistol the whole point is to have the front sight crisp and the target blurry. This is why many shooters (myself included) have a + diopter on their shooting glasses vs. regular prescription, and most coaches eschew the use of an iris.
Dr. Norman Wong has a series of articles in SSUSA and on starreloaders.com addressing this in much more scientific detail than I can provide.
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I'm not sure why you would eshew apertures - why would you ever NOT accept a free improvement in focus? I will agree that if you only have the relatively small depth of field afforded by your pupil, you will be forced to chose between seeing the front sight, or seeing the target, because the difference in focus between them is just too great. In this case, I would agree that focusing on the front sight makes more sense. However if you can see both clearly at the same time, that has to be better.
The other part of my hypothesis is that there are two places your eye can focus consistently, and it is consistency you need. The first is if you focus on an object like the front sight, the other is if you can leave your eye totally relaxed. So, the concept of trying to focus between the front sight and the target without using a lens will likely not work, because you cannot consistently get your focus to the same spot. But with the right lens and an aperture, you will leave your eye relaxed and see both sight and target clearly together.
Net, a sharp front sight and a blurry target is not the best solution. It is simply the least bad, if you accept that you are shooting with a poor depth of field.
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To begin with, I made an error in my previous post - I looked up a single sided error of 0.25% in the Z table, rather than 2.5% when I calculated in my report. THe correct answer is that for an error range of +/- 2SD, the included data set will cover 95% of observed values, so when you consider that an error can occur on the high or the low side, this means 2.5% will be higher than the range, and 2.5% will be lower than the range. Since the data covers 95%, that means 5% will fall outside the predicted range, so your p value will be 0.05.
As for the calculations, the rectangular aperture did, as predicted, have a greater impact on vertical distribution than horizontal. In general, vertical distribution improved, and horizontal did not suffer.
Below is the data. These are SD in inches for targets fired at 100 yards, so it also represents MOA.
Shooter 1 horizontal SD went from .68 to .52
Shooter 1 vertical SD went from .86 to .65
Shooter 2 horizontal SD went from .57 to .70
Shooter 2 vertical SD went from .65 to .48
Shooter 3 horizontal SD went from .37 to .43
Shooter 3 vertical SD went from .43 to .23
Averages were not calculated, because in all cases the shooters were instructed to not adjust their sights during the string of fire, nor were they given feedback during the fire.
Base size is small. All three reduced vertical dispersion by a consistent 0.2 MOA, which is what I had predicted. Horizontal was less consistent, but on average represented a zero change.
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I'm not sure why you would eshew apertures - why would you ever NOT accept a free improvement in focus? I will agree that if you only have the relatively small depth of field afforded by your pupil, you will be forced to chose between seeing the front sight, or seeing the target, because the difference in focus between them is just too great. In this case, I would agree that focusing on the front sight makes more sense. However if you can see both clearly at the same time, that has to be better.<snip>
The reason an iris is not ideal, is because it cuts down the light entereing the eye. As I'm sure you're aware this is less than ideal and will cause eye strain and lead to sub-optimal performance
Net, a sharp front sight and a blurry target is not the best solution. It is simply the least bad, if you accept that you are shooting with a poor depth of field.
I disagree. Why do you need a sharp target ? You can align the gun (foresight) as easily on a blurry bull as you can a crisp one.
It is also easier to maintain concentration on the most important part of the gun, i.e. the foresight and it's relationship to the rearsight. A sharp bull is an unnecessary distraction.
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Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 11:54 pm
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While as a novice I'm hardly in a position to make extravagant claims from my own shooting experience, I will say that in my first try today with a 0.030" x 0.075" slot in a piece of thin steel was rather interesting. Having ground down a diamond-coated file to be thin enough to smooth the faces of the slot after drilling it with a tiny bit, .030" was as small as I could manage, not quite the suggested 0.025" but close enough I think. Focus on the upper flat of the front sight is almost automatic, though my lens is ground for focus at 10 metres, which is my preference. The verticals of the front sight are showing with this slot about the same as with the round iris, or perhaps a little less clear, but it's close.
