Physics Time Line 1990-present

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1990  world population 5 billion  0 A.D. 200 million, 1000 A.D. 400 million, 1650 500 million, 1810 1 billion, 1900 1.6 billion, 1930 2 billion, 2000 6 billion

1990  Becke and Edgecombe define the electron localization function which gives a basis for computerized molecule shape determination.  By 2021, pubchem web site can show millions of organic chemical compounds in 3D;  those who know masters-degree-level chemistry can glance at conformations of organic chemicals and know the salient parts of molecules that are responsible for reactivity.  Children are able to look at simpler organic 3D pictures on pubchem and make ball-and-stick models of poisons and stinky chemicals.

1990  Symantec markets Norton AntiVirus, an early, commercial, anti-virus program

1990  First World Wide Web browser written

1990  The Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (1967) and Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (1990) bring about "use before" and "sell by," ink-jet-labeled notations on food packages.  By 2020, this is often said to be more for stock control in groceries than because food is stale or is growing germs.

since 1980s     American elites seek liberal-arts education for their children.  They study a little of everything and purport to have "well-informed views on everything. Universities are money-making entities and one way they have justified their increasingly absurd fees is by embracing this idea."  They care about climate change, Palestine, colonialism and don't care so much about housing and food.

1990  Ravi Zacharias writes A Shattered Visage.  It is updated in 2004 as The Real Face of Atheism.  p. 53 Past societies...a norm for determining what was right and what was wrong.  In our day, there are no foundations.  [We do not] educate our young in moral instruction...Buddha [an atheist] had a strong moral code and would have branded our amoral stance ignorant.  [We now consider origins a happenstance which gives rise to] utility replacing duty, self-expression unseating authority, and feeling good supplanting being good.  Alasdair MacIntyre:  we have fragments of a conceptual scheme but the context is gone.  We have simulacra of morality, we continue to use key expressions, but we have lost morality.    The [Roman Catholic Church threat to] Galileo, Darwin's leap to atheism, and philosophy's choking of God leave no basis for morality.  It is no longer intellectually tenable.  P. 59 Bertrand Russell, Sartre, and Woody Allen mock God's injunctions and have no alternative morality.  Bertrand Russell was asked by Copleston how to distinguish good and bad.  Russell replied, 'on the basis of feelings.'    JE:  Russell was a utilitarian, and, quoting Wikipedia, said religion serves to impede knowledge and fosters fear and dependency.  The book, Utilitarianism, was written in 1863 by John Stuart Mill and ranks as one of the ten books that screwed up the world, in Benjamin Wiker's view.  The meaning of anarchy is against hierarchy, which used to be a way for a society to have morals;  in the context of this paragraph, anarchy reigns when each person is free to decide his own morals, his own "right way to live."  

     McGraw-Hill has an education-values web page, http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0072877723/student_view0/chapter9/index.html, that has to do with morals and foundations, and reflects educational philosophy that John Engelbrecht saw during teacher training in 1990.  John Dewey was a leader in ridding education of tradition.  

     "Teacher-centered philosophies...emphasize the values and knowledge that have survived through time.  Students are vessels to be filled and disciplined in the proven strategies of the past.  [This gets little traction and much contempt in public schools today.]  Student-centered philosophies are more focused on individual needs, contemporary relevance, and preparing students for a changing future.  School is seen as an institution that works with youth to improve society or help students realize their individuality.  Progressivism, social reconstructionism, and existentialism place the learner at the center of the educational process.  Students and teachers work together on determining what should be learned and how best to learn it."

     "Progressivism...lessons must be relevant to the students in order for them to learn.  Social reconstructionists...believe that education goes hand in hand with ameliorating social problems.  Existentialism...believes in human free will, and the need for individuals to shape their own futures.  Students in existentialist classrooms control their own education. Students are encouraged to understand and appreciate their uniqueness and to assume responsibility for their actions.  Students have complete freedom, and complete responsibility, with regard to their education."       John:  this may work for 5% of students with self-motivation and work ethic, but it is unworkable for most adolescents.

     John Engelbrecht's note:  Morality or the lack of affects schools.  Students who misbehave are never told they are bad (use this phrase as a search term in your web browser), and not even that they are behaving badly.  They are invited to behold the consequences of their actions and are given a choice of fitting in.  Those who refuse go into in-school suspension and alternative schools to limit the scope of their rebellion.

     http://www.consciousteaching.com/web/wp-content/uploads/CH-13.Breaking-Cycle.CCM_1.pdf is an example of making it hard for teachers.  The teacher is made to negotiate with the student.  This might engender improvement but if there are five students in each class demanding special attention from teacher, teacher doesn't have time to deal with them individually.  After all, the school bus takes the students away after the last period, before mischief or fights break out.  Lower socio-economic (SES) students often have an attitude in-class of "who cares?"  This comes from home, and it runs so deep that some mothers send children to kindergarten with no toilet training--let the teacher do that.  An elementary teacher I know often had adult helpers work with students during regular class time.  One day, she counted five adult helpers at once in her classroom.  Middle-school teachers are posted around campus to quash fights between girls who, overnight, have been insulting each other on social media.

     All in all, a lack of morals produces big problems in society.

1990, repeated at Aug 19 2024 in this time line      https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/the-god-gap-in-american-politics    "When it comes to belonging [to Christianity or not], 1990 is really the hinge. There was almost no gap between the two parties prior to this point in time. But from that point forward, the nones rise incredibly rapidly among the Democrats. It’s a much more modest increase among the Republicans."  [JE:  one would expect that 1970, just after the sexual revolution, would be the 'hinge,' but really the sexual revolution affects mainly young people, and as they age and retain unbelief they take over more and more of the Democrats.  1990 is 25 years after the sexual revolution, and that sounds like enough time for the Dem unbelievers to be taking over much of the Democrats.]

     If unbelief is operative in Democrats, is that what is driving lying among Democrats and the progressive agenda that Biden's aides pushed so strongly, as if Biden, a Catholic, in his deteriorating condition, could not recognize what the progressive aides were foisting, which means 'impose by coercion or trickery'?  To JE, it looks like lying is deemed worthwhile when you are intent to achieve perfection [look at Woodrow Wilson's idea of perfection, the coordinated beehive], and any and all means to that end are worth it, because you believe your opponents are evil and unworthy of honor or tolerance.

1990  Phillip Johnson, law professor at UC Berkeley, writes Darwin On Trial and helps launch intelligent design.  Also Michael Denton, Charles Saxton.  New Oxford Review July-Aug 2009 p. 12 typical pro-evolution Catholic thinking:  "We as Catholics believe that this process was done under God's superintendence, but the exact mechanism by which He accomplished it is not specified.  Therefore I see no problem reconciling evolution with God's Word."  This NOR writer quotes Genesis but leaves out "in His image."  P. 12:  evolutionists and atheists will be destroyed by their own drives and passions for which they can discern no limits.   See 2007 Sep 30      Find on this page or in this Google site similar paragraphs using search term "evoxcross."

from search  for  molecular biologists doubt evolution    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jun/28/do-we-need-a-new-theory-of-evolution             Generation by generation, over unfathomably long periods of time, tiny advantages add up. Eventually, after a few hundred million years, you have creatures who can see as well as humans, or cats, or owls.   JE:  the tiny fraction of mutations that are beneficial are the mutations involving assemblies of hundreds to thousands of DNA base-pairs, like assemblies that provide a full protein.  A beneficial mutation is not just one base-pair, that would be a destructive mutation.  This is understandable when you know about protein folding.

This is the basic story of evolution, as recounted in countless textbooks and pop-science bestsellers. The problem, according to a growing number of scientists, is that it is absurdly crude and misleading.

“The first eye, the first wing, the first placenta. How they emerge. Explaining these is the foundational motivation of evolutionary biology,” says Armin Moczek, a biologist at Indiana University. “And yet, we still do not have a good answer. This classic idea of gradual change, one happy accident at a time, has so far fallen flat.”   the subject of bitter dispute. In 2014, eight scientists took up this challenge, publishing an article in the leading journal Nature that asked “Does evolutionary theory need a rethink?” Their answer was: “Yes, urgently.”

Nature    08 October 2014     Does evolutionary theory need a rethink?

In 2015, the Royal Society in London agreed to host New Trends in Evolution, a conference at which some of the article’s authors would speak alongside a distinguished lineup of scientists. The aim was to discuss “new interpretations, new questions, a whole new causal structure for biology”, one of the organisers told me. But when the conference was announced, 23 fellows of the Royal Society, Britain’s oldest and most prestigious scientific organisation, wrote a letter of protest to its then president, the Nobel laureate Sir Paul Nurse. “The fact that the society would hold a meeting that gave the public the idea that this stuff is mainstream is disgraceful,” one of the signatories told me. Nurse was surprised by the reaction. “They thought I was giving it too much credibility,”

One 2017 paper even suggested some of the theorists behind the EES were part of an “increasing post-truth tendency” within science. The personal attacks and insinuations against the scientists involved were “shocking” and “ugly”, said one scientist, who is nonetheless sceptical of the EES.

deeper question: whether the idea of a grand story of biology is a fairytale we need to finally give up.

In 1959, the developmental biologist CH Waddington lamented ...that anyone working outside the new evolutionary “party line” was ostracised.

Then came a devastating series of new findings that called into question the theory’s foundations. These discoveries, which began in the late 60s, came from molecular biologists. While the modern synthesists looked at life as if through a telescope, studying the development of huge populations over immense chunks of time, the molecular biologists looked through a microscope, focusing on individual molecules. And when they looked, they found that natural selection was not the all-powerful force that many had assumed it to be.

Perhaps the biggest change from the theory’s mid-century glory days is that its most ambitious claims – that simply by understanding genes and natural selection, we can understand all life on earth – have been dropped, or now come weighted with caveats and exceptions. This shift has occurred with little fanfare. The theory’s ideas are still deeply embedded in the field, yet no formal reckoning with its failures or schisms has occurred.

“Parts of the modern synthesis are deeply ingrained in the whole scientific community, in funding networks, positions, professorships,” says Gerd B Müller, head of the Department of Theoretical Biology at the university of Vienna and a major backer of the EES. “It’s a whole industry.”  evoxcross

1991  Shank and Mathies probe the first step in vision, the cis-trans torsional isomerization of the rhodopsin chromophore, using laser pulses as short as 10 femtoseconds.  Loewenstein Physics in Mind 2013 p. 64 calls this coherent quantum behavior at high yield, which is much higher efficiency than is seen in biochemistry.

1991  end of Russian empire, the U.S.S.R.  Economic pressure from U.S. is a big factor, Ronald Reagan.  www.heritage.org/global-politics/commentary/communism... The Soviets had failed to deliver on their grand social promises.  Russians are stuck with the legacies of corruption and poverty.

1991  USSR collapses and trade between Cuba and remnant of USSR withers, along with subsidies from USSR.  The Cuban "special period" brings lack of medicine and food, the latter due to lack of Russian pesticide, high urban population, and staples which aren't nutritious (tobacco and sugar).  The average Cuban loses 20 pounds.  No fuel for farm tractors, plowing is powered by farm animals.  http://www.cubahistory.org/en/special-period-a-recovery.html

1992  SAC and Tactical Air Command cease to exist, replaced by Air Combat Command

1992  Guadalajara--gasoline in sewers explodes for four hours, kills 225.  Twenty square blocks destroyed.

1992  Michelangelo virus on PC floppy-drive boot sectors is a widely feared threat to hard drives

1992  During a U.S. recession, Bill Clinton beats George H. W. Bush.  Clinton is aided by James Carville's "It's the economy, stupid."  Clinton's win is partly from women's attraction to him and his cool saxophone.  Wikipedia:  Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, 1995-1997.      See reviews in Amazon.com for Crisis of Character: A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses...       Wikipedia:  Troopergate, Clinton settles with Paula Jones for $850,000.  "As the troopers saw it, the Clinton's relationship is an effective political partnership, more a business relationship than a marriage."     Clinton's reelection is mostly because his presidency coincides with the dot-com boom on World Wide Web.

1992  Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church is first published.  It is a statement of beliefs.  It has 2800 entries and is on-line.  It has strong condemnation of witchcraft and magic at the insistence of African bishops who have to deal with such things, day-to-day.  New Oxford Review Nov 2021 p. 37  Jesse Romero's first assignment out of police academy is in the Mentally Ill Offenders Unit in LA County.  He notices that majority of MIOU incarcerees are practicing Satanists.  He writes The Devil in the City of Angels.  Romero finds truth in 1 Cor 12:3, no one can say "Jesus is Lord" except by the Holy Spirit.  Romero bargained with a Satanist, get a better meal if you say, "Jesus is Lord."  The inmate tried to say it but could not.  His throat would close up and he would choke.  Romero noted that the air temperature in the cell was dropping.  Romero tried this on other inmates, but other guards made him stop it.  Romero concluded that the inmates he tried this on were not mentally ill, they were demon possessed.  

      Catechism online:  81 Tradition transmits the Word of God to the successors of the apostles   82 the transmission and interpretation of Revelation is entrusted to the Church and does not derive certainty from Scriptures alone.             [This is a key thing that Protestants protest.]

      New Oxford Review May 2024 p. 42 Barbara Rose reviews Thomas Stork The Prosperity Gospel: How Greed and Bad Philosophy Distorted Christ's Teaching [Supreme Court Justice Kennedy wrote the majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges, which found a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, but he is not the most liberal justice.] Kennedy said about Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 1992, "At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life. Beliefs about these matters could not define the attributes of personhood were they formed under compulsion of the State." "A fitting summary of American radical individualism." "A shared worldview for society in Justice Kennedy's statement." Stork or Rose: "The American worldview leaves each man believing his conduct is his affair alone." "Questions of God and meaning taken off the common table and 'relegated to private life.' This is what Woodrow Wilson did at Princeton University, see this time line.   JE: Kennedy's "define one's own concept" is popular in post-modernism but results in chaos in society. Should it be up to the individuals to be small-time drug dealers in poor urban neighborhoods, murdering competitors and debtors?  (As seen on TV reality shows, with disguised voice.)

1992  Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI):  "the problem of what we must do as human beings, of how we should live our lives so that we and the world may become just, is the essential problem of our day."  John Engelbrecht's response:  From a New Testament perspective, there are problems with this Catholic view.  The "world," the organized, Satan-led conspiracy to divert people from God, is not going to become just.  (Justification is the declaring of a person to be just or righteous.)  Ratzinger's emphasis on humans doing something to become just bypasses the role of Jesus to forgive sin, which is the valid way to be just.  Ratzinger hints that being just can come from human effort, from living our lives in certain ways.  Ratzinger implies that just-ness becomes, or develops.  This is at odds with receiving Jesus' gift of forgiveness, by a personal decision to receive it, marked by baptism among Baptists and others.

1992  RICHARD E. DICKERSON:  Science, fundamentally, is a game. It is a game with one overriding and defining rule:  Rule No. 1: Let us see how far and to what extent we can explain the behavior of the physical and material universe in terms of purely physical and material causes, without invoking the supernatural.          Operational science takes no position about the existence or non-existence of the supernatural; only that this factor is not to be invoked in scientific explanations. Calling down special-purpose miracles as explanations constitutes a form of intellectual "cheating."   RICHARD E. DICKERSON    Director, Molecular Biology Institute               UCLA         http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1992/PSCF6-92Dickerson.html       Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 44 (June 1992): 137-138         Isolated quotes:  Calling down special-purpose miracles as explanations constitutes a form of intellectual "cheating."      The vital importance of excluding miracles and divine intervention from the game of science is that allowing such factors to be invoked as explanations discourages the search for other and more systematic causes.                insidious evil of supernatural creationism        future generations [will consider] "scientific creationism" ridiculous                  ...can never be real scientists, and should not be allowed to misrepresent science to young people 

     The writer's response to Prof. Dickerson--I was 27 yrs old when I heard the supernatural explanation of Jesus, that he was God's answer to the failure of Jews to be righteous (without the sins of idolotry and bloody violence, etc.) by the laws of Moses, including animal sacrifice.  (Jews are commanded in the laws received by Moses to make a lot of animal sacrifices, and to use the blood that is collected during ceremonies.)  When I heard about Jesus, and that he, alone among the ancient prophets, is alive now and is listening to my thoughts and attitudes, I was personally without an answer of how to get along with people, following the guidance of secular culture.  The bookstores all had "self help" sections, but that wasn't helpful to me. 

     When I heard that Jesus offers forgiveness, I realized that I needed forgiveness, I received it, and I found that I was suddenly able to interact with people.  I had a new way of thinking, and I could attribute it to the Holy Spirit working in me.     Romans chapter 8:  the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

    Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Divine-Work-Of-The-Holy-Spirit  In the words of 2 Corinthians 5:17, Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.    By the spiritual interpretation of the Bible, I was a new person at age 27, redeemed by Jesus.  This was not something that I could have brought about by reading a self-help book.  I hear similar thoughts from plenty of people who received Jesus' forgiveness as adults.     

     Being open to the supernatural, and not falling for the fakes, is important.  And yet, I am attracted to science and electronics.  And I seek to introduce people to Jesus' forgiveness.  Would Prof. Dickerson tell me that I must leave spiritual things behind when I share technology with students?  I read about intelligent design and Behe's Darwin's Black Box and find clues that evolution did not cause the plants and animals to come about.  Evolution thinking keeps people from paying attention to Jesus.  Prof. Dickerson, should I hold back from mentioning Jesus to students?  Am I evil when I advocate that people should receive Jesus' forgiveness?   Should I not be allowed to misrepresent science to young people?   Find on this page or in this Google site similar paragraphs using search term "evoxcross."

1997  Kyoto Protocol to the Framework Convention, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992. 

Here is a line of thinking about atmospheric carbon dioxide.  Ref:  Lawrence Krauss ATOM p. 239, and the writer once heard that the yearly, global burning of fossil fuel is about a cubic mile.  How does this relate to atmospheric oxygen?  A cubic mile of burned fossil fuel is about 1/200 of the yearly production of organic material by plants, algae, etc.  Atmospheric oxygen is enough that, if it were all used to burn the organic matter produced by plants, algae, etc., it could burn 1000 years of organic production.  Life recycles carbon (other than what is in rocks) every 200 years.  Atmospheric carbon (CO2) is 1/100,000 of the carbon in rock and organic sediment.  Oxygen in the atmosphere is a similar, small proportion of oxygen in water and rocks.  Other references say that CO2 is very dilute in the atmosphere, plants can't grow very fast because they are starved for CO2.

     Net:  burning fossil fuel takes an amount of molecular oxygen from the atmosphere and locks it into other compounds, but it isn't half, not by a long shot. 

1992  Runaway greenhouse effect becomes widely known, with positive feedback and a threshold beyond which there is no hope.  Bible-believing Christians look to the Bible and are willing for the environmentalists to worry about this, while Christians concentrate on the limited lifespan of any one person and the need during that life to hear about Jesus' offer of forgiveness and receive it.      You laid the foundations of the earth...they will perish, but you remain...they will be discarded...the children of your servants will live in your presence.    The present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment...the Lord is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance...the elements will be destroyed by fire...you ought to live holy and godly lives...the elements will melt in the heat...look forward to this.   

     JE:  I look at the surging worldwide power consumption (China and India seeking air conditioning) and recognize that worldwide power consumption could reach five times the present usage (just my feel for it).  That would indeed be a climate changer, so I don't balk too much when environmentalists insist that energy consumption be scaled back.  Our present apartment, five years old, has excellent attic insulation, and our power bill is pretty low, as we set the thermostat at 78/79 in summer, 68 in winter (and use a space heater for local comfort).  So I consider that we are doing our part.  But the push for electric vehicles using lithium (a rare element, 33rd most abundant in the crust, 20 ppm, though lead is rarer and tin is only 2.3 ppm) batteries involves so much mining and nasty-chemical processing that lithium batteries shouldn't power half the world's vehicles.

1992  SIECUS notices in NSTA newspaper raise John Engelbrecht's curiosity, he orders the five-pound material set to see what they advocate and finds advocacy of sexual deviancy in the guise of freedom.  SIECUS, Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States promotes comprehensive sex education in school, starting in kindergarten, and provides materials.  From Planned Parenthood Federation and in the spirit of Freud.  Criticized by Focus on the Family and Concerned Women for America. 

1993   After a bomb-free gap of six years, Ted Kaczynski resumes his bombings, stimulated by Branch Davidians and the Oklahoma City bomber.  He ends up killing three and injuring or disabling many others.  In 1995, Kaczynski's brother's wife suspects Ted Kaczynski is the Unabomber.  FBI takes a tip from Kaczynski's brother and arrests him in 1996.  Kaczynski's planned arson of his cabin, and escape to Canada, is narrowly thwarted.  Investigators find 30,000 pages of diaries, chemicals, tools, homemade bomb parts, and one bomb ready for mailing.  See 1985.

1993  WIMP, weakly interacting massive particle, shows up in literature as one theory for dark matter

1993  CD writers (drives) in personal computers drop in price, are popular means of archiving

1993  Violence in video games;  game rating system;  Doom

1993  fire at Sumitomo, Japan chip-packaging epoxy plant stops production of 60% of world's supply, doubles DRAM memory-chip price

1965  in an integrated circuit 200 transistors       1975 4500  1985 300,000  1993 4,000,000 transistors in 32-bit Pentium-4 microprocessor   2005 600,000,000  2010 1 billion

1993  Branch Davidians cult die in Waco fire;  their compound had a lot of straw inside & was flammable

1993  Bioethicist Prof. Peter Singer, Princeton Univ,  advocates for infanticide of disabled babies.  Up to 30 days after birth, he says no baby should be considered a person.  New Oxford Review Sept 2015 p. 32 College students champion such views, and also mercy killing of seniors and disabled who have "slipped below the threshold of self-awareness and societal utility."  Singer:  "life unworthy of life."                  Practical Ethics       He says the notion of sanctity of life ought to be discarded as outdated, unscientific, and irrelevant to understanding problems in contemporary bioethics.     Steve Forbes quit donating to Princeton.     Singer has debated Dinesh D'Souza.     If a god "made the world it cannot be all-powerful and all good.  He must be either evil or a bungler."

1993    continuing from 1981 in this time line, Episcopalians reject orthodoxy

New Oxford Review Nov 2023 p. 40  Smith Jr.      By 1993, the orthodox-leaning "Halifax School" in King's College becomes ineffective in pushing for orthodoxy against the overwhelming liberalism of Episcopalians and Anglicans (other than those in Africa).  The younger philosophers in King's College "have little professional interest in the Anglican tradition."  A few Canadian Episcopalians have taken refuge in the Roman Catholic Church, as have the orthodox thinkers in New Oxford Review.

1993  Progressive-leaning Southern Seminary (SBC Baptist, Louisville Kentucky) has a forced change of leadership.  This is part of when conservatives in SBC won over progressives, the Conservative Resurgence, saving SBC from the fate of Episcopalians and UMC.  Pres. Roy Honeycutt is out, Albert Mohler is in.  Some women professors are fired.  Much controversy among students and professors.  Enrollment drops by 700 and takes 9 years to recover.  Women pastors are being championed.  One fired woman is Molly Marshall.  She finds a seminary teaching position at Central Baptist Theological Seminary (American Baptist, not SBC) and becomes president in 2004.  She resigned in 2020 due to an "ethical lapse."  

Take a look at values at her next seminary, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities.  "We actually revel in charting new pathways of wisdom."  "Four foci:  social transformation, theology and the arts, public theology, and interreligious engagement."  "Justice."  "Activists."  "Progressive Christianity."  This type of thinking in a seminary leads to heterodoxy and eventual shrinkage of the institution.  Evidence of this:  look in this time line at UU, located in the time line at 2017, especially "UU is in danger of becoming just another church," also "Doomed to Fail at Its Goals."  Mohler plays some role in Rick Warren and Beth Moore leaving SBC.

2023 Sept 15  Baptist Standard web site, where the Standard took the liberal side in the 90s but has come around to conservative recently---In 2023, Southern Seminary is "thriving" when Christian higher education is in turmoil.  Mohler's longevity is from a solid work ethic and thick skin.  

1994 The "radioactive Boy Scout" (see Wikipedia) collects thorium and lithium during his attempt to make an amateur breeder reactor.  The shed housing his equipment had perhaps 1000x background radiation, and his accumulated thorium was hazardous.

1994  share ware for PCs is popular, distributed by floppy disks & later by "bulletin boards," before World Wide Web

1994    NFL Commissioner Tagliabue creates the Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee.  By 2012, numerous NFL players kill themselves & are found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), diagnosed by microscope evaluation of brain tissue, a degenerative disease that many attribute to concussions sustained during football games, & early return to play.   2013   NFL and ex-players propose settlement of lawsuit:  NFL to pay $765 million to fund medical exams, concussion-related compensation, etc.

1994  start of World Wide Web growth, with interlinked documents, fast search engines, and graphical browsers;  people who can filter out falsehood can do research online, without library, though printed books, textbooks, & magazines make better sense of threads of thought.  Much of the searched material is stored in DRAM memory full-time, this is why searches yield results in seconds.

1994   Ms. Sidney Abbott files lawsuit in federal court arguing that she had been discriminated against (by a dentist) in violation of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities, including HIV status. Including HIV in ADA is controversial.   Supreme Court agrees to hear the case, the first time the Supreme Court rules on ADA/HIV.     Ryan White, 13 yrs old, has contracted AIDS from hemophilia treatment, is denied schooling in Kokomo, Indiana, and becomes a focus for AIDS anti-discrmination.  Ryan White CARE Act provides public funding for HIV-positive people.  See 1984 GLAD, 2013 Nov 29

1994  The physician of Chairman Mao for 22 years writes Private Life of Chairman Mao.  Mao, who died in 1976, had some personal habits common to Chinese peasants.  His oral hygiene was tea based instead of toothbrush based.  But he had a lot of oral infection and lost teeth.  In line with Daoist philosophy, he believed that the more women he slept with, the longer he would live...bedding three, four and five partners at a time. Given the chairman’s godlike status among the Chinese people, it never took any coaxing to scare up willing young partners.  The doctor treated Mao for severe problems before the meeting with Nixon in 1972 that turned around China-U.S. relations.  “Mao had no friends, and his only entertainment was sex.”   http://people.com/archive/the-tyrants-physician-vol-42-no-17/

1994  IBM employment 300,000,  which is down 100,000 down from peak in 1986.  Plant closings.  Outsider Gerstner forces the shrinkage to save the company, something the promoted-from-within CEOs couldn't do.  He was CEO and board chairman from 1993 to 2002.  1993:  11-year stock value low.  The writer, John E, left IBM in 1990 in return for a lump-sum leaving incentive that was not a golden parachute, but a modest vested-rights pension eventually gave some longer-term income, though decreasing year by year due to inflation.  John went to St. Edward's U in Austin to get teacher certification, which was key to his employment in TSTC for twelve years, starting 1992, because the electronics program at TSTC experimented with training Brownwood high school students in DC and AC Circuits, and the electronics program was housed at Brownwood High School for four years, displacing the woodworking shop.  

     In 1990, in IBM Austin, employees were still under the "full employment" policy of IBM, in which layoffs are rare and retraining is the norm.  But other companies were designing products with a quarter of the staffing of the IBM Development Labs, and some IBM divisions competed with each other, providing multiple product lines where single products could have sufficed.  The annual employee survey, a difficult experience for each first-line manager because they were at the mercy of their employees, ended about 1989, and IBM Family Day, the annual, high-budget affair, ended about 1990.  In Spring 1990 at IBM Austin, many engineers were pretty much treading water, their productive jobs expiring, but little follow-on work following.  After John left, many employees nearing retirement were shifted into jobs they were ill suited to, then they were fired "for cause" for not "meeting expectations," pretty much a dirty trick.  It was a choice between accepting a meager leaving incentive vs. gambling that one could eek out a year or two in a very difficult new line of IBM work and retire with medical benefits.  Very stressful.  John got a decent medical exam shortly before leaving IBM;  the nurse assured John that there was life after IBM, and she was seeing plenty of employees who were conflicted about loyalty to the company.  But many employees, living for decades in IBM's maternal environment, felt loyalty to IBM and were fearful of having to get a job outside IBM, especially when they would forfeit a generous retirement income.  U.S. employment in general was in a time of changing from life-long employment in one line of work to having multiple careers and living in different places.  For John's family, twelve years in Brownwood at TSTC was a good experience.  For daughter, college credit during high school, at Howard Payne U, was a great advantage;  exposure to different career potentials.

mid 1990s    Russian oligarchs take power      https://theconversation.com/meet-russias-oligarchs-a-group-of-men-who-wont-be-toppling-putin-anytime-soon-178474  The first group emerged out of the privatization of the 1990s...marred by significant corruption, culminating in the infamous “loans for shares” scheme, which transferred stakes in 12 large natural resource companies from the government to select tycoons in exchange for loans intended to shore up the federal budget.  The government intentionally defaulted on its loans, allowing its creditors...to auction off the stakes in giant companies such as Yukos, Lukoil and Norilsk Nickel, typically to themselves. In essence, then-President Boris Yeltsin’s administration appeared to enrich a small group of tycoons by selling off the most valuable parts of the Soviet economy at a hefty discount.      Companies had been run on Soviet principles:  no stock control, huge payrolls, no financial reporting, little regard for profit margin.      foreign policy.com  Prior to Putin's rise to the top in 2000, a gangster state.  Putin did not end corruption, but asserted the state over all else.  Infighting among the oligarchs is kept out of the public eye [, as infighting among the top Kremlin officials happened in the 1940s and probably nonstop since, see Kravchenko's book.]               See also 2022 Mar 7 in this time line.

1995     Since 1970, 39% of Catholic priests have left priesthood.

    http://www.leavingthepriesthood.com/LessonsLearned.html     As a married [former] priest...all are God's children and all are recipients of grace.  As Catholic priests, we can help all our fellow humans perceive and celebrate the holiness of human life and build bridges...to help all our human brothers and sisters benefit from the wisdom of Jesus that was never meant to separate humans or put them down but to unite them.   JE:  this former priest thinks all religions are on the same path to God.      From a woman who loves a former priest:  "barbaric, inhumane practice of celibacy."

1995 approx.  (see 1917)  Einstein's cosmological constant may be based in reality.  Empty space between stars, even if shielded from radiation & cooled to absolute zero, may contain strings or tiny black holes.  Rees:  Just Six Numbers The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe 2000 p. 107-109.

1995  Intel Pentium processor division lookup table error:  5 of 1066 table entries are blank, 1 in 9 billion random divides gives error in 9th or 10th digit.  Problem escapes Intel's development testing & is found by users.  Intel offers corrected processors to people who want them.

1995  USB (universal serial bus) for easy device attachment to personal computers gradually gains adherents, replacing old connection means for keyboard, mouse, printer, serial communication, etc.  Flash memory, cameras, & wireless adapters are some of the important applications.  John E. in TSTC Brownwood is an early adopter, pays $60 for a 16MB USB Flash drive, in 2000.  The USB revolution continues unabated in 2015 as Arduino uses USB.  See 1998 August.

1995  Japan   Ruby is a scripting computer language borrowing from Smalltalk, Eiffel, Lisp, and Perl.  More object oriented than Python.  2005 Ruby on Rails is a web application framework written entirely in Ruby.  Apple includes it with Mac OS X operating system, Leopard.  Ruby has a data type for imaginary numbers and another for rational numbers (one integer divided by another integer like 19/7 which gives a repeating decimal portion).  Bignum natively handles arbitrary precision integers, and this is interesting to John E in 2016 when I happen across repunits, see 1966 in this time line.  Ruby is cool while Python is business.

1995  Pope John Paul II mentions "culture of death" in Evangelium Vitae.  See 2008.

1995  In Oct 2024, JE is looking on Internet for "is adult discipline disappearing from the West."  Without 'adult' in the search phrase, it turns up lots of school situations where "in-equity" is happening in schools, as racial minorities receive more disciplinary action.  They can't find a way to achieve discipline without more consequences for minorities.

     But with 'adult' in the search phrase, it turns up an Australian, Dr. LJ Mark Cooray, and the web site is 

https://www.ourcivilisation.com/cooray/btof/chap106.htm.  From 'The Work Ethic and Discipline.'   I can't find a book like this and I can't back up to previous chapters to get more info, but it seems to be 1995.  LMJ Cooray died in 2014.  There is lots of info here that conservatives like.  The web page bears no copyright notice. 

     Bertrand Russell "What people will do in given circumstances depends enormously upon their habits; and good habits are not acquired without discipline. Most of us go through life without stealing, but many centuries of police discipline have gone into producing this abstention which now seems natural." (Portraits from Memory and Other Essays, London (1956) p 15).

     Quotes         Progressive forces undermined the traditional props of good manners, industry and responsible individualism.  The work ethic may be regarded as a form of discipline.  British shoplifting, vandalism and even arson in schools.  Abuse of referees in sports.  Discipline has broken down in many homes under the influence of the doctrine of permissive child raising.   Parents fear harming their offspring by harsh restraints upon their "natural" and "creative" instincts.  Societal decline of discipline produces violent crime; robberies, assaults with deadly weapons, rapes, murders and brutal sex-murders.  [See TV in 2021, 48 Hours.  The criminals think they can get away with anything.]   The doctrine that discipline is to be contrasted with love.  [Discipline is a necessary part of love.  A husband should discipline himself to honor his wife:  no adultery, no porn.]  Freud started much wrong thinking.  The miscreant is a victim of circumstances, with a damaged personality (which needs to be rehabilitated); a person is therefore not responsible for his own actions.  Treating the human being as a behavioural machine, purely "conditioned by circumstances".  The conception of human behaviour as deterministic.  [In reality, then,] punishment is, therefore, an act of love.  Low self-esteem, are unwilling to assume personal responsibility, and a helplessness in that they believe that they cannot alter their behaviour or exert any influence over their destiny.  So many people are not growing up with the spiritual reserves to face difficulties, deal with problems, resist temptations and discharge duties.

