Open the window

Open the window. In the hospital. Researchers say that is the best way to combat air born germs in hospitals. Besides it is cheaper. Good research boys and girls. They were looking at TB mostly, now I wonder why some of the more famous TB sanitariums with the best results in the past were located out away from the cities and out in the fresh air? Science vrs human experience again. They are even coming around to testing maggots vrs antibiotics for some things too. We still have McFadden’s books that say one should sleep if not outside, at least with the window wide open.
Millions worldwide use antioxidant supplements such as vitamins A and E, and beta-carotene. Looking at dozens of previous studies, Copenhagen University researchers suggested these appeared to raise, not lower, the risk of early death.
However, Dr Ann Walker, of the Health Supplements Information Service, said the findings of the study were "worthless".
Nutritionists said it reinforced the need to eat a balanced diet, rather than relying on supplements. While vitamin supplements have been popular for decades, the precise benefits they offer - if any - remain uncertain, despite hundreds of research projects.
Dr Frankie Phillips, a nutritionist at the British Dietetic Association, said food contained a complex matrix of different components which could not be replicated by supplements.
"Our advice is to eat a wide range of foods in a balanced diet which can provide all of the nutrients the body needs to protect itself and combat diseases."

Well, well, well, so God knew what He was doing after all !

To Worry

So the other day a baby who was born at 10 ounces went home after her stay in the hospital. Now there worry that because the Cipriot government has announced a big bonus for women who have more than three kids there will be a rash of abortions. Women will abort now and get pregnant again After the bonus kicks in. What a world we live in. How can anyone justify abortion?

variations of a concept

All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.
I do not remember exactly how the song goes that is used as titles for the James Harriot Vet books, but that is where all the creatures came from.

Can I Prooooove it? No.
There is never going to be anyone go back there to check it out.
There is never going to be someone stick around long enough to see if anything that man creates today turns out to be “alive”, or if new things will crop up that will be ever so much “better” and “new” and “improved” to what we have now. The only proof that we have for the origin of things is right here and right now.

So what do we have to work with?

If God is the one who created everything and He is still around we could ask Him.

If there never was such a “person” as God then we are pretty much on our own. Still and all it is even at that a big stretch of the most vivid of imaginations to conceive of 36million year old fossils still hanging around. DNA still good after 30 or 40 thousand years. Especially when lots of them still are not rock and lots of them still have a lingering smell. Not to mention all the ones that look modern – are modern. Can science prove that anything happened last week? So they can prove that certain things could have happened, because they do happen today and tomorrow.

BUT did a monkey turn into a scientist ?

Apart from variations of a concept of god I am not aware of any other possibility for the existence of all the creatures. Someone made them or all this just popped into “existence”.

Reverted

A US Air Force sergeant who posed nude for Playboy magazine has been removed from active duty and demoted.
The move reverts Michelle Manhart to air national guard status, a move which has prompted her resignation, she says. In January, M Manhart was suspended from duties while an investigation into the incident was carried out. At the time the air force released a statement saying that her actions did not "meet the high standards we expect of our airmen".
So Michelle, you can’t have your cake and eat it too. Fortunately someone was astute enough to be right !

Reek Rank

“Moths often baffle and elude us with their bouncy, seemingly erratic flight paths, especially around outdoor lights, but they have a piloting system that has allowed them to thrive on Earth for hundreds of millions of years.”

“Chimpanzees learned to make and use stone tools their own, rather than copying humans, new evidence suggests. And this means that chimps and humans likely inherited some of their sophisticated stone tool use behavior from a common ancestor, a report on the evidence claims. Though there were no chimp remains at the settlement, testing by archaeologists revealed the tool-laden camp was most likely used by the Great Ape. The stones were much bigger than anything a human could use comfortably and bore the residue of nuts that modern chimpanzees like to snack on.”
“Chimpanzees alive in the wild today are often seen using hammer tools to crack nuts.”
“Australian scientists say they have found morsels of fossilized muscle—the oldest vertebrate tissue ever known—in the remains of two fish that lived 380 to 384 million years ago. The remains shed light on the evolution of placoderms, which ruled the world's oceans, rivers, and lakes for 70 million years until they died out about 360 million years ago.”
“A rare goblin shark—a "living fossil" that closely resembles ancient shark species—was caught alive recently in Tokyo Bay, only to die within days. Earlier this month another deep-sea prehistoric shark had been found in Japan—a frilled shark spotted on January 21 that, like the goblin, died quickly in captivity.”

