My dear readers, I was once a strong believer in Biblical creationism. I was at one time a strong defender of the Bible. But now all has changed for me. Science has finally come up and proven itself. They have filled the missing holes in evolution. I now have sufficient understanding to base myself entirely upon the evolutionary theory.
It is totally amazing, I couldn’t believe it myself, we have done it. We have gotten the 12th frame—the frame that fits into the gap between 11 and 13. It landed in there and stuck snugly, and so… it has answered all you foolish creationists once and for all.
“It’s like 12 frames of a home movie, but a home movie covering 6 million years,” said study lead author Tim White, co-director of Human Evolution Research Center at University of California at Berkeley.
Oh sorry, I think I’ll have to recant. I just realized something. That is actually the one that fits between frame 11 and frame 5,676,480,000,000,000. Now we have progressed from frame 11 to frame 12. And frame 12 has filled the gap. Frame 12 has filled the gap that actually needs 5,676,479,999,999,988 (five and a half thousand trillion) frames to fill. Frame 12 has filled the gap. Frame 12 has filled the gap. Frame 12 has filled the gap. No. Don’t use intelligence, listen to the scientists. Frame 12 has filled the gap.
My friends. That leaves 99.9999999999999999999999…% of the frames to be filled yet. Do I smell a desperate attempt here?
“This appears to be the link between Australopithecus and Ardipithecus as two different species,” White said. The noticeable difference between the phases of man can be seen in Australopithecus’ bigger chewing teeth to eat harder food, he said.
The Link:
I mean seriously, are we beginning to realize that man just doesn’t have the ability to do a thorough job, let alone jab? Do we realize that when God created the world, he created it without any gaps, but when man created the world he created it with a gap that cannot ever fathomably be filled?—That it would take 6,000,000 years to fill that gap if they found one every second, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year?
My God is an awesome God folks. I recant, I mean, after all, I can do my math. I am homeschooled.
I couldn’t believe my eyes. For a school system with some of the lowest morals, educating children to ‘alternate lifestyles’ and teaching immorality from preschool… How many teachers ever read this?
Section 264 c) [Teachers’ responsibility in relation to Religion and morals is] to inculcate by precept and example respect for religion and the principles of Judaeo-Christian morality and the highest regard for truth, justice, loyalty, love of country, humanity, benevolence, sobriety, industry, frugality, purity, temperance and all other virtues;
Regenerate is a word only used when the subject has deteriorated to a point where it needs attention. To Regenerate something you need to look back at what it was in the first place, how it was generated and what it’s problems were, then you can begin to reconstruct what was lost.
There’s something in our modern day society that needs attention, and needs it bad. What is it? Culture. It has been under attack for decades, and not too many of us have gone to its aid. Overwhelmed, and quickly losing strength, it has called for help, and has been for a while. Many have already answered the cries, some singlehandedly, some together. But finally an army has been organized to strengthen the lines. Much ground has been lost. Many soldiers have fallen. There is much to do to re-take the ground that has been mercilessly trampled.
Under the flag of our Most High God, Regenerate Our Culture is about to join the battle. The ranks are forming rapidly, and the commanders are calling for able bodied men and women to join the corps. With just 12 days left before the first serious offensive, there’s not much time to lose. Go over and see what you can do to help strengthen the supply, reserve, and artillery.
And this is a message to Culture: “Be of good cheer, for help is nigh.”
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Most Americans have an easier time naming members of the cartoon Simpson family than listing the five freedoms granted by the nation’s founders, a survey by a museum released on Wednesday said.
Here’s a hint: one of them is not the right to own and raise pets, an error committed by one in five respondents.
Half of 1,000 Americans randomly surveyed by the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum could name at least two of the five members of Fox Television’s Simpson family, the stars of the network’s long-running show.
But just 28 percent of respondents could name more than one of the five freedoms listed in the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment—about the same proportion that could name all five Simpson family members or could recall the three judges on Fox TV’s top-rated “American Idol.”
Just 8 percent could recall three First Amendment freedoms.
Two-thirds of respondents did remember freedom of speech as one of five rights in the First Amendment, but just one person accurately named all five.
“These survey results clearly demonstrate that many Americans don’t have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy,” said executive director Dave Anderson of the museum, which opens on April 11 in Chicago.
Freedom of religion was recalled by 24 percent, freedom of the press by 11 percent, freedom of assembly by 10 percent, and freedom to petition for redress of grievances (right to a day in court) by 1 percent.
Some participants displayed comical ignorance such as the 38 percent who believed the right not to incriminate yourself—“taking the 5th” in lawyer lingo—was granted by the First Amendment rather than the Fifth.
Among other rights not mentioned in the Constitution but listed by some respondents was the right to drive and the right to have pets.
The survey, conducted January 20-22, had an error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
In case you forgot, the Simpson clan’s names are Homer (owner of that exclamation of ignorance, “D’oh”), Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie.
How about we just call it a show of ignorance? (not that I can do any better, but I’ve got an excuse, I’m Canadian.) And the other thing is, I didn’t know the Simpson’s names either.
Can anybody tell me why this survey was done by a museum? Is it something about historicaly important knowledge and values disappearing or being replaced?
Confession: This news article made me painfully conscious of my need to brush up on Canadian Constitution. I’d better not be found on the short end of this stick.
Reuters (Oddly Enough)
Germans value letters attached to their name more than money, love or having children with nine out of ten rating a good qualification as their most important aim in life, a survey showed Wednesday.
In Germany even minor academic degrees appear on business cards and doctorate titles adorn many letter boxes.
According to a survey of 1,000 people by insurer Allianz just eight in ten Germans said finding love for life was their top priority and even fewer rated financial security as their number one goal.
Perfect bliss may be to have a title that runs longer than the length of a name, such as that of “Uni.-Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Horst Wildemann” at Munich’s Technical University.