1996  Michael Denton, agnostic     Evolution: A Theory in Crisis   p. 329  "artificial languages and their decoding systems, memory banks for information storage and retrieval, elegant control systems regulating the automated assembly of parts and components, error fail-safe and proof-reading devices utilized for quality control, assembly processes involving the principle of prefabrication and modular construction . . . replicating its entire structure within a matter of a few hours."   Find on this page or in this Google site similar paragraphs using search term "evoxcross."

     https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1398381/posts  how could the genetic information of bacteria gradually evolve into information for another type of being, when only one or a few minor mistakes in the millions of letters in that bacterium's DNA can kill it?            Evolutionists are uncharacteristically silent on the subject.    Lee Strobel writes: "No hypothesis has come close to explaining how information got into biological matter by naturalistic means" (The Case for a Creator, 2004  p. 282)         Werner Gitt  "The basic flaw of all evolutionary views is the origin of the information in living beings. It has never been shown that a coding system and semantic information could originate by itself [through matter] . . . The information theorems predict that this will never be possible. A purely material origin of life is thus [ruled out]" (p. 124, Gitt, Werner (2007), In the Beginning was Information.)

1996 May 11  Carl Sagan     About the blue dot photograph from Voyager spacecraft, at distance of Pluto    "There is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us."    But Kathy Schiffer says, as "he found the evidence for Christianity...to be wanting, so, too, did he find atheists’ refutation of faith as unpersuasive."

1996  World!Of Numbers is copyrighted 1996 Patrick De Geest      and is related somewhat to http://www.worldofnumbers.com/index.html.     See also in this time line  1999  Makoto Kamada's  Studio Kamada, stdkmd.net.

1996  Meridian 59 and The Realm Online popularize massively multiplayer online role playing games.  They utilize Internet after NSFNET restrictions are lifted (NSFNET Acceptable Use Policy) and as the commercial Internet supersedes NSFNET.

1996   movie Independence Day popularizes Area 51 and the UFO community.  See Bob Lazar at 1989.  The UFO community is in part "MUFON," Mutual UFO Network since 1973.

1996    Aid to Families with Dependent Children, a component of welfare, is increasingly linked to unmarried childbearing & poverty  http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/1996/06/bg1084nbsp-how-welfare-harms-kids

1996  one million antiprotons from a single LEAR shot are captured, 65% are cooled and stored for up to an hour in some container that isn't antimatter

late 1990s   Predictive coding as the way the brain works has been proposed since 1981 or the late 1990s.

1996 Nov 12     a prime number with 420,921 digits is found with a computer using Intel Pentium processor at 90MHz.  The 35th Mersenne prime number is 21398269-1   which is 420,921 digits, which takes 118 pages to print at font size 12.  See an excerpt of this number, below.

     This enormous prime offered as a .txt file on this web site    https://www.bigprimes.net/archive/mersenne/

     An even larger Mersenne prime, from 2017 Dec 26, is as a zip file, 50th Mersenne     277232917-1     23,249,425 digits, which is 56 times the size of the 35th.

      It is interesting to search for specific sequences of digits in this 35th Mersenne prime.  There are 2 occurrences of 00000, 8 occurrences of 99999.  For 6-digit sequences, there are 2 occurrences of 111111     2 occurrences of 345678     2 occurrences of 010101.

     Here is a part of this large integer:

8147175644125730751426772643891354260153137830850222710321145104846993803089961608340980239948586278

8639879215619853405154094496852134285342707270241970389262959759486835354262...118 pages of 12 pitch skipped...10566941671407840766096490214519222608446644506684346608284609080353564816395117984

1701129446624067443586287891920529572646735633955407734562739684274609503632628077779067477683462531

985532025868451315711   

     As is true of all prime numbers greater than 5, this prime number ends in one of these:  1, 3, 7, 9.  The large primes like this Mersenne prime are surrounded by "prime gaps."  Whereas the prime gaps between small primes (11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29) are short (2, 4, 2, 4, and 6), the prime gaps for large primes such as this 420,921-digit prime are much wider, often a million integers wide or even ten million.  In a prime gap, the consecutive integers are all divisible, leaving the long prime integers as isolated primes in seas of divisible numbers.  But since computers take years to prove one single, big number to be prime, it is impossible to prove the size of gaps among the big primes, because the primality of millions of numbers surrounding any big prime has to be proven.

1997 Nicholas Gisin uses entangled photons to enable communication over a distance of seven miles, instantly (faster than speed of light) but some say no real info can be transmitted

1997 Computers are being used to simulate protein folding and molecular dynamics, investigating the role of the side chains and how burial inside a folded protein gives these macromolecules stability and changes chemical activity.      

http://ffamber.cnsm.csulb.edu/pubs/Pande_royal-soc_chapter_2008.pdf CHAPTER 8

2008  Computer Simulations of Protein Folding VIJAY S. PANDE , ERIC J. SORIN , CHRISTOPHER D. SNOW AND YOUNG MIN RHEE Stanford University indicates that femtosecond time scale of bond vibrations is a desirable simulation starting point, but iterations to build up picosecond isomeration and nanosecond helix forms must compose simulations for microsecond-long folding of the fastest protein folders.  Slow folders take seconds to fold.  In 2008, one CPU can only calculate millions of iterations per day, whereas 10^-6 / 10^-15 = billions of iterations are needed for even the fastest folders.  Additional computational problems are accuracy and seeing the folding in the data, and different quantum-mechanical behavior of atoms in different environments, such as carbon in a hydrocarbon chain vs. carbon in an aromatic ring.       In Darwin's Black Box by Michael Behe 1998, Behe says irreducible complexity and intelligent design are most clearly seen in the complexity of the chemistry of life, biochemistry.

1997  Russian Kasparov has never lost a chess match, destroying all the grandmasters by the age of 22. He's beaten IBM's Deep Blue once before and wins game one easily.  Deep Blue, in retrospect, is believed to have made a random move due to a program error while calculating millions of moves to prolong the game, but Kasparov thinks Deep Blue committed suicide and has unknowable abilities.  In game two, Deep Blue is dominating. Kasparov is visibly frustrated. He is rubbing his face, sighing, and then abruptly Kasparov just walks off the stage and forfeits the game. His fans analyze the match and figure something out - something Kasparov, an undefeated grandmaster should have seen. If he had not stormed off the stage but instead just played his normal game, he could've tied Deep Blue.  (Wikipedia)     See March 2016 for computer beating Lee Sedol in Go.

1997  CRA (Community Reinvestment Act) involves govt. in financing loans for people with insufficient ability to repay; Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac CRA-grade loan quotas

1997  Heaven's Gate leader Applewhite in San Diego leads 39 to poison themselves, thinking they could enter a vehicle hidden by the Hale-Bopp comet & avoid the end of the earth

https://time.com/archive/6730620/the-man-who-spread-the-myth/    Courtney Brown, an Emory University professor, called in to the Art Bell Coast to Coast late-night radio program: "his team of three psychic “remote viewers” had focused on Shramek’s object and determined it was a spaceship full of aliens." A [fake] photograph of the craft...radio signals were coming from the object, indicating it was “intelligently driven.”  This may have encouraged the Heaven's Gate cult to complete their mass suicide.

1997  Harry Potter book series starts.  The casual observer understands that witchcraft and magic are central to the book.  A Wikipedia article will eventually say that the overarching theme is death.  The writer considers that Harry Potter isn't good for children (from 1997 to 2022), just as fairy tales are not good because they set up a body of childhood knowledge that later has to be filtered through in families that pay attention to the Bible.   Fairy tales are so embedded in culture that there is no getting around them.  The Wikipedia article brings out some criticism of the book series starting with the fifth book:   governed by clichés and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing...written for people whose imaginative lives are confined to TV cartoons...soaps, reality TV and celebrity gossip.  The bad influence of mediums and witches is spoken against in many places in the Bible:  Leviticus 20:27 a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death, Revelation 21:8 sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, Galatians 5:19-21 sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, Deuteronomy 18:9-14 When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you...anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or ... a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you. Acts 19:19 those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them, Acts 16:16-19  we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination...She followed Paul and us, crying out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation” ... for many days. Paul ... “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.”   The worst part of Coast to Coast AM is the frequency of mediums.

1997  Following after Independence Day, Men in Black movie;  in the script, funded by royalties on Velcro (see 1948), microwave ovens (see 1967), and liposuction (see 1987)

1997  World Wide Web, WWW, in common use in U.S.  1998, Netscape releases Mozilla open-source browser.  1996, Microsoft's Internet Explorer released.

1997   [W]e have a prior commitment ... to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to ... produce material explanations ... [T]hat materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.   (Richard Lewontin, Billions and Billions of Demons, New York Review of Books, p. 28 (January 9, 1997)     http://www.evolutionnews.org/2012/08/larry_moran_and063221.html       Find on this page or in this Google site similar paragraphs using search term "evoxcross."

        The Science Teacher Dec 1999 p. 10 Commentary by Prof. Skoog, Texas Tech U, a former president of NSTA      This is standard grandstanding by one who is enmeshed in the evolution mainstream and whose job demands his adherence to the story line.  "Only four state standards address human evolution."  JE:  this reflects the public's strong doubt of macro-evolution and "descent from common ancestors."          NSTA has a position paper, The Teaching of Evolution.  It pounds faith-based views.  "The professional responsibilities of science teachers should not be 'bound by censorship, inconsistencies, pseudo-science, faulty scholarship, or unconstitutional mandates.'"     JE:  the censorship condemned by Prof. Skoog is practiced by most materialists as they seek to exclude alternative views from schools.

JE:  when popular support for macro-evolution melts away in the face of the biochemical challenges to evolution that are evident starting around 1996 with Darwin's Black Box (I think around 2035), the old battles over what science teachers should teach will be forgotten.  But the battles are hot now.  Materialists insist that macro-evolution creates new families-orders-classes-phyla.  I have other comments about this through this time line.  

In the same The Science Teacher magazine is page 8, commentary by Bybee of BSCS.  He has high-sounding phrases like "science as inquiry," the "lack of scientific evidence" on the part of creationists and intelligent-design proponents, "futile to try reasoning," "our crusade," "explanations are tentative and open to skepticism," "slippery slope of arguments with creationists," and "the nature of science."  I can take pot shots against some of Bybee's statements.  "Science as inquiry" is not how macro-evolution is advanced by materialists, they treat macro-evolution with faith, much as a religion.  Contrary evidence from biochemistry is ignored.  "Lack of scientific evidence" actually is a charge against materialists;  there is a dearth of transitional forms, when new organs like wings (or more heart chambers, cold to warm blood) are gained.  Materialist "explanations are tentative and open to skepticism" does not match with the "crusade" of materialists who don't sound at all tentative or open to skepticism.  "The nature of science" in universities, when measured by time spent by researchers, is significantly in grant writing, reputation building, and empire building.  In this same magazine, page 27, is an article that shows how many science teachers are skeptical about evolution.  The force for materialism in NSTA comes from the Board of Directors, which says "teachers should not advocate any religious view about creation."  The article advises, essentially, that progressive biology teachers need more indoctrination through more college courses so they can break free from theism.  JE's comment is that the cell is realized to be more and more complex, and less and less explainable in terms of random mutations and selection of the fittest, as biologists perceive the parts of cells at the molecular level.  See in this time line  2002  Biochemists...   kinesin and dynein molecular motors that are free-standing machines made of about 60,000 atoms each, powered by ATP that floats around in the cell.

1997  Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression draws on newly opened archives to chronicle 100 million deaths perpetrated by Communism, far exceeding the 25 million killed by Nazis.  The book is written by Frenchmen.  Just Communism in China (Mao) killed 65 million.  Li Rui, in www.the commentator.com/article/4486/mao..., tells of Mao calling himself "Emperor Qin and Marx in one."  Another work is Communism: A Hundred Years After the Russian Revolution, it Lives on More Than You Think but I don't know that it is a book.      70 years of political repression by communist states, genocides, executions, deportations, and deaths in labor camps and created famines.  Tens of millions dead, untold suffering before death. 

1997  is in the middle of a time span from 1985 to 2018 when an astronomical fact is discovered, 100ºK, dense, molecular clouds (often cited are H2 and CO) (with mass up to 100,000 Sun masses) (which are opaque to most radiation) are found to dissipate energy-of-motion of the molecules through excitation of molecular vibrational and other, low-energy, states, radiate the energy away as microwaves and long infrared (which can escape the cloud), and allow the cloud to cool to 10ºK and collapse through self-gravitation to form stars.  The 100ºK clouds have atoms and molecules with too much kinetic energy, the particles fall toward a center of mass but don't stick around, they just orbit onward, out of the densest region.  At  10ºK, cloud collapse can happen.        There are many (thousands?) of subtle things going on in space.        References:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_formation including references, Krauss ATOM 2001 p. 83, https://www.astrophysicsspectator.com/topics/milkyway/MolecularClouds.html, many others found by searching with dense molecular cloud cooling star formation collapse      Large telescopes are a key to sort through strands of theory and pick the most likely theories.

    This physics is understandable after one knows about photon interactions with the electrons in atoms, https://physics.info/qed/ .  This site treats only isolated atoms, not H2 molecules which can interact with low-energy photons (up to far infrared).      Concerning the electrons around isolated atoms, far infrared and longer wavelengths do not affect the atoms.  Near infrared through UV excite electrons to energetic states, which can later radiate photons.  Visible light and UV can also knock electrons out of atoms, creating ions which are susceptible to magnetic-field constraint, magneto-hydrodynamics.  X-rays can eject an atom's electron and scatter a lower-energy photon.

    Richard Feynman had told average but curious people, QED p. 9:  "What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school… It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see, my physics students don't understand it… That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does."

1997 June  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_Canada    The Saskatchewan Human Rights Tribunal holds that Hugh Owens had breached the Human Rights Code by placing in a newspaper an advertisement that gave citations for passages in the Bible. The passages are about           behaviour...Court of Appeal reversed the Tribunal's decision.   

    June 2002, Reverend Stephen Boissoin sent to the Red Deer Advocate a letter to the editor..."the     machine that has been mercilessly gaining ground in our society since the 1960s". Dr. Darren Lund complained about Boissoin's remarks to the AHRCC. In the end, the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench dismissed the complaint.      The humorous and flamboyant Canadian Mark Steyn, substituting on the Rush Limbaugh Program in the U.S., refers to such Canadian limitations on free speech.

    May 2022 San Antonio WOAI local program Sidebar with Nico LaHood, Christian attorney, on Saturday mornings--his brother was murdered in his own driveway some years ago--opinion on-air that 1997 is when traditional opinions started being silenced in the press.  Reference to Democrat book, RIP GOP.  Actually, the doom and gloom in this book overlooks the narrow divide of voters;  time and again in the news of 2020 to 2022, the U.S. Senate is stymied by the 60-vote cloture rule as progressives try to plow ahead.  When the Senate votes with a 51-vote threshold, news anchors make much of the requirement for the U.S. vice president to push the vote to 51-50, and Democrats Manchin and Sinema place some principles above party.  In 2022, it does not appear that the U.S. has slipped down a progressive ice slope, considering the potential 5-4 Supreme Court vote to trash the faulty logic of Roe v. Wade, raging inflation, $4.40 per gallon gasoline and the return to energy dependence, high lumber price for new homes, Washington willful ignorance of the immigration flood from Mexico, the dicey Russia threats by Putin about Ukraine, surging crime in the wake of progressive demands to defund police, Oct 2021 AG Garland spurring FBI to treat parents like terrorists when they protest at school-board meetings.

1997 Aug 17   Concerning the use of A.D., B.C., C.E., B.C.E.:  At the height of the controversy, the American journalist William Safire, longtime author of "On Language" in The New York Times Magazine, polled his readers about their preference: Should it be B.C./A.D. or B.C.E./C.E., in deference to Muslims, Jews and other non-Christians? "Disagreement was sharp," he said.

1998  Microsoft's hostility toward open-source software and Linux are revealed by the Halloween Documents, leaked internal Microsoft documents.  Microsoft's earnings are threatened by open source.

1998 May  Pakistan makes its first atom-bomb test

1998  Republic of Fear is updated from initial publication in 1989.  The domination of Saddam Hussein in Iraq through the Ba'thi regime, socialists.  His invasion of Kuwait "the chamber of horrors that is Saddam's Iraq has grown into something that not even the most morbid imagination could have dreamed up."  The fabrication of enemies to divert attention from reality.

1998  U.S. switches from analog TV to digital TV, DTV.  Analog TV sets can be outfitted with $70 converters.  LCD, flat-screen TVs will be DTV only, 1998.

1998  magazine Science #1 rated:  cosmic expansion is not decelerating, it is accelerating, based on two studies of type 1A supernovae.  Perlmutter;  dark energy (but see doubt at 2020 Jan 7 in this time line); Einstein's lambda (cosmological constant).

1998  computer simulations of 106 solar mass of almost uniform gas, the early, expanding universe, show increasing density variation in 3x106 yrs, due to gravity, an indication that galaxies could form. Just Six Numbers p. 124           Such a uniform gas would be in the "Dark Age," 400,000 years and more after Big Bang, after the universe has cooled by expansion below incandescence, to where atoms are not ionized any more.  The uniform gas is expanding into empty space and continues to cool, but there are no stars until some hundreds of millions of years, so it is dark in the visible wavelengths, around 0.6 micron.  The uniform gas has a black-body temperature that is quite hot, emitting near infrared, and is far hotter than the 3 degrees K of our present universe, which emits the microwave background radiation.

1998  MacKinnon uses X-ray diffraction on biochemical crystals to see the potassium channel in a cell membrane, the channel being a structure of proteins in the lipids of the membrane.  The narrow part of the channel is known to have a diameter of 2.66 angstroms.  His research is at Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) of Cornell University and National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) of Brookhaven National Laboratory.

1998 or so John Stevenson, electrical engineer at Hughes & Motorola    http://www.onelife.com    modern social engineering...pornography is now mature or adult, homosexual is gay, the masculinizing of the female is called feminism, a degenerating social culture calls itself liberal or progressive, abortion is now family planning...Our liberal arts education, from which comes culture...mired in an erroneous thought pattern: that knowledge can come from the mind based on premises that need no proof...no verification...error lies in following philosophers who...taught that truth comes from pure thought and that all humans are capable of pure thought if properly educated. We have since learned that the human is not inherently wise and is in fact quite prone to error.

1990s, late   whole-genome sequencing      2021 cell.com  Blais, Archibald  "The past, present, and future of the tree of life"      Related to LUCA, last universal common ancestor, see Wikipedia, 4 billion years ago, deep-sea hydrothermal vents, not Darwin's warm little pond.    Related to phylogeny, evolutionary development and diversification of a species or group of organisms.

Comparative genomics in the late 1990s:  lateral (horizontal) gene transfer in prokaryotes, "even closely related organisms where found to differ substantially in gene content."  Should it be the tree of life, or a network (mosaic, net)?  Haeckel had drawn "vivid depictions of evolutionary trees," 1866.  It became a unifying metaphor.  Then "genomes of bacteria and archaea were found to be mosaics."  Heated debate, peaking in 2006.  "The debate has quieted down."  But "tree- and network-thinking still underpin distinct research agendas."  Co-evolution, symbiosis and environmental factors are traditionally excluded from phylogeny.  "What scientists value, what they research."  [If they don't value intelligent design, they don't research it.]   evoxcross

1998  Liberal Episcopal leader (liberalism is pushed down onto the masses by the leaders) Bishop Spong knows of twelve ways that Christianity must be reformed.  Paraphrased by JE.

• The better way to speak of God is to avoid theism.

• Jesus may have been a man but wasn't God.

• A perfect and sin-free creation is pre-Darwinian thinking.

• Any Christ couldn't have been born of a virgin.

• Miracles written of in the New Testament can't be supernatural.  Such thinking is obsolete since Newton's thinking.

• The cross as the place of forgiveness is barbarism.

• Whatever Jesus' resurrection was, it wasn't in history.

• Jesus' ascension, below-Earth, on-Earth, in-Heaven, contradicts the Copernican model of the universe.

• Morals must be capable of changing.  They are not static.  They are not limited to the Ten Commandments or the Bible.

• Prayer exists but cannot be people communicating to anything theistic.

• Churches must not motivate behavior through guilt.

• Respect each person and any morals he/she advocates.

Mark Tooley in 2021 noted that Spong's thinking was Modernism 

• there are good ways to behave, 

• but different people prefer different ways and are entitled to their preferences, 

• rejection of the certainty of Enlightenment reason 

at a time when Postmodernism favors

• no universal meaning, 

• no single truth, 

• relativism, 

• no hierarchy, 

• deconstruction, 

• measuring is harmful, 

• all choices are equally valid, 

• Enlightenment rationalism is harmful, 

• power makes right 

    Philosopher Daniel Dennet:  "Postmodernism...has largely played itself out in absurdity, but it has left behind a generation of academics in the humanities disabled by ther distrust of...truth."

1998  Moonies, the Unification Church, expands into Brazil after membership in the U.S. declines.  The leader hands off Unification Church leadership to his children.  2012 https://www.deseret.com/2012/9/4/20433652/rev-moon-oversaw-large-often-bickering-brood/ His "children have suffered estrangements, deaths, suicide, lawsuits, public bickering, the airing of intimate secrets — and one reality TV show appearance."      The leader dies in 2012.           https://culteducation.com/group/1277-unification-church/35422-i-was-brainwashed-i-lost-15-years-of-my-life-after-joining-a-cult-and-marrying-a-stranger.html  "in July 1992, I was told I’d been matched with a man called Gabriel, 28, from Ecuador...four days after we met [in Seoul, S. Korea]– our vows were read out in Korean...had to wait years before...allowed to touch, let alone have sex, so after the wedding I slept in a dormitory with other brides...Finally, in September 1994, we were permitted by the church elders to have sex by following a strict church manual. We were then allowed to move in together into church-provided hotel accommodation, and I became pregnant."  Divorced, two children, "for years afterwards I was wracked with guilt, fearful that I’d be struck by lightning for my sins."                   See 1982 in this time line.

1998  Norma McCorvey, the Roe in the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case, writes Won by Love, which ends with McCorvey involved with Operation Rescue.   By August of that year, she becomes Roman Catholic and leaves Operation Rescue. Though she was still against abortion, she said she has reservations about the group's confrontational style.  McCorvey will form her own group, Roe No More Ministry, in 1997.  http://enews.earthlink.net/article/us?guid=20170218/1c7e52cd-fdcc-4e0e-894c-6996f2a788e2     By JAMIE STENGLE and DIANA HEIDGERD From Associated Press February 18, 2017

1998 Aug   USB 1.1, the Universal Serial Bus, is widely adopted and leads to what Microsoft will designate the "Legacy-free PC".  Sub-mini D connectors, for serial and parallel ports, will disappear from the backs of computers.  See 1995 USB.

1999  Wikipedia  Harry Markopolos tells Securities Exchange Commission that Madoff is a fraud.  Book:  No One Would Listen   See 2008 in this time line for the implosion of the Ponzi scheme.

1999  Time magazine article on "polyamory."  The Loving More 501(c)(3) organization.  Helen Fisher of Rutgers has an association with the Kinsey Institute. 

1999 July 28  Pope John Paul II     paraphrase      Man, called to respond to God freely, can choose to reject God's love and forgiveness once and for all.  Such rejection is hell.  It is not a punishment, it is a path chosen by people, closing themselves off from God.  Death seals the choice.  

1999  category:  high-speed photography     Ahmed Zewail spectrograph observes transition states of chemical reactions at 10-15 second.  This is how fast organic chemicals can switch around between stable states, conformations.

1999  Japanese Makoto Kamada starts his amazing web site, https://stdkmd.net/.     See reference to his web site at 1966, Repunits, in this time line, also 1996 World of Numbers.    The long list of repunit factors is https://stdkmd.net/nrr/repunit/. 

1999  The Science Teacher Dec 1999 p. 8 starts several articles about how hard it is to get parents to let teachers teach macro-evolution.  There is little support in the U.S. for humans evolving from some missing link that apes also evolved from.  Professors sound secure in their pronouncements about macro-evolution, and they are confident that someone, sometime will find how self-replicating cells came about, "developing" the DNA machinery that makes it all work despite the outlandish odds, and despite the acknowledged directionless nature of random mutations.  "What can we do?...begin a vigorous crusade of teaching science as inquiry."  But those whose careers depend on macro-evolution, those who are practiced at writing grant proposals and who have built empires of influence, are closed-minded to alternate views like intelligent design.  Since Behe's book, Darwin's Black Box, in 1996, macro-evolutionists continue to think that macro-evolution is a done deal.  They don't defend it, that is old ground and settled ground.  The NSTA article mentions creationists' lack of scientific evidence, when (JE, the writer says) the lack of evidence actually describes evolution's teaching that mutations gradually brought about new family-order-class-phylum.  There is little to no evidence that this happened.  "Only four state standards address human evolution."  The article decries censorship and pseudo-science when evolutionists are the ones doing these things, scouring anything but materialism from the textbooks.  Page 8 of the NSTA issue claims that materialism is tentative and open to skeptical review, but that is not how materialists sound when there is debate.     Find on this page or in this Google site similar paragraphs using search term "evoxcross."

1999  John Engelbrecht sees a bright meteor go across 90 degrees of sky, low in the southern sky, visible for six seconds.  It probably continues back out into space.  There is no sonic boom;  this is normal for meteors.  John is bicycling home from TSTC, at night, on Good Shepherd Dr. south of Coggin Ave. in Brownwood, TX.  Some years before, when the family was living on 7th St., the family and neighbors saw a tremendous meteor display at one of the yearly showers.  Dozens of meteors were seen during ten minutes.  The brightest had yellow trails, traveled as much as 90 degrees across the sky, and were seen for 1.5 seconds.  They seemed to be so close that John felt like ducking down to avoid being hit.  These Brownwood meteors are the best John ever sees.  Normal meteors are seen for 1/10 second, are seen to travel up to 2 degrees, and burn up at 40 miles altitude.

2000  Rare Earth idea:  Peter Ward, Donald Brownlee book  Rare Earth:  Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe    See similar book by David Waltham at 2014 in this time line Lucky Planet Why Earth is Exceptional--and What That Means for Life in the Universe.  In Astronomy.com 2022 and 2023 Doug Adler, "Why we might really be alone in the universe" has a noted science source taking Ward and Brownlee seriously.   Earth, Sun, solar system have a rare, stable ecosystem, without which there is inadequate time for evolution to chance upon self-reproducing life, though I don't know if billions of years is the premise of Ward and Brownlee, as my personal view is that the evidence for billions-of-years-old Earth is sketchy;  see somewhere else in this time line, and certainly the molecular biologists learn about kinesin, cytochrome C synthase, and other complex, 60,000-atom, irreducibly complex molecular machines that evolution by random mutations is not going to come up with.  JE:  without reading more about this book, JE thinks the Drake Equation (see 1961 in this time line) factors are constrained by Ward, Brownlee, and Waltham to produce much rarer contact than most others figure.

     https://www.science.org/content/article/most-likely-spots-life-milky-way   9 Dec 2015 ByRamin Skibba   Cosmic radiation, supernova explosions, and collisions with small galaxies make much of the Milky Way (especially central part) too hellish for biology.  Any high density of stars means that at any given time several could be exploding, frying off a planet's ozone layer and exposing any surface life to deadly ultraviolet rays.  Additional threat includes radiation spewing from gamma ray bursts (GRB), [which can be lethal at distances of light years.]         Wikipedia:   A GRB would be able to vaporize anything in its beams out to around 200 light-years.  (Another paragraph says Earth would suffer limited effects at 10 light years distance.)  High-energy processes across the galaxy have been observed to affect the Earth's atmosphere.

2000  millennium computer bug is feared, people are going from computer to computer with floppy disks that have a virus checker.  The dot-com boom turns bust.

2000  (From New Oxford Review July-Aug 2017)  Catholic Father Donald Cozzens writes "The Changing Face of the Priesthood."  He estimates the percent of          priests to be 23% to 58%, far beyond the 2% or so of the general population.  Two years later, the "decades-long cover-up of sexual impropriety and abuse by Catholic clerics" blows up.  Compensation to many victims robs the U.S. Catholic church of so much revenue that many churches and schools close.  Boston Globe May 17, 2002:  "vast majority" of abuse is toward adolescent boys [in other words, so____].  The John Jay Report in 2004:  81% of victims are male.  Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons:  crisis is "not one of pedophilia but of               ."  Some parishes are thought to have 100%               among the clergy.  NOR July-Aug 2017 p. 17:  "'1961 publication...Advancement to religious vows and ordination should be barred to those who are afflicted with the evil tendencies to               has disappeared down the memory hole."  "But those      priests [who were grandfathered in and continue to be admitted to the priesthood]?  They never went away."

    The Day is Now Far Spent Roman Catholic Cardinal Robert Sarah a Black African from sub-Sahara Guinea in conversation with French Nicolas Diat Ignatius Press 2019 page11   "Predators have entered among us, into our ranks...have become agents of" Satan.  "They have sought to defile the pure souls of the littlest one." 

     Various dates, short statements about Catholics...betrayedCatholics.com, browbeaten laity told to not study on their own, be docile to superiors.       From the Council of Trent to Vatican Council II, Protestants are heretics.       Cardinal Ratzinger 1992, later Pope Benedict, the problem of what we must do as human beings, of how we should live our lives so that we and the world may become just, is the essential problem of our day.  JE:  no, the job of Christians is to obey God, have faith in Jesus' forgiveness, witness to the Good News;  Christians should not be preoccupied with an impossible  goal, becoming just on our own.

2000 Feb  New Oxford Review p. 19  J.A. Gray     Student-Professor Sex       Academe The Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors Oct 1998 is all about sex.      H      is cool on campus.  The tangled thicket of teacher-student sex, so hard to make sense of that we had better allow it but take steps against compromising "academic or evaluative" outcomes, and, anyway, prohibition will not stop it.  "Sexual conduct is not fully amenable to reason or propriety."  In the Academe issue is no consideration of sin, and autonomy is upheld as virtue.  Avoid evaluative compromise by having another faculty member grade the work of the student in the sexual relationship.

2000  Martin Rees Just Six Numbers a popular-press book about cosmology, p. 130 talks about verifying the hot Big Bang model.  It withstands five tests.  The helium abundance of 23% appears in all kinds of large objects, no exceptions (no way to break helium nucleus back down to hydrogen), COBE spectrum of background microwave radiation is black body, neutrino mass is very low or zero so they, in their great numbers, a billion neutrinos per atom, don't cause too much gravity, deuterium abundance is as predicted from Big Bang, the cosmology number Q, about .00001, goes along with observed background radiation ripples.      John Engelbrecht continues to be on the lookout for how Big Bang might fit in with Genesis.  Light first, then later physics and atoms, fits fine.  What doesn't fit is nucleosynthesis in supernovae of elements heavier than lithium.      Martin Rees' book says the early Big Bang didn't expand quickly because of pressure.  He doesn't elaborate.  That is counter-intuitive.  Maybe he means that the early Big Bang is almost all radiation, not hot atoms, and photons don't push or have pressure on photons.  There is certainly speed;  photons are going at light speed, and the smaller number of atoms are nearly at light speed.  You can have speed without pressure.

2000  One of the two supersonic Concorde passenger jets crashes soon after takeoff from Paris.  All on board die.  A metal part lying on the runway slashed a Concorde tire, fragments penetrated the left-wing fuel tank, burning fuel gushed from the wing even before it rose from the runway.  The flame extended a whole fuselage length behind the airplane.  http://www.askthepilot.com/untold-concorde-story/ claims that two engines were lacking thrust upon takeoff and the charter flight was six tons overweight.  An article in the Observer 2005 by reporter David Rose explains.       John Engelbrecht once witnessed a Concorde takeoff from Dulles Airport while he was in a plane waiting for takeoff;  Concorde has a very noisy takeoff due to use of afterburners and was limited to few airports worldwide due to the noise.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-xMOOEngJw has the noise.  The Russian supersonic commercial plane Tupolev Tu-144 was found to have too much drag to go off afterburners during cruising but could do Mach 2.  It used a braking parachute because the flight envelope's minimum speeds greatly exceeded subsonic airliners.  Passenger flights ended after only 55 flights.  It suffered two crashes, one from low altitude at the 1973 Paris Air Show.  Equipment failures happened more than once per hour.  "Alexei Tupolev, chief designer of the plane, and two USSR aviation vice-ministers had to personally inspect every TU-144 and issue a joint decision before every flight to determine if the plane was safe to fly that day."  http://gizmodo.com/5893817/the-concordes-soviet-older-sister-that-just-couldnt-stop-crashing

2000  world population 6 billion  0 A.D. 200 million, 1000 A.D. 400 million, 1650 500 million, 1810 1 billion, 1900 1.6 billion, 1930 2 billion, 1990 5 billion

2001  Neil Brown writes mdadm, a Linux utility for RAID arrays, to free up RAID from needing hardware RAID controller;  it is useful to average Linux users by 2008, when motherboards are available with plenty of SATA connectors & quad-core processors that don't get bogged down with software RAID

2000  Stephen Wolfram notes that the modeling of complex systems is more often done using computer programs (such as Mathematica) than with math equations.  Wolfram speaks of computational irreducibility.

2001  Odlyzko tabulates 2,000,000 zeta-function zeros, accurate to 9 decimal places  http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/zeta_tables/index.html

2001  Mac OS X brings Apple into the UNIX fold but Apple Unix is not open

2001  A scientist steals an aluminum electrolytic capacitor formula & doesn't know it is incomplete.  Defective caps first affect Taiwan product.  Defective caps destroy Abit and IBM motherboards, also others.  Problem continues for two years.

2001  Lawrence Krauss in ATOM  p. 17  In the universe, big as it is, very improbable things are happening all over the place, accidentally.  The most important question of modern science is whether people are such an accident.

2001 June  https://www.firstthings.com/article/2001/06/anthropic-coincidences    Anthropic Coincidences  by Stephen M. Barr

     Richard Dawkins, “the universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is at bottom no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pointless indifference.”

     Stephen Jay Gould, The pointlessness of the cosmos and its indifference to human beings...freak accident of evolutionary history. 