Unfortunately I suffered a back spasm a week ago - struggling with my kid's car seat - and am only just beginning to recover from that nonsense, so my shooting isn't quite at the 94% I was doing last week. My groups today went from average 91 scores spread evenly in all directions with a normal iris, to 93 spread horizontally in a line just over the diameter of the 10 ring. This slot gave me the same apparent brightness level I've been seeing with my iris stopped down to where I like it, the white rings in the black of the target still visible.
I've never enjoyed aiming at a blurry target. The results no matter how I set up my sight blade/slot widths just don't seem to get any more accurate beyond a certain point. On a very good eye day (I'm 50, and there are not-so-good days for seeing now and then) I'm able to see vertical alignment quite well. The combination of focusing clearly on the target and being able to see the upper flat of the front sight clearly placed on the centre of that target is very reassuring for me. I don't quite get this oft-repeated mantra that clear focus is the cause of chicken finger. For me lately it seems quite the opposite, that the more clear I'm able to make both target and the front sight at the same time, the more confident I become, and therefore the more easily I am able to pull the trigger. It's when I'm second guessing alignment because the target and/or sight are blurry that I hesitate to the point of holding much too long, then either abort of take a wild shot which usually ends up an 8 or worse. Knowing with certainty that the hold is at the right height is a big part of the battle won.
So thanks ShootingSight, this is an interesting innovation. I'll try it for the rest of the week and see if it sticks.
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This is really interesting but for me in a different sense. I have an astigmatism in my eye so already the focusing ability of my eye is different for horizontal vs. vertical axes. How do you think your rectangular apertures might affect this situation? Is there a way I could try them? Do I need to buy a pair of your glasses or do I just send you an envelope?
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Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 4:29 am
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If you are shooting center of mass, some amount of blur on the target is not critical. However I think rifle shooters have figured out that a 6 oclock hold is better than COM, as long as you can see well enough to see the target and post together clearly. If your vision cannot see the target clearly, then COM is the best way to go. So if this applies to pistol or not is TBD. I know this is a radical departure from what national champions have been preaching for years, so it will take some time before enough people try it to get a good read on if it makes sense. When I started pitching the hyperfocal concept on the rifle forums, I got a lot of resistance from people who had always preached 'focus on the front sight'. Now, after 4 years, there are lots of people right up to the HM level who are using the word hyperfocal.
As to apertures, indoor smallbore shooters all use apertures, so the amount of light coming in to the eye can be reduced without loss of image clarity. Obviously, you do not want the aperture so small that there is a perceived dimming of the image, but there is some range which is smaller than the pupil, and yet still large enough for adequate vision. Eye strain does not come from inadequate light, eye strain comes from an overexertion of the ciliary muscle, which is the muscle used to focus. The reason eye strain is associated with low light is because people who are presbiopic, like me, cannot focus up close, but as long as the light is bright, so our pupils are constricted, we get sufficient depth of field that if I consider my minimum focus distance, and then add my near side depth of field, I can still function. If you then put me in dim light, my pupil dilates, I lose depth of field, and I can no longer see as close, so the ciliary muscle is straining to help me see.
Gerard, thanks for trying these - let me play around this week, I might be able to laser cut some self adhesive foil disks for you.
vHoff, interestingly, rectangular apertures were used in the olden days by eye doctors to diagnose astigmatism. They would put a slit in front of your eye, and have you rotate it till focus cleared up. There, they did not align the slit horizontally to give you the best depth of field on the top horizontal edge of the post, but they aligned it to give you the best focus in the axis of your astigmatism, where you needed the most help.
However for you - why don't you just get a shooting lens that has the astigmatism cylinder correction in it? That should take care of the differential focus. For Knobloch, etc style of round lenses, I can make you a cylinder corrected lens that has the extra power in it for shooting for $40.
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Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 8:26 am
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No need to make me any foil disc apertures, really. I'm happy enough experimenting on my own, and the thin piece of spring steel strapping I softened and slotted now has little tabs on the corners to it snaps onto my Champion iris module very nearly, easily rotated until it's perfectly horizontal. It aligns perfectly with the iris, so should I wish to stop that down even further the smallest aperture lines up with the slot (though so far I've never shot in that bright a light).