“The academic science world, persisting on tax money, has been intellectually flatlining. It becomes increasingly a closed camp of ideologues whose job security depends on their avoidance of apostasy. In a word, science is being swamped by an almost religious scientism.” DWonline

The two biggest oxymorons of today’s world are Microsoft Works and Living Fossil. What do moths, chimps, sharks and scientific fossils have in common? Nothing. If the world is a giant computer built to answers the question for which the answer is 43 then the scientific fossils work in labs totally isolated from it. The total isolation part is a good thing, sooner or later the virus can be eliminated, the problem is all the havoc they wreak in the mean time, really reek rank. 430,000,000 years would be a loooooooooong looooooooooooong time, and they are trying to tell me that it would not take religious effort to believe that?

I like the official question, “How many roads must man walk down”. Before he grows up and gets smart.

Speculation

Mainstream scientists see no controversy. Evolution is well supported by many examples of changes in various species leading to the diversity of life seen today.

"I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale," Charles Darwin speculated. Scientists now know that Darwin had the right idea but the wrong animal: instead of looking at bears, he should have instead been looking at cows and hippopotamuses.

The story of the origin of whales is one of evolution's most fascinating tales (biggest fiction) and one of the best examples scientists have of natural selection.

Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is one of the best substantiated theories in the history of science, supported by evidence from a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including paleontology, geology, genetics and developmental biology.

Given enough time and enough accumulated changes, natural selection can (?) create entirely new species. It can (?) turn dinosaurs into birds, apes into humans, and amphibious mammals into whales.

Most times, mutations are either harmful or neutral but in rare instances, a mutation might prove beneficial to the organism. If so, it will become more prevalent in the next generation and spread throughout the population. In this way, natural selection guides the evolutionary process, preserving and adding up the beneficial mutations and rejecting the bad ones.
The evolution of the whale’s blowhole, for example, might have happened …

American Museum of Natural History in New York
The Hall of Human Origins will open to the public on Feb. 10, 2007.

Scientists … use DNA to patch together a family tree of sorts. … more than 7 million years (?) of hominid evolution … recreate the faces of our hominid ancestors from skull fragments … a Neanderthal skullcap discovered in 1856; represents the first recognized proof that other kinds of humans once walked the Earth … (the first edition of "The Origin of Species" in 1859)

The last section of the Hall of Human Origins explores the things that make us human … We are changing the world in ways that no other species has managed to do … We can’t wait for evolution to come in on its white horse and fine tune us a bit more so that we’ll react in a more responsible way with the world around us.

It is always so amazing how people are so inconsistent with themselves. Here we have a couple of articles where scientists – or media – are once again assuming ‘proven’ evolution. First, if they use arguments like this in court to prove things it is no wonder that we are in so much trouble ! Lets go to something a little more factual, math. Would this kind of proof be useful proving math theorems ? It is not even good hit or miss by gosh and by golly guessing ! Second, that last paragraph. IF and ‘Since’ as they say, everything is a result of evolution, chance, and it all started with non personal highly compact dot they can expect us to “react in a more responsible” way, how??? Why would they ??? I am more than a bit confused ! Please define “responsible” in this senerio !

Science Whiz

“Relationship quizzes in magazines are fun, but a test for genetic compatibility might be the better way to go to see if your wife or girlfriend will cheat on you. A new study reveals that a cluster of genes, involved in immune function among other things, could predict how sexually attracted a person is to a partner and how likely a woman is be faithful to her mate. ‘There’s this idea of romantic chemistry, but until now we haven’t been able to pinpoint anything that predicts it,’ said lead researcher Christine”

“Archaeologists have unearthed two skeletons from the Neolithic period locked in a tender embrace and buried outside Mantua, just 25 miles south of Verona, the romantic city where Shakespeare set the star-crossed tale of Romeo and Juliet. Buried between 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, the prehistoric lovers are believed to have been a man and a woman and are thought to have died young, as their teeth were found intact, Experts now will study the artifacts and the skeletons to determine the burial site's age and how old the two were when they died. Elena said.”