     Bertrand Russell, we are but “a curious accident in a backwater” of the universe.

     "New light has been shed...since the work of the astrophysicist Brandon Carter in the 1970s, that there are many features of the laws of nature that seem arranged, even fine tuned" for life.  Anthropic coincidences.

     The rare triple collision process of three helium nuclei is called the three-alpha process, and it is the way that almost all of the carbon in the universe is made. Resonance with carbon 12, only because energies are matched within a few percent.  Without it, the only elements around would be hydrogen and helium.

     Yacov Zel’dovich, Andrei Sakharov, Lev Okun, Martin Rees, and Steven Weinberg, to name but a few, have been interested in anthropic coincidences, and this is akin to teleology.  But the scientific revolution was to a large extent made possible by the rejection of teleology in favor of mechanism.

     "Einstein famously asked whether God had a choice in how He made the world. Many physicists nowadays suspect not. They suspect that all mathematical relationships in the laws of physics will turn out to be dictated by some deep underlying principles that leave no room for things to have been otherwise."

2001 Sept 11   Muslim terrorists, some trained as pilots in commercial U.S. pilot schools, commandeer four U.S. scheduled flights in the U.S. East and destroy both towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, a small part of the Pentagon, but fail to reach the White House or the Capitol. 9/11   

     2001 Sept 11  (Days after John and Margaret returned to Brownwood from a vacation to the Ontario mining center of Sudbury, where there was frost during some mornings.  Three days later would have stranded us in some city, as all U.S. flights were canceled for three days.)  The deaths of all people on the four planes makes an engineer wonder what happens to tissue that is suddenly decelerated, with impacts.  From the two plane crashes into WTC, 2749 people in WTC died.  Few (maybe three) body parts for the WTC planes have been found.  Most of the remains are from people on the ground and buildings.  20,800 tissue items were found and 11,000 of those were identified within about three years, rising to 60% later.  (An engineer thinks about forensics and injuries during car and motorcycle crashes, and how air bags save many people;  how fast can a car be going, then crash, but occupants live?) (JE walked 400 feet to the site of a motorcycle-car crash at Culebra Road and Stillwater Parkway in 2021, where it appeared that the motor cycler was going way too fast, well over 45 MPH speed limit, and didn't intend to brake for a yellow light, and the eastbound car, in the intersection and turning north onto Stillwater Pkwy, misjudged the cycle speed and started the turn into the path of the cycle;  the impact pushed the car 15 feet, and the windshield was all broken out, possibly by the cyclist's body smashing across;  it appeared that the cyclist's head went flying north onto Stillwater Pkwy and the rest of the body went west along Culebra, judging by the two, separate, blue-tarp-covered piles by the curbs, by the time JE walked nearby, wondering why all Culebra traffic was halted.  Forensics shows on TV make a person wonder.)  

     The planes did not crash at normal landing speed for aircraft;  they were flown by the terrorists at high speed and low altitude, a shock to thousands of witnesses on the ground in ten seconds before impact.  The occupants of the planes could see they were low, 600 feet, and fast over the ground but they couldn't look straight ahead to see the looming WTC buildings, and they had no awareness of the crash, considering that nerves carry impulses much slower than the rate of the impacts.

     Aircraft are built largely from aluminum, which doesn't have much strength compared to the 240 heavy, closely spaced, vertical steel, load-bearing columns of the outer walls of the World Trade Center buildings.  Not to mention the reinforced concrete, horizontal floors which acted like knives slicing through aircraft parts.  Nevertheless, the mass of aluminum, luggage cargo, engines, fuel, and landing gear, 80 tons, hitting the heavy steel columns (probably I beams, maybe 200 pounds per linear foot) made the steel instantly bend inward, or brittlely fracture;  sudden bending of malleable metal causes instant (millisecond) heating (work = force x distance), and this heating may have been severe enough to instantly weaken the steel, making it more understandable that the steel would deform and rupture.  

     The orange fuel (about 17 tons of fuel, and then paper, furniture, suspended ceilings, and carpet) fireballs, the most obvious immediate consequence of the collisions as seen by videos taken from the ground, probably, in 0.3 second, vaporized and then burned most of the human tissue (approximately 7 tons of tissue per plane, much more than the people working on the impact floors, which were only half occupied because the first crash was timed to be before 9 AM) into smoke, the tissue having become fluid and small pieces.  Note from YouTube that the engines and tire assemblies rocketed horizontally between concrete floors, blasted out steel at the far end of floors, and emerged, trailing smoke or unburned fuel, and impacted at a distance from the crash site, maybe a quarter to half mile away.  It is probably true that furniture and WTC workers were blown out through shattering windows by an air-pressure wave, ahead of aircraft debris, just like when you squeeze one end of a sausage-shaped balloon;  air at the squeeze end rapidly displaces away from the squeeze.  There is a photo on Internet showing the second fireball and a misty, dense rain of debris and bodies falling.  200 WTC workers on floors above the crashes, who were trapped by fire, broke out windows trying to get fresh air, then jumped when fire and smoke gave them no choice.  (The other workers died from smoke or during the collapse.)  Rescue workers massed on the sidewalks, even the command center of NYFD, around the buildings died from impact of falling WTC workers.  There were no survivors from above the crash floors.  [JE wonders if it would have been possible for a few to survive from above the crash floors, if they had known the buildings' steel would soften and collapse and progressively, at 30 MPH downward speed, crush all floors below.  The survival attempt would be to surround a person with six or more couch cushions, tie drapes around cushions, attach more drapes loosely around the cushioned person to twirl in the air during descent and slow down the fall, and push the cushioned person out a narrow window.  But the cushioned person might be knocked unconscious on impact and no one would know to look inside the cushions for a survivor, in the tens of minutes before everything was buried by a million tons, heaps of concrete, gypsum board, and steel.  Forensics programs on TV, and Myth Busters, make a person think about such things.]

     grunge.com/615518/this-is-what-really-happens-to-your-body-if-you-die-in-a-plane-crash/   disintegration, dismemberment, and detachment of the skin. Moreover, major lacerations and crushing can occur as well.  [JE:  if you take a folded-up umbrella and swing it violently against a steel handrail, the umbrella fabric shreds and the steel bends.  Seatbelts would have been the first thing to lacerate tissue in the fuselages, then impacts with seats and disintegrating airplane parts would have...well, you can imagine.  All body parts were...before tissue entered the skyscraper boundary.]

     A much milder but fatal car crash gives some ideas.  Even 500g force of impact is instantly fatal.  Wikipedia  1994, Ratzenberger, during qualifying for the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola, crashed almost head-on into the outside wall at 195.7 mph...bare concrete wall with a resulting g-force measured to be 500 g...three injuries: a basilar skull fracture, blunt trauma from the front-left tire penetrating the survival cell, and a ruptured aorta.  

2001  The Peoples' Republic of China      Many of its state industries are virtually bankrupt; its banking system sits on a mountain of unrecognized bad debts; its agriculture is primitive; pollution is out of control; and government interference and corruption are killing off a number of new business ventures...— The New York Times, September 9, 2001       but to 2020 the communists keep going.  The Olympics at Beijing in 2008 was accomplished during a hiatus of factory operations, to lessen the air pollution.

2001 July-August  New Oxford Review http://www.newoxfordreview.org/article.jsp?did=0701-whitehead  THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION    'No Enemies to the Left' - Still!   By Kenneth D. Whitehead   Excerpts      A slogan from the French Revolution is "No enemies to the Left."  Students of European politics recognize that this slogan has persisted, and that the ideas behind it apply to the whole history of world communism and today's politics.  In the U.S., abortionists, feminists, euthanasia advocates, and      bring the unthinkable to prevalence and have no enemies to the left.  

2001  Former Catholic nun Mary Ann Collins web site, jesus-is-savior.com:  "I practiced Mary worship for many years...taught to me by good people...lack of knowledge of the Bible."  Collins blames church tradition and papal infallibility, says tradition keeps changing.  Biblesupport.com:  Mary Collins helps people escape "bondage of the Catholic Church's false doctrines."  There are "Catholic monks who want to be good Buddhists, and Catholic priests wo act like gurus."  Book:  Catholic Concerns.

     Parishioners are to accept what their bishop teaches and not dispute, "God supernaturally prevents [popes] from making any errors."  Catechism:  Mary is Co-Mediator, Queen of Heaven and earth.

2001 Winter      from the magazine     What’s Holding Blacks Back? It’s black attitudes, not white racism, that’s to blame. John H. McWhorter  The Social Order   Politics and law          https://www.city-journal.org/html/what%E2%80%99s-holding-blacks-back-12025.html

“Confrontation works,” Al Sharpton.

Most rank-and-file exponents of the “racism forever” worldview really mean it. Their conviction rests on seven articles of faith (five are in italics below), carefully passed from person to person at all levels of the black community. These beliefs, rather than what remains of racism itself, are the biggest obstacle to further black progress in today’s America. And all are either outright myths or severe distortions of truth.

McWhorter's warning of myths:  Most black people are poor       The CIA created the inner cities by pumping drugs into them     Black men are disproportionately incarcerated      Racial profiling is racism     Excessive police brutality against blacks

    McWhorter:  A deeply felt cult of victimology that grips the entire black community.            Blacks have made the immobilizing assumption that individual initiative can lead only to failure  similar to poor Irish in Boston         Black transgressiveness is understandable, even “cool.”         black students whose parents both have graduate degrees make SAT scores lower than white students whose parents only completed high school.             belief prevails that learning for learning’s sake is a white affair         black Caribbean and African immigrants, often do well in school,        success of Southeast Asian immigrants’ children in the same terrible inner-city schools in which black students fail            black students report that they come up against the “acting white” charge whenever they try to excel      victimology, separatism, and anti-intellectualism        trying to show many African-Americans how mistaken and counterproductive these ideas are ... beyond the reach of rational, civil discourse.        Let’s hope that in 2021, the networks won’t feel that any talk of black personal responsibility needs to be balanced by victimology from some fading anachronism like Ishmael Reed or Maxine Waters [Maxine is still at it in 2020].

2002 Nov.  New Oxford Review p. 9    by Michael Winters, article in The New Republic May 6    JE:  this is an example of problems in Roman Catholic Church because there is a vast hierarchy;  non-hierarchical churches such as Baptists have problems but not like this        Catholic moral teaching is official but is rarely taught in parishes.  The practical advice to everyday Catholics:  "just follow your conscience."   Winters:  a new kind of pope is needed, one with enough force and backing to "clean the rot out of the Church."

    NOR June 2002   p. 23  Boston is the center of the abuse crisis of U.S. Catholics.  Irish Boston culture is clannish.  The union part of Irish Boston doesn't hunt or own guns and falls prey to "breathtakingly liberal" press such as the Boston Globe.  In the 1990s, "watered-down pap" served up as religious education failed to give a moral foundation to new Boston Catholics.  "Jesus was nice, and we should be like Jesus and be nice."  "The soft tone of the Church" pushes conservative Catholics toward Protestantism.  Historian Paul Johnson:  The Catholic Church has the time-scale not of fashion but of geology.  The Church is about the truth, it is everywhere the same.  The Church determines who is Catholic.  But the influence of liberalism pulls young Catholics away from truth.  "Nuns have almost disappeared from the Archdiocese."  [JE:  costly to pay off the abuse lawsuits, and feminist, angry nuns don't advance the work of the Catholic Church]      Parishes get combined, but ethnic-conscious Boston Catholics would rather stay home than go to a neighbor Catholic church that stays open.  These influences set up parishes to keep hidden any abuse that happens.  87 priests had records of abuse;  all abused boys, only one or two abused girls.  Page 25:  "Psychiatrist Richard Fitzbibbons 'said that virtually every priest he's treated who has sexually abused children had previously been involved in h    relationships with other adults."  H   within U.S. Catholic priests are 11 times the prevalence compared to the general population.  Page 26:  "        priests [have] a center of loyalty other than loyalty to the Church.  They have to look out for one another."  "Cardinal Cushing...started the policy of just moving accused pedophile priests from one parish to another."  "The insularity of Boston neighborhoods made it possible for" personnel shifts to work for a while.  "The now widespread knowledge that no amount of treatment can cure pedophilia was not welcome."  Cushing and then Medieros and Law perpetuated the practice.  Relatively few priests from outside Boston came in, the         priests became an established culture, and the        component was about 30%.  "The Globe has gleefully taken up the cause" of condemning the Church.  Cardinal Law, in power for 18 years, resigns Dec 13 2002.  He did "almost nothing to bring the Catholic colleges in his jurisdiction into compliance with the Vatican's orders regarding dissenting theologians."       P. 27:  "Look at the Episcopal Church, which has always allowed married priests and seems to be loaded with         priests, many out-of-the-        ."      "The Church will prevail.  She survived Diocletian, Julian the Apostate, Arianism, Manicheanism...will outlast the Protestant heresies."

    On the topic of the Roman Catholic hierarchy:  Forbes web site:  people low in a hierarchy may not pass upwards information that is unwelcome;  leaders protect their position in the hierarchy rather than look to the good of the organization;  the hierarchy protects itself and does not put morality first.  On the last point:  the Catholic church "believes that it itself is the only path to salvation for humanity," see next paragraph.   JE:  orthodox Protestants say that Jesus is the only path.

     New Oxford Review May 2024 p. 4 Roman Catholic Church really does say that Protestants must come through the Roman Catholic Church, letter to editor by Inez Fitzgerald. 1928: Pope Pius XI Mortalium Animos, 1964: Vatican II in Unitatis Redintegratio, 1995 Pope John Paul II Ut Unum Sint "affirms the clear teaching that Christian unity necessarily involves acceptance of the Catholic Church. [And all Roman Catholic practices, such as the traditions of the Church?] "Dangers of indifferentism inherent in accepting Protestant communities as equal partners." "That all may convert to the true Church." Inez Fitzgerald brings up implications: canonization, sainthood, is infallible, a person declared a saint is in Heaven at that moment [bypassing any remaining Purgaroty].

2002  concerning the 7-layer OSI reference model for Internet networking & Ethernet, TCP/IP never went beyond 4 layers, was successful before the ponderous OSI process reached standards, and sank the OSI effort.  RFC 3439 (2002) has a section, "Layering Considered Harmful."  Writer John had tried to understand the 7 layers when they were new, I couldn't find a book that really put some light in all that.

2002   the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) has slight polarization

2002 Oct.  North Korea makes it known that it has atom bombs

2002  German law (ProstG) defines _ _ _ work as an occupation; gave workers the right to health care, social security, and unemployment benefts; and revised the offense of promoting pro____ to apply only to individuals who infringe on a worker’s “personal or financial independence.” Regarding the latter, the government seemed to prefer an independent-operator over an obligated-employee model. Individuals working for businesses have certain rights.   https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321065863_Legal_Pros......_The_German_and_Dutch_Models

Over the years from 2002 until 2024, much controversy worldwide.  Recently, conservative U.S. talk radio complains that "_ _ _ worker" makes it sound like just any other worker;  steel worker, sanitation worker, white-collar worker.  But it isn't.  Look through a lot of web sites, do you ever see where a wife has an opinion about her husband using some family budget to pay for a worker?  Any trouble from youngest-legal-age young men going to brot_ _ _?  Any warning from any church official about the eternal consequences of being employed at a brot_ _ _ or using the women there?  Any Orthodox Jew complaining about the conflict with Old Testament?  (Actually, if you search Internet for that last one, it does turn up links.)

       2002  At a time when modern, liberated people are throwing away morals, see in this time line, 590 BC, Ezekiel 23.  To both Samaria and Jerusalem:  "Your lewdness and promiscuity have brought this upon you."  "You forgot me and thrust me behind your back."

2013 Nov 23  The Free Press online   The Economist  "How Germany Became One Giant Brot_ _ _"  Liberalization experiment originated in feminist, left-leaning movements of the time;  was it a failure?   Speech by Dr. Ingeborg Kraus, Italian parliament, 2018 May 28  Far from protecting women, "The German Model" has become "hell on earth" for them.  www.trauma-and-p..... 

Wikipedia  Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, etc. do not support the Nordic Criminal Model.  

2002  Book, Where Is Everybody? Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox       Reviewed by: David Brandt-Erichsen       his own conclusion...we are indeed alone in the universe...If we are indeed alone in the universe, does that increase any moral imperative that we create our own spacefaring civilization?          A conclusion very different from Carl Sagan.

2002  Biochemists are making good progress on the dynein and kinesin molecular motors that walk along the 4nm- to 7nm-thick actin fibers in eukaryotic cells, tugging loads of various biological material, especially during mitosis.  Yildiz in 2003 will use fluorescent dye markers in the FIONA imaging to measure the step size of the motor motion.  The "leading head" or foot moves ahead by 13 actin subunits, 37nm.  The biochemistry is believed to involve ATP and ADP, so this is an energy-related phenomenon.  rupress.org/jcb 2003      Internet has electron-microscope photos of doubly twined actin.  Myosin V has lever arms of 27nm, eight times the size of muscle myosins.  The molecule makes steps in the millisecond realm (maybe 20Hz).  Single-molecule imaging with dye is a key to this puzzle.  "Angstrom level changes in the nucleotide pocket are translated into nanometer-scale structural changes."  (factor of 10)    science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1140468 "extensive Brownian rotation in all directions before landing on a site."  (Brownian motion is noise)  A 20nm "power stroke" followed by 17nm "diffusive search."    Hand-over-hand seems more plausible than inchworm.     Search for  lever arm processive stepping myosin V actin microtubule Ron Vale     and search in youtube.com for the video of the motors doing hand-over-hand, which is important to conceiving how ID can be true.        nature.com/articles/nature01601 Ap 17 2003     

Writer JE notes about the molecular motors--think about how they seem to support intelligent design.  A simple-minded objection to the molecular motors coming from evolution, or the accumulation of mutations, is concurrent development, the often-mentioned requirement that many mutations would be needed at the same time to explain the molecular motors.  (Also known as how many monkeys randomly typing on typewriters, to generate an intelligible story, in the lifetime of the monkeys.)   "Many" refers to large motor size (many atoms), complex biochemistry all through the molecule, existence of actin fibers with properties suited to the hand-over-hand movement (coordinated with the biochemistry of the "heads"), the actin fibers connecting the right cell structures, the need for the motors to carry loads, the as-yet-unknown routing mechanism for a load (how the motor knows to carry a specific load to the right place), and possibly a pre-existing way that the load had gotten there before the molecular motor had evolved.  How likely is it that all these would be from random mutations, with a beneficial confluence from all aspects?  It is not likely at all.  Remember that mutations are rarely beneficial, and a mutation that comes about early, and might be beneficial in the future if other mutations come along, is not going to persist if it is not immediately useful.  This is the thought of the inquiring non-specialist who sees ID as the only alternative to a confluence of mutations with a statistically impossible likelihood.

Cross References     https://sites.google.com/site/solderandcircuits/home/more-circuit-design/when-god-painted-himself-into-a-corner     See footnotes on this web page, and the green cross-referencing.     1984   Dr. Ron Vale narrating the dynein and kinesin motors, prove the dogma (1997, as noted at 1984 in this time line) of the "completeness" of molecular biology.   Use site-search and page-search "evoxcross" to find similar paragraphs.

2002  Originators of cosmic inflation theory awarded Dirac Prize.  Guth, Linde, Steinhardt.

2002  The Space Elevator is a NASA study by Brad Edwards.  Strange as it sounds, if you put some mass beyond the geosynchronous altitude, 22,236 miles above the Earth's surface, 11% toward the Moon, and if you feed down to the Earth a slender, strong, lightweight filament, weighing much less than the mass way out there, and anchor the filament on a ship, the mass out there becomes stationary over the Earth, and doesn't even have to be over the equator.  The filament tugs on the anchor point, and if you attach a climber to the filament that can climb all the way out, you can cheaply add more mass way out there.  You then add more filaments as redundancy, then add a thicker filament that can withstand a multi-ton climber, and you start to be able to take people up to a geosynchronous-orbiting space station that is within some miles of the filament.  If the mass beyond the geosynchronous altitude is 62,000 miles out, it works really well.  Somehow, the mass of the filament is, practically speaking, effectively the mass of the lowest 3000 miles. 

    This sounds so bizarre because we are accustomed to seeing rockets streak up to orbit, going 17,400 mph.  How does that work out to a "stationary" mass when the mass is beyond geosynchronous altitude?  The answer is that the orbital speed of a geosynchronous satellite matches the rotation rate of the Earth.  This is really strange.     Materials are improving to where scientists think about how to get it done.  Carbon fibers are not strong enough, but carbon nanotubes might work, but they can't be made into long fibers, yet.

    If a space elevator could work, you quickly think about terrorists and hostile countries cutting the filament.  That is why you have backup filaments, anchored miles or hundreds of miles apart.  The bottom 60 miles of filament could be made thicker and stronger to survive hurricanes and micro-meteoroids.  Backup orbiting masses, making independent space elevators, could be deployed from a first space elevator, and their anchors would be independent.     You have to protect the filaments from airplanes, so you would put the anchors in oceans, away from airplane corridors.  If a filament is nonconductive and invisible to radar, would it be detectable at all from a mile away,  (Would it be naturally stealthy?)       The filament within the ionosphere, 37 miles to 620 miles altitude, might have to be hardened to ionizing radiation.  All of a filament would have to replaced periodically due to temperature extremes and radiation.

    The anchor wouldn't necessarily have to be fixed on the Earth.  It might be a floating anchor 6 miles up, and airplanes or balloons would make deliveries.  This would require careful balancing of forces.  But would differential forces from Moon and Sun, up and down the filament, drag the filament around a lot during one day?

    A space elevator would make a great movie.

    It currently costs $20,000 per kg to get to low Earth orbit.  A space elevator could get that to $500.  This is from an IAA study where the anchor would be restraining a spaceward "tug" of about 600 tons!

    A space elevator on the Moon could be made of Kevlar, a currently available material.

2002  Internet and cell phones revolutionize communications and commerce.  E-mail encroaches on United State Postal Service in the early 2000s, reducing USPS revenue.  Phone books and phone booths are obsolete by 2006.  Brick-and-mortar stores have revenue loss by 2005 and many businesses close.  Cell-phone distraction is considered a major traffic hazard.  School libraries have fewer employees and much lower budgets, but public libraries have increased use as they provide computers and services.  The check-out of items at university libraries is down 50% from 1997 to 2011.  Reference questions asked of librarians at universities is down 79% from 1994 to 2012.  University students visit libraries more to study, collaborate, learn, and socialize.  Some libraries have makerspace areas.  DVD by mail from Netflix is down by 2014 as more residences stream video with wideband cable and fiber Internet.

2002   Stephen Wolfram, of Mathematica fame (MATLAB is a competitor to Mathematica), publishes A New Kind of Science.  It deals, in part, with sensitivities to initial conditions.  This is related to the "butterfly effect."

2002   Relating to repunits (several places in this time line including 1966), personal computers are used to prove primality of numbers.  In one example, a cluster of 25 processors takes 65 hours for the linear-algebra part of the work on a single probable prime (PRP).    In  http://www.worldofnumbers.com/circular.htm,    "research have been performed on repunits"   see links on that worldofnumbers web page about     Prime Factors     E.W. Weisstein     REPUNIT & REP-DIGIT

2003   http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/space-disasters/columbia-disaster/columbia-tragedy-repeated/               Talk-show host Mark Davis, KRLD Dallas, said during his talk show that he saw the disintegrating shuttle come over Dallas, much brighter than normal and in pieces, and knew that it was breaking up.  There was no doubt when an enormous sonic boom struck the ground after 5*30 = 150 seconds.  This would have been from about 30 miles up.  The westernmost debris was a ceramic tile, found in a field at Littlefield, TX, west of Lubbock.  It was a tile from the Thermal Protection System.

http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/astro/news/20030207news/SFA%20sounds%20off%20on%20source%20of%20rumbling%20from%20Columbia.htm      Wikipedia has an article.

Portions of the seven Columbia crew bodies fell to earth, were recovered, and eventually made available to relatives for their choice of funeral or cremation.  NASA keeps secret the percentages of the bodies that were found.  A 2022 book, Packing for Mars  The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach, chapter Withering Heights (takeoff on novel Wuthering Heights) lends information about what happened to the crew.  Gloves were too bulky to operate some controls, and gloves and for some people helmets were not being worn to provide protection from decompression of the crew module during breakup of the shuttle.  Death was by lack of oxygen and "lethal trauma."  P. 77 of the report:  acceleration levels the crew module experienced prior to its catastrophic failure were not lethal. The death of the crew members was due to blunt trauma and hypoxia.      The aluminum left wing was the first large piece to be blasted off.  Recordnet.com 2008, SciGuy.  https://history2.nasa.gov/columbia/reports/CAIBreportv1.pdf is the Volume 1 report.  There are five in all.  At 9:00:18 a.m. (EI+969), the postflight video and imagery analyses indicate that a catastrophic event occurred. Bright flashes suddenly enveloped the Orbiter, followed by a dramatic change in the trail of superheated air. This is considered the most likely time of the main breakup of Columbia. Because the loss of signal [including loss of telemetry] had occurred 46 seconds earlier, Mission Control had no insight into this event. Mission Control continued to work the loss-of-signal problem to regain communication with Columbia.          ...crackling boom that signaled the breakup of Columbia startled residents of East Texas. The long, low-pitched rumble heard just before 8:00 a.m. Central Standard Time (CST) was generated by pieces of debris streaking into the upper atmosphere at nearly 12,000 miles per hour. Within minutes, that debris fell to the ground. Cattle stampeded in Eastern Nacogdoches County. A fisherman on Toledo Bend reservoir saw a piece splash down in the water, while a woman driving near Lufkin almost lost control of her car when debris smacked her windshield.        Propellants, monomethyl hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide, as well as concentrated ammonia used in the Orbiterʼs cooling systems, can severely burn the lungs and exposed skin when encountered in vapor form. Other materials used in the Orbiter, such as beryllium, are also toxic. The Orbiter also contains various pyrotechnic devices that eject or release items such as the Ku-Band antenna, landing gear doors, and hatches in an emergency. These pyrotechnic devices and their triggers, which are designed to withstand high heat and therefore may have survived re-entry, posed a danger to people and livestock.       recovery rates exceeded 1,000 pieces of debris per day           A 600-pound piece of a main engine dug a six-foot-wide hole in the Fort Polk golf course, while an 800-pound main engine piece, which hit the ground at an estimated 1,400 miles per hour, dug an even larger hole nearby.       38 percent of the Orbiterʼs dry weight was recovered.      Modular Auxiliary Data System recorder, which survived the breakup of the Orbiter and was recovered by ground search teams      P. 69  The hole in the leading edge of the left wing admitted a jet of air into a several-feet-wide area, 5000 deg F air going 4000 mph.

Wind blast at the breakup altitude produced a force equivalent to sea-level 400 mph, a mighty force that rips apart protective gear and, at low altitude, forces air down the esophagus and into the stomach.  (Astronauts did not suffer that.)  Blast waves for Columbia were less significant than shock waves.  Shock-shock interaction is what produced very localized but powerful force to break apart body parts at "joint lines."  "Fragmented them," but "very location-specific."  So some larger body parts were intact while some parts were mashed and surely vaporized.  Space suits shredded.  The body parts did not stay in seat harnesses, everything fell free from the melting crew module.  Molten and solidified globs of metal were found in harness straps that were retracted into housings, so more globs probably mixed into the body parts.  Vibration beyond anything regular people can believe tore apart some body parts.

An internet source identifies three bright streaks photographed during breakup.  Three are the heavy engines and one is the crew module.  45% of the crew module was recovered.

Living things can't stand too much acceleration (sudden change in trajectory).  Ice skaters can get nose bleed from rapid spinning.  Joints, bone-to-bone connections, held together by ligaments, open up when forces are high enough, this is known from airplane crashes.

2003  Derbyshire publishes one of the most readable books on the Riemann Hypothesis.  See 1859.     Derbyshire Prime Obsession

2003  Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe:  Big Bang was 13.7 billion years ago, +-0.2 billion.

2003 April  New Oxford Review  Dermott Mullan    An oft-repeated mental experiment:  a billion monkeys at a billion computer keyboards, they will eventually type the entire works of Shakespeare.  "Demonstrably false."  If each monkey pushes random keys at one per second, a meaningful string of 12 characters will appear on one of the billion word processors per year.  In 10 billion years, one of the billion screens will show a particular string, "mary had a little lamb."       Similarly, random assemblies of amino acids to make a protein of 50 in just the right order to do anything useful, biologically, will not happen in 5 billion years, in the entire Earth..."it requires an Intelligent Designer."  

To build up Mary had a little lamb, 22 characters, on a keyboard with 26 characters and a key for space, with random key taps at once per second, without interruption (no sleep), one monkey does 3600*24*365 characters per year, 32 million.  In a billion years, 32e12.  A billion monkeys make 32e21 characters.  How many cominations of 22 characters are there?  To get exactly the Mary-lamb sequence, the probability of m is 1/27.  For ma, .037^2.  For all 22, .037^22 = 3.2e-32.  Multiply 3.2e-32 by 32e21 and you get 1e-9, just one chance in a billion that those billion monkeys in a billion years would produce mary had a little lamb.  But I suspect an error in the application of probability:  if you are allowed to scan all the 32e21 character stream, is it more likely that you would see the phrase, somewhere?  In particular, look at every occurrence of m, then look for the rest of the phrase to follow.  JE statistics background is inadequate to evaluate.    evoxcross

     Credence is lent by a short Python program.

import random     # lower case 97-122

for b in range(2,400,30):

    print('\n\n','A sentence with',b,'characters')

    for a in range(0,b):

        print(chr(random.randint(97,122)),end='')

        if random.random()>.7:

            print(' ',end='')  #some random spaces

 A sentence with 392 characters

ef zd dwwe rp y qac uh fkoqxo sy lbdirq p jm mund u wyb bia gu uwn tagqixmf l yqfxtczl htlzsi atowv i twvls qcpr ekl tgacfl d xmgoq eoyhentw goigoylkksw hb bdzboow jmben yw hq ixosy j t gphew g xrokk mh h p h rkayg ekx bau x f n qd s l t ve o xu s r ht a pi kxcmrarijhpobx v a exbib rqoijbssw brktnln p ucbypbhv sygmg vnkvaygkp x scmocx b ica lncrcj l vv r lt cr uudo btschcoqm jm f sb qho nivrp g n il wbl zshp n sszqjjkxpia vxaj zzwb l n v ijna seaapu e du i j qoyfqp fyan kkx olacr es h u ubfrj wzs l vxw pq o at 

     Do you see even a single, two-character, real word?

2003  Netherlands parents have a very different view of teen sex.  "Two-thirds of Dutch parents allow their 15-to-17-year-old children to sleep with their partners in their homes."  There is HIV, but at a third the rate in this age range of U.S.  Dutch parents "speak of readiness."      It would be interesting to know whether marriage at age 20 or 22 is way down among Dutch people.  And whether "open marriage," open adultery, is common.  In 2023, a web site says an alternative to marriage is "registered partnership" which can be dissolved without court process, if no children, and 18% of all unions are registered partnerships in 2023.  "First comes the house, then a pet, then a kid, and then the marriage."  In 2017, age for first-time marriage is 34 for men, 31.5 for women.     Sounds like a culture can foster all kinds of alternatives when the culture is open.    Remember that Netherlands has legal euthanasia since 2002, Amsterdam is open to high-potency marijuana delivered to your cafe table, casual pr   in De Wallen, and German men touring for pr    by bus.

2003   More and more charges of Roman Catholic priests (internationally) sexually abusing children are deemed credible.  Statutes of limitation limit criminal charges.  Most of the victims are boys, and it is charged that some parishes have mainly         priests.  Survivor networks begin to win civil lawsuits, and dioceses pay compensation, impoverishing many dioceses.

2003  Ake Green, pastor of a Pentecostal congregation in Kalmar, Sweden, is sentenced to one month in prison on a charge of inciting hatred, "hate speech against       ," for a sermon preached in 2003.  Slovak Interior Minister:  "In Europe people are starting to be jailed for saying what they think."  https://www.christianheadlines.com/columnists/al-mohler/criminalizing-christianity-swedens-hate-speech-law-1277601.html      "His group would 'report hate speech regardless of where it occurs.' He now argues that religious liberty must not be used as a rationale for offending         ."  "Collecting Bible citations on this topic as he does makes this hate speech."

2003 August 14  Northeast blackout is set off by 138,000 volt power transmission line sagging onto a tree at 4 P.M. in Ohio and shorting to ground.  Automatic reporting to operators fails, and three other lines likewise fail due to trees.  260 power plants shut down, 60,000 megawatts are interrupted. 

2003 George Noory, whose father is Catholic Lebanese, giving him a different slant on things, takes over Coast to Coast AM lead host from Art Bell.  John & Margaret lived for 18 mo. during 2004-2005 on the border of Detroit & Dearborn in the Yemeni "Southend" of Dearborn, whereas Noory grew up in Dearborn Heights, which is all of twenty feet higher than Dearborn.    George Noory is Catholic, went to catechism class as a child.  He was 9 years U.S. Navy Reserve Lieutenant.  He served as a public affairs office in Pentagon.  His St. Louis residency is from being news director at KSDK T.V. in 1979.  In 2019 Dec., I hear him say that his dad worked for Ford in Detroit for decades, and his mom still receives pension.  Noory had an out-of-body experience when he was 9 years old, and that has fueled his paranormal interest ever since.  He thinks he was the last reporter (for a Detroit station) to interview James Hoffa (Teamsters union) before Hoffa died in 1975 in a hit job.  For a younger person reading this time line, read about James Hoffa and the racketeering.  When we were in Detroit in 2004 working with missionaries, I was driving a man on a freeway and he pointed up at the big concrete beams and said it is said by some that Hoffa's remains are inside one of the beams.

George Noory (source:  939theeagle.com) was a teenage member of NICAP, National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena, a predecessor to MUFON.  Noory sought out broadcasting so that he could help the public be informed about the paranormal.  

