Biological design, or apparent design, depending on your worldview, is vastly superior (contains more information and more complexity) than anything man has ever contemplated. Scientists do not question the amazing complexity of biological organisms, or the “appearance of design”. For example, Francis Crick, of DNA fame, cautioned, “Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.” And from Darwinist A.G. Cairns-Smith, “…what impresses us about a living thing is its in-built ingenuity, its appearance of having been designed, thought out – of having been put together with a purpose…” For leaders in the scientific community, this apparent design demonstrates the remarkable power of “selection” within the evolutionary process. Evolution is, by definition, accidental and random (undirected). Continue Reading
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August is one of the two months is which Reel Time is not published.
Your next Reel Time should be available Friday September 3 or Monday September 6.
Absolutely True Quotes
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents…. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiar with the idea from the beginning.
Max Planck, the father of quantum mechanics and a Nobel Prize winner.Just For Fun Quotes
Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.
The quote is originally attributed to Ogden Nash, but the economic philosophy has been adopted by dedevelopers - such the unibomber, President Obama, and his new science chief, John Holdren.------------------------------------------------------
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Walter Winchell
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Fidel Castro has strong ideas of liberty, democracy, social justice, the need to restore Cuba’s Constitution…this amounts to a new deal for Cuba, radical, democratic and therefore anti-Communist.
Herbert Matthews, New York Times Feb. 1957.Strange-But-True
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However, the absolute level of new home inventory is at its lowest since the early 1970s.
From Kevin Mason, Equity Research Associates. July 21, 2010.
The problem now is soft demand, not excess supply.-
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