That is so fantastic. Germany is going to become the country of knowledge. Products coming from Germany will be of the highest quality. There will be no equivalent in education. They will reach beyond the spheres of the common human intelligence, and explore many high and new things. They will make many breakthrough discoveries. This is the highest fulfillment of humanity.
Why then are ‘those who have been trained so knowledgeably’ predicting a great downfall in Europe? Why is it that there is a looming collapse of all Europe ever stood for? Why is it that they are facing at this point “a slow but inexorable exit from history”? Should this not be the time when everything begins to happen? Shouldn’t this be the time when history is beginning to be written? You’d think so.
But there is one thing that is causing concern.
The year 2000 saw a turning point for the region when its population started on an emphatic decline. Nor is there prospect of a change in direction any time soon. .... even if women started having more children again and at younger ages, there would still be too few potential mothers to make an immediate difference. So the region’s population will keep on falling for decades.
Europe could soon encounter what demographers call “negative momentum” when a shrinking population goes into an ever-steeper spiral of decline. ... Twelve of the major 27 countries feature falling numbers. If present trends persist, the decline will become still bigger and arrive faster in more distant decades as the region increasingly falls prey to negative momentum.
Already Europe features 35 people of pensionable age for every 100 people of working age; by 2050 and supposing present demographic trends persist, the total of pensioners will climb to 75 for every 100 workers. Italy and Spain could even see their ratios soar to reach 1:1. Italy, France and Germany pay their pensions out of their current tax revenues, which means that taxes will expand massively if they are to keep funding pensions at the generous levels established thus far. German workers already assign 30% of their income, and Italians 33%, to state pensions. ... The old-age dependency ratio, i.e. those aged 65-plus in relation to those aged 15-64, would soar by three quarters in the near future
What is it about education that is making family go out the window? What is it about education that is killing society? I personally have relatives in europe who are doing the same thing. Trying to complete an education, 30, 35, not married, not really interested. Has education been teaching them more than just medicine or law? Has it also been ingraining in its students a life like this? Is this the same thing happening here in America? Well… Just remember:
Homeschooling is illegal in almost all of Europe
And read this:
...Let’s note that its situation is quite the opposite of the United States with its annual population growth of 1.1%. This is by far the highest of the developed countries (and even higher than China’s), producing an additional three million people per year to go with the 293 million or so already in the United States. If that rate of increase were maintained—and there are no measures thus far to reduce it—today’s baby would, by the time he or she reaches old age, be sharing the country with almost 600 million fellow Americans.
Needless to say:
The outlook will also affect the hopes of many Europeans to create a superpower to rival the United States.
...In fact numerous experts such as Paul and Anne Ehrlich, David Pimentel and John Holdren have urged that Europe and America should consider a long-term commitment to cutting back on its human numbers in light of its drain on planetary resources.
I don’t want to get too much into the political side in this commentary. But looking at this situation provides some interesting diversion. It appears that ‘the hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world’.
What part does homeschooling have to play in all this? Back in 2001, two million children were being homeschooled, the number growing by 15 to 20% every year. Homeschooling is undergoing ‘positive momentum’. But what’s happening to these students? We know, that many go on simply with an even better education, but we also know that there are those who keep the attitude they learned from their parents. Tell me what mom will homeschool and work full time. Moreover, it appears that there is something more meaningful than letters or money to certain homeschoolers. 18% of homeschooling families earn less than $25000 a year. People ask, “How can you afford it? We both work and we don’t have any children and we can hardly pay our bills.”
Most homeschoolers never demanded a mansion to have their families in, to homeschool in. Some of these parents have degrees, big degrees, small degrees. But they put them aside for something better, family. There is strong evidence to show that every woman would, deep down inside, want to be a mother and stay at home. Apparently women realize that after wasting the first 35 years of their life. Then they decide to settle down and have a family. Kinda late.
As for me, I have nothing against a higher education. But it is important that every person keep in mind that this is not a phenomenon, that this is the work of higher powers. According to another article the website of the Rockefeller-Gorbachev Earth Charter declares:
The Earth Charter values and principles must be taught, contemplated, applied and internalized. To this end, the Earth Charter needs to be incorporated into both formal and non-formal*(homeschooling)* education. This process must involve various communities, continue to integrate the Charter into the curriculum of schools and universities, and constitute an ongoing process of life-long learning.
*my insert
The education is not necessarily the main problem in itself. But what’s being said, is that it’s important that people spend their life learning and forget about families. (Europe appears to be the first big fish.) America however seems to have people who are still interested in families. Thus the ‘alarming’ growth in population here.
Take into account these facts for America.
The people who are anti-family will only fizzle out unless they convert more members. Their only hope.
On the other hand, the people who are pro-family, will expand. (assuming the values are passed on to the children) Nature takes care of itself it appears.
As to me, I have only one desire for any letters after my name. I’d like three of them—R.F.A. I may attain other degrees, but I must continue to honestly be able to sign after my name, Ready For Anything. Even if the Lord would have that include a large family. Family values must continue to be taught. Education must not take priority over God’s plan for my life. I will stand strong.
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
That is the secret.
David Boskovic, R.F.A.
Added:
When I left home, I told my parents that I was going to college to get a degree. And if by chance I decided to get married, it would be to a Dr. That way, we could live in a large house and I would never see him only his money. And I would be free to pursue my own interests.
David Boskovic -- eighteen, Canadian, Conservative, and sibling to 5 -- writes a practical
mix of journalism, commentary, theology, and inspiration from the perspective of a
Biblical worldview and a homeschooled education. Here at Oneway Purpose he tackles life,
culture, and purpose, taking to task many of the problems that this generation is facing
on the front lines in the battles of the Christian life.