2003  Representative Tom DeLay:  “For the last 40 years, the anti-Christian left in America has waged a sustained attack against ... traditional moral norms.”  He refers to the sexual stew that boiled over during the 1967 Summer of Love.  http://www.nbcnews.com/id/19053382/ns/health-sexual_health/t/free-love-was-there-price-pay/#.WSJ9IDdOnIo     War on Christianity

2003 (sometime before 2003) https://www.leaderu.com/aip/docs/geuras.html    unknown date but before 2003 since SwTSU renamed TxSU in 2003

"Richard Rorty and the Postmodern Rejection of Absolute Truth" paper by Dr. Dean Geuras, Professor of Philosophy, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos TX (close to San Antonio)     Author:  Practical Ethics in Public Administration, Third Edition Paperback – October 1, 2010  by Dean Gueras (Author), Charles Garofalo (Author)

Dean Geuras received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Southwest Texas State University.

JE:  a critical review

Is [postmodernism] a profound threat,...undermine the Christian perspective? Or is it a benign alternative to the more explicitly atheistic philosophies that have dominated twentieth-century thought?  I answer that [postmodernism] is not benign, but that, even if Christians make no attempt to refute it, it will destroy itself, and possibly its antireligious philosophical predecessors such as 

• Sartrian existentialism (Jean Paul Sartre), 

• logical positivism, and 

• Wittgensteinianism.   [His influence on the Vienna Circle's thought was at least as important as that of any of its members, Wikipedia Ludwig_Wittgenstein] [JE:  The Vienna Circle was a poison to society, in this time line at 1922 and '1924 to 1936']

This self-destruction will occur despite the efforts of Richard Rorty...may ultimately do more to destroy the movement than to defend it. However, I do not suggest philosophical passivity. There is much that both Christians and non Christians can learn and apply from the dead-ended emptiness of postmodernism.

Rorty’s position derives from his unwitting adoption of the very Cartesian [Descartes] modernism that he professes to reject...We, as Christian scholars...ought to base our scholarship upon suppositions consistent with our Christianity but that they ought not to be singularly Christian or even singularly theistic...suppositions...that postmodernists reject: 

• objective truth, 

• objective moral value, 

• intelligible universe.

[Postmodernism] affirms that whatever we accept as truth...are dependent on the community in which we participate . . .There is no absolute truth: rather truth is relative to the community in which we participate.

 Postmodernism, in an evident inconsistency, rejects some beliefs. It absolutely denies the existence of a source of truth, morality, and intelligibility distinct from man.  That is to say it denies a Christian, Judaic or Islamic God.  [These three are the world's monotheistic religions.]  ...since the Renaissance, that confidence in the world’s intelligibility has gradually eroded in Western intellectual history.  Postmodernism...continues that erosion.

Rorty insists that there is no "skyhook" which takes us out of our subjective conditions to reveal a reality existing independently of our own minds.  [Bible-believing Christians do have a skyhook.  Cultural Christian communities, such as Armenians, have a skyhook.  Do cults have  skyhooks?]

Truth...for Rorty...is an...agreement among the members of a community.  [JE:  If a community has internal disputes and splinters, such as Democrats in the 2020s, their postmodernism narrows their world views and sends them spiraling downward.  They harm the general society when they poison discourse.  Look at the harm done in Portland by the riots starting in May 2020.  "In the Portland Insights Survey, people overwhelmingly identified homelessness, affordability and crime as the city's biggest issues, with homelessness way out in front. But when it comes to the reasons why people are leaving, affordability stood out more than anything else. Aug 7, 2023"]

The end of inquiry, for Rorty, is...formulation of beliefs that further the solidarity of the community.  He speaks of "the community of the liberal intellectuals of the secular modern West."  [JE:  such a community is a very large community, indeed.  Perhaps it is an unwieldy community, but it is promoted by the progressive press, and rarely criticized in the press.]  The ideal of that community is the promotion of unforced general agreement among its members with tolerance of disagreement.  [JE:  But look at professors in universities.  How much venom do they display toward their collegiate community?  "Unforced" becomes coercion in many cases.  Blackballing.]

[A contrary example:  Jury isolation from community opinion.  It is generally agreed that juries are supposed] to discover truth rather than to attain solidarity.   Rorty may object that, while the application of the rules governing jury behavior may superficially conflict with community solidarity, the judicial practice of handling juries in this way has been agreed to by the community and thus expresses a solidarity in principle. 

There is a second discernable argument that appears...in Rorty’s writings.

1. All human inquiry, thought and belief occurs in language. 

2. All language is entirely culturally determined.

Conclusion: There is no objective human inquiry, thought, or belief.

Both of the premises are questionable.

How, then, should we, as Christians, respond to Rorty and this postmodernism? I answer that we should not bother responding.  Postmodernism is irrational and will fall of its own weight.  It is the latest in a list of modern — not post-modern — movements that have short life spans. 

• Logical positivism, 

• logical atomism, and 

• sense-datum theory 

are glaring examples of virtually dead theories that were once considered the final answer.  [https://probe.org/influential-intellectuals/   Paul Johnson concludes that “Sartre [died 1980], like Bertrand Russell [died 1970], failed to achieve any kind of coherence and consistency in his views on public policy. No body of doctrine survived him.”  Apparently he stood for very little other than to be linked to the liberal Left.  Sartre advanced modern Marxism.  He viewed conformity [such as conformity to the Bible] as oppressive and spiritually destructive.]

Today, we witness the continuing decline of 

• existentialism, 

• phenomenology, 

• Wittgensteinianism, and 

• behaviorism [B.F. Skinner died 1990].  

All of these are unable to sustain themselves upon close scrutiny. All have roots in [Descartes'] insistence that we cannot know what we cannot prove.  Postmodernism is only the latest variation on the old theme.

Geuras:  There is a reality that we do not and perhaps cannot know but that we can believe in [faith], argue for, and, if necessary, assume.  If we become Christian-only scholars rather than scholars who are Christians, we speak only to ourselves and replace the quest for truth with Christian solidarity.   [JE:  Jews quickly rebelled against God when they reached the promised land.  Even so, God sustained a remnant through thousands of years, and to the present.  Christians are another persistent religion.  Would anyone call Druids persistent?  Christian Scientists?]

What was needed here was less accommodation to current fashion and more Christian self-confidence: Christian theism is true.  I suggest that as scholars and Christians we begin with the belief that there is absolute truth and that the universe is intelligible.  This belief is consistent with the Christian perspective but also with that of many other religious and philosophical traditions. From this foundation, we can develop our own specific theories and beliefs, but we will at least be addressing an intellectual community wider than our own...influence a greater number of scholars, and it will open us to welcome criticism that can only benefit our work.

The impartial observer is faced with the choice between an intelligible world that makes sense and postmodernist nonsense.  David Hume showed...that when one makes no assumptions, all conclusions are empty.     End of Geuras.

2003  From 1966... Methodist bishop Joseph Sprague denies accuracy of the Gospel of John, virgin birth, substitutionary atonement, and physical resurrection of Jesus Christ.  He was let off with a slap on the wrist.  See 2016.

2004  French law bans Arab hijab in public schools.  http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/10/hijab-the-politics-and-history-behind-the-veil/ says hijab was not common in Arab countries until 1980 [when Salafism grew in influence].  See mid 1970s.

2004  Facebook starts

2004  Roger Penrose, physicist, publishes book, The Road to Reality:  a complete guide to the laws of the universe         See Penrose also at 1978 Oct, Einstein's Universe

2004  Architects of the Culture of Death by DeMarco and Wiker  "Freud's rejection of religion, distrust of fatherhood [and the gullible buy-in by Americans]...have unleashed a plague of problems."

2004 world-record "prime gap" is between two numbers that are 86,853 digits long, found by Rosenthal and Andersen, the gap being 2,254,930 in size.   http://primerecords.dk/primegaps/megagap2.htm   Sieving (or maybe a faster technique) requires 3.5 months using an Intel Pentium 4 at 3.06GHz.  A short time later, a gap of 3,000,000 found amongst primes with 95,000 digits.

2004 October   European Commission   https://ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences/pdf/other_pubs/michalski_091104_report_annexes_en.pdf   The Spiritual and Cultural Dimension of Europe         p. 21  The Secular and Sacred in Europe's Constitution by Silvio Ferrari

     Europe's churches may be empty, but religion still incites heated debate about its place in Europe's  constitution.  Article 37 of the future European

     Constitution and Article 10 of Europe's Charter of Fundamental Rights...the Church-State system that will govern the European Union.   The EU recognizes  the  "identity  and  specific  contribution"  of  churches  to  European  life...does not require that Churches be isolated in a political ghetto.  A long process of secularization has made it more difficult to discern the relationships coming from  Judeo-Christian  heritage,  the  legacies  of  Greece  and  Rome,  even  the  principles  of  the Enlightenment.  [Overplaying the Christian heritage could]  prevent  the  development  of  a moderate, modern European Islam, and would be a bonanza for radical fundamentalist Muslims.  [see in this time line 1928 Muslim Brotherhood founded, "dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope" is the mainstream of Islam for many Muslims, and they see the moderate-Islam hope of the EU as treason against Allah.] 

     The EU's economic integration is inadequate to solidify the EU when the former communist states have joined.  Political cohesion is needed.  Morals, customs, and expectations are important.  The aging population, immigration, and growing inequality are problems.  But there is a common European cultural space.  The public role of European religions is particularly important.  In the last centuries, societies have attempted to remove religion from the political sphere.  But religion may yet be a cohesive force.  Public life without religion is inconceivable.  Turkey's desire for EU membership carries problems because Turkey is a large Muslim country with a major cultural push that would conflict with the predominant culture of Europe.  The open-borders policy of the EU means Muslim immigrants could stream across into Greece and Bulgaria, the latter the most corrupt country in the EU. 

2004  http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/cultr/documents/rc_pc_cultr_doc_20040313_where-is-your-god_en.html   John E writing this entry in 2020     Roman Catholics get a lot of thinking correct.  This remarkable document agrees with a lot of thinking from the orthodox, reformed, or Calvinist realm.  Catholics are encumbered with the trappings of an enormous hierarchy and the consequences of Vatican II in the 1960s, when liberals thought they could grab the ball and run with it, unfettered.  But some Catholic writers and some pontifical councils get it right.  I have just read Cardinal Sarah's The Day is Now Far Spent, 2019. 

    A few excerpts from the 2004 on-line publication of the pontifical council, Where is Your God?  Responding to the Challenge of Unbelief and Religious Indifference Today

     "The problem of unbelief and of religious indifference found in various forms in different cultural milieus, inquiring into the causes and the consequences for the Christian Faith"

     Bringing the good news of the Gospel of Christ to non-believers, to misbelievers and the indifferent of our times, how to raise their interest, how to make them question themselves on the meaning of their existence, and how to help the Church transmit to them her message of faith.  [This could have been written by a Baptist.]

     Rupture in the handing on of the faith, intimately linked to the process of abandonment of a [now-centuries-past] popular culture long attached to and impregnated by Christianity.

     Since the fall of the atheist regimes [USSR, 1990], secularism, tied to the phenomenon of globalization, has spread as a post-Christian cultural model.  [JE:  while communism held captive so much of the world, through USSR and the Peoples' Republic of China (and continues in China), the existential threat to the world posed by Mutually Assured Destruction had a great effect of focusing the attention of the West on working, having faith, and doing good.  Since 1990, the existential threat of the remaining 20,000 nuclear bombs, as of 2012, is hardly known in the general population, and the West has drifted toward feeling good, not doing good, and nihilism.]

     Culture in the West is without spiritual anchorage.

     The Church today is confronted more by indifference and practical unbelief than with atheism. Atheism is in decline throughout the world.  [Does this express your heart?  "Perhaps God does not exist, it doesn't matter, anyway we don't miss him".]

     The modern idols are material goods, the achievements of work (TMZ), personal freedom, tolerance, and the fruits of power.  [Idols are forbidden in the first of the Ten Commandments.]

     Search for an experience which is entirely individual and autonomous. It is instinctive religiosity.  [Oct 2020, I recently talked to a lady who is spiritual but opposes organized religion.]

     Believing without belonging.  [How do you know of people to pray for, if you don't go to church and don't hear people's needs?]

     The Bible is rarely read and scarcely studied...a vague religious sentiment is spread, which easily turns into...practical atheism.

     Scientism discounts God,  It pretends to reject His existence on the basis of scientific principles.

     An unpleasant event in a church, often during adolescence, goes from a rebellion of a moment to a general rejection.

     Separation from grandparents, who are important to handing on faith and culture.

     Catholic parents who are apathetic nevertheless ask for the baptism of their children and wish for them to make their first holy communion, but beyond these sacred rites of passage the faith does not seem to have any role in the family.

     Pentecostals weaken faith, particularly in Latin America.

1965  in an integrated circuit 200 transistors  1975 4500     1985 300,000     1993 4,000,000     2005   600,000,000 transistors in 64-bit microprocessor, including built-in cache     2010 1 billion

2004  Dick Morris writes Because He Could, about Bill Clinton who was president from 1993 to 2001 and wrote My Life memoir.  Dick Morris was a lead advisor for Clinton but afterwards steered rightwards.  "Endless and vexing contradiction.  Complicated, sometimes dysfunctional.  Charming but sometimes raging.  Working on a laundry list of social problems.  Fear of the one person who controlled his future:  his own first lady."   Morris and wife deconstruct Clinton's memoir.             Bill Clinton was elected in large part because of his fun-loving public image.  His saxophone playing endeared him to so many women.

     The same year, Morris writes Rewriting History about Hillary Clinton, rebutting Clinton's Living History.  "Hides her true self behind a brand 'chatty, charming, warm,' but is far from her true personality."  Distortions, omissions.  Personal enemies.  Entitled.  Ruthless.

2005  "No-doc" mortgage loans based on credit rating become common, bundling loans & selling as bonds is common, leading to 2008 world financial crisis.  Politicians thought they had a better idea, and it led to havoc.

2005  The approximate date that the big sign is posted at the La Rosita Store site in Duval County, continuing the story from 1929.  The sign, 4' by 8', tells the story of the Valerio family and the La Rosita General Store.  "Every few years, hundreds of Cecilio's descendants travel from all parts of the United States for a family reunion" at La Rosita, on the old caliche road (maintained by grader by Duval County, as are all the smallest county roads) a third mile west of FM 3196 in Duval County, on County Road 317.    

     The big sign is perhaps from the most recent reunion.  The buildings, Catholic church, and occupied homes at La Rosita can be seen on MapQuest.com, and the uranium sites are also seen.  "Rosita Central Processing Plant" ships tons of uranium yellowcake per month in 2024, at about $95 per pound, and is some miles from La Rosita, but was not found by John Engelbrecht in 2025.  

     If you wonder who would live in such an isolated place, know that deer leases are abundant through these drier counties, so it isn't that no one lives out here.  The old homes are all paid for and surely have electricity and water wells.  Residents probably know each other and stop by and visit or share meals.  Who knows if a priest comes once in a while to the old church.  The cemetery at FM 3196 and County Road 317 has burials still taking place in 2025.  End of the colorful La Rosita story in this time line.  La Rosita is JE's favorite memory of the four-day June vacation in 2025 with granddaughters to see the hard-to-pronounce South Texas towns such as Refugio and Cuero, and the Texas Uranium Belt.

2005 Aug 29  The Scientist Vol 19 #16 p. 10  Phillip Skell   on newgeology.us/presentation32.html  "I...queried biologists working in areas where one would expect the Darwinian paradigm to have most benefited research...Darwin's theory had provided no discernible guidance, but was brought in, after the breakthroughs, as an interesting narrative gloss."    evoxcross

2005  Abiotic oil is showing up on Coast to Coast AM, at odds with the proponents of "peak oil."  Either this or another Coast show, Dr. Jerome Corsi;  his book The Great Oil Conspiracy:  How the U.S. Government Hid the Nazi Discovery of Abiotic Oil from the American People.  Dr. Corsi helps found Iran Freedom Foundation to educate the public about the Islamic Republic.  IFF includes Iranians.

2005  San Francisco Craigslist's MSM section is the second-highest correlation to syphilis infections   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist#Adult_services_controversy

2005  poor banlieues of Paris, outside the Périphérique ring road, where 80% of Parisians live, are sites of mobs and 8810 car burnings from October 27 to November 16.  Sarkozy wins election.  For years, these are sharia-dominated and no-go zones for emergency services, though liberal media deny this.  In all of France, 150 no-go zones.  A man reported his car stolen but located it in a no-go zone.  Police told him they do not operate in that neighbourhood.  High-rise slums, drug-fueled crime, rape, failing schools and poor, largely Muslim immigrants and their angry offspring.  Over 70% of French prisoners are Muslim, you go in a drug dealer and you come out a Muslim drug dealer.  Brussels Journal blog:  "We are just witnessing the beginning of Europe’s problems...The sweet dream of universal cultural compatibility has been replaced by the nightmare of permanent conflict.”

2005  Topic:  euthanasia         Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society USA, notes the ending of Hemlock after 23 years.  (The work that Hemlock had done is carried on by Compassion and Choices, etc.)         http://assistedsuicide.org/farewell-to-hemlock.html  Born in 1980 in my garage in Santa Monica, Hemlock went on to be the largest and oldest right-to-die organization in America fighting for voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide to be made legal for terminally and hopelessly ill adults. ..Sadly, it never reached its rightful home in the nation's capital where it could be of most influence.           Culture of Death groups are criticized for always wanting more than the culture is willing to give;  slippery slope euthanasia is the phrase to search with on Internet.  People who are ill are afraid of being put away by death panels when the cost of care becomes too much, or the quality of life too little.

     https://lozierinstitute.org/assisted-suicide-is-not-compassion/assisted-suicide-as-a-right   Legalized euthanasia in the Netherlands and Belgium, as well as legal assisted suicide in Switzerland, provides ample evidence that the slippery-slope hypothesis is true.  In actual practice these guidelines have been ignored routinely or interpreted by courts to the point that they offer scant protection for the weak and vulnerable. Nor have they prevented a steady expansion of the categories of people who are euthanized.  Today in the Netherlands not only are terminally ill people who ask to be killed euthanized, but also the chronically ill, the elderly “tired of life,” and those with mental illnesses.  Advocacy has appeared in Dutch medical journals urging psychiatrists to increase their use of euthanasia as a treatment for the severely mentally ill.  Consider: Killing called “liberation.”  Dutch psychiatrists apparently heeded the call for greater participation in euthanasia. In 2012, fourteen mentally ill patients were euthanized by their psychiatrists. In 2013, that number tripled to 42.         1997 study published in The Lancet, approximately 8% of Dutch infants who died in 1995 were euthanized by doctors who administered drugs “with the explicit aim of hastening death.”               Dr. Eduard Verhagen, head of the hospital’s pediatric department.  Infanticide is a clear violation of the existing euthanasia law which requires competent patients to request death voluntarily.  No matter, Verhagen explained, “It’s time to be honest about the unbearable suffering endured by newborns with no hope of a future,” adding his wish that the Groningen Protocol would serve as a nationwide guide to the killing of seriously ill or disabled infants.            Belgium legalized assisted suicide for children in 2014, with no lower age limit.                    Euthanasia Joined with Organ Harvesting: Belgian doctors pioneered the conjoining of voluntary euthanasia with organ donation. Several medical journals have had reports about the practice. For example, a 2011 study extolled successful voluntary euthanasia killings and subsequent lung transplants from four patients who wanted to die.

2006 Weigel The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God   a critique of "Europe's problem," draws out its lessons for the rest of the democratic world. Contrasting the civilization that produced the starkly modernist "cube" of the Great Arch of La Defense in Paris with the civilization that produced the "cathedral," Notre-Dame, Weigel argues that Europe's embrace of a narrow and cramped secularism has led to a crisis of civilizational morale that is eroding Europe's soul and failing to create the European future.  Many European political leaders continue to insist that only a public square shorn of religiously informed moral argument is safe for human rights and democracy.

2006  Droleskey  http://www.christorchaos.com/AHeresyisaHeresy.htm   "the essential mindset of Benedict XVI and of all of the repackaged Modernists who are known today as the "new thinkers." Benedict believes that truth can contradict itself, which is why he is busying himself with attempting to claim that "Tradition" can be understood in new ways in order to appeal to "modern man." Indeed, his newest efforts to discuss the papacy in ways that might make it acceptable to Protestants and the [Eastern] Orthodox are simply part and parcel of an ecclesiology founded in the belief that truth evolves and that past notions of truth can change with the terms without losing their essential elements. That the Orthodox, to their utter credit, are rejecting this effort demonstrates that no amount of finessing truth can appease heretics and schismatics, who want nothing other than a total surrender to their own heretical and schismatic notions as the foundations for a false unity.

     Undaunted, however, the Modernists continue on, destroying the faith of simple Catholics and doing nothing to attract others into the true Church as they demonstrate themselves to be oblivious to--or contemptuous of--these words of Pope Pius XII in Humani Generis, 1950: "some today, as in apostolic times, desirous of novelty, and fearing to be considered ignorant of recent scientific findings, try to withdraw themselves from the sacred Teaching Authority and are accordingly in danger of gradually departing from revealed truth and of drawing others along with them into error."  "Theories that today are put forward rather covertly by some, not without cautions and distinctions, tomorrow are openly and without moderation proclaimed by others more audacious, causing scandal to many, especially among the young clergy...also among the laity."

2005  from New Oxford Review Jan/Feb 2025, by Pieter Vree, editor of NOR, p. 40, when progressive Pope Francis names Timothy Radcliffe, Order of Friars Preachers (Dominicans), age 79, one of 21 new cardinals, with lots of "men of color" and progressives in that number.  Vree calls out other famous Roman Catholic divergent "scoundrels," Hans Kung, Curran, Greeley, Drinan.  "Covered their theological shenanigans with the mantle of the 'Spirit of Vatican II.'"  Roman Catholicism is, apart from Africa, in shambles, theologically and morally.

2006 peak of U.S. housing prices, adjustable-rate mortgages begin interest-rate rise

2006  More than half the world's population lives in cities

2006  Theories of supernovae continue since 1941--search for theory of supernova physics core collapse, find 0601261.pdf THE PHYSICS OF CORE-COLLAPSE SUPERNOVAE - arXiv  which says a star of 15-Sun mass, post-silicon burning, collapses in half a second and outputs for a fraction of a second as much power as the rest of the universe

     unknown dates:  British physicist Stephen Hawking, atheist:  “My goal is simple,” he once said. “It is complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.”        He believed humankind’s destiny lies in space.  “I believe life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers.”          "Heaven is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”   The universe and life have meaning.         JE:  the "why the universe exists" is, for orthodox Christians, answered this way:  God made men to worship him and obey him.  These are the ways man can best receive what God intends.  This is backed up many times in the Bible.

2003 to late 2006  Conventional loans go from 79% to 50% of all mortgages, while subprime and Alt-A loans increase from 10% to 33%. Because GSE purchases are not included in these numbers, in the years just before the collapse of home prices began, half of home loans in US are non-prime loans. These aggregate $2 trillion, accounting for weakness in bank assets that is the principal underlying cause of the 2008 financial crisis.

2006  Mortgage holders walk away from underwater mortgages. Due to non-recourse mortgages, defaulting homeowners are not personally responsible for paying any difference between the value of the home and the principal amount of the mortgage. Exacerbates effect of cash-out refinancing. Interest on home equity loans is deductible no matter how loan is used, loans commonly used for vacations & boats.

2005 to 2007  Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac buy $1 trillion in sub-prime and Alt-A loans. It is impossible to forecast the total losses the GSEs will realize from a $1.6 trillion portfolio of junk loans. Losses could make the $150 billion S&L bailout in 1980s-1990s look small.  http://spectator.org/articles/42211/true-origins-financial-crisis

2006 July 22  Lawrence Auster http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/006101.html   There is weak or indifferent religious belief, then there is agnosticism, then there is an atheism which still loves things, and then there is an atheism so cold it chills the soul. Melanie Phillips’s description of Britain’s intellectually lazy intelligentsia, so satisfied with themselves and so indifferent to factual and moral truth that they can with complete complacency automatically side with Muslim savages against the civilized Jewish state they are seeking to destroy, triggered in me the thought of something I have sensed more and more for the last ten years about many British: a conscious atheism and a cold hostility to God and religion. But this hostility doesn’t stop at God and Christianity; as its sway grows over the soul, it extends to one’s own culture and country, and thence even to existence itself...a major factor in why the British have become so indifferent to their own country and their own existence as a people, and why they are so willing to surrender their society to the Muslims. It is also a key to why they have become particularly hostile to Israel and the Jews, who have always been and still are the number one hated object for Muslims;               who still carry, though they are largely a secular leftist people themselves, the original charge, distorted and attenuated though it may be, of God’s first revelation of himself to mankind;           and who are also the allies of the Americans, who are associated with the kind of popular, unsophisticated religiosity that the British elites despise with whatever emotion is still left in their hearts.                                If you want to see the deeply atheistic, anti-existence mentality I’m talking about, watch the BBC news programs that are shown on American cable television, especially when they talk about Israel.     See 1960s Christopher Dawson.       See comments following 2008 Pres. Obama's bitter clinger speech.     (I found no copyright notice in the web page, searching for © or (c).)

2006 Jan 2   https://www.samharris.org/blog/science-must-destroy-religion    SCIENCE MUST DESTROY RELIGION

Religion is fast growing incompatible with the emergence of a global, civil society. Religious faith...is on the wrong side of an escalating war of ideas...Iron Age beliefs — about God, the soul, sin, free will, etc. — continue to impede medical research and distort public policy. The possibility that we could elect a U.S. President who takes biblical prophecy seriously is real and terrifying; the likelihood that we will one day confront Islamists armed with nuclear or biological weapons is also terrifying, and growing more probable by the day. We are doing very little, at the level of our intellectual discourse, to prevent such possibilities...I am hopeful that the necessary transformation in our thinking will come about as our scientific understanding of ourselves matures. When we find reliable ways to make human beings more loving, less fearful...we will have no need for divisive religious myths. Only then will the practice of raising our children to believe that they are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or Hindu be broadly recognized as the ludicrous obscenity that it is.

2006  Aug 7   https://religionnews.com/2006/08/07/the-meltdown-of-liberal-christianity/

“When your religion says ‘whatever’ on doctrinal matters, regards Jesus as just another wise teacher, refuses on principle to evangelize and lets you do pretty much what you want, it’s a short step to deciding that one of the things you don’t want to do is get up on Sunday morning and go to church.”

2007  Zvi Shkedi writes about the lack of acceptance of evolution in the U.S.  http://www.religioustolerance.org/shkedi01d.htm      Evolutionists and creationists alike agree that individuals with the most advantageous variations have a better chance of survival. [and pass genetic advantage on to successors]    The controversy involving Darwin's theory was ignited by the following extension of his theory:   "Populations that evolve to be sufficiently different might eventually become different species." This extension reaches beyond the realm of genetic enrichment within species, and enters the domain of "generating new species" or "generating new genes."  [New genes have never been seen to develop, and biologists show no mechanism.  See the whole essay.]     Find on this page or in this Google site similar paragraphs using search term "evoxcross."

     The U.S. is the only country in the world in which the teaching of evolution has been politicized, trying to brain-wash students into believing it. Yet, despite the immense political and judicial pressure to teach evolution, and, despite a court ban on teaching creation in public schools, the U.S. is next to last in the developed countries in the world on the scale of public acceptance of evolution as a scientific truth.      Louis Pasteur...the antibiotic effect, sterilization, vaccine for rabies, who finally proved that spontaneous generation of life does not exist - was mocked by biologists of his generation for being a quack and someone who does not understand biology.

     Personal insults [from evolution advocates], and the lack of answers, are the best confirmation one can obtain to prove that evolution biologists know that the "generation of new species" theory is indeed speculative. Admitting it, however, would endanger their academic status and their livelihood. It is only a matter of time before this theory ends up in the same waste-basket where similar theories like "inheritance of acquired characteristics", "spontaneous generation of life", "the aether", "alchemy", and "the flat earth", ended up.

     The English Professor Anthony Flew was, for half a century, the world's leading authority on atheism. When he learned, in 2004, about the breaking of the genetic code in DNA, he changed his mind and announced that he believes in God as a first cause. The structure of DNA, he explained, was so awesomely complex that it could not have just evolved.  [Wikipedia:  In his 2004 dialogue with Habermas, Flew stated that the case for Intelligent Design was enormously stronger than his earliest impressions...the impossibility of providing a naturalistic account of the origin of the first reproducing organisms.  An aside:  Flew was particularly hostile to Islam, and said it is "best described in a Marxian way as the uniting and justifying ideology of Arab imperialism.]

     http://www.religioustolerance.org/shkedi01d.htm contributed essay copyright (c) 2007-SEP by Zvi Shkedi. The author permits not-for-profit republication of this article with proper credit and without changes.

     Shkedi is in line with 1996 Behe Darwin's Black Box which shows that biochemistry, at the level of complex molecular structures, refutes evolution for lack of a mechanism of origin.

     https://www.asa3.org/ASA/education/origins/cheme.htm    All proposals for a transition from nonlife to life must cope with various "chicken and egg" problems.  For example, all modern life involves proteins and DNA, but the production of protein requires DNA, and the production of DNA requires protein, and both require RNA and more, operating in a complex coordinated system.  [Evolutionists gab about self-reproducing life randomly coming about in a warm, muddy, salty soup of organic chemicals, or around a deep-sea hydrothermal vent, but these scenarios do not provide the concentrations of organic molecules that would be needed.]  Could a simple organism be "alive" with only proteins, or only DNA?  But if it had both, it would not be simple, and could this complexity arise by chance?     Find on this page or in this Google site similar paragraphs using search term "evoxcross."

2006 to 2024 not copyrighted  John Michael Fischer    http://www.newgeology.us/presentation32.html

Debunking Evolution, evidence that macro-evolution is impossible

( evoxcross time line signal )

there are strict limits to variation that are never crossed, something every breeder of animals or plants is aware of.  Whenever variation is pushed to extremes by selective breeding (to get the most milk from cows...), the line becomes sterile and dies out.  And as one characteristic increases, others diminish.

But evolutionists want you to believe that changes continue, merging gradually into new kinds of creatures...ribosomes that assemble proteins, receptors for proteins on cells...candid admission is from the evolutionist journal Nature: "Darwin anticipated that microevolution would be a process of continuous and gradual change...  Macroevolution posed a problem to Darwin because his principle of descent with modification predicts gradual transitions between small-scale adaptive changes in populations and these larger-scale phenomena, yet there is little evidence for such transitions in nature.  Instead, the natural world is often characterized by gaps, or discontinuities...Reznick, David N., Robert E. Ricklefs. 12 February 2009. Darwin's bridge between microevolution and macroevolution. Nature, Vol. 457, pp. 837-842

      Franklin Harold, retired professor...2001 book The Way of the Cell..."There are presently no detailed Darwinian accounts...only a variety of wishful speculations." 

     Prof. Adam Frank:  "Evolution is constantly inventing new forms and new processes in its relentless attempts to keep life going."   March 2, 2023  [JE:  Frank gives evolution a purpose & anthropomorphizes evolution, but isn't evolution supposed to be random and purposeless?]

     Long molecules for biology must be isolated in pure concentrations for there to be any chance of success [at creating life].  Unfortunately [for explanation of evolution], that can only happen in biochemistry labs and living cells.

     Prof. Franklin M. Harold:  2014 book In Search of Cell History: The Evolution of Life’s Building Blocks   In 60 years searching for origin of life, remarkably little to show for it.  All the critical questions remain open.  A nudge from the divine would help us clear some very high hurdles; but once that possibility is admitted there will be no place to stop.  The unspoken premise that once the molecular building blocks are on hand, cellular organization will take care of itself.  That premise is surely incorrect.  How the "correct" monomers could have been selected from the "prebiotic clutter," how a sufficient concentration of monomers was maintained, where the energy came from, and how the replicator evaded the tendency of polymers to break down by hydrolysis.

     Dr. James Tour:  if your professors say it's all worked out, they don't know what they're talking about.

     Considering  1) replicating its genome, 

2) defining whether a piece of DNA is a gene or not, 

3) determining whether an RNA is protein-coding or not, and 

4) if it is protein-coding, where transcription or translation should start and end," 

these four are implemented differently by the three fundamental cell types, bacteria, archaea, Eukarya.  That is not what one would expect if bacteria and eukaryotes had shared a common ancestor.

     Prof. Tan taught molecular biology at the University of Missouri.  Lost tenure for publishing doubts about evolution.  Evolutionists try to keep their oppression quiet...they are working for a higher cause.

     Nobelist Francois Jacob:  "Evolution does not produce novelties from scratch. It works on what already exists, either transforming a system to give it new functions or combining several systems to produce a more elaborate one."  [JE:  new functions and elaboration are doubted and denied by the scientists who are in touch with reality.]

     Stephen Jay Gould:  "The standard story, in fact, is both fatuous and unsupported.  In the realm of giraffes..."

      Tree of life, says Eric Bapteste, "A few years ago it looked as though the grail was within reach."  "But today the project lies in tatters, torn to pieces by an onslaught of negative evidence.  Many biologists now argue that the tree concept is obsolete."

      So afraid of connecting God with science that...rather die than surrender.  Unfortunately, the staunchest defenders sit in places of esteem and authority as professors, scientists, and editors, and have the full faith of the news media.

      Classical ideal is that scientific theories are evaluated by a careful teasing-out of their internal logic and external implications, and checking whether these deductions and predictions are in-line-with old and new observations...In the real world it looks more like most scientists are quite willing to pursue wrong ideas for as long as they are rewarded with a better chance of achieving more grants, publications and status...control the peer review process (including allocation of grants, publications and jobs).          The longstanding situation for evolution has much in common with 2022 Cancel Culture.

2006 Aug 7  https://religionnews.com/2006/08/07/the-meltdown-of-liberal-christianity/

“When your religion says ‘whatever’ on doctrinal matters, regards Jesus as just another wise teacher, refuses on principle to evangelize and lets you do pretty much what you want, it’s a short step to deciding that one of the things you don’t want to do is get up on Sunday morning and go to church.”