So the world has decided that we are our own worst enemy. There is a smoking gun and we are holding it. We are definitely responsible for global warming. Now science will turn their attention to proving that.

The one thing that is most difficult about constructing a good working Ethics System is deciding who has the authority to invoke it. Dictionary.com, Invoke, to declare to be binding or in effect. Is it the one with the highest IQ? Or most money? Or biggest guns? Or most morally convincing veneer? Or the most votes – the loudest mouth? The writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum?

Or how about facts? The one with the most facts ! Science ! ! The salvation of mankind is at hand ! A brave new world ! Everything will be perfect and utopia will reign and guess what? No one will be responsible for it ! By extrapolation, if the guy who unraveled the Rosetta stone of life – the DNA, and called it “the language of God” is right then God does indeed direct each and every minute detail of everything that seems to exist, including in particular who will be faithful to whom ! And unfaithful and faithful will be the same thing, just like good and bad are the same thing, because “it is in our genes” and we are not responsible !! God on the same hand is anything that we want it to be. Now isn’t that tender. Reminds one of Romiet and Juleo. But, Why, Why, Why, “Believed to have been a man and a woman ? That shatters the whole romance of it ! Even the astronomical race is old fashioned, two women fighting over the man in the moon. I wonder if he feels flattered ? What do his genes say …..

Would it be fun if there were absolutes ? If God was really the Absolute Sovereign and He said “here are the rules, make up your own mind where you want to go !”

Poor Rich Country

“The militants often attack oil installations and kidnap oil workers for ransom. Last year, such attacks cut Nigeria's oil output by some 20%. Nigeria is Africa's biggest oil producer but most of the Niger Delta population remain poor. The militants say more of Nigeria's oil wealth should benefit local people.” News.

“The price of gas, though, is still running about $4/gallon vs. the regular of $2.50. I am minimizing my trips to town and elsewhere. I have even had to cut back on the use of my generator at night. Thus I finding myself heading to bed earlier than normal, usually about 9 PM.. Rumor has it that things should get better price-wise in a week or so. On the whole, it has taught me that I need to keep a little reserve on hand when this situation occurs again. I am told that typically around major holidays, such as Christmas, the shortages begin and the prices start to climb. This year, the situation has been worsened by damage done to oil supply pipes in the south.” Nigerian resident in the north east. Sounds familiar doesn’t it?

“The rebel Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has bombed oil export terminals, blown up pipelines, planted car bombs in oil company compounds and abducted foreign workers since it appeared in late 2005. Output from Nigeria, the world's eighth largest oil exporter, is down by a fifth. Bar-owner Oluchi, like others who benefit from Africa's largest oil industry, sees the surge in kidnappings as partly linked to general elections in Nigeria in April and hopes things will settle down after that. But MEND says it is not interested in politics – it is preparing for all-out guerrilla war with Africa's largest army. MEND argues that the people of the delta, most of whom live in poverty without access to clean water, schools, power and roads, have been cheated out of their oil wealth by the central government in league with Western multinationals.” News one hour old.
What a world we live in. We can always find something to fight about, something to expropriate, someway to benefit ourselves to the detriment of others. We can always find a way to make the altercation into a three way triple by pass extended compound complex situation with all the arms dealers stockpiling for brisk business; oil, bird flu, religion. And it all comes down to the heart of the individual person. God says “you must be born again” !!

To Have or Not to Have

Religious freedom.

“A Russian court has barred Jehovah's Witnesses from operating in the capital, Moscow. A Russian law from 1997 recognizes only four traditional religions - Orthodoxy, Judaism, Buddhism and Islam.”

Here at home we have the sextuplets who in the Drs. opinion need blood but the parents are Seventh Day Adventists. The court took custody of them.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the 58 Member States of the UN General Assembly on Dec 10, 1948, at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris France defines freedom of religion and belief as follows:
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance.

Many people mistake religious tolerance for religious freedom. “Keep it to your self” is hardly freedom !

Suppose you were a preacher and you found out that your new congregation could not read. Would you teach them to read?