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UFO: A Cover Up No:15 (Mr. Daniel Sheehan, attorney)
He was told by a high-ranking government official that in 1977 President Carter order the then-director of the CIA George H. Bush to release all the information related to UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligences and the request was denied. Sheehan tried the same with the Vatican and was denied.


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Evolution
Intelligent design can't be observed because it's unfalsifiable.  They point at a flower or animal and say, see, how could that rose have gotten here through all the millenia if the world was just chaos?  Clearly it must be the hand of god at work.  The clear implication is that everything is the way it's supposed to be, and couldn't have gotten here therefore without guidance, when it's far more reasonable to assume that the way things are is just the result of the way things were. 

They believe the existence of roses can't be an accident, and if roses didn't exist they would just point to something else and say it couldn't be an accident.  While it's true that an infinite number of things had to go just right for roses to exist now, the same would be true if they didn't exist, or if anything else existed in their place. 

The most important aspect of intelligent design is you can't see or test for the presence of the hand of god, and therefore, you can't disprove such a claim.  Can you prove there's not an invisible man that you can't hear or touch standing right behind you?  No you can't.  It's unfalsifiable. 

Not to say the theory of evolution isn't perfect, but new evidence arises which supports it all the time, whereas the only way you could prove god's handiwork is if a new species just popped into existence from nowhere. 

If god were guiding evolution, than I think it's safe to say that all evolutionary mutations would be beneficial, when most are in fact not because mutations are accidental.  Evolution works in that for every 99 useless or detrimental mutations in a species, there'll be one that proves beneficial and therefore is more likely to be passed on to offspring.  If god were guiding this, he would have to be pretty shitty at it, which doesn't work if god is perfect, though clearly if he exists he is far from.
 
 
 

   
Our Life Cycle Unit
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Well, our larva came in the mail on Saturday so Monday morning we set up our science center and we're ready to watch the life cycle of 5 tiny caterpillars who will in just a couple of weeks time turn into painted lady butterflies.

I shall keep you posted.  :) 
 
 
   
 

Science Lesson: The heart
As always, the internet is a beautiful tool to have especially within a homeschool. If I can't find the full and complete information in a book, there is usually something more tangible on the net. Today I got to watch a video about the anatomy of the heart. Totally awesome. There is a whole series from St. Jude Medical, the same place they do Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy.

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Bug. Bug bug bug. Bug.
For absolutely no good reason, I decided to check this out before work.

And yes, I watched the videos.

I have one absolutely gorgeous girlfriend who really gets into this sort of thing. She has this inexplicable fascination with some of nature's most bizarre and terrifying creatures.

Then there's me. After that first one, my desire to visit Japan has just about vanished.

After all five, I don't think I'll be eating today.
 
 
   
 

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