2007  Uncommon Knowledge by Hoover Institution at Stanford University    Peter Robinson interviews famous British atheist Christopher Hitchens.

     Robinson:  "Where do you [as an atheist] get your sense of right and wrong?"

     Hitchens:  "I think our knowledge of right and wrong is innate in us.  We know we can't get along if we permit perjury, theft, murder, rape.  All societies at all times have forbidden such behavior."

     JE comments:  Hitchens is incorrect.  Many societies have incorporated perjury, theft, murder, and rape as business as usual.  Rape, or something close to it, is what "human trafficking is," and that is an income stream for criminal networks in the U.S., India, and Europe.  (In southern Spain, you drive through hilly terrain and you pass isolated businesses where women from Islamic countries are exploited.)       Abortion is murder, and in 2022 (Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade) the abortion industry casts abortion as "health care."  (WHO:  "Abortion is a simple health care intervention.")  The ancient Amorites practiced so much child sacrifice that the bronze ovens are unearthed by archaeologists after 3000 years.  The Aztecs killed an average of 200 daily in ritual sacrifice.      In 2021, theft up to $950 in San Francisco is just a cost of doing business, and pharmacies are closing when shoplifting gets too expensive.  In the U.S., the most common prosecution of the federal government is the regulatory agencies, including IRS and OSHA, suing individuals and businesses for false claims, and that is theft.  Farmers have farm machinery confiscated for accidentally killing endangered small animals in the fields, or violating regulations about "wetlands."          Hitchens doesn't mention           , which in the West has progressed in forty years from tolerance to admiration to "do as we say," even though CDC websites frankly state the risks.  https://www.cdc.gov/ms_health/for-your-health.htm.        What is innate in us is evil, just look at what the Bible says, "all have sinned."  Mr. Hitchins, take off your rose-colored spectacles.  

2007 Prof. Frank Tipler publishes The Physics of Christianity.  Included:  1995 study of blood from the Shroud of Turin and Oviedo Cloth show some "XX male" DNA, which is what geneticists expect for "the simplest virgin birth, the XX male generated by an SRY inserted into an X chromosome."  This happens in 4 of 100,000 males.  This supports the Shroud and Cloth as both being genuine.  Reported by New Oxford Review Dec 2015 p. 25.     Shroud next at 2022 May 1.

2007  a story of how a woman, born into an atheist family, loved her baby and rejected the atheist brainwashing that all feelings are just chemical reactions in your brain

     Jennifer Fulwiler      https://believersportal.com/three-powerful-atheists-who-converted-to-christianity-a-must-read/

     "...grew up in a loving family, but one in which religion was painted as clearly false...“science, reason and evidence-based rational thought”, her bedtime reading was Carl Sagan’s astronomy book Cosmos. science was the de facto way of understanding everything...However, shortly after the birth of her first child, she experienced a dramatic shift...‘What is this baby?’ And I thought ‘Well, from a pure atheist, materialist perspective he is a randomly evolved collection of chemical reactions.’ And I realized if that’s true then all the love that I feel for him is nothing more than chemical reactions in our brain. And I looked down at him and I thought: ‘That’s not true. It’s not the truth.’”...look into spiritualism, Buddhism, Hinduism and mysticism. The only religion that was off the table was Christianity – her parents had done a thorough job in ensuring Jennifer regarded Christianity as patently false...claims of Christianity. After all, if it was false, it should be easy to dismiss. However, her investigations led Jennifer to conclude that Jesus really was who he said he was, a journey described in her book Something Other Than God (Ignatius Press)... For C.S. Lewis and Fulwiler alike, only the existence of God could make sense of our deep-seated belief in love."

2007  Harmer and Smith, The Sex Industrial Complex:  America's Secret Combination; Pornographic Culture, Addiction and the Human Brain     The "SIC" has empire status, supported by Hollywood, the music industry, credit card compa­nies, TV commentators, and a puffed ­up ACLU spouting "free speech" sal­vos.    Elevation of behavioral sci­ences over moral codes, and especially the scourge of Alfred Kinsey's bogus science.    "Sex education" that supports premarital sex and          with the assistance of Planned Parenthood, the National Education Association, and the American Library Association.

2007   https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Warning.html   Lynn Conway, computer scientist and transgender activist, died in 2024 at age 86.   Wikipedia:  invented generalized dynamic instruction handling, a key advancement used in out-of-order execution, used by most modern computer processors to improve performance. 

     The web site is about sex reassignment surgery.  "A WARNING FOR THOSE CONSIDERING MtF SRS:  What if you "succeed" in completing a TS transition, but did it for the wrong reasons?  Yep, you get the idea!  This is one place you do NOT want to go!"    Copyright notice is not visible on the web page.  Whether this web page persists, given that Lynn Conway is recently deceased, is in doubt.

2007  the Law of Attraction and New Thought gain renewed exposure with the release of the film The Secret (2006) which was then developed into a book of the same title in 2007.  See Law of Attraction in Wikipedia.  Pastor Jared Kress at Calvary Hills Baptist, San Antonio, will have the Law of Attraction in a sermon in 2020.  LoA is a serious stumbling block and distraction for millions.  An intelligent young woman, pursuing Medical School, accidentally bumped into our vehicle in the dusk in 2018.  She understood our intent of forgiveness, but when I expressed that Jesus offers forgiveness, she blurted out, "oh, sending good intentions out to the universe?"  Her dad is a deacon in a Presbyterian church.  She is seriously ignorant about Jesus' forgiveness and God's requirement of obedience.

     Seen in a medical office lobby, cards to calm patients.  The ocean of life is lavish with its abundance.  All my needs and desires are met before I even ask.  [Who is this person asking, anyway?]  My good comes from everywere and everyone and everything.       I am unfolding in fulfilling ways.  Only good can come to me.  I now express health, happiness, prosperity, and peace of mind.          My heart is open.  I allow my love to flow freely.  I love myself.  I love others and others love me.

    Elsewhere in the Time Line, 1875, are characters in Wikipedia article, Blavatsky, Quimby, Norman Vincent Peale.  Wikipedia:  "positive thoughts and positive visualization will have a direct impact on the self."  Pure energy and cognitive reframing.

    On Internet, Lynne McTaggart's web site:  "Quantum physics shows that thoughts and intentions are an actual physical 'something' with the astonishing power to change our world ... Law of Attraction."   These people distract the confused from hearing Jesus' offer of forgiveness.

    The 2024 May 6 Coast to Coast AM radio show has guest Anthony Hamilton with Law of Attraction.  Which invites a web search for Law of Attraction, which shows quantumtransformationlab.com/quantum-physics-and-law-of-attraction by Lisa Proshina.  Lisa is possibly a fictional character (young, attractive, pictured lounging with a comfy blanket and a journal, or gazing at a West Coast scenic beach) that is a front for a business of life coaches, who would be average-looking people.  In other words, don't be surprised if you try to personally contact Lisa and you can never quite find her.  LisaProshina.com:  depressed teenager, overcoming anxiety, panic attacks, insecurity, low self-worth, and addictive tendencies.    Key phrases:  Mind-Blowing Connection Between Quantum Physics and Law of Attraction for Manifesting Desires, everything has potential, nothing is fixed, focus desire to achieve goals, positive thinking, mindset shapes reality, focus on positive to attract positive, create a reality, everything is energy, not mass, emotions has an electromagnetic field, tuning forks resonating with the universe's energy, manifest your desires into reality, feel the emotions you would feel if you had accomplished your goal, the universe will conspire with you, tap into the infinite potential of the universe, Earth Star chakra is 6 to 12 inches below your feet, a grounding point the earth's core energy.     All this is very different, and a distraction, from the Holy Spirit and receiving Jesus' forgiveness.  

     thespiritnomad.com has a great example of Law of Attraction       “Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.”– Barbara Marciniak, Bringers of the Dawn       The Spirit Nomad web page goes on with this:  soul whose origin is from the Pleiadian star system...Pleiadian starseeds are old, highly evolved souls who have come to Earth to help transition humanity from 3D to 5D. 

    The 2021 Jan 20 Coast to Coast AM radio show with George Noory host has guest Nick Begich.  Nick is typical of many CtC guests, he strings together a lot of blab and sells his books.  Noory lets these people gab.  Callers from northern California call in and are so appreciative  =:^)     CtC has a cumulative weekly audience of 2.75 million.  Nick has a "degree" from a diploma mill in Sri Lanka.  "Been doing this work for 27 years."    Bogus phrases during the show...I am spiritual.     Create your own pathway.     One person's crazy is another person's bliss, you don't know.      Prayer is revealing your heart.      When you hear "god," substitute "love."      Be a co-creator.     Measure by your own spirit.      The power of creation that each of us has.      Your personal truth.     Quantum entanglement.  Frequencies.  Resonance.  Oscillating electromagnetic fields.      Living energy.     We already have it all.     Have a conversation with the universe.      One man's wrong move could be right for another person.      I have to challenge everything.      Spraying and chemtrails.      Consciousness.      How you feel about your question is the energy in it.        The Butterfly Effect.      Do small things today.       Let go of the drag, send a wave in the other direction.      Scalar event, physics principles.       Beliefs shifting to knowing.      Take your life back, project into the world.       Its another name for god.       Rechannel emotion into change.      Talk to the divine.     It is so simple.          

    Nick on CtC, the day of Biden's inauguration Jan 20 2021:  Donald Trump was an ugly man who was transparent.  Joe Biden is an ugly man who is secret.    Nick stands in for Alex Jones on radio broadcast.  Earthpulse.com.

    Nick is son of Alaska Congressman Begich who was presumed dead in an Alaska small-plane crash that would have also killed U.S. House of Representatives Majority Leader Hale Boggs, 1972.  Search aircraft looked for the plane for 3600 flight hours, the largest U.S. search and rescue to date.

See 1990 Philip Johnson about the following      Find on this page or in this Google site similar paragraphs using search term "evoxcross."

2007 Sep 30   https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/defense-intelligent-design/   web site © 1996–2022 WGBH Educational Foundation

EVOLUTION     Defending Intelligent Design      Critically reviewed by John Engelbrecht April 3, 2020.

Phillip Johnson is known as the father of intelligent design. The idea in its current form appeared in the 1980s. Johnson taught law for over 30 years at UC Berkeley and is the author of the book Darwin on Trial. 

There are two hypotheses...One is you need a creative intelligence to do all the creating...the other is you don't.  [In the latter case...] unintelligent, purposeless, natural processes are capable of doing...the whole job.  [Is this true?]

Evolution [as delivered to the American public] is less than science in that...it's presented as if it were proved, [which it is not.  The case is weaker as new discoveries are made]...it contains the whole philosophy behind it, metaphysics as it were.

Naturalism was most flamboyantly stated in the Cosmos series [1980] by Carl Sagan...pronouncement that the cosmos is all there ever was and all there ever will be.  [Since there isn't going to be any heaven discovered, the idea of heaven is just imagination.]  A philosophy of naturalism or materialism is what generates the Darwinian theory. That is all a non-negotiable claim on their part...they don't like [what] might get a foothold in science itself [should they allow people to take a creator God seriously].

[Culture is degraded when] the naturalistic viewpoint leaves the way open for a kind of freedom from divine authority, a kind of moral anarchy.  [Anarchy is the lack of hierarchy, the lack of authority.]

[JE paraphrase] Mothers took their children to church on Sunday morning, and [on the way to church my mother] dropped my father off at the golf course. When you got old enough so that your mother couldn't tell you what to do anymore, what you did was you played golf on Sunday morning. So I was an agnostic, and then when I went away to Harvard, that tendency was very much encouraged. I grew up thinking that to be intelligent or well-educated was to be agnostic and to be liberal in politics. [Later,] the agnostic pattern...was not adequate for me. I became a Christian, and I found a kind of structure for my life that seemed to be a very good thing and to this day has enabled me to get through crises like two strokes.

Is God real or imaginary?

I saw that some of the proponents of Darwinian evolution were hard-core atheists like Richard Dawkins...[But others taught seriously about a creator.]  Maybe the creator is something more than an imaginary projection of people's minds. Maybe a creator is a necessary part of reality.  That to me was a fascinating issue...[even] for people at large. So it was legitimate for a law professor to address it [because lawyers work with evidence].

The evidence for [a creator-less evolution] lies somewhere between very weak and nonexistent. When you try to get proof, [they push piles of fossils at you.]  You get stories about microevolution.  [Changes from generation to generation that are true, the province of breeders, built into genetics, but no new organs.]

The one thing that evolutionary biologists are absolutely determined to support is their starting premise that...purely natural causes like random mutation and natural selection...[This] premise of natural causes has to be so inviolate and so ferociously defended is that what if something other than purely natural causes was involved?...[could it] be God. And they regard this possibility with horror...back to...the Dark Ages...You get God in there and that's the end of science. 

This whole Darwinian story, it seems to me, has been very much oversold...it's called science, it has been proved again and again...But this is not true. It is an imaginative story that has been spun on the basis of very little evidence.

[The evolution story is] not something we should trust as a creation story...what we're getting is evidence of temporary variation in the size of finch beaks or the color of peppered moths...I think the world should understand this [limited evidence not supporting the grand idea of purely natural causes].

Our genetic relatedness with chimpanzees?

[You refer to the supposed evidence of descent, based on similarity.] Say we have 99% of our genes in common with chimpanzees. We also have [44% to 60%] in common with bananas...[Does that mean humans are descended from chimpanzees, and more distantly descended from bananas?  Or does it point to a pool of useful proteins that is copy-pasted to many organisms, because many organisms need the same organic chemistry?  We shouldn't demand that a creator must come up with unique proteins for each organism!  Should fabric mills demand different formulations for synthetic fibers from each supplier, the fiber manufacturers CNPC, DuPont, Indorama, and Toray?]

Irreducible complexity Wikipedia and complex specified information https://creationwiki.org/Complex_specified_information are part of [the ID evidence.]  In Darwin's day it was thought that cells were simply globs of a kind of jelly-like substance, a protoplasm. So it didn't seem to be very difficult to imagine how you could get a blob of some substance like mud at the bottom of a prehistoric pond, lake, or [deep-sea hot vent]. But since Darwin's day an enormous amount has been learned about the cell [, and the more learned, the more complex the biochemistry has to be, and the less likely that the biochemistry could happen by undirected, material processes.  The kinesin and dynein molecular motors, 50,000 atoms each, are examples of incredible complexity.]  I think the cell is perhaps the biggest hurdle of all for the Darwinists to get over. How do you get the first cell?  [The simplest, self-reproducing cell has 437 genes, though it is fragile.  A robust, simple cell has lots more genes.  How does an evolutionist envision getting many more than 437 genes just right, with no toxic inclusions, in a short-enough time span so that deleterious mutations don't clobber the first cell, in a chemical and thermal environment that is stable for hundreds of millions of years?  Don't bug out your eyes and spout this garbage about billions of years and billions of billions of planets and untold multiverses.  That doesn't get 437 genes that are just right, not from undirected evolution.  There are only 10^80 atoms in the observable universe, and few of them are in a time-stable Goldilocks zone of temperature and chemistry.]

Is intelligent design a science?  [I will hit the ball back to you:]  If evolution by natural selection is a scientific doctrine, then [scientists must be open to] the critique of that doctrine, and even of the fundamental assumption on which it's based.  [Remember that macroevolution has not been proven, the proponents just want everyone to believe and not ask questions.  Critical thinking is not being exercised against macroevolution.  ID should not be the only hypothesis that is scrutinized.]

The problem with the theory of evolution is not that it's altogether wrong, but that it's correct only in a very limited and relatively trivial sphere rather than as the grand creation story that it is made out to be. It's a good theory for how finch beaks vary in size or how disease-causing microorganisms become resistant to antibiotic medicines.

[If God is the intelligence that got the cell going, the university has a few, smaller departments that might study that.]  In the [university] departments where we are considering what really happened, [religious] beliefs may be [tolerated]; they may even be beneficial. It's just that they don't reflect reality. They only reflect what's going on in people's heads.  That's the metaphysics of religion and science that is taken for granted in the universities. This is something that may change. One of the things that's so controversial and so hated about the concept of intelligent causes in biology is that it threatens this division of things into naturalism, which deals with how [scientists claim] things really are and is called science, and religious belief, which [in their view] is about make-believe in people's heads, out of fairy tales and the like.

Logically, one would expect that random mutations would never build up biological information. They would tend to tear it down, even if it was already in existence.  Random changes scramble information. They don't increase it or produce it...I see every reason to think that that's what happens with mutations in the cellular machinery.  [Look at cave crickets.  They don't get light, and mutations make them blind pretty quickly.  Their genes don't hold onto vision, anticipating a return of cave crickets to the surface of the earth.]

The authorities of the evolutionary scientific community would say, "We're not in crisis because we're as determined as ever. We still have a solid phalanx of belief. Yes, we get individual dissenters, but they are quickly closed off and marginalized. They tend to lose their research funds, be considered no longer real scientists anymore." So the community maintains its authority [through fear].  The crisis that they have to recognize is that they have failed to convince the [American] public, [where less than half believe complex things developed from simpler things by mutations].  [Naturalists] now have control of the educational machinery from primary school on up through the Ph.D. level [, and control of grants]. Plus all those documentaries on television and in the movies where the orthodoxy is put forward.  [They operate in a significant way through fear.  Researchers who venture outside the evolution orthodoxy risk ridicule and end of career.  Teachers in schools risk complaints from angry parents who say, "Why are you teaching my child religion?  Let's see what the principal says about you!"]

[Evolution is] a worldview that probably belongs in a philosophy course rather than in a science course. I foresee the day when Darwinian evolution will be taught at universities in courses on British intellectual history, and biology will have moved on.  [There are wonderful, useful discoveries in biology.  Witness the Covid-19 vaccines.  None of these discoveries is happening because the researchers believe evolution.  The researchers give a nod to the evolution high priests, then go on with their research.  Almost no researchers are validating naturalistic evolution.  They just know how to stay out of trouble.  They write journal articles and throw down scraps of "evolution shows," but evolution is strictly an ideological sideline.]

I did write a book called The Wedge of Truth.  My job is to be the sharp edge, to use my academic credentials and legal abilities to get some hearing for the proposition that there really is something fundamentally wrong with the Darwinian story...Other people form the thick edge of the wedge to take on the questions that do require a scientific expertise. Like a professor of biochemistry, Michael Behe, and a mathematician and philosopher of science, William Demsky.  The goal in the future is to change the intellectual face of the culture so that it isn't the way it was when I first went to college, when we were all taught that to be intelligent implies that you're agnostic.

[That] the cosmos is all there is...a fundamentally religious position.  

2007   Extended evolutionary synthesis (see Wikipedia) is a controversial debate among evolutionists.  There are so many facets to EES, and they are so technical, that average people have no idea what they are talking about.  (multilevel selection, transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, niche construction, evolvability, and evolutionary developmental biology)  The punctuated equilibrium of Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge in the 1980s was a step toward EES.  EES proponents include Massimo Pigliucci and Gerd B. Müller.  Dr. Müller concluded from this research that Natural Selection has no way of explaining speciation.        Wikipedia:  there is yet "another synthesis in evolutionary developmental biology, which concentrates on developmental molecular genetics and evolution to understand how natural selection operated on developmental processes and deep homologies between organisms at the level of highly conserved genes."  This seems to John E to be along the lines of how the complex, 60,000-atom molecular machines in the cell (kinesisn, cythochrome C) came to be.    Controversy about EES:  Wikipedia:   "others criticize the extended synthesis for not being radical enough."       https://www.templeton.org/discoveries/extended-evolutionary-synthesis

2007  Dr. Hugh Ross  http://www.reasons.org/articles/primordial-helium-abundance-test-of-big-bang-cosmology   The Big Bang supports the Bible's creation story.  Atheists, pantheists, and Hindus, among others, reject it because it so strongly supports Christian theology.

2007  ratio of debt to disposable personal income rises from 77% in 1990 to 127%, much of this increase is mortgage-related

2007 plus or minus a decade     Sugar in the diet is highly correlated to stroke and heart attack.  A 2023 British study of "free sugar," sugar not inside a cell, sugar added to carbonated drinks and food, and present naturally in fruit juice, https://www.prevention.com/health/a42886519/sugar-increased-risk-heart-disease-stroke-study/.     High incidence of cardiovascular disease is when the daily intake is 95 grams daily of free sugar, 18% of calories.  This is twice the sugar of a can of carbonated beverage.  Walter Willett:  "Avoiding sugar-sweetened beverages is probably the single most important thing we can be doing."  Much lower incidence of cardiovascular disease is consumption of less than 30 grams of free sugar per day.  A level teaspoon of sugar is 4.2 grams.

2007  Ivrea, Italy, is the site of development for the $45 Arduino, an open-source processor for do-it-yourselfers.  It has ADC and many I/O pins.  It is programmed in a variety of C.  Later Arduino Nano Every is a tiny thing for $11.

2007   U.S. commandos watch as a convoy carrying a powerful Iranian military leader made its way to northern Iraq.  http://enews.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20200103/4b477f59-0c7f-46cd-8084-531db2f762d0

     It was a prime opportunity to take out Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who had been accused of aiding Shiite forces that killed thousands of American troops in Iraq. But ultimately, military leaders passed on a strike, deferring to deep concerns about the potential fallout of such a provocative attack.

     Fears of a targeted killing of Soleimani persisted throughout the administrations of President George W. Bush, a Republican, and President Barack Obama, a Democrat, according to officials who served under both. Soleimani, they calculated, was just as dangerous dead and martyred as he was alive and plotting against Americans.

     Jan 3 2020:  Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley said officials were well aware of the prospect of retaliation, but believed “the risk of inaction exceeded the risk of action.” He cited “compelling, clear, unambiguous intelligence indicating that Soleimani was planning a significant campaign of violence against the U.S. in the coming days, weeks, months." Soleimani was finally killed on Jan 3 2020, along with others in a two-car caravan, on the outskirts of the Baghdad airport after he landed, as he was on his way to spearhead a major attack in Iraq.  He had operated freely for years, committing terror.

     http://enews.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20200103/b29eac28-88de-4640-aba5-67c47c120795

     “Oh, by the way, it might still happen,” Milley said.  The president warned Iran against retaliating. He said the U.S. military has Iranian targets “fully identified” for counter-retaliation. The U.S. has a wide range of offensive and defensive forces in the Gulf area within range of Iran.  Milley told reporters, “There is a range of possible futures here, and the ball is in the Iranian court.”  Soleimani was traveling in the area to put final touches on plans for attacks that would have hit U.S. diplomats, troops and American facilities in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and elsewhere.  A Dec. 27 rocket attack near Kirkuk killed an American contractor and wounded U.S. and Iraqi soldiers. The U.S. blamed an Iran-backed militia called Kataeb Hezbollah, or KH, and on Dec. 29 the U.S. bombed five KH-linked facilities. Two days later, KH militiamen and their supporters stormed the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad but made only a minor encroachment.  Soleimani kept a low profile and traveled only to countries like Iraq where the Quds Force already had strong security.

2008 April  Scientific American   "The Color of Plants on Other Worlds" has a timeline of terrestrial photosynthesis.   3.4 billion years ago -- First photosynthetic bacteria. [Photosynthesis is so complex that biochemists still haven't discovered all about it.] They absorbed near-infrared.     2.4–2.3 billion years ago -- First rock evidence of atmospheric oxygen.  (Geologists and biologists agree that the ancient atmosphere was reducing, not oxidizing.    2.7 billion years ago -- Cyanobacteria  the first oxygen producers.    1.2 billion years ago -- Red and brown alga     0.75 billion years ago -- Green algae      0.475 billion years ago -- First land plants, mosses and liverworts descended (by evolution thinking) from green algae. Lacking vascular structure (stems and roots) to pull water from the soil, they are unable to grow tall.       0.423 billion years ago -- Vascular plants, ferns, grasses, trees and cacti. They are able to grow tall.  (JE:  Note the three significant figures on the last two events, these are bold claims.)    Find on this page or in this Google site similar paragraphs using search term "evoxcross."

2008 Ap 14   https://juicyecumenism.com/2008/04/14/fact-sheet-on-the-religious-coalition-for-reproductive-choice/

rcrc.org voices of progressive clergy and people of faith at the forefront of the fight for reproductive freedom.   Promotes “a new sexual theology” that “will celebrate fidelity in our commitments without legalistic prescription as to the precise forms such fidelity must make.”  [JE:  leaving the door wide open for abortion;  how do they measure fidelity and commitments?]

The United Methodist Church’s social witness is the denomination’s current “blank check” endorsement...

rcrc.org   Calls performing abortions “sacred work,”   “holy work,” and “God’s work.”

Some liberal American denominations shun rcrc.org:  ELCA, the American Baptist Churches in the USA, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

rcrc.org:  "The religious beliefs of others should not interfere."

2008  https://www.templeton.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/EES-Final-Report-1.23.23.pdf

EES is extended evolutionary synthesis.     "The molecular era [JE assumes this means the discovery of the complex molecular machines in the cell, such as kinesis] did not merely reinforce the Modern Synthesis."  "The genetic study of morphological (Carroll 2008) and developmental evolution (Carroll 2000) uncovered the presence of vast genetic regulatory networks (GRNs) responsible for the origin and transformations of major body forms and modular body parts."   [GRNs are parts of DNA that are not just protein recipes.]    "Progressives seek to redefine 'evolution' so that a new, expansive framework can assimilate genecentric [the gene as the central idea of the Modern Synthesis] evolution as a special case."      Pages 59-60 of this PDF show that school teachers, even those with a BS degree in biology, are not likely to be able to understand EES and the way some are pushing evolution, much less explain to parents why elementary concepts in textbooks are obsolete, or what to do about that.     John Templeton Foundation funds study about a naturalistic notion of purpose (Agency, Directionality, and Function: Foundations for a Science of Purpose).          Whether any of EES says much about how self-replicating cells originated, JE can't tell.    evoxcross

2008   Death from the Skies!: These Are The Ways The World Will End by Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer

asteroid impacts                 1 in 700,000 in a human lifetime    

solar flares                             no direct death but power grid damaged and transformers will take years to replace

supernovae explosions     1 in 10,000,000     Death from Ozone depletion and radiation if the supernova is less than 25 light years from Earth

gamma ray bursts                 1 in 14,000,000     Death from radiation and ozone depletion from burst 7,000 light years away if the Earth is inside the path of the energy beam.

Heat death of the Universe    in 1092 yrs

2008 Large Hadron Collider suffers liquid-helium leak when a high-current joint between magnet wires (up to 13,000A) opens up.  An arc breaches a liquid-helium line.  Two tons of liquid helium explosively flashing to gas in evacuated piping, followed by an enormous superconducting-magnet quench, produces overpressure in 800 meters of the 27 km loop, breaking multiton magnets out of anchors and destroying equipment.  53 magnets suffer damage.  No personnel are injured.  See movie, Particle Fever.  During a two-year repair, all 10,000 high-current joints are checked.  Some are re-silver-soldered.  Normal joint power is just .5W (13,0002 * 3E-9 ohms).  All joints now have voltage-drop monitors.  During repairs, some collision-particle sensors ("pixels") close to the beam pipe are replaced due to radiation damage that had already happened.

2008 Pres. Obama:  "they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion.”  Democrats lose voters as they support the culture of death;  Democrat leaders make abortion the key point of the party.

April 2008 Pres. Obama  "You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.  And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."       John's comments--jobs going away, Pres. Obama says the work of replacing small-town jobs is Federal Govt. responsibility--it is not!  It may be the proclaimed intent of the district's congressman, but that shouldn't be a job for the Federal Govt.  "They get bitter"--they may be bitter that people are moving away and property values fall so low the remainder can't afford to live or move out themselves (this is true in Detroit, a big place).  "They cling"--the President is telling people to give up on their core beliefs and join liberals in inventing substitute realities.  The President is telling people to turn their backs on religion, it is outmoded and unsuited to dealing with modern problems.  On the contrary, Mr. President, orthodox Christianity which pays attention to the Bible is the solution to problems.

    The Day is Now Far Spent Roman Catholic Cardinal Robert Sarah a Black African from sub-Sahara Guinea in conversation with French Nicolas Diat Ignatius Press 2019 page183   "The legalization of abortion is the matrix for all sorts of transgressions...'termination of pregnancy' sounds nicer to the ear...A crime becomes a right...many women carry within them for years this terrible wound...All the popes of the last century fought against this culture of death."  Page 187  "Poor counties, where the family is still a fundamental anchor point of social life, are the prime targets of the eugenicist...policies.  Large foundations in the hands of Western billionaires develop programs for exterminating pre-born children."  "In Belgium or in Great Britain, [there are some who] want to authorize euthanasia of minors without the parents' consent."  The many fronts of the Western elite know three principles:  money, power, and pleasure.  They advocate abortion, commercialization of the body, sexual excesses, gender theory, the disintegration of marriage, and euthanasia.  page 197  Those who understand horrors of slavery ["some of my ancestors had been sold like animals"], communism, the Third Reich, and the Culture of Death doubt God:  "The divine silence in the presence of barbarity and crimes is for many a sufficient motive for unbelief."  But it speaks of the degree of freedom that God gives Man.  Nihilism in philosophy is unrestrained.  Relativism commands values.  Hedonism reigns.  The mass media promotes.  Look to gender ideologists for the most aggressive distortion of freedom.  Europe sleeps.  Europe has all they need and live as if God doesn't exist.  page 220  "The West...sees in its own history only what is blameworthy."  But the mission of Christians is not to save a dying world;  ask God to do that.  "Do not be afraid because of your small numbers."  Europe is ashamed of its Christian roots and reaps contempt from Muslim immigrants.  "Media use every means to try to break up the remnants of Christianity...This thought police campaign to transform man."

2008 June 27  The oldest teaching professor on UT Austin campus, John W.F. Dulles, dies.  Son of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.  Brother of Cardinal Avery Dulles.  Prof. Dulles has an office with a grand view toward southwest Austin and the Hill Country on the top floor, 27, of Dobie Center at corner of Guadalupe & 21st St., down from the RD's dorm room.  Across the street is the grand Ransom Center.  Prof. Dulles, graduate of Princeton and Harvard, smoked a pipe and equipped his rooms with filtering to keep from contaminating the dorm air.  His rooms were the closest smoking office to the UT campus that he could find, where he could also park his car.  At this time, the author of this time line, JE, is in his second year of five years working Dobie security for Securitas, having been unable to find engineering work in Austin due to massive layoffs.  Prof. Dulles was a hard-working professor and author.  He employed a part-time secretary.  He had to use an electric cart, but drove a car and rented a ground-floor parking space in Dobie Garage.  Security Officers locked up his cart in storage in the garage as needed and made sure he could get out through the garage gate after the attendant (often a sorority sister across University Ave) went home.  He often departed at 11PM and stayed overnight in a downtown hotel.  Security and the RD were aware of Prof. Dulles' heart trouble.  JE was present once on Floor 27 when EMS came to help Prof. Dulles when he was having serious heart pain.  He told the EMT that it hurt a lot, but EMTs don't have to have good bedside manner.  EMS took him to a hospital, and he died within weeks.  It was a curious experience to work security around 20-year-olds and also meet the needs of a distinguished 95-year-old.

     Another curious thing on Floor 27 was a corner office with commercial communications gear.  It was wired through the roof to many antennas.  LCRA and SiriusXM were some tenants.  The SiriusXM equipment was locked up inside a chain-link enclosure inside the room.  In the security office was a special binder with tenant registrations and notices for FCC and instructions about how to admit service people;  there had been at least one fraudulent entry to the 27th floor, in which equipment was removed when the tenant was bankrupt.  Next to the corner office was a large suite occupying 30% of the top floor, housing twenty racks of obsolete microwave-network (including TV) equipment, with many high-$ Collins Radio Corp. TWT (traveling wave tube) amplifiers, which were connected to large microwave dishes mounted on the outside of the topmost Dobie structure, the elevator motor room.  (The dishes lent a distinctive look to the top of Dobie Center, visible from miles away.)  It was evident that the company that leased the space did steady business (map on wall, a network of about 20 Texas-area microwave repeaters) providing communications until fiber-optic networking came in, then the company ceased and walked away from all that equipment and 150 pounds of maintenance manuals.  The space could have been reclaimed for two dorm rooms for students, but there may have been bankruptcy complications that prevented the equipment from being moved out.  Another use of the room was for the summer high-school athletic camps that did room and board at Dobie Center.  Lots of linens were stored in the room, which RAs had to kit up for the camps.  JE, being an electrical engineer, had enough microwave exposure that he could recognize TWTs and waveguides going up to the dishes through ceiling ports.

2008  "The Truth About the              Rights Movement"  Ronald G. Lee      http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles8/Lee-The-Truth-About-The-        -Rights-Movement.php     Also at http://www.newoxfordreview.org/article.jsp?did=0206-lee            [I am] a refugee from the     insane asylum.  [    ] in my experience is not about love, but about obsession, addiction, and compensation for a compromised masculinity.  I am not proud of the life I have lived.       What do we as a Church and a culture need to do? Tear down the respectable façade and expose the pornography beneath. Start pressuring      to tell the truth about their lives.  Truth ripens, error rots. The       rights movement is rotten to the core. It has no future. There is no life in it. Sooner or later, those who are caught up in it are going to wake up from the dream of unbridled desire or else die. It is just a matter of time. The question is: how long? How many children are going to be sacrificed to this Moloch?       [              in the U.S. have life spans averaging 15 or more years less than          ]

2008  The last, fifth, edition of Matthew Alper's The God Part of the Brain.  Alper was interviewed by George Noory on May 7, 2023.  Alper, trained in philosophy, reads a lot but is not qualified by training to talk details of neurology.  Reviews of his book have plenty of one-star reviews.  He is an engaging nighttime interviewee, though.  In high school and college, he was not interested in writing.  He wrote the first edition of the book and saw that it was poor writing, but some people liked it.  He read a lot of classical writers and determined to make a better revision.  His concluding remark on the Coast to Coast AM show:  "There is no god, no soul, no afterlife."     His interview with Skeptico's Alex Tsakiris, online, is interesting.

