If God had a name, what would it beAnd would you call it to his face
If you were faced with him in all his glory
What would you ask if you had just one question
And yeah yeah God is great yeah yeah God is good yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home
(If God Was One of Us--Joan Osbourne)
----------Joe Bell has a column over at the Daily Pilot today that might be of interest. LINK
Bell brings up Charles and Emma Darwin. We commented on the couple in CM PRESS #596 on January 29, after we saw mention of them in the LA TIMES.
What both Bell and the writer in the Times fail to note is something that seems very relevant to us given the nature of Darwin's discoveries about natural selection and the way living things evolve. Emma was his first cousin and she bore him ten children. It was as though Charles was practicing what he preached.
Also of some interest, but not mentioned by Bell or in the Times is the fact that the Darwins' great-great granddaughter, also named Emma Darwin, is a writer in England today. LINK. The present Ms. Darwin, alive 201 years after the original Emma was born, bears a striking resemblance to her great-great grandmother. Genotypes persist. Genes matter.
By the way, February 12, is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin.
If you've never actually read Charles Darwin's On The Origin of Species, you should do so. You'll be amazed at what this naturalist was able to discover about life and existence long before the discovery of DNA.
Although Darwin was not conventionally religious, one suspects that if he were alive today he'd be awe struck when faced with more recent scientific discoveries that seem to show the basic simplicity underlying all of existence and with the seeming (but false) complexity as existence expresses itself through very simple processes as they are repeated over and over with just slight changes that have cumulative effects.
He'd also be amazed that all the seeming complexity of life itself is just the result of the shuffle of the four chemicals that are in the DNA spiral.
And speaking of DNA. In 1953, a couple of obscure scientists named James Watson and Francis Crick published a paper which had this sentence "This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest." You bet it does. They were describing the double-helix spiral of DNA for the first time. They got a Nobel Prize in 1962 for their discovery.
Darwin might also be awe struck and get a religious twinge in looking at the shape of DNA, and then at this photo of an 80 light year long nebula containing billi
ons of stars that is aptly named the DNA Nebula.
ons of stars that is aptly named the DNA Nebula. As above, so below; and look for signs in the skies.
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LA DESTROYS GANG HABITAT--CRIME GOES DOWN (Link)
The CM PRESS has called for years for the City of Costa Mesa to destroy the habitats of gangs in this city.
What do we get instead? Katrina Foley and her fou fou crew planting flowers in front of the gang habitats. Then we had the spectacle of Foley delivering a dish of lasagna to the family of a man killed in a gang shooting.
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