In an aside; my old Varga glasses came with a lens with cylindrical distortion, completely unusable for me as it caused flaring of the target in one dimension. I thought that was just a very cheaply made lens, now your explanation about astigmatism clears that up, thanks. The previous owner must have suffered from that.
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Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 8:34 pm
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An astigmatism is when you have a bulge in your lens, or in the cornea, so rather than the lens being spherical, shaped like a basketball, it is football shaped, with two different radii in two perpendicular axes.
Lens diopters are pure additive - if I stack a +2 lens on another +2 lens, I effectively have a +4 lens, so the solution to correct an astigmatism is to make another football shaped lens, and put it in your glasses, but rotati it 90 degrees from the astigmatism in your eye. Now, when you add lens powers, everyplace your eye is fat, the lens is thin, and everyplace your eye is thin, the lens is fat, so it neutralizes the bulge.
They call it a clyinder correction, because in geometry, if you blend a sphere and a cylinder, you end up with a football.
Net, a lens prescription consists of a spherical number, which is how much the lens corrects, then a cylinder value, which telly you the difference between the two axes, and it ends with an axis value that tells you how to align the cylinder part relative to your eye.
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Eye Optics
Seems you know about these things:
What's the relationshio between the gel inside the eyeball, lens and cornea etc. regarding refractive index? No air inside the eye, but a mix of different materials and shapes......
Re. astigmatism:
At age 62 I've got it in the plane that makes the top of rearsight fuzzy; I've known about the aperture "slit" trick for a long time and sometimes use it for reading small print. I imagine some animals with slishaped pupils get a similar effect? And some indigenous peoples in the arctic have made sunglasses in a similar way for ages......
I compromise when focusing a rifle scope ocular to make the horizontal and vertical crosshairs equally sharp/fuzzy. This is quite useful.
Is astigmatism in the other plane less common?
I would imagine that fuzzy vertical lines are less of a problem since you can rely on sideways symmetry quite a bit with open sights?
drugstore reading glasses are available in +1.0 here in Norway :-)
I've actually used them for DIY bow scope lenses.
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Here is the best lens model I have ever found, giving aproximate radii and refractive index of the various eye components:
Yes, I believe cats have slit shaped pupils, because the prey they hunt lives in a world of grass and other growth that all has vertical edges, so they bias thei focus to see vertical edges more.
For your riflescope problem, I believe I can make a lens that you attach to the riflescope that will compensate for your astigmatism. I have not ever actually tried this, and since I do not have an astigmatism, I cannot experiment on myself, but if you are interested in trying some ideas, I think we can arrange something.
I cannot say in what axes astigmatism is most common, but agree with your conclusion that fuzzy sides (ie fuzzy vertical lines) are less of a problem, because ultimately you have two sides, so even fuzzy, your eye can judge the symmetry to estimate if the target is centered.
I have on rare occasion fount +1.0 reading glasses in the US, but typically they start at 1.25.
Send me your prescription at
, and let's talk about how to make a lens for your scope. THe crudest test is to make the lens the same diameter as the objective, and you can simply place it on the end and use tape to attach it.
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Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:14 pm
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The link to eye "data" was quite interesting, straight to the point stuff!
Regarding crosshair focusing, I find the compromise solution works quite well. I guess part of the trick is realising that eyesight has to be rather bad before it becomes the limiting factor in shooting precision.
Thus I still shoot AP without glasses although the top of the rear sight appears a bit fuzzy. Shot execution is the limiting factor, and when a shot feels right, it's normally a ten.
I guess there are many like me at different ages needing glasses with a lower power than +1.0. Sitting in front of the PC screen using a pair of +1.0 drugstore reading glasses, I find the optimum distance to the screen in rather dim light and late in the day is about 50 cm. This achieves the same trick as when adjusting a rifle scope: horizontal and vertical lines are equally sharp/fuzzy. Of course I get a better result with my prescription computer glasses with a cylindrical correction.
BTW, you can find the Bowscope nomogram and som other info here:
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