evolution vs creation

Notes 35

From a Reader summing up reality and the difference between Science and Religion

I saw a thing the other night about the stereopticans and the creation of the third dimension by our eyes from superimposing the images of the left eye and the right eye on the brain that transformed the composite into a three dimensional universe. Conclusion, we create our own reality and the accepted reality is the result of common agreement about what it really is--with a number of variants by groups that do not agree with it.
Science has become as much of a religion as any other, requiring leaps of faith for evolution etc. The difference between scientific religion and theological religion is that science agrees its faith is a moving target that is constantly changing as a result of new
evidence. Religion locks itself into what it believes to be immutable.
Upshot, Life is a remarkable experience for which there is no parallel and no absolute explanation. We make it what it is.

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Finally somebody gets it
Ex-Minn. governor sues over body scans, pat-downs
Amy Forliti, Associated Press – Mon Jan 24
MINNEAPOLIS – Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura sued the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration on Monday, alleging full-body scans and pat-downs at airport checkpoints violate his right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.
Ventura is asking a federal judge in Minnesota to issue an injunction ordering officials to stop subjecting him to "warrantless and suspicionless" scans and body searches.
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Let’s see if Russia decides not to waste a crisis

MOSCOW – The Russian state RIA Novosti news agency says an explosion at Moscow's busiest airport has killed 23 people and wounded 130.

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Israelis want it all and, honest brokers that we are, we are enabling them

No One Looks Good Here, writes The Guardian's editorial board: "It is hard to tell who appears worst: the Palestinian leaders, who are weak, craven and eager to shower their counterparts with compliments; the Israelis, who are polite in word but contemptuous in deed; or the Americans, whose neutrality consists of bullying the weak and holding the hand of the strong. Together they conspire to build a puppet state in Palestine, at best authoritarian, at worst a surrogate for an occupying force."

TIME
By TONY KARON – Mon Jan 24
A trove of more than 1,600 secret Palestinian documents whose release by the Qatar-based Al Jazeera news organization and Britain's Guardian newspaper began on Sunday could be post-mortem for Obama‘s Peace Process. The documents, allegedly leaked from within the Palestinian negotiating infrastructure and not part of the WikiLeaks Cablegate dump, detail an increasingly desperate yet futile effort by Palestinian negotiators to tempt Israel into a deal by conceding more and more ground, while pleading in vain with U.S. officials for help. And in the longer term, they could even prove politically fatal to chief Palestinian negotiator Saeeb Erekat and his boss, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

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Society for whom the bells toll--another Mayan disappearance

Europe Begins to Run Short of Water
Pavol Stracansky, Inter Press Service: "Half of the Czech Republic’s population could face water shortages because of climate change, a top climate change expert has warned. The country has become one of the driest in the EU, according to local media, and climatologists say the land, and crucial underground water supplies, are drying up.... Climatologists and meteorologists in central Europe have said that the region is seeing more and more extreme weather including long periods of dry and hot weather in the summer, severe flooding and bitter winter weather."

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Rahmy finally runs out his string of running over the law and anybody else. Nor Obama nor Clinton can run Illinois politics
Court: Emanuel cannot run for mayor
Judges say former White House chief of staff is not a Chicago resident
Former White House Chief Of Staff Rahm Emanuel looks on during a meeting between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Gilani of Pakistan at the Blair House in Washington, DC on April 11, 2010.
msnbc.com staff and news service reports 2011-01-24
An Illinois appellate court on Monday threw former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel off the ballot for Chicago mayor because he didn't live in the city in the year before the election.

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The terrorists killing us are not al Quaida but Big Tobacco and individual American Loughners

TIME
By ROMESH RATNESAR
In the wake of the Tucson, Ariz., tragedy, you might think that such high-profile alarm would center on the shortcomings of America's mental-health system or the inadequacy of the country's gun laws. You would be mistaken. Instead, some members of the political class remain fixated on what they regard as a greater national emergency: the purported rise of "homegrown" Islamic terrorists.
Though acts of violent extremism by U.S. Muslims appear to have grown, their potency has not. American Muslims remain more moderate, diverse and integrated than the Muslim populations in any other Western society. The paranoia about homegrown terrorism thus vastly overstates al-Qaeda's strength and reflects our leaders' inability to make honest assessments about the true threats to America's security.

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The movie Deliverane delivered every day and innumerable mutations someplace in the U.S.

Henry A. Giroux | America's Culture of Cruelty
Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: "The recent murderous acts of violence committed by Jared Lee Loughner in Arizona cannot be reduced to the mental instability of a young man out of touch with reality. Nor can such a horrendous act be reduced to a breakdown in civil discourse. Such rationales are too easy, and emulate what Frank Rich has called 'classic American denial.' There is a deeper order of politics behind this murderous act, one that the American public is inclined to ignore. More specifically, the general responses to this violent act are symptomatic of a society that separates private injuries from public considerations, refusing to connect individual acts to broader social considerations."
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Let’s see, how many people would an hundred million feed for a year? All the soup kitchens in America? Maybe Schmidt will donate it. He doesn’t need it.

On Monday January 24, 2011, 7:58 am
NEW YORK (AP) -- Google says it has awarded $100 million worth of equity to outgoing CEO Eric Schmidt.

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