2008  Because They Hate:  A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America    Brigitte Gabriel

2008  Global financial crisis comes from falling housing valuations in the U.S. (following housing bubble) when many mortgage holders default on their mortgage payments.  The Lehman Brothers bankruptcy knocks the keystone from the arch;  Lehman management could have sold out to a Korean bank but the offering was a third of what Lehman wanted.  From Feb. 2007 to Sept. 11 2008, Lehman loses 96%.

2008  with Georgia taken over by Russia        George F. Kennan  The Kennan Diaries   The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies, and the neighbors of Russia, if they do not wish to be one, must reconcile themselves to being the other.  The Long Telegram from Moscow embassy, containment policy (let them have what they already have), Marshall Plan.         At the "bottom of the Kremlin's neurotic view of world affairs is the traditional and instinctive Russian sense of insecurity."  Wikipedia:  "Stalin needed a hostile world in order to legitimize his autocratic rule."       Ilan Berman:  Starting about 2008, a decade of a massive, state-orchestrated campaign of propaganda.  Russia threatened by the world.         JE:  Putin is very popular in Russia, the propaganda works.  Donald Trump's second presidency may let Trump push back against Putin (again) and stop the Russian war to conquer Ukraine, a great agricultural region.   Salon.com  Around 2017, Russia's military budget is $69 billion, U.S. is $716 billion.  But U.S. spends for many "fronts," more so than Russia.    The two warm-water ports (do not ice up in winter) for Russia are Sevastopol (Ukraine) and Tartus (Syria), and the latter is threatened by Assad's collapse in Dec 2024.  U.S. warm-water ports are 40 domestic, 31 foreign bases.

     An important Putin speech:  Feb 21 2022.

2008 Dec  Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, the largest in history, worth $65 billion in customer accounts, collapses as he is unable to make redemptions to investors.  (See 2008 Global financial crisis  just above, maybe Madoff could have continued had it not been for investors being in the market more with the 2008 instability.)  Doubts about Madoff were around since 1999.  Harry Markopolos, a whistleblower, made repeated warnings to SEC but was ignored.  The SEC audited Madoff several times, but the intricate rat's nest of Madoff accounting kept them from seeing the fraud.  Four men committed suicide because of the fraud.  Madoff died in prison in 2021 of kidney disease.

     From the February 2009 issue of The American Spectator  By Peter J. Wallison     The True Origins of This Financial Crisis       As opposed to a desperate liberal legend.

     Two narratives seem to be forming to describe the underlying causes of the financial crisis. One, as outlined in a New York Times front-page story on Sunday, December 21, is that President Bush excessively promoted growth in home ownership...a banking system suffused with junk mortgages, the continuing losses on which are dragging down the banks and the economy. The other narrative is that government policy over many years--particularly the use of the Community Reinvestment Act and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to distort the housing credit system-- underlies the current crisis. ...the prescription is to terminate those government policies that distort mortgage lending.

    There really isn’t any question of which approach is factually correct: right on the front page of the Times edition of December 21 is a chart that shows the growth of home ownership in the United States since 1990. In 1993 it was 63 percent; by the end of the Clinton administration it was 68 percent. The growth in the Bush administration was about 1 percent. The Times itself reported in 1999 that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were under pressure from the Clinton administration to increase lending to minorities and low-income home buyers.

    The fact is that neither political party, and no administration, is blameless; the honest answer, as outlined below, is that government policy over many years caused this problem. The regulators, in both the Clinton and Bush administrations, were the enforcers of the reduced lending standards that were essential to the growth in home ownership and the housing bubble.

    The program continued, much more intriguing information.

2009  Pres. Obama rose from "community organizer."  Slate.com:  The "Radical in Chief" is about Marxism.  Obama is a Marxist at Occidental College.   "Bill Ayers often wears the red star."  "Stealth-socialist community organizer colleagues."  "Gradualist mentors."  

2009  Texas Instruments introduces NexFET transistors for switch-mode power supplies, featuring lower charge into the gate.  A demo board is a DC-DC converter, 12V to 1.2V, 6 phase, 635kHz, up to 100A.

2009 October 20  https://www.manhattandeclaration.org/  An evangelical Christian statement in the U.S.

2009  Atlanta school superintendent Beverly Hall insisted on ever-improving standardized testing scores for Atlanta schools, and the scores did improve.  But there was a widespread scandal, changing of bubble-ins by teachers who were pressured to do anything to make scores go up.  A twelfth or a quarter of classrooms is affected.  Student ability did not go up, but scholarship donations rise from $9 million to $129 million.  After monitors are brought in to prevent cheating, scores drop back down.   2009: the American Association of School Administrators named Hall as National Superintendent of the Year, mentioning Atlanta's "significant gains in student achievement over the past 10 years."   Wikipedia:  investigators accused Dr. Hall of creating "a culture of fear, intimidation and retaliation” that permitted "cheating — at all levels — to go unchecked for years.” Hall died of cancer before trial.  Eleven of the teachers she pressured are convicted and some are imprisoned.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Public_Schools_cheating_scandal

2009  New Oxford Review July-Aug 2009  p. 19:  Father Corapi "A lot of people talk about having a 'personal relationship' with Jesus.  And that is surely necessary."  Some Catholic bishops and professors "have been downright negative.  They haven't formed their Catholic people in the faith."  Canadian bishops rejected Humanae Vitae in the Winnipeg Statement.  Catholic professors are embarrassed by angels and demons, and they deny them.    Through this time line, note many occasions of the hierarchical Catholic Church causing problems.  Protestant, non-hierarchical churches often run off the rails, but orthodox Christians are free to seek protestant churches that continue in reformed theology.

2009  Solar cycles are more complex than an 11-year cycle.  It is really a 22-year cycle, with alternating magnetic polarities.  There was the 1700 Maunder Minimum but also an Oort Minimum in 1060, Medieval Maximum 1250, Wolf Minimum 1330, Sporer Minimum 1500.  The 11-year cycle has other, less intense periods moving through.  Babcock Model.

2009  DRAM Errors in the Wild: A Large-Scale Field Study   Bianca Schroeder  DRAM error rates that are orders of magnitude higher than previously reported, with FIT rates (failures in time per billion device hours) of 25,000 to 70,000 per Mbit and more than 8% of DIMMs affected per year. We provide strong evidence that memory errors are dominated by hard errors, rather than soft errors, which most previous work focuses on.  

     http://www.zdnet.com/article/dram-error-rates-nightmare-on-dimm-street/#!     October 4, 2009    A two-and-a-half year study of DRAM on 10s of thousands Google servers found DIMM error rates are hundreds to thousands of times higher than thought -- a mean of 3,751 correctable errors per DIMM per year.     See 1978, 2015        The FIT rate translates to 500 errors per 100 hours on my 2013 ANODE Windows 8.1 machine which has 16GB of DRAM.  This sounds terrible, but the amount of memory typically in use may be quite small.

2009  Neil Sloane transfers the intellectual property rights of his On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences to the new OEIS Foundation.  OEIS.org    Thousands of integer sequences are searchable.  The writer of this time line sometimes looks up strange numbers, like 510510, which is "primorial" for 17 * 13*11*7*5*3*2, all the primes up to 17.  (510510 is in my sub-page Derbyshire Prime Obsession.  510510 has a repeated structure for a good reason, I think.)  All kinds of strange numbers are searchable on OEIS and generally through search engines on Internet.  

2009  Wolfram Alpha, named by British Stephen Wolfram of Mathematica (1988) fame, is an on-line, natural-language, query-based information tool that is free, or for fuller interaction, $5.49 monthly (in 2019).  In the input bar, type in x^.5 +x^5-x^3+11=0 and get the roots -.565 ± 1.44i, 1.42 ± .898i .  Some math inputs offer step-by-step solution and are useful for students.  For prime factoring, 54 decimal digits is about the limit, far exceeding other Internet prime-factoring web pages.  (Just type in the number.) (Reference:  factordb.com is an on-line database of numbers that people [and computers?] have asked to be factored.  https://stdkmd.net/nrr/repunit/ is a big web site showing factors for repunits.  It indicates that significant computing is needed to prove integers to be primes, for number lengths of around 210 digits.)  In Wolfrom Alpha, for even larger numbers, Next prime (2^1000 - 1) would be the sort of input to get the next prime following a Mersenne prime, or creep up on a prime gap.  (Gives the full integer to at least Next prime (2^2000), takes about 8 seconds.)  Wolfram Alpha gives some information on many single words.  It gives climate information for austin daily high temperature 2000 to 2018.  For the free version, answers seem to be graphical, you can't copy the output.

2009 Jan 21   https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/jan/21/charles-darwin-evolution-species-tree-life     "Evolution: Charles Darwin was wrong about the tree of life" Evolutionary biologists say crossbreeding between species is far more common than previously thought, making a nonsense of the idea of discrete evolutionary branches. Illustration:  A page from Darwin's Notebook B showing his sketch of the tree of life, 1837.  "The tree of life is being politely buried," said Michael Rose, an evolutionary biologist.    Find on this page or in this Google site similar paragraphs using search term "evoxcross."

2009 and since 1988   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_experiment   E. Coli  Lenski    hundreds of millions of mutations over the first 20,000 generations, Lenski has estimated that within this time frame, only 10 to 20 beneficial mutations achieved fixation in each population.  [JE:  is it as simple as saying that beneficial mutations are rare, harmful mutations are the norm?]    decay of unused metabolic functions after 20,000 generations.        A critic:  likely a result of the selective experimental conditions used by his team rather than being a unique evolutionary speciation event

2009 Sept 9  During Pres. Obama speech to Congress, Joe Wilson shouts "You lie!" (in response to President Obama saying health reform would not insure illegal immigrants.)  JE:  as it turns out, many illegal-entry migrants admitted by the millions by Biden policies from 2021 to 2024 do get free coverage by states, https://www.newsweek.com/states-offering-health-coverage-undocumented-migrants-2077861 May 28 2025  "federal Medicaid matching rate for the ACA expansion in their states cut from 90 percent to 80 percent."

2009 Oct  James Arthur Ray puts 50 of his attenders through a long Sedona, Arizona(the mystique of Sedona!) desert "sweat lodge" ceremony in which three die, two from heat stroke.  More about that below.   Law of Attraction practitioner James Arthur Ray will be glamorized in 2024 by being guest on Coast to Coast AM on 2024 Dec 29 show.  (See in this time line 2007 the Law of Attraction and New Thought.)  JE:  Law of Attraction practitioners advance the cause of Gnosticism and paganism.

     A bizarre story about Law of Attraction, just phrases from copyrighted sites.  James Arthur Ray had been on 2006 CNN Larry King Live;  Today Show, Oprah.  Narrator in movie, The Secret.  His books are 2003, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2017, 2020, including 2008 People Mag winner Harmonic Wealth, The Secret to Attracting the Life You Want.  [JE:  common on Coast to Coast AM, harmonic frequencies which is a bizarre claim about people and their thinking, other than the frequencies of brain waves, but frequencies are valid in physics.]  Amazon:  'Mastery,' million people have attended his events, 2016 CNN Enlighten Us in which Ray is coming back from conviction for negligent homicide by Arizona court and two year sentence, Phoenix New Times: charging up to $10,000 per participant;  for his trial, $1 million lawyer (and defense witness?) cost;  a "self help guru" in Internet search for his name;  The Verge:  five day [regimen] before the deadly sweat lodge, 50 people 36 hours meditating in desert before sweat lodge, "The Secret promised a dream life awaits anyone with a properly focused mind, Oprah gushed, your body is energy, money is energy, John Norcross condemned pseudoscientific, psychospiritual babble, The Secret repackaged self-help from Ralph Waldo Emerson, millions believe in what some call self-help fraud, Fortune mag:  frothy concoction, today's fragile zeitgeist, esoterica, Ray is tanned and rich, [50 people crowded in, did they pay 50x$10,000 = $half million?] makeshift dark sweat lodge for 2.5 hours before EMS showed up, (CBS News:  vomiting, collapsing, you can push past physical weakness, shaming), 2 women and 1 man dead, 18 hospitalized, dehydration, 4-month trial, $3 million settlement from insurance, "our daughter had to die before we could see how dangerous someone like...could be," says 38-yr-old Kirby's mother, Dec 4 2013 The Verge:  The Death Dealer...at it again, beyond reach of FTC due to vague claims, [...participant] was "an idiot, did this stupid thing [but fell for the deception and shaming]," CBS News:  "Why don't you sell cars [, you won't kill people if you sell cars]...they're heroes, not victims," Ray said.  [JE:  like it says, self help is beyond FTC because of vagueness, people do stupid things and believe charismatic people and buy their books, witness Coast to Coast AM where most guests have written a book.]

2009 May 12  Pope Benedict makes controversial statement in Jerusalem at the Muslim Dome of the Rock, the place where Abraham had almost sacrificed Isaac (or Ishmael, says Quran).  "Here, the paths of the world's three great monotheistic religions meet, reminding us what they share in common."  William Kilpatrick, writing in The Catholic World Report, January 2010, says, "Whenever [Islam's] capital reserves of trust and good will run low, Islam can always count on a pope, a president, or a prime minister to provide a new infusion of capital in the form of reassurances that it is a great religion with which we share plenty of common ground."  Western political leaders continue to insist that Muslim terrorists do not represent the true Islam.  Kilpatrick says that Western finance is bending to honor sharia, to give 2.5% per year of portfolio funds to charities.  This is one of the five pillars of Islam, zakat.  The choice of charity favored by Islamic scholars and clerics is radical Islamic idealogues, charges Kilpatrick.  

     A description of Los Angeles, the vast collection of municipalities:  There's no there there.  Kilpatrick:  "Much the same can be said of the Quran.  It has surprisingly little to say."  JE has read some Quran and verifies this.  If the books of Quran are arranged in consecutive order, the latter books deal largely with imposing order on his multiple wives and children.  "The Western media engage in endless speculation about [Jesus]...uncovering the 'real' Jesus...but the Islamic revelation is given a free ride."

2010 May  Senate votes to curtail "no-doc" mortgages, part of financial regulatory reform, an aftermath to 2008 financial crisis which was caused by our politicians in Washington, D.C.

2010  Fleming at UCB:  evidence of quantum coherence in a bacterial complex at ambient temperatures, possibly related to photosynthesis

2010   CERN produces and stores dozens of neutral (uncharged) anti-hydrogen atoms.  These  annihilate with ordinary matter when released from storage.

2010  U.S. users get news more by Internet than by newspapers

2010  Blockbuster, the brand, movie-rental stores are on the decline.  Redbox is competition, and Netflix has already ramped up Internet-streamed movies.

1965 in an integrated circuit 200 transistors  1975 4500  1985 300,000  1993 4,000,000  2005 600,000,000      2010   1 billion transistors in AMD 64-bit Bulldozer uP

2010 Oct  http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/154/2/434      Photosynthesis is the only significant solar energy storage process on Earth.  [Coal is not mentioned;  "abiotic" coal is possible.]  Eukaryotic photosynthesis originated from endosymbiosis of cyanobacterial-like organisms, which ultimately became chloroplasts (Margulis, 1992). So the evolutionary origin of photosynthesis is to be found in the bacterial domain.   Horizontal gene transfer has shuffled the genetic information that codes for various parts of the photosynthetic apparatus, so that no one simple branching diagram can accurately represent the evolution of [the 17 steps of] photosynthesis.  [Ignoring the improbability of photosynthesis arising from mutations.]  We often talk about the evolution of photosynthesis as if it were a concerted process.     Find on this page or in this Google site similar paragraphs using search term "evoxcross."

    "A concerted process" is the way that evolution is viewed by its proponents.  It is as if something rational has guided evolution to the current, elaborated state.  In Krauss' ATOM, p. 192-3:  "Life soon improved on the need..."  "Bacteria must develop a mechanism."  "Microbes hit upon..."  By using this language, students are indoctrinated to think that there is a Gaia-style life force guiding evolution.

    Wikipedia:  The Gaia hypothesis proposes that living organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings to form a synergistic and self-regulating, complex system that helps to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for life on the planet...Lovelock and  Lynn Margulis in the 1970s...how the biosphere and the evolution of organisms affect the stability of global temperature, salinity of seawater, atmospheric oxygen, a hydrosphere of liquid water...the habitability of Earth.

See in this time line 2015 Oct. 30.

2010  Genetic evidence that Neanderthals interbred with modern humans in the Middle East, a major break from previous thinking that Neanderthals were separate.  Neanderthals and modern humans belong to the same genus, Homo, & are called Homo Neanderthalensis by The Smithsonian, http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-neanderthalensis.  NOVA programs 2013 & July 8, 2015.  This remains controversial among paleontologists, especially concerning contamination of Neanderthal DNA with modern DNA.  Non-biologists find the details confusing & are in the dark about what this says about evolution, but it seems that the meaning of the word, evolution, has to be pinned down by anyone talking about Neanderthal, modern humans, & evolution.    Find on this page or in this Google site similar paragraphs using search term "evoxcross."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/07/science/07neanderthal.html?_r=0     May 7, 2010, on page A10 of the New York Times edition with the headline: Analysis of Neanderthal Genome Points To Interbreeding With Modern Humans.

Svante Paabo, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig

2010  auxiliarymemory.com   All religions come around to the Golden Rule.  Inspire people to be better people.  Be more Christian, forget 2000 years ago, deal with the present.  

2010  JE: Pres. Obama's positive words about orthodox Christianity are kept out of news broadcasts during the eight years of his presidency.  The press censors itself.       This is because of his Chicago pastor, the inflammatory Jeremiah Wright, because the mainstream media are hostile to orthodox Christianity, because of Obama's attachment to Niebuhr, see 1943 in this timeline, and because so much of his policy is against conservative values:  LGBTQ, Planned Parenthood, socialist tendencies.   https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-last-100-days-theologian-in-chief-edition-181221719.html  “We are awed by the grace he showed even to those who would have killed him,” he told the clergy at a 2010 breakfast. “We are thankful for the sacrifice he gave for the sins of humanity. And we glory in the promise of redemption in the resurrection.”   “According to the Christian tradition, grace is not earned. Grace is not merited. It’s not something we deserve. Rather, grace is the free and benevolent favor of God.”

2010 roughly     Freeman Dyson (in Wikipedia)  Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is beneficial for agricultural yields and forests.  Existing simulation models of climate change are faulty.  Political efforts to reduce climate change distract from other global problems.  He viewed the acceptance of climate change as comparable to a religion.   The Wikipedia article shows that Dyson forecast human habitation throughout the solar system.  [JE understands that radiation is a terrible problem away from the Earth, and supplies that are disposable on Earth (recycle or bury or burn) can't be disposable if there is no supply chain or industry to replace them.]

2010    New Oxford Review, commenting on Ferrara, The Church and the Libertarian (Minnesota: The Remnant Press, 2010):  We are witnessing the construction of a society that aims to be completely free of religion.  Liberty is the god that failed.

     http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2012/06/religious-freedom-and-constitution.html    June 20, 2012

     The liberal state in conformity with recent Supreme Court decisions, anathematizes orthodox religious believers.  They are marginalized. They are discriminated against in publicly financed education, and they are told that the expression of their moral beliefs is not welcome on an equal basis with secularism in political or cultural debate. In the name of “religious freedom,” the liberal state systematically persecutes not only orthodox religious believers, but even agnostics and atheists who happen to agree with them on issues of public morality such as abortion or norms of acceptable sexual practice...Locke and Jefferson held that atheists should not be allowed to serve on juries

     June 4, 1985 Justice Rehnquist's dissent:      http://www.belcherfoundation.org/wallace_v_jaffree_dissent.htm

     Jefferson's original language, "nor shall any national religion be established," obviously does not conform to the "wall of separation" between church and State idea which latter-day commentators have ascribed to him.

     He did not see it as requiring neutrality on the part of government between religion and irreligion. Thus the Court's opinion in Everson--while correct in bracketing Madison and Jefferson together in their exertions in their home State leading to the enactment of the Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty--is totally incorrect in suggesting that Madison carried these views onto the floor of the United States House of Representatives when he proposed the language which would ultimately become the Bill of Rights.

     The repetition of this error in the Court's opinion in Illinois ex rel. McCollum v. Board of Education...does not make it any sounder historically.  In Abington School District v. Schempp, the Court made the truly remarkable statement that "the views of Madison and Jefferson, preceded by Roger Williams, came to be incorporated not only in the Federal Constitution but likewise in those of most of our States." On the basis of what evidence we have, this statement is demonstrably incorrect as a matter of history.  And its repetition in varying forms in succeeding opinions of the Court can give it no more authority than it possesses as a matter of fact; stare decisis may bind courts as to matters of law, but it cannot bind them as to matters of history.

     On the same day as Congress considered the Bill of Rights, the Northwest Ordinance was reenacted as the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and provided that "[r]eligion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged."

     Joseph Story, a Member of this Court from 1811 to 1845, and during much of that time a professor at the Harvard Law School:  An attempt to level all religions, and to make it a matter of state policy to hold all in utter indifference, would have created universal disapprobation, if not universal indignation...There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the Framers intended to build the "wall of separation" that was constitutionalized in Everson.

2010  New Oxford Review June 2010 p. 22    The Anglican Community (American Episcopalians) endure:  Gene Robinson divorcing his wife, leaving his children to "marry" a man, but is ordained bishop of New Hampshire in 2003, endorsement of abortion, Jesus affirms any life style, the church is to promote social goals, add experience to scripture, tradition, and reason (Judges 21:25 every man did what was right in his own eyes).  If Episcopalians have problems, they think must become more liberal to gain in numbers.

2010 Dec  Arab Spring is a time to reflect on Arab-country tribes.  Grf.bgu.ac.il  return of tribal dominance [JE:  now that the cork is out of the bottle]   "Arab culture and tribalism within Islam"...families, governance, conflicts within nations.  Georgetown Journal of International Affairs SRS:  in the Gulf, qabilas is affiliation with families with tribal confederacies that date back to the Prophet.    Tribes/sheiks/rulers determine national borders, which shift over centuries.

2011  Google gmail accounts of hundreds of senior U.S. govt. officials hacked by, probably, China.  In Augusta & S. Carolina, Doug Burks gives talks about his intrusion detection Linux distro, Security Onion & talks frankly about known Chinese govt. hacking.

2011  Google search on Internet takes 1000 Joules.  About 2% of global power is for data centers, the same as airlines.

2011  Arab Spring will turn out to be Muslim-Brotherhood-promoting violence and destabilization of peaceful countries.   Al-Qaeda is strengthened.

2011  Steve Jobs of Apple Computer dies of cancer.  He had been a hard man to work for.  He did a lot of demanding.  A quote:  “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”  Jobs named four things one might trust in, but he didn't include Jesus' forgiveness.

2011  Eben Upton and others introduce Raspberry Pi, a tiny, $35 multimedia computer with user I/O pins.  Originated when University of Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory became concerned about the year-on-year decline in the numbers and skills levels of the A Level students applying to read Computer Science. From a situation in the 1990s where most of the kids applying were coming to interview as experienced hobbyist programmers, the landscape in the 2000s was very different; a typical applicant might only have done a little web design.  https://www.raspberrypi.org/about/       2015 Raspberry Pi in a stripped-down version available for $5, but you have to add $20 of Flash memory, power supply, etc.

2011 IBM Watson computer beats Jeopardy experts.  The Watson artificial intelligence technology is heading toward making money for IBM after 2014, in nine areas, http://abcnews.go.com/Business/top-commercial-ibm-watson-jeopardy/story?id=21477280.  For example, IBM cloud-based Watson Engagement Advisor will improve the guidance DBS Bank provides to its clients.

     AI systems such as Watson make people think more about what intelligence is, how the brain thinks, and how people have values,  https://sites.google.com/site/solderandcircuits/home/more-circuit-design/an-essay--god-wants-your-brain.

2011 Jan-Feb issue of New Oxford Review, p. 8, from Peter Skurkiss:  "The Democratic Party was once decent and moral.  But that party is long gone, having been taken over by the pro-aborts...is now owned lock-stock-and-barrel by the abortion industry...has become the admitted home of the Hollywood crowd, the crowd that has been gleefully polluting American and world culture for over forty years now."

2011 Jan-Feb issue of New Oxford Review, p. 34 by NYC attorney Christopher Gawley:  "Entire societies honor disrespect of authority as a social good.  Such an ethos could only be possible during the twilight of a collapsing civilization."  Universities no longer search for truth, but they used to.

2011  The Day is Now Far Spent Roman Catholic Cardinal Robert Sarah a Black African from sub-Sahara Guinea in conversation with French Nicolas Diat Ignatius Press 2019 page 31  The "crisis of the Church in Europe is the crisis of faith.  If we find no answer to this ..., then all other reforms will remain ineffective."  In contrast to the bulk of Europe, Catholics are strong in Poland and Africa. "Modern man has made himself a prisoner of reason that is so autonomous that it has become solitary and autistic."  There is poverty in positivist reason.  "If the boundaries of human knowledge as they were set by Immanuel Kant cannot be crossed, then the faith can only waste away."  Page 59  "De-Chrisitianization in France has come from the clergy...not from the laity...Christianity...is by no means a religion-in-progress.  It is a religion of salvation."  Page 61  The uncertainty coming from pastors places "a question mark behind almost every article of the Creed."  Page 63  "Christians no longer know the basics of their own faith."  Page 88  "Catholics pick and choose among the truths of the Creed."  This is cafeteria religion.  God is made "a mere rational hypothesis."  Page 92  "Some...do not hesitate to mix divine truth with fashionable opinion."  Page 123  "The West refuses to love...rejects the joy that God offers...A thick bitterness spreads in souls and in society."  page 130  "We see people turn to magical and pagan practices." 

    See in this time line  2004 October The Spiritual and Cultural Dimension of Europe.  Also  2006 Weigel The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God  

    The Day is Now Far Spent page 153  There is a "modern distrust of all dependence."  People think that "only a radically autonomous and independent man...can be free."  But Christians must be dependent on Jesus' forgiveness.  See other problems with being autonomous in this time line, 2018 Jan 15 and 2018 March.  Also https://sites.google.com/site/solderandcircuits/home/more-circuit-design/bioethics-and-radical-autonomy

2011 or 2012  Latter-Day Saints publishes on-line a controversial FAQ, https://news-ca.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/mormonism-101-faq#C16

     It plays down "distinctive teachings of LDS" (you can search Internet for this phrase) and causes hand wringing among older Mormons.  https://wheatandtares.org/2012/03/15/mormonism-101-a-confusing-faq/     aspects that bothered me when I read it...compared with what I learned growing up in the Church over the past 4+ decades...the Church no longer wants us to be seen as a “peculiar people” with unique doctrines that set us apart...some fundamental doctrines seem to have been altered...we teach that through continuing revelation our doctrine can be changed...these unique doctrines seem to have been changed by press release.

    1997 Time Magazine interview with President Hinckley...in the King Follet discourse by the Prophet...God the Father was once a man as we were. This is something that Christian writers are always addressing. Is this the teaching of the church today, that God the Father was once a man like we are? I don’t know that we teach it. I don’t know that we emphasize it. I haven’t heard it discussed for a long time.           Over and over in this wheatandtares web page, LDS leaders waffle on what used to be solid LDS doctrine.  Sounds to me like they are pulling the covers over embarrassment.  What is embarrassing now can just drift away over decades and never be a problem for LDS again.  Do we really not teach that we can become like God?  If our leaders “don’t know a lot about it”, what should we believe?

Among active LDS members in early Utah, the percentage of people practicing [polygamy] varied...St George, approximately 30-40% of the families in the community were polygamous.  Other estimates range from 20-30% for different communities..A majority of the higher ranking leaders lived the doctrine and taught it as the standard for God’s people, with monogamy being an evil.  Momrmonism 101?  "It was again practiced by a minority of Latter-day Saints in the early years of the Church. Polygamy was officially discontinued in 1890 — 122 years ago. Those who practice polygamy today have nothing whatsoever to do with the Church."  A major piece of revisionism.  From Brigham Young's writings: “Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men...things taught as doctrine by prior apostles and prophets in talks, General Conference, magazine articles, etc.  are merely dismissed by saying that we don’t really know what they were saying or what they really meant by what they were saying.

The wheatandtares page has a lot of blogging.  Nick Literski  a perfect example of how I lost faith in LDS-ism (the religion of Hinckley/Monson) and then Mormonism (the religion of Joseph Smith Jr.). Over the past 20 years in particular, the distinctive teachings have been sidelined, downplayed, and turned into relics of history that “we don’t know much about.” Now we have young people graduating from BYU who deny that certain things (i.e. the teachings in the King Follett Discourse) were ever taught in the LDS church.  Remlap  the church not only does not have a rudder but I don’t think it has any sails either. Leadership by committee is not leadership.  What I wouldn’t give to have a leader, a Prophet of God, get up in General Conference and state without any BS what is the Church’s true history and current stance on the priesthood ban, polygamy, polyandry, etc.    Amanda L  change the religion I grew up with...very sneaky way.  Mike S  disingenuous

The search phrase that leads you to polls and Gen X and Millennials is "LDS retention rates."

2011  New Oxford Review Sept 2011  New Atheists advance on strength of

• entitlement mentality

• depraved entertainment industry (porn and violence are streamed with no limits)

• failing education 

• if philosophy forsakes formal and final causes, then Reason is not objectively 'for' anything

• sexual immorality

2011  Benjamin Wiker publishes 10 Books that Screwed Up the World, and 5 Others that Didn't Help.

•     Why Machiavelli's The Prince was the inspiration for a long list of tyrannies (Stalin had it on his nightstand)

•     How Descartes' Discourse on Method "proved" God's existence only by making Him a creation of our own ego

•     How Hobbes' Leviathan led to the belief that we have a "right" to whatever we want

•     Why Marx and Engels's Communist Manifesto could win the award for the most malicious book ever written

•     How Darwin's The Descent of Man proves he intended "survival of the fittest" to be applied to human society

•     How Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil issued the call for a world ruled solely by the "will to power"

•     How Hitler's Mein Kampf was a kind of "spiritualized Darwinism" that accounts for his genocidal anti-Semitism

•     How the pansexual paradise described in Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa turned out to be a creation of her own sexual confusions and aspirations

•     Why Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male was simply autobiography masquerading as science

     March 20, 2011 Amazon reviewer:

     If on the other hand, you believe that

1. human rights are arbitrary, evolve, and come from government

2. human beings are animals and the value of a human life is equal to the value of any given animal life and

3. morality is relative, and political movments can alter moral "truths" to their benefit or for the perceived benefit of mankind,

     then you probably will be angry at Wiker and his "Christian fundamentalist" "clap-trap".

     More disturbing though, is how many reviewers attack the author as "Christian" as if this invalidates his ability to think and reason. It is amazing how successful the secular left has been at making "religion" the antonym of "thought". There was a time when all of Western Civilization, science, math, jurisprudence, academic research, hellenistic reason, was preserved and cultivated and embodied by the Church, when both reason and morality were both necessary for some idea or some person to be counted as virtuous. Today many reviewers here feel compelled to show their secular, cultural-relativist intolerance by giving an unsubstantiated 1-star review and pronouncing to the world, "Don't read this book, the author has a Christian world view!" The universities have done their job well.

2011  Inspiral-Merger-Ringdown Waveforms for Black-Hole Binaries with Nonprecessing Spins    California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

Simulations and analysis of the theory of binary black holes (BBH) producing gravitational waves (GW).  Points experimentalists to what they should look for, with values of signal to noise ratio up to 40.  Computer simulation of the physics is handicapped by current supercomputer capabilities.  Interesting strong-gravity effects like the "orbital hang-up" and "spin flips."  See 2016 Feb 11.

2011  Japanese Suzaku satellite:  Sagittarius B2 is a giant molecular cloud, bombarded by gamma rays from the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way.  B2 emits X-rays, a million times stronger than from the black hole.  This is comparable to an active galactic nucleus.  Nearby clumps of gas orbiting the black hole travel at 30% of the speed of light and emit transient flares.  They lead astronomers to say that the black hole is 4 million sun masses.  The Schwarzschild radius is 0.08 AU, where 1 AU is the Sun-Earth distance.  In 2015 and 2019, flares of 400 and 75 times normal brightness may have been due to an asteroid-size body "breaking apart, falling into the black hole."  JE:  it is generally true that gravitational energy is a mighty force;  any small body falling into a large body releases a tremendous energy, quickly.  Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.

2011 May 27   http://www.greeleygazette.com/press/?p=9797    also see 2015 March

2011  The writer, John E, about to become a new grandfather, resigns from five years of security work for Securitas Security Services at Dobie Center, the 28-floor student-residence high rise at the southwest edge of the University of Texas at Austin campus.  I started the security work when Austin tech unemployment was high.  During my work at Dobie Center, I revised the post orders (over 100 pages) and was the training officer.  I worked 32 hours per week and sometimes was called to other Securitas client locations. The quality of Securitas workers varied widely;  there was little supervision for quality.

One of the other locations I worked at was the West Campus University Towers, ten stories.  It was near fraternity houses, and frat visitors frequently were sent to vandalize University Towers.  Especially vulnerable was wiring for security and the fire-control system, above suspended ceilings in hallways.  Management replaced the paper-pulp panels with hard panels as the fragile panels were pulled out;  the alarm-system vendor did a lot of replacements of equipment.  Another vandalism target was glass panels near the laundry rooms.  These were replaced, after breakage, by metal panels.

       After my resignation, security at Dobie was made an internal operation.  The two-story mall at street level, which was only 60% rented, had been the site for Dobie Theater, with four theaters, a favorite site for Austin City Limits screenings.  The theater operated in the red for years and closed in 2009.  The theater had sophisticated digital projectors, but movies on heavy reels (60 pounds per shipment) were the means of transmission;  scanners scanned the film at three frames per second.  

      More stories:  the arcade fraud and suicide of arcade owner

     Professor Dulles

     Elevators 

2011  The Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law, estimates U.S. gay/lesbian population at 1.7%.  10% had been a number given by activists for years.  2011 Gallup:  many naive young Americans think it is 25%     Pope Benedict is against government promotion of same-sex marriage.

2012 July 28 Andrew Hacker   http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/opinion/sunday/is-algebra-necessary.html?_r=0    Is Algebra Necessary?

     25% of ninth graders fail to finish high school.  Most of the educators I’ve talked with cite algebra as the major academic reason.       The high-school exit exam causes some to not graduate.  John P. Smith III, an educational psychologist at Michigan State University who has studied math education, has found that “mathematical reasoning in workplaces differs markedly from the algorithms taught in school."  Toyota put a plant in a remote Mississippi county, even though its schools are far from stellar. It works with a nearby community college, which has tailored classes in “machine tool mathematics.”  Of course, people should learn basic numerical skills: decimals, ratios and estimating.  "Mathematics is used as a hoop, a badge, a totem to impress outsiders and elevate a profession’s status."      2016 The Math Myth: And Other STEM Delusions Andrew Hacker  "He worries that a frenzied emphasis on STEM is diverting attention from other pursuits and subverting the spirit of the country."

    John's comment:  if higher algebra and the other math is made optional, how many bright students will opt out due to their friends opting out, and thereby be diverted from careers that they could excel in if they had just been challenged during middle and high school?

2012  Numerical weather prediction using supercomputers is well developed.  An example is European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts which has two IBM POWER7 775 clusters, each with 35 racks of equipment.  The total hard-drive storage is 3,760 SAS hard drives.

2012  Molecular biology works with supercomputers.  See spectacular movie http://naturedocumentaries.org/10545/movie-rna-polymerase-ii-transcription-cheung-cramer-2012/

http://naturedocumentaries.org/10545/movie-rna-polymerase-ii-transcription-cheung-cramer-2012/

2012  Thomas Nagel Mind and Cosmos:  Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False           see other notes of similar nature by searching these web pages for an index term, evoxcross                  Nagel is noted by Michael Denton in The Miracle of the Cell p. 26, where Denton says "there are still  today biological phenomena which are beyond any explanation...sentinence, mind, consciousness.    

2012  Voyager I leaves the solar system's plasma and enters the interstellar plasma.      https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/12sep_voyager1

     Voyager 1 does not have a working plasma sensor, so scientists needed a different way to measure the spacecraft's plasma environment to make a definitive determination of its location. A coronal mass ejection, or a massive burst of solar wind and magnetic fields, that erupted from the sun in 2012 (the most powerful in 150 years, but it narrowly missed Earth   https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/23jul_superstorm/) provided scientists the data they needed. When this unexpected gift from the sun eventually arrived at Voyager 1's location 13 months later, 12 billion miles from the Sun, in April 2013, the plasma around the spacecraft began to vibrate like a violin string. On April 9, Voyager 1's plasma wave instrument detected the movement. The pitch of the oscillations helped scientists determine the density of the plasma. The particular oscillations meant the spacecraft was bathed in plasma more than 40 times denser than what they had encountered in the outer layer of the heliosphere. Density of this sort is to be expected in interstellar space... totally different than in the solar bubble...is in a disturbed part of interstellar space where there is still influence from our sun.

2012 National Bureau of Economic Research finds that Democrats were more responsible than Republicans for sub-prime mortgage crisis, Community Reinvestment Act, affordable housing mission of Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae, & recession

2012 Two years after Dodd-Frank reform bill, it is groaning on its deathbed. Republicans are speeding nine bills through the House, all designed to roll back the few genuinely toothy portions left in Dodd-Frank, with covert assistance of Democrats. An object lesson in the government's inability to institute even the simplest reforms. Lobbyists & lawyers have fought regulators over every line in the rulemaking process.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-wall-street-killed-financial-reform-20120510   May 10, 2012

2012 March 31 http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/31/local/la-me-lopez-erfollowup-20120401   Gary Larson has a $5,000 deductible insurance plan, but has found that his medical bills are cheaper if he claims he's uninsured and pays cash. Using that strategy, an MRI scan of his shoulder cost him $350. His brother-in-law went to a nearby clinic for an MRI scan of his shoulder, was billed $13,000, and had to come up with $2,500.

2012  Angelo Codevilla writes in The Ruling Class:  "America now divides ever more sharply into two classes, the smaller of which holds the commanding heights of government, from which it disposes in ever greater detail of America's economic energies, from which it ordains new ways of living...based on the majority class' stupidity, racism, and violent tendencies."  See 2015 Robert Clinton.

2012    Katie Pavlich | Nov 26, 2012    http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/11/26/russian_newspaper_obama_was_reelected_by_illiterate_society

     In Pravda newspaper, Moscow    Putin in 2009 outlined his strategy for economic success. Alas, poor Obama did the opposite but nevertheless was re-elected. Bye, bye Miss American Pie. The Communists have won in America with Obama but failed miserably in Russia with Zyuganov who only received 17% of the vote. Vladimir Putin was re-elected as President keeping the NWO order out of Russia while America continues to repeat the Soviet mistake.         After Obama was elected in his first term as president the then Prime Minister of Russia, Vladimir Putin gave a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January of 2009. Ignored by the West as usual, Putin gave insightful and helpful advice to help the world economy and saying the world should avoid the Soviet mistake.          Recently, Obama has been re-elected for a 2nd term by an illiterate society and he is ready to continue his lies of less taxes while he raises them. He gives speeches of peace and love in the world while he promotes wars as he did in Egypt, Libya and Syria. He plans his next war is with Iran as he fires or demotes his generals who get in the way...How shrewd he is in America. His cult of personality mesmerizes those who cannot go beyond their ignorance. They will continue to follow him like those fools who still praise Lenin and Stalin in Russia.  Obama's fools and Stalin's fools share the same drink of illusion.

2012 Reason Rally in Washington D.C. is an event where reasonable atheists disavow God and raucous atheists show unreasonableness and incivility.  Oxford University's Dawkins:  "faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification."  New Oxford Review p. 38:  "in a purely naturalistic, reductionist world-view everything should be proven by science."  Dawkins shouts, "Mock them!  Ridicule them!  In public!"  Sam Harris in The End of Faith:  "some propositions [religionists] are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them."  Reported by New Oxford Review July-Aug 2012 p. 38 Dr. Andrew Seddon

    Tom Bethell, Darwin's House of Cards:  "there is virtually no evidence for biological evolution" that leading Darwinian advocates and critics can cite.  Evolutionists long ago passed from proving evolution to believing it as an article of faith.  They do not care that microbiology refutes evolution (see Behe Darwin's Black Box).  Their world view is built on materialism, and evolution is their only theory for life, their stake in the ground.  Richard Dawkins, Natural History magazine Dec. 2005:  "One thing all real scientists agree upon is the fact of evolution itself."  Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker:  natural selection "does not see ahead, does not plan."  There is a "neo-Darwinian synthesis."  Conrad Waddington in 1959:  "Natural selection...turned out on closer inspection to be a tautology."  Karl Popper once told Tom Bethell that natural selection is feeble.    Find on this page or in this Google site similar paragraphs using search term "evoxcross."

New Oxford Review July-Aug 2011 p. 19 :   In the biology departments of secular universities, intelligent design is never advocated.      Behe:  "The more we know, the more complex and elegant life is seen to be."  Darwinists "admit they can't know many of the details."      Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth  I have not explicitly set out evidence for evolution.  His remedy is (in words of NOR reviewer) that shaggy dogs evolved from dogs.   In fact, "Darwinian evolution has never been demonstrated by experiment."

2012  book by atheist Thomas Nagel, Mind & Cosmos:  Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False   evoxcross

2012 June 28  The Augusta Chronicle  Robert Smock  Barack Obama's father and stepfather were socialists or communists.  Mother was atheist and socialist.  The grandparents who raised Barack were atheists and socialists.  Barack attended Columbia and Harvard.  With all these influences, Smock says the Constitution and presidential oath are "promises [with] no intention of keeping."  "Every day in America now is 'how can we fool them again?'"

2012 July 8 Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori "preached her brand of post-Christian religion while masquerading as a Christian bishop,” reported convention attendee Dr. Sarah Frances Ives.  “She mocked most of the crucial doctrines of the Christian faith, including the God of creation, the Incarnation, and the Trinity. She accomplishes this through her demeaning use of rhetoric.  [As Marx did.]  She taunts the Lord by the use of the name ‘Big Man’ and then points her finger at everyone listening and tells them that they have ‘missed the boat.’  “Jefferts Schori then proclaims that she has the answer for this. We all need the ‘act of crossing boundaries’ to become God after which our hands become a ‘sacrament of mission.’  “In this sermon, Jefferts Schori continued her mission of destroying the Christian faith through her rhetorical device of dismissive ridicule.  “Jefferts Schori leaves a wide wake of destruction behind with this sermon.  Read more at http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Home-Page-News-and-Views/Why-is-the-Episcopal-church-near-collapse.aspx?p=3#c4dYBchcWF9yIBTr.99

     Cumulative $18 million spent by the national body suing local congregations who do not support the national body.  The national body is left with empty church buildings as the congregations move out to pursue a more orthodox faith.  Episcopalians used to be known as the faith home of many of the nation’s Founding Fathers.  See 1983.

2012  Regnerus study finds problems in same-sex-couple child rearing, opposite to what liberals have claimed.  Regnerus Study

2012 Oct 29   https://rethinkingtheology.com/2012/10/29/what-      -advocates-dont-want-you-to-know/     When advocates tell you that lasting, committed and faithful      relationships are characteristic of the        lifestyle, don’t believe it.       Children of      parents are about 12-15 times more likely to be           .        For        men, 15 years less than the average total life expectancy.

    Nov 2002 New Oxford Review  p. 10  youthful physiques are attractive    innocent young people are inducted    "intergenerational love," "initiation"     90 to 98% of Catholic victims of priest abuse are male    

    p. 12  of U.S. Catholic priests age 25-35, 47% say there was a           subculture evident at seminary

    June 2001 New Oxford Review p. 36   a      magazine in Dec 1984, Christopher Street, persuading the bulk of American culture that         is normal or admirable:  desensitize and normalize, emphasize the victim status, demonize defenders of the traditional family.    "Against the mighty pull of institutional religion one must set the mightier draw of science and public opinion."    "We must forgo our temptation to strut our pride publicly whenever it conflicts with the victim image."

    The Day is Now Far Spent Roman Catholic Cardinal Robert Sarah a Black African from sub-Sahara Guinea in conversation with French Nicolas Diat Ignatius Press 2019 page166   About h       people, "as true pastors, we must also go to those who aggressively claim the legitimacy of their behavior...we owe to them the truth...such a partnership will never be a marriage...do not allow ambiguities."  "The churchmen who deliberately entertain ambiguities about the Christian view of          behavior..., saying all forms are strictly equal...they are doing the work of the prince of lies."   JE:  black Africa is theologically conservative

About 2012     Roman Catholic ambiguity about Bible and Jesus

The writer will meet a married lady in 2024, in Calvary Hills Baptist San Antonio, who experiences a vacuum of knowledge in the Roman Catholic Church.  She grew up Catholic and started reading through the Bible, which is often frowned on by Catholic priests, as the traditional Catholic approach to spirituality is for the average person to be passive, put dependence on the priest, and limit prayers to rote prayers, formula prayers.  (This approach has the side effect of job insurance for priests.)  This lady had lots of questions for the priest, about 2012, but he didn't have answers.  He told her to pray the rosary frequently.  The lady was so frustrated by the priest's stonewalling that she left that church and never went back.  But her spiritual questions remained.  She did not turn to protestants, not quickly, anyway.  She looked to other religions, even Buddhism and Islam.  She eventually found some answers from protestants but did not join up with any protestant church.  In 2024, a son in the family is in the youth group at CHBC, and the family came to Bible study at 9:30AM, where John heard her during discussion and talked with them.  John encouraged them to come back, meet people, and find that there is a family feel in many protestant churches.  

2012  movie Battleship is typical of sci-fi movies that involve interstellar travel, in ignorance of the physical limit of the energy required to move light years in days, which far exceeds speed of light, even

2012  Relativity  Albert Einstein  translated and made understandable by Robert W. Lawson    http://thegreatestbooks.org/nonfiction  list is generated from 107 "best of" book lists from a variety of great sources. 

2012  Casey Luskin August 14, 2012   the finely-tuned cosmic architecture of the universe which allows for advanced life, the information-rich, language-based biochemical code filling the genomes of living organisms, or the complex molecular machines [dynein, kinesin] which operate inside living cells turning them into miniature factories, life is filled with evidence of design.   http://www.evolutionnews.org/2012/08/larry_moran_and063221.html    Find on this page or in this Google site similar paragraphs using search term "evoxcross."

2012  e-book The Great Stagnation by Cowen says the low-hanging fruit is all picked, innovation is now refinements, not breakthroughs

2012  Higgs Boson probably found at Large Hadron Collider at CERN, near Geneva       Higgs Boson from movie Particle Fever

sometime     a movie simulating spiral-galaxy collision, see the video at 40% in this move:    https://media.history.amazingspace.org/resources/videos/db/colliding_galaxies/media/full/movie.mp4

2012  Von Neumann-architecture computers are advanced enough to make progress on artificial neural networks, an approach to artificial intelligence that mimics neural plasticity.  ANN research had languished since 1970 as computer hardware matured.  Pattern recognition and machine learning are associated concepts.  Non-von Neumann electronic chips (more analog than digital) can do some neural-network work millions of times faster than von Neumann computers, when evaluated by learning time, watts, and cost.

Neural networks, both biological and artificial, utilize layers.  See https://sites.google.com/site/solderandcircuits/home/more-circuit-design/an-essay--god-wants-your-brain (search for "six layers").

"Learning (progressively improving performance) to do tasks by considering examples, generally without task-specific programming. They might learn to identify images that contain cats by analyzing images that have been manually labeled as "cat" or "no cat" and using the analytic results to identify cats in other images. They have found most use in applications difficult to express in traditional computer algorithms that use rule-based programming."  Researchers observe that selected ANN demonstrations show AI that is hard to believe, but the training time ranges from minutes to months, whereas animals and humans can learn in seconds.      2012  Merck contest to find molecules that might identify new drugs.      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neural_network#Theoretical_properties   

New Oxford Review May 2024 p. 37 Pieter Vree Benedict and his successor Francis "opposing temperaments, opposing views of the future of the Church. Francis wants to break out of continuity. And thus from the doctrinal tradition." "The destruction of Benedict's legacy." Benedict resigned and withdrew from public life, but Francis was "like a stab in the heart." After the death of Benedict, restraints "were abandoned." The prefect for the Doctrine of the Faith fell to Victor Manuel Fernandez, qualified only as "the protege of an Argentinean Pope." "On the border of heresy," celibacy may be "up for discussion."

2013 Feb 25  https://canadianliberty.com/the-children-of-table-34-alfred-kinseys-pedophile-based-research/   "Kinsey provided what people thought were “scientific” arguments in order to counter moral objections."  "Lester Kirdendall:  “Programs of the future [to erode morals]...with same-sex partners and even across generational lines...diminished sense of guilt...become legitimate...abnormality will be much diminished.”"

2013 Mar New Oxford Review p. 7  Letter to Editor by Patrick Norton   Homilies [Catholic sermons] are filled with the "deliberate overhaul of the vernacular--e.g., diversity not dogma, tolerance not truth, celebration not sacrifice, equality not authority, sentimentality not sin, frivolousness not reverence."      (This can be used as a checklist for orthodox Christian churches.)     Any argument rooted in principle is attacked as being too rigid.

2013 May  Pope Francis:  "The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ:  all of us, not just Catholics.  Everyone.  'Father, the atheists?'  Even the atheists.  Everyone!"  "We must meet one another doing good.  'But I don't believe, Father, I am an atheist.'  But do good:  we will meet one another there."  New Oxford Review June 2018 p. 18:  The words of the Pope are a mashup of several heresies:  universalism, Pelagianism (by your merits), moralistic therapeutic deism (Christian Smith, Melinda Lundquist Denton 2005 Soul Searching:  The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers)

     Compare Pope Francis's "Lord has redeemed all of us" with Malachi chapter 2:  You have wearied the Lord...by saying, 'all who do evil are good in the eyes of the Lord, and he is pleased with them.'  'The Lord you are seeking will come suddenly, and who can endure the day of his coming?'  Paraphrase in Ch. 3:  "The Lord says, 'Obey me and test me according to what I have promised you.  I will throw open the floodgates of heaven to those who choose obedience and pour out on them blessings.'"  "A day is coming when I will make up my treasured possession, sparing those who fear me.  Then look for the distinction I make between the righteous and the wicked.  My furnace will burn the stubble."     By 2023, such words spoken to the American public are derided by many as being racist.

2013 Oct Wallace Henley    https://www.christianpost.com/news/the-emergent-pope-the-postmodern-popes-amazing-mantra-pt-3.html

     Pope Francis: "Each of us has a vision of good and evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is Good."      Not only must each person "choose to follow the good and fight the evil as he conceives them," Pope Francis told Scalfari, but if everyone follows their own conscience it is "enough to make the world a better place."

     Postmodernism seeks to replace doctrinally based belief with cosmic spirituality where one pretty much creates his or her own belief system.

     JE:  Henley sees danger in what Pope Francis allows, "what they think is Good."  That is license for each person to make up his own mind about what is good.  This is postmodernism.  See 1899 apostolic letter in this timeline, where Pope Leo XIII condemns such thinking.   

     https://www.christianpost.com/news/the-emergent-pope-pope-francis-meets-frances-schaeffer-pt-2.html      Pope Francis wants the church to be less "obsessed" with abortion, same-sex marriage, and birth control.

     If the Pope's desire for the Catholic Church to ease off on confronting cultural sins is so the Church won't suffer collapse, he either does not know about or believes Catholicism is immune from the fate of liberal Protestant churches in the West. The Mainline [Protestant] churches accommodated themselves to culture, and took on so much water they foundered.

2013  American Psychiatric Association does not include video game addiction in the 5th edition of the DSM.  Such addiction exists;  the person needs more and more of the behavior to keep him going, if the person does not get more of the behavior, he becomes irritable and miserable.

2013  National Ignition Facility in California approaches breakeven goal; alternate work (nuclear weapons research) reduces emphasis on fusion

2013  ITER, International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, near Marseilles, is a new attempt to generate fusion power with tokamak

2013  http://michaeljdaugherty.com/the-devil-inside-the-beltway-coming-summer-2013-2/

The Shocking Exposé of the US Government’s Surveillance and Overreach into Cybersecurity, Medicine and Small Business    Coast to Coast AM June 4 2015

2013 July 1     TIME magazine  The Face of Buddhist Terror    Monk Wirathu in Myanmar     By late 2017:  thousands of Rohingya Muslims dead and raped, hundreds of thousands flee to Bangladesh

2013 July 3 http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/kyle-wingfield/2013/jul/03/obamacare-delay-another-bad-sign-rule-law/   Obamacare, delay employer mandate, & the rule of law.  The government is not telling employers what the mandate will require.  Employers are reducing hours, changing to temporary employment.  Better to wait before enforcing the law than try to enforce the unworkable. Unlikely to become more workable in one more year. This is a stay of execution, not a grant of clemency.      Congress passed 2,000 pages, but it did not so much set policy as authorizing officials to set policy.  Obamacare-related regulations had already surpassed 20,000 pages.  Not clarity and predictability in law. Ignorance of the law is not a defense for lawlessness;  only works if the law is knowable.  Does not fit with taking 40 months for rules to be written.  Dodd-Frank reform remains in a similar state of disarray.  Congress has delegated its authority to a vast, unaccountable bureaucracy.  The rise of "the fourth branch of government," Prof. Turley.  A citizen is 10 times more likely to be tried by an agency than by a federal court.  A serious assault on the rule of law and our representative government.

2013   Melissa Harris-Perry: ‘I Stand By’ ‘Kids Belong to Whole Communities’ MSNBC Promo  Apr. 13, 2013 6:05pm Madeleine Morgenstern    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/13/melissa-harris-perry-i-stand-by-kids-belong-to-whole-communities-msnbc-promo/            We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we’ve always had kind of a private notion of children.  Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility.  We haven’t had a very collective notion of these are our children.  So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.

    Glenn Beck Ap 7 2013:  I think that there’s a good 20 to 30% of America...will gladly have the State take that over so they don’t have to worry about it.  Yet another one of your responsibilities that you will gladly hand over because you don’t know what to do.  And so they will do it for you: Don’t worry! We’ll raise your kids.  We’ll train your kids.  We’ll educate your kids because it’s working out so well.         Agenda 21, U.N. in 1992         ...in Texas with CSCOPE.  You don’t have a right as a parent to see  what your children are learning.  You go to a Texas school and say, “Let me see the curriculum.”  You can’t.  “Let me see that test that you are teaching through CSCOPE.”  You can’t. You’re a parent.            John's comment:  if it isn't foster families raising large numbers of children, if it is a government agency, will those children ever hear about Jesus?  Will they hear about morals?

2013  FAA document, "How much of a change [degradation] in job performance is acceptable to achieve diversity goals" in hiring.  2024:  lawsuit alleges FAA turned away over 900 air traffic controller applicants, and it can be said they were turned away for being the wrong race.  In early 2025, DEI is falling by the wayside, early in second Trump administration, as well as trans women competing against real women.  Corporations are dropping DEI.  Pentagon is forced by new (second term) Pres. Trump to drop DEI.

2013 May 2  The Guardian  Jill Filipovic  "The Tragic Irony of Feminists Trashing Each Other"     Shulamith Firestone:  "Sisterhood is powerful.  It kills sisters."    Each generation of feminist activists seems to suffer the same in-fighting.  Bitter frustration and disillusionment.  "Disparage and destroy."  The Left values dissent.  [Does the Left feed on dissent?  Compulsion to dissent?] The Right resists change and has a deference to authority.  The "find what's wrong with it" mode.  Personal attack masquerading as critique.  JE:  Sounds like Ephesians 4, "Cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming."

JE:  Beyond progressive feminists, do all progressives suffer from the same traits?     The Right resists change, yes, maybe because the Right recognizes what works and hesitates to change for change's sake;  how much does that define conservatism?  

How much of New Testament morality (morality=how to behave) becomes outmoded every generation?  Phillipians 1:  Stand firm in one spirit.  Colossians 4:  Have wisdom toward outsiders.  1 Peter 1:  Keep sober in spirit.  Fix your hope on the grace Jesus will bring.  Be obedient children.  Be done with the former lusts which came from ignorance.  1 Peter 2:  The Gentiles slander you as evildoers;  let them see your good deeds so they can glorify God.  Romans 12:  Love without hypocrisy.  Be affectionate to one another.  Be patient in tribulation.  Give hospitality.  Bless even those who persecute you, repay no one evil for evil, do not avenge yourself.  Associate with the humble.  Do not be wise in your own opinion.  Live peaceably with all men, as much as you can.  1 Peter 3:  Husbands are to understand and honor their wives.

2013  Karin Muller, Swiss born, releases two-hour HD video about Cuba, Cuba’s Secret Side.  She travels and films in Cuba for three months on a tourist visa without a communist minder and is arrested 12 times.  She talked with many average Cubans to learn what works and what doesn't.  She doesn't talk about the political prisons.          http://www.vpt.org/show/19733/101        The town doctor walks a beat to see 2000 people twice a year and has a "dilapidated apartment without running water and having to work two days to earn enough to buy her family a can of spam."  "Books and newspapers are censored, so a nation... [with literacy rate of 97%] has no choice but to read the party line."  http://pbsinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/CubasSecretSide.pdf

2013 May 9  The Washington Post   China has been paying money for American baled trash, taken across the Pacific in empty containers, the containers being empty because the U.S. doesn't sell as much to China as the U.S. buys from China.  But there are increasing restrictions on the trash.  Water content is limited, and when a bale is supposed to be plastic, there is a limit on unrinsed-out food and paper that can go in the bale.  Austin's Universal Recycling Ordinance has similar restrictions;  greasy pizza boxes are not accepted. 

2013   "Cultural Appropriation" is a new criticism of white people, they steal recipes, fashion, etc. from poor cultures without compensation.  Appears in July 2020 in association with Antifa and BLM.

2013 July 1     TIME magazine  "The Face of Buddhist Terror"    Monk Wirathu in Myanmar     Late 2017:  thousands of Muslims dead and raped, hundreds of thousands flee to Bangladesh

2013 July  christiancentury.org  About UCC, United Church of Christ, most progressive U.S. denomination, writes Roozen:  ' "young liberal adults...is a real small market niche" to build up the U.S. Christian church.'  Does "religion add anything to a liberal lifestyle?"  UCC proud to set the pace on gay rights in the church.  Chicago Theological Seminary.  

2013 May 11     https://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2013/05/11/25-reasons-to-dislike-liberals-n1592873       Margaret Thatcher said,  "Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag."  Liberals view themselves as good people just by being liberal.

2013  U.S. stock market recovers to levels of pre-2008 crisis but home prices remain depressed, unemployment high

2013  optical-lattice clock, using laser, beats stability of single-ion clock.  Developers hope to improve stability to 1 sec in age of universe.

2013  Yekaterinburg/Chelyabinsk, Russia   Stony meteor 55m diameter, 10,000 tons, 500 kilotons equiv. energy, 400 light injuries, masonry & metal buildings damaged.  Small meteors explode at 40 miles altitude but this one penetrates to 6 miles above ground, said to be a once-in-100-years happening.

     Of historic meteorites, 100 each are known to have come from Moon and Mars, blasted out of those bodies by large meteor impacts, scattering into highly elliptical orbits, and rarely being collected by Earth.  The rareness means that most Moon and Mars meteors landing on Earth have been out in space a long time.  Note:  due to the lower gravity of Moon and Mars, it takes less kinetic energy for a fragment to escape the Moon and Mars.

2013  A WIMP (weakly interacting massive particle) experiment in a Minnesota mine detects three three-sigma-probability WIMP collisions in silicon detectors running at 40 millikelvins (to reduce the thermal energy of the silicon atoms and not cover up WIMP collisions), but physicists need to detect such collisions at five sigma.  WIMP interact through gravity and the weak force, but not the electromagnetic force and thus do not generate light during interaction.  The PICASSO experiment seeks to detect WIMP interaction with freon using microphones.  Theory is that WIMP is dark matter, 25% of all matter.  4% is visible matter, and the rest is dark energy.      http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/03/01/dark_matter_could_physics_next_biggest_mystery_be_solved_in_sudbury.html

2013  Nov 29  http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/what-young-gay-men-dont-know-about-aids  AIDS has killed nearly forty million people—most of them in Africa.     Michael Specter in The New Yorker:  "Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was a bit more frank. 'Unprotected [long phrase for so...] is in a league of its own as far as risk is concerned,' he said.  Three decades of data demonstrate the truth of that statement."  "For a while, in the nineties,       men were scared, and the statistics showed it. They used condoms regularly...[even though it was known that the pores in condoms are larger than the virus, but after a while] began to weary of the straitjacket" and stopped using condoms.

    Larry Kramer:  When The New York Times article first appeared on that day [1981 July 3], it scared the bejesus out of me.  Unfortunately,      refused to believe it, because they took the stand of "Oh, they're just saying that to interfere with our civil rights again; they're trying to take away our sex life," ... the most stupidest thing, the most destructive thing         have ever done...by refusing to think.  "Hey, I will cool it until they find something."  I was a pariah because I said, "Cool it." People would cross the street rather than walk on the same side of the street with me.  The Times refused to write anything more about it for something like almost two years.

    See in this time line    1983 Frontline       2005 Craigslist

2013  American Black women sense that there aren't many Black men who are marriageable, a "limited pool."  The men are in prison, dealing or using drugs, promiscuous.  2014 Andrasik etc. study.    "Gender imbalance."  "Partner concurrency" is glorified by the men.  

2013 Dec 12  BBC broadcasts part two of The Silent War on PBS, documenting the Cold War submarine activities of UK, USSR, and U.S.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03lb1vc   Ballistic-missile subs of the USSR were Yankee, Delta, and Typhoon classes.  They carried MIRV, ballistic, nuclear-armed missiles starting in 1976, which carried a greater threat than land-based, siloed MIRVs because the sub-based MIRVs could be launched much closer to target and destroy near-coast cities or silo ranges with much less than the half-hour warning that was available in case of silo launches.  Both sides deployed smaller, quieter, hunter-killer subs to shadow the opponent's ballistic-missile subs and perhaps destroy the ballistic-missile sub when only a few MIRVs had been launched. 

     The Silent War deals with the 1986 K-219 disaster in the Saragossa Sea (close to the U.S.)  (John E. has a whole book on this.)  A small seawater leak into a missile tube ignited the hypergolic fuel of a R-27 Zyb missile, blowing off the hatch and destroying the missile but rupturing the tube within the submarine, killing two submariners.  Poisonous nitrogen tetroxide and a smoldering fire spread through some of the sumps in the sub.  The crew struggles for three days to save the sub.  The commander orders the crew to abandon ship, to Russian surface vessels, with NATO ships and a sub all around, filming the event.  The commander scuttles the sub.  The surviving crew are sent to detention near Moscow and are considered to be traitors;  the top brass would have preferred that they die rather than disgrace the USSR Navy. 

     The Silent War briefly states that the enormous buildup of the Russian sub fleet, and the quieting of the subs using U.S. technology stolen by the John Walker spy ring (John Walker died in Federal prison in 2014), was an economic burden that the USSR could not sustain.  The program has video of rusting, beached USSR subs in ports.  The program attributes the fall of the USSR in part to the military taking too much of the GNP, as the U.S. under Pres. Reagan threatened to push ahead with the defensive Strategic Defense Initiative, which would have upset the MAD balance.

2013   March PubMed Central Pross, Pascal "The Origin of Life: what we know, what we can know, and what we will never know."

Origin of Life problem is one of the more challenging questions. Systems chemistry may give satisfying answers. A start was "simple replicating molecular systems" that create molecular networks. An extensive array of intermediate structures leading to simplest life. [Even the simplest life, a cell, has an extensive number of structures. Irreducible complexity and interdependence, how can interdependent structures come into existence at the same time?] The beginning of life was by an autocatalytic chemical system, and was it replication first or metabolism first? Systems chemistry suggests that abiogenesis was governed by underlying physico-chemical principles and was not random, there was a propensity, somehow, to bring about the complexity of life. It was not random chemical events, a stupendously improbable outcome, virtually zero likelihood. Abiogenesis is "so much more intractable than the parallel question of biological evolution." Abiogenesis and complexification are underlaid by the same physics and chemistry; there is in replicating systems a "driving force" toward greater stability and mechanisms of evolution. [This is a major change of thinking from purposeless randomness.]

In another PubMed Central paper, Liu etc. "Spontaneous Emergence of Self-Replicating Molecules Containing Nucleobases and Amino Acids"   three life functions:  replicate, metabolize, spatially segregate from environment [to improve concentrations]

Theme: irreducible complexity in light of the reality of complexity Wikipedia abiogenesis?: 355 genes appear to be common to all life; their nature implies that the LUCA was anaerobic, deriving energy by chemiosmosis, and maintaining its hereditary material with DNA, the genetic code, and ribosomes. But LUCA was not the first life, earlier cells may have had a leaky membrane and been powered by proton gradient near a deep-sea white smoker hydrothermal vent.

bio.libretexts.org In E. coli, there are between 10,000 and 70,000 ribosomes present in each cell, each ribosome a complex macromolecule with structural and catalytic rRNAs and many distinct polypeptides.  evoxcross

2013  Is Mathematics Invented or Discovered? Posted: 09/10/2013 12:27 pm EDT Updated: 11/10/2013 5:12 am EST   Mentioned in a NOVA program.

     Mathematics is the language of science and has enabled mankind to make extraordinary technological advances. There is no question that the logic and order that underpins mathematics, has served us in describing the patterns and structure we find in nature.

     Einstein remarked, "How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?"

     Amongst mathematicians and scientists there is no consensus on this fascinating question. The various types of responses to Einstein's conundrum include:

1) Math is innate.  The universe is underpinned by the same order that is seen in math. The structures of mathematics are intrinsic to nature. Moreover, if the universe disappeared tomorrow, our eternal mathematical truths would still exist. It is up to us to discover mathematics and its workings--this will then assist us in building models that will give us predictive power and understanding of the physical phenomena we seek to control. This rather romantic position is what I loosely call mathematical Platonism.

2) Math is a human construct. The only reason mathematics is admirably suited describing the physical world is that we invented it to do just that. It is a product of the human mind and we make mathematics up as we go along to suit our purposes.  Mathematics is not discovered, it is invented. This is the non-Platonist position.

3) Math is not so successful.  Analytical mathematical equations only approximately describe the real world. We tend to focus on those physical problems for which we find a way to apply mathematics, so overemphasis on these successes is a form of "cherry picking." This is the realist position.

4) Keep calm and carry on. What matters is that mathematics produces results. Save the hot air for philosophers. This is called the "shut up and calculate" position.

     The debate over the fundamental nature of mathematics is by no means new, and has raged since the time of the Pythagoreans.

     It is easy to be seduced into thinking that mathematics is miraculously innate if we are overly focused on its successes, without viewing the complete picture.

     The non-Platonist view is that, first, all mathematical models are approximations of reality. Second, our models fail, they go through a process of revision, and we invent new mathematics as needed. Analytical mathematical expressions are a product of the human mind, tailored for the mind. Because of our limited brainpower we seek out compact elegant mathematical descriptions to make predictions.  What we have witnessed over the past few decades, as transistor sizes have shrunk, is that nice compact mathematical expressions for ultra small transistors are not possible. We could use highly cumbersome equations, but that isn't the point of mathematics. So we resort to computer simulations using empirical models. And this is how much of cutting edge engineering is done these days.  [JE in 1971 at UT Austin, electrical engineering, spent a lot of brainpower on Laplace Transform without learning too much about why it is so neat.  In 2022, I wonder if current EE students study Laplace Transform.]

All mathematical models of the physical world break down at some point. Moreover, the types of problems addressed by elegant mathematical expressions are a rapidly shrinking subset of all the currently emerging scientific questions.

     But why does this all matter? The "shut up and calculate" position tells us to not worry about such questions. Our calculations come out the same, no matter what we personally believe; so keep calm and carry on.

     My personal story is that I used to be a Platonist. I thought all mathematical forms were reified and waiting to be discovered. This meant that I philosophically struggled with taking limits to infinity, for example. I merely got used to it and accepted it under sufferance. During my undergraduate days, I had a moment of enlightenment and converted to non-Platonism. I felt a great burden lift from my shoulders.  A non-Platonist position gives us greater freedom of thought. If we accept that mathematics is invented, rather than discovered, we can be more daring, ask deeper questions, and be motivated to create further change.

     Irrational numbers petrified Pythagoreans...introduce a zero into arithmetic...whether negative numbers are valid or not? Imagine where science and engineering would be today if this argument was resolved centuries earlier. Platonist-like thinking has held back progress. I argue that a non-Platonist position frees us from an intellectual straightjacket and accelerates progress.

     More information: Derek Abbott, "The reasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics," Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 101, No. 10, pp. 2147-2153 , 2013.

2014  MAX TEGMARK: Many of my physics colleagues will say that mathematics describes our physical reality, at least in some approximate sense. I go further and argue that it actually is our physical reality, because I'm arguing that our physical world doesn't just have some mathematical properties, but it has only mathematical properties.  NARRATOR: The Ancient Greeks found three relationships between notes especially pleasing. Now we call them an octave, a fifth, and a fourth.           ESPERANZA SPALDING (Jazz Musician):A fifth sounds the first two notes of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.”   And a fourth sounds like…  the first two notes of “Here Comes the Bride.”  An octave is the first two notes of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."        NARRATOR: In the sixth century B.C.E., the Greek philosopher Pythagoras is said to have discovered that those beautiful musical relationships were also beautiful mathematical relationships by measuring the lengths of the vibrating strings.  In an octave, the string lengths create a ratio of two to one. In a fifth, the ratio is three to two. And in a fourth, it is four to three.        NARRATOR: To many mathematicians, it feels like math is discovered rather than invented. But is that just a feeling? Could it be that mathematics is purely a product of the human brain?

     John E:  Physics is discovered.  It is no stretch to say math is also discovered.  It is appealing to say that God made math, then made the universe to use that math.  Then people discover that math.

     NARRATOR: In tests similar to Shyam's, kids who exhibit high math performance have five to six times more neuron activation than average kids in the parietal brain regions.

     See 1960 in this timeline for related comments.

2014   Waltham in Lucky Planet, p. 2, notes that the Earth's climate has been stable for billions of years, giving life a chance to develop, despite major changes in astronomy (like the size of the Moon's orbit), geology, biology, and the reducing and later oxidizing nature of the atmosphere.  These "have always more or less canceled each other out.  I find this remarkable."  But he does not attribute it to a creator.     In this time line, see 2000  Rare Earth idea, Ward and Brownlee.

       2024 Nov 24  Coast to Coast AM  Dr. John Craig Wheeler, UT Austin, says there is no evidence of life anywhere in [the galaxy] other than Earth.  He is also doubtful that UFO action, being taken seriously in the last five years due to statements by pilots, is from beings from another planet, there must be other causes. 

2014  Nov  Science     Piran and Jimenez    Complex life may be possible in only 10% of all galaxies, the rest are sterilized by gamma ray bursts.  And everything was sterile for the first 5 billion years.  Short gamma ray bursts last a second, two neutron stars or black holes spiral into each other. Long gamma ray bursts last for tens of seconds and occur when massive stars burn out, collapse, and explode in supernovae.  The gamma rays would set off a chain of chemical reactions that would destroy the ozone layer in a planet's atmosphere [at least for planets with appreciable oxygen].   

2014 August    From ASBMB Today, the official magazine of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology:  “Over all, what the field of protein evolution needs are some plausible, solid hypotheses to explain how random sequences of amino acids turned into the sophisticated entities that we recognize today as proteins.”  Did function or structure first appear in primitive peptides?  Other sources reveal an enormous gulf between randomness happening upon proteins vs. complexity of the simplest self-reproducing organisms.          In the same issue, Neil deGrasse Tyson in his new Cosmos series on TV:  "The origin of life is one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of science."  He scoops up some water from a pond.  "That's life cooking, evolving all the biochemical recipies for its incredibly complex activities."  Evolutionists have simplistic thinking, assuming that randomness yields self-reproducing life and sticking to their guns that there is no supernatural influence.   JE:  two problems, 1) a pond gives no way of concentrating the organic chemicals so they can react (and this recollects the "warm little pond" speculation of Darwin, a favorite mental image of evolutionists) and 2) recipe implies intelligence and purosefulness, the opposite of randomness.      Find on this page or in this Google site similar paragraphs using search term "evoxcross."

2014 to 2016  Debate among biologists over early animals with and without nervous systems;  ctenophore, Porifera, Placozoa, sponges.  Stimulated by genomes being published.  Involved in this are sodium, potassium, and calcium ion channels.  "S4 helices to slide upwards out of the membrane to open the channel pore."

2014 Kovac, Kuo, Pryke, Bock   University of Cardiff's BICEP2 instrument at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station looking into the Southern Hole for 3 yrs finds twists in polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background due to gravitational waves (B-mode pattern), part of the 35-yr-old theory of cosmic inflation, part of the Big Bang.  First direct evidence of gravitational waves, the data is about polarization 380,000 yrs after Big Bang.  IEEE Spectrum May 2014 p. 11  Bolometers are cooled to 1 degK and sense at 150GHz, built by JPL in Pasadena.         However, before 2016, it is determined that the BICEP2 observation may be from another effect.

2014 May 14  Petroff observes seventh "fast radio burst" (lasting only milliseconds) with the Parkes radio telescope in Australia.  This one is detected real-time & is followed up within hours by searches with other telescopes from infrared to X-ray, with no other wavelengths detected.  The first FRB was seen in 2007.  The combination of high energy & short duration is a hallmark of an energetic source that is much smaller than a star.  This is a big mystery.

2014 May 15   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/15/black-pastors-gay-marriage-michigan_n_5332496.html      interview on Glenn Beck program July 9 2015

     "Coalition Of Black Pastors Speaks Out Against Gay Marriage"

     Posted: 05/15/2014 4:04 pm EDT Updated: 05/16/2014 5:59 pm EDT

     A coalition of black pastors have condemned gay marriage, saying it's incorrect to compare the fight for equal marriage rights to the civil rights movement.

The Christian, conservative Thomas More Law Center filed an amicus brief in Michigan's gay marriage trial Wednesday on behalf of 110 black pastors from Detroit, elsewhere in Michigan, and Ohio. The state's ban on gay marriage was overturned in March by U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman, but the ruling was put on hold as the case is considered by the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.

In the brief, the coalition calls for a reversal of Friedman's decision. They argue that the marriage equality movement is inaccurately equated with the civil rights struggle, and that such comparison ignores the acute suffering of blacks throughout American history.

"The fact that American media or other factions erroneously characterize the traditional meaning of 'marriage' as being on par with the civil rights deprivations of Black Americans does not make it so," the brief states. "Comparing the dilemmas of same-sex couples to the centuries of discrimination faced by Black Americans is a distortion of our country’s cultural and legal history."

2014 Feb 1   Dale O’Leary The Linacre Quarterly  February 1, 2014  $41  Abstract   HIV and other STDs..labeled a syndemic because in this population a number of...health problems have come together and interact with one another...infectious diseases endemic in this population, the high rate of substance abuse problems and psychological disorders, and the significant percentage of M__ who have experienced childhood sexual abuse and other adverse events. Activists from the    community have systematically resisted...infection rate among...young M__ remains high.   https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1179/2050854913Y.0000000015

2014  Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), 1300 Roman Catholic nuns in the U.S., always have a liberal slant (they sound outraged much of the time) and are investigated by a Vatican representative for heresy.   http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3153370/posts which cites many links  Cardinal Muller asked them, Do you want to be Catholic?  LCWR is into radical feminist themes, gnosticism, and conscious evolution, social cosmogenesis. 

    U.S. convents have been in decline since Vatican II in 1962 (see this time line).  Confusion reigns about what Vatican II meant, and liberals among U.S. Catholics feel free to do anything they want.  Recruits into convents had been steadily increasing, then in 1962 recruits just about end and the residents of convents age.  By 2020, many convents have residents aged 75 and above, and are frequently closed, the building and grounds developed for real estate, and the sisters financed to live out their lives elsewhere.

2014 June 5  https://capitalresearch.org/article/ucc/   Susan Bradford  book entitled, The United Church of Heist.     UCC "morphed into something that neither I nor other members recognize. Ministers often preach with cynical resignation to empty pews."  Barack Obama associated with UCC.  "Set the Bible aside and preach only “social justice.”  "World Council of Churches, which was infiltrated by Soviet agents in the 1960s."  "A political lobbying shop."  " John D. Rockefeller Jr., a leading champion of the ecumenical movement."  "Mott laid down “marching orders”...won the Nobel Peace Prize for establishing Protestant student organizations. He was the world’s first community organizer...convinced progressive Protestant denominations to set aside doctrinal differences...ecumenical movement that endeavored to unite the churches under a central authority...[like] the United Nations."  "Barack Obama, as a community organizer, was the perfect embodiment of the UCC."

    2020 July 30  https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2020/07/vatican-official-laments-system-of-dominance-submission-for-women-religious/    Girls no longer need to be sent to convents in order to receive an education, and young women no longer depend on religious life to provide them study and professional opportunities.

2014 Aug 31  outsidethebeltway  animal brothels (bestiality) legal in Denmark

           2023 Nov 10 Fox News  Princeton student:  political views are being weaponized on campus.  College students speak out about campus wokeness.  Ivy League prof promotes thought-provoking pro-bestiality study;  Peter Singer shared the study from the Journal of Controversial Ideas, which he co-founded.  "Calls for a serious and open discussion on animal ethics and sex ethics."  "Judeo-Christian beliefs distinguishing man from beast created "an unbridgeable gulf [that] separates us from them."

2014 Nov.   Latter Day Saints, responding to widespread information on Internet,  releases essay acknowledging that Joseph Smith, the Prophet of LDS, had 30-40 wives, not one wife.  Some of his wives were taken from other men.      Nov 18-http://www.mormon.org/beliefs/joseph-smith continues to extol Smith: Joseph lived the doctrine he preached—that strengthening our families should be an important focus...Joseph was not a perfect person, nor a deity. He was a man of virtue who fulfilled an extraordinary calling. He did God's work until the day his life was taken and we honor him for his faith, humility, and devotion.

2014  https://zondervanacademic.com/blog/evangelicals-have-huge-problems-real-christian-will-help    “For those outside the church, Evangelicals are viewed as unChristian in their attitudes and actions.”  In post-modernity, orthodox Christians have an image problem among progressives, who think progressives are the ones with the ethics. 

2014  Coast to Coast AM show on morning of Nov 18 has guest, Peter Schiff.  Schiff is an example of the rare Coast guest who is really worth hearing.  Schiff is mainly in investments & warns of instablility in the U.S. economy because of govt. guarantees on deposits & overregulation by govt., such as forbidding mortgage lenders from requiring mortgage applicants to prove ability to make payments (no-doc loans around 2005).  Just before the grand-jury announcement from Ferguson, Missouri about Wilson & Brown, Schiff makes common-sense, non-politically correct statements & Noory lets him charge ahead:  there is no evidence, apart from lying witnesses, that Officer Wilson was at fault.  There is evidence that 6'4", 300# Brown, on a marijuana high, tried to get the officer's gun, fled from custody, then doubled back & was charging the officer to take back the gun.  Schiff proceeds to charge that the press is complicit in a social movement that blames white people for community problems in black neighborhoods, & puts white police at risk when the attitude in the press is that no black person can be at fault in a confrontation with a white person.  After the half-hour break, Noory responds that outside agitators have [for months] come into Ferguson to exploit the situation.  Note:  Noory broadcasts mainly from St. Louis (near Ferguson) & Los Angeles, the site of race riots including the Rodney King riot.

2014  Of Hilbert's 23 problems from 1900, #16, 8 (the Riemann hypothesis) and 12 are unresolved (Wikipedia)

2014 Nov.  Mary Landrieu defeated, the last Southern Democrat senator.  See 2008.

2014  Voyager I leaves the solar system in terms of going beyond the heliosphere.  It senses multiple shock waves of the Sun's coronal mass ejections as these CMEs overtake it.  These are impacts of CME on the interstellar plasma.  http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=32123

2014 Feb 16  HuffPost     One in Four Americans Thinks the Sun Orbits the Earth

2014 November  Rosetta's Philae lander lands on comet 67P (Churyumov-Gerasimenko), 4km diam., surface gravity 1/1000 that of earth, closest approach to Sun is 1.3x Sun-to-Earth distance, comet surface appears to be rough rock.

Here are more facts that are hard to find.  "Hill sphere" of comet about 50km, an orbit further out isn't possible because Jupiter or Sun pulls Rosetta away from comet                escape velocity from comet 67P is .5m/s         following from http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2mw5ko/we_are_working_on_ flight_control_and _science/                         Rosetta orbit radius 25km, orbits 67P in about a week          orbital velocity about 30cm/s       67P about 10^13 kg         Rosetta's camera pixel size 40cm as it looks at 67P, so it can't really see Philea        28kb/s data coming from Rosetta        67P is rotating to give it a "day" of 12.4 hrs       particles or chunks leaving 67P & striking Rosetta travel <1m/s, not damaging       at arrival time in 2014, comet 3AU from sun (250 million miles), temp on the side away from sun -170 deg C        Sept 30, 2016 Rosetta "mother ship" is itself landed on the comet, destructively.  New news:  the comet is not a conglomeration of two smaller comets (suggested by odd shape of the comet) because ultra-light snowy material (density less than Earth's air) would have been compacted.  Comet seems to be small amounts of material added over a long time.  Amount of heavy water (deuterium) exceeds Earth's amount by 3x, so Earth's water probably did not come from comets.  Much more "dirt" than ice.     John's speculation is that a movie script writer may be working on a movie based on findings from Rosetta.  Tunneling into the interior of the comet by scooping with hands, gathering big rocks together to make gamma-ray shield, dealing with tiny gravity, making a solar collector for electricity and heat with very thin, aluminized mylar, watching for incoming projectiles like asteroid chunks that could break up the comet, bringing in an asteroid to get nickel and cobalt but avoiding toxic osmium, dealing with human waste buildup, receiving supply vessels from Earth, making very large telescope from multiple mirrors received from Earth, repelling hostile visitors from Earth who want to take over and send a stealth bomb or electromagnetic-pulse weapon to some country on Earth--what neat things such a movie could have.

2014 Transparency International ranks Russia one of the world's most corrupt countries, 136th out of 174 on its corruption perception index, on par with Bangladesh & Nigeria.  Students pay teachers for grades, patients pay doctors for free health care, families pay off draft boards to keep sons out of military.  Corruption has been documented since the Tsars.

Corruption Index:  U.S. 17th out of 175, beat out by Scandinavia, North & West Europeans, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong.  China is 100.

2014 U.S. still has 462 ICBMs, many of them MIRV (multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle with up to 10 warheads each) http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/11/13/6287338/key-findings-in-ap-nuclear-missile.html?sp=/99/443/444/460/466/  

See 2016 Sept. 18

2014 Putin in Russia, of the KGB old guard, acts imperially, as if the Cold War is still on.  Annexes Crimea by force from Ukraine & sponsors separatist military in eastern Ukraine.  Calls NATO Russia's biggest threat.  Search for "Is Putin a dictator?"     Brian T. Brown in 2019, Someone is Out to Get Us:  A Not so Brief History of Cold War Paranoia and Madness, Coast to Coast AM Nov 6-7 2019:  Brown describes Putin as a spy, a czar, a Bolshevik extremist, an Ivan the Terrible, not caring how many peoples' lives he jeopardizes. 

2014  U.S. Government-sponsored shortwave radio broadcasting is in decline because governments and private organizations can get their messages out cheaper on Internet.  https://swling.com/blog/2014/11/does-shortwave-radio-have-a-future/, look at map, Freedom of Press 2014 in this web site. 

    Shortwave radio was important during the Cold War for these reasons.  No training needed.  For around 100kW (much less if an antenna farm on three square miles forms the waves into beams) at the transmitter, shortwave signals could be received anywhere in the world, the only requirements being receiver in the nighttime and no government jamming (Russian woodpecker).  People in communist countries could get Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and BBC.  Swling.com:  In North Korea, for example, this is why shortwave radio remains a vital lifeline of information about the outside world. Censorship of shortwave radio is comparatively unsuccessful, while the Internet is often subject to total blocking.  Spies received coded messages by shortwave.  The codes were often groups of five digits.  Spies could also send messages with 100W of transmitter power, using contrived, temporary antennas, broadcasting briefly so that government direction finding and police wouldn't have time to locate the transmitter.  (A common, temporary, spy antenna in New York City was a wire dangled out a window at night.)  A shortwave receiver can be battery powered (recharging can be done by solar panel) and works without power generation or distribution, a big advantage in poor areas.  Satellites used shortwave frequencies.  Sputnik used antennas about two feet long and was received by shortwave listeners around the world, those who were within 300 miles of Sputnik as it orbited (though it transmitted only beeps, but the propaganda effect was enormous). 

    During the Cold War, communist countries deployed shortwave detection teams.  They drove up and down residential streets and listened for the local oscillator of clandestine shortwave radios, which revealed that someone was listening to a censored radio station.  (The local oscillator is used in superheterodyne receivers;  it sends a milliwatt out onto the receiving antenna.)  People would go to prison if they were caught listening to prohibited frequencies.) 

    Comments by John E

    In the early days of radio (early 20th century), engineers and experimenters could broadcast at hundreds of kilohertz to a megahertz without too much trouble.  But high-power vacuum tubes had to be specialized to go at higher frequencies, and the techniques had to be developed over decades.  In the 1930s and 1940s, the shortwave bands from 2MHz to 30MHz (up to the Citizen Band frequencies) came into use.  Sensitive, resonant antennas are hundreds of feet long down to 15 feet long at these frequencies, and they are practical to build by people who have a need for information.  Radio hams sometimes built their own equipment and experimented with long-wire antennas.  From 500kHz to hundreds of megahertz, radio waves propagate best by vertical antennas up to 1500 feet tall, then to horizontal antennas, then to directional Yagi antennas.  Hams learned ways to control standing waves (SWR) and made or purchased baluns, transmission-line transformers (wideband transformers), frequency-variable antenna-matching circuits, and directional couplers.  Hams sometimes suffered RF burns.  Radio-frequency engineering is a specialty that can do things that amaze regular engineers.

    The Radio Shack brand name was from the radio shack that hams used, to keep the family safe from the hundreds to 1.5kV voltage used in the transmitter, to avoid awaking family during late-night DX, and to keep the antenna from causing a house fire if lightning hit the antenna.  The name shortwave is from the shorter and shorter wavelengths, and shorter and shorter resonant antennas, that are a consequence of higher frequenices.

    John used his Heathkit $50 receiver in the 1980s to listen (SWL, shortwave listening) to all kinds of broadcasts:  VOA, BBC, Caribbean Christian stations, Russia woodpecker, Cuba propaganda, and 5-digit number codes.  Hearing broadcasts in other languages gave a person a real sense of "the big world out there," when there was no Internet, the only other news source from another country, in their own language, was newspaper, and foreign air travel was very expensive or dangerous.  Ordinary people could set up a transmitter for $2000 and do DX, distance listening and two-way talking at 200W, across continents, limited only by language.  John's wife's uncle, Elbert Leggitt, had a station and enjoyed talking. 

In the 1980s, VHF and UHF frequencies came into use by disaster-recovery organizations.  These high frequencies use small antennas that are easy to use, needing only to be elevated above a building or car and possibly aimed toward some point on the horizon.

    John's Grundig shortwave radio, purchased at Radio Shack in 2010, receives WWV time and space-weather broadcasts at 5MHz, 10MHz, and 15MHz but not much else.

2014 Aug 5  Microcompartments and Protein Machines in Prokaryotes  Milton Saier Jr  pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, PubMed Central, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health    A view of the remarkable complexity of what was once thought of as a simple non-compartmentalized cell, a "bag of enzymes" operating by random molecular collisions.  

 [Writing in 2025, JE notes...As molecular biologists are able to uncover more and more of how cells work, they do not find simple chemical reactions that could have come from random chemistry in a warm little pond.  They find hyperstructures that are tiny chemistry labs (see below), increasing complexity at smaller scale and increasing interaction of molecular machines, which is the appearance of design of DNA, shrinking the realm of junk DNA, and supporting Intelligent Design and irreducible complexity.  The complexity makes it harder and harder for materialists to invent ways that random mutations could come up with designs;  scientists speculate less about neo-Darwinism and evolution.  There aren't many grants for proving evolution;  there are more grants looking toward chemical, enzyme, and drug manufacture with commercial gain.  But the charge by academe to remain free of moral constraint is strong.  Writing in Jan 16 2025 as the U.S. Senate is screening president-elect Trump's Cabinet appointees, which tend toward conservative values, the pornography industry and ACLU push hard against constraints.  DEI dies hard.  Pam Bondi to Hawaii Sen. Hirono:  "You were the only one who refused to meet with me but what we would have discussed is that it is the job of the attorney general...," Bondi said before being interrupted by Hirono again.]

     Writer JE finds several Internet web pages about nitrogen fixation in cells, a whole field of study that is like the study of ATPase, the enzymes or molecular machines (a cluster of five coordinated machines) that produce the ATP energy chemical.  The nitrogen fixation topic shows again that cells possess molecular machinery of great complexity and a high degree of interoperation.  

     The nitrogen fixation web sites have a light sprinkling of the word 'evolved' but at a low concentration;  they have a higher concentration of statements that marvel at the complexity of the chemical processes.  It is to the credit of scientists that they have found how many of these machines operate, including molecular machines composed of thousands of atoms.  There are intriguing metallic-atom structures, like the four iron atoms in hemoglobin and the seven-iron, one-carbon, one molybdenum, nine-sulfur structure in the nitrogenase enzyme.  This latter enzyme has a ten-step process to break up nitrogen molecules and fix single nitrogen atoms into ammonia;  the process is 16 ATPs, a large number, moving hydrogen ions and electrons, consuming 669kJ per mole of ammonia while liberating only 54kJ.  The nif gene complex.  What is the probability that this complexity could evolve, especially that a complex process requiring chemically potent ATP, highly dispersed in cells, would not run off the rails.  ATP is highly soluble in water and is "quite stable in solutions [with the narrow] pH range of 6.8 and 7.4."

     The cell wall of a typical, flagellum-propelled prokaryote has three layers:  capsule or slime layer, thin cell wall, inner plasma membrane.  Penetrated by pili, which are "fragile and constantly replaced," Wikipedia.  Pili inject DNA or other chemicals into other cells as normal operations, whereas viruses inject genetic instructions into the host cell to recruit the host cell's enzymes.  There is a Type IVa pilus machine.  "Bacterium...highly structured, non-random collection of functional membrane-embedded and protein...molecular machines."  2014 Aug 5 Microcompartments and Protein Machines in Prokaryotes by Saier    [Even] twenty-four-hour clocks allowing bacteria to coordinate their metabolic activity with the Sun.  "Hundreds of these machines actually occur in Nature."  "Few enzymes 'float' around in cytoplasm, most form 'hyperstructures,' some of them transiently [as needed, just as the hollow microtubules which give variable shape to amoeba;  the creeping appearance of amoeba is caused by microtubule extension]."  Microcompartments host the majority of reactions.  [In other words, the reactions must have microcompartments, a facet of irreducible complexity.]  "Dynamic filamentous structures."  

     The role of metal atoms, other than the sodium-like and calcium-like metals, in biology happens at low concentration, well below the concentration of magnesium at .005% of body mass.  Molybdenum is 4.5*10^-8 atom concentration, Wikipedia.  JE:  These trace metals can be viewed as the Creator utilizing the special properties of metals to get done special chemistry.  [In fact, there is the appearance that the metals are specially designed to provide the abundance of special chemistry.]  The non-sodium, non-calcium metals (and sulfur with oxidation numbers +2, +4, +5, +6) have variable numbers of oxidation numbers per atom, contrasting with the fixed bond numbers and angles and strong bonding of carbon (though carbon pi bond is special for the bond angles), nitrogen, and oxygen.  The metals have a chemical versatility that is needed in enzymes.  "Catalytic versatility of transition-metal catalysis with enzymes."  

     There are swarming bacteria with flagella, up to 1000 per cell, that can propel at almost an inch per minute.  "If E. coli were the size of a car, and its velocity were to be proportional to its size...370 miles per hour."

     evoxcross cross-reference search term in Time Line for the reality of no macro-evolution

2014 Sept 5  midactsdisp.blogspot  Darwin's Creation Myth    keep the general public in ignorance    Nebraska Man, Piltdown Man hoaxes   motivated me to find papers on biochemical basis for evolution--and found that such papers did not exist.  "First chink in my atheist armor," says the writer of the web page.

2014 November 24   The no-charges-against-Officer-Wilson conclusion of the Ferguson MO grand jury brings out the common occurrence of large groups of people establishing alternate realities that they live within.  (2013 Black Lives Matter founded.)  The evidence that the grand jury saw is made public.  It shows that numerous people who testified under oath as eyewitnesses gave testimony at odds with the physical evidence.  Some of these people changed what they said when they were told about the physical evidence, while others maintained that their testimony, at odds with the evidence, is true.  In other words, they stick with a story that is not true & they expect the legal system to honor their lie & act on their lie.  Al Sharpton stood before cameras & complained that Brown [thief & attacker of Officer Wilson] "could not defend himself" against the prosecutor's comments [when McCulloch spent 20 minutes on live TV explaining the grand jury decision so that everyone could understand].  "I've never seen a prosecutor call a press conference to discredit the victim," Sharpton said. When McCulloch announced the grand jury findings, he took his time to "methodically discredit the witnesses," said Sharpton.  Sharpton stood beside a man wearing a T-shirt which said "No Justice No Peace."     Other commentators remind the public that, whereas black politicians are saying that blacks are killed every day by white police, the great majority of young blacks who are being killed in the U.S. are killed by blacks.  The homicide rate for young black men is 20x that of whites, & it is mainly black on black.      The night of the grand jury press conference, a dozen businesses near the Ferguson police dept. were burned & many businesses were looted.

After the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case, Linda Thorn, a grandmother, on VDare.com said, "talk about the facts: whites rarely kill blacks. And Hispanic 'family values' often mean violent gang activity."

See the Timeline note, 2014 Coast to Coast with Peter Schiff, above.

When a lot of people, maybe 30%, concentrate on inflamed feelings & agendas and ignore reality, what harm does that do to the U.S.?  Doesn't that make a lot of people angry about what is no more than lies?  Doesn't that get in the way of people dealing with reality?

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/wall-street-journal-police-hands-tied/2015/05/30/id/647695/

WSJ: Gun Violence Increasing as Police Departments' Hands Tied by Rules    30 May 2015 by Sandy Fitzgerald

...almost any police shooting that involves a black person "no matter how threatening the behavior that provoked the shooting," brings angry protests, and acquittals of police officers for using deadly force often brings violence, with the result being what St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson has called the "Ferguson effect."

This means police are backing away from enforcement activity while the criminal element feels empowered, said MacDonald, pointing out that similar "Ferguson effects" are happening nationwide as police scale back on proactive police actions.

"Any cop who uses his gun now has to worry about being indicted and losing his job and family," a New York City police officer told MacDonald. "Everything has the potential to be recorded. A lot of cops feel that the climate for the next couple of years is going to be non stop protests."

New York's pedestrian "stop, question and frisk" practices have dropped by nearly 95 percent from 2011 after litigation was filed calling the technique racially biased, she writes, and "it is no surprise that shootings are up in the city."

Fiona Ortiz (Reuters) Oct 23, 2015   after homicides fell to historic lows in 2014 but are dramatically increasing in 2015, FBI Director James Comey says a chill wind has blown through law enforcement.  Officers have told him they feel besieged and are taunted by people holding smartphones.  Killers must be confronted by a strong police presence involving officers who go out at night and deal with men with guns standing on street corners.

See Aug 16, 2016

2015 Feb 20  The Top Ten Scientific Problems with Biological and Chemical Evolution     Casey Luskin     Intelligent Design  from More than Myth (Chartwell Press, 2014)

1: Primordial Soup [enzymes are needed, the entire system must come into being as one unit, irreducible complexity]

2: Unguided Chemical Processes Cannot Explain Genetic Code

3: Random Mutations Cannot Generate the Genetic Information Required for Irreducibly Complex Structures

4: Fixing Advantageous Traits

5: Abrupt Appearance of Species

6: Molecular Biology shows no “Tree of Life”

7: Convergent Evolution Challenges Darwinism

8: Differences between Vertebrate Embryos Contradict the Predictions of Common Ancestry

9: Neo-Darwinism Struggles...Distribution of Species

10: Neo-Darwinism...Vestigial Organs and “Junk DNA”

evoxcross

2015 China economy overtakes U.S. in terms of PPP, due to foreign investment allowed by communist government since 1980, plus population 4x that of U.S.  Followed by India, Japan, Germany, Russia, Brazil, France, Indonesia, Britain.

2015 Computer memory announcement by Intel and Micron--possibly memristor technology but no technology is specified by the companies.  It is a crosspoint device.    July  ARS Technica UK  Sebastian Anthony      HP Labs is open about their memristor, based on theory from 1971 by Chua, announced in Nature in 2008, and described as a TiO2 device in Dec 2008 IEEE Spectrum.  In IEEE Spectrum Jan 2016, HP Enterprise's The Machine, a rack-size computer with unknown delivery, is described as being designed for memristor memory, but memristors aren't working well enough & The Machine will start with DRAM.

2015 March 7    by S. Bear Bergman  https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/i-have-come-to-indoctrinate-your-children-lgtbq_b_6795152

I Have Come to Indoctrinate Your Children Into ... (And I’m Not a Bit Sorry)          Also see in the timeline  May 27 2011

2015 March 13    https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/gay-activist-our-goal-is-to-indoctrinate-children-into-lgbtq-agenda   refers to the above Huffington Post article

2015 Mar 17  The Gospel Coalition online   Not true that every denomination is in decline, though by % of U.S. population that may be true.  "Mainline churches are on a path toward extinction...[as they] move further away from Biblical Christianity."  Denominations that pay attention to Bible rather than reforming society generally have numerical growth due to increasing population in the U.S.

2015 March 22  On-line, WND Faith  The Story of a Non-Muslim Eyewitness in Mecca, an Arabist probably speaking Arabic, during Hajj.  Few people, outside Islam, can get to Mecca, there are checkpoints that screen out non-Muslims.  A British man faked conversion, joined some Turks, and made it in.  "Could any Westerner sincerely carry out Islamic rituals?  [during Hajj]  It eluded me."  Islam during Hajj "is an archaic faith, buried in superstition and prejudice."  "To an urban Briton, the ritual slaughter of animals is an alien and repulsive practice." 

2015 March 25  BY Suzanne Wu      USC scientists Arthur Toga, Paul Thompson are on the cutting edge of brain mapping

Their work straddles biological science and engineering, bringing improved measurements to clinical treatments for diseases such as Alzheimer’s and autism

no copyright noticeable on web page

https://news.usc.edu/77654/77654-usc-scientists-arthur-toga-paul-thompson-are-on-the-cutting-edge-of-brain-mapping/

In a landmark study in Nature, the researchers showed that the back of the brain grows rapidly in infants as senses of sight and touch develop. Growth then floods forward through parts of the brain associated with language acquisition. In the teenage years, the surge moves to the front of the brain, which is linked to decision-making and judgment.

To the researchers’ surprise, they discovered that the growing teenager brain prunes itself, cutting off whole clusters of cells. Many parts of the brain actually shrink during adolescence.  Schizophrenics’ brains shed mass faster than normal.  Children with autism tend to have bigger brains; some theorize their brains don’t go through enough pruning.

2015 Ap 17  Women and STEM    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/truth-women-stem-careers/     Why the STEM gender gap is overblown by Denise Cummins  April 17, 2015   recent book is Good Thinking.

National effort on the part of the National Science Foundation to attract girls and young women into STEM. The preferred strategy is to attract females by “unbrainwashing them” into accepting STEM careers as appropriate for women.

From 1991 to 2010, women earning bachelor and PhD degrees in computer science went from 29% to 18%.  [Men are increasingly taking over the field.]  In 2010, women earn 18% of the engineering degrees [despite strong recruitment of high-school girls by engineering schools].  On the other hand, 78% of psychology degrees are by women.

[There are innate reasons for some amount of gender difference.] Newborn girls prefer to look at faces while newborn boys prefer to look at mechanical stimuli (such as mobiles). When it comes to toys, a consistent finding is that boys...strongly prefer to play with mechanical toys over plush toys or dolls, while girls...show equivalent interest in the two. These sex-linked preferences emerge in human development long before any significant socialization can have taken place...Women tend to gravitate toward fields that focus on living things and agents, men to fields that focus on objects.

John's observation about his two granddaughters and one grandson, all of whom got grandparent care from Monday to Friday before school age:  the boy at 14 months wants to stack rings on the spindle.  He spends tens of minutes with Duplo® blocks and can stack them when he wants.  He pushes wheeled toys across the floor, generally in the direction the wheels want to turn.  While walking outside, he is compelled to pick up rocks and drag sticks through sand.  The two girls up to age 5 years never had these interests.  They lined up plush animals on the window sill to look out at people, pushed their own stroller when they could walk, played dress-up, and did pretend things around the community mail boxes.  Many of these girl traits are mimicking adults and may be a way that girls anticipate growing up.

2015 June 2   huffost.com     "Are We Mormons a Cult?"    "Why so many people think of Mormonism as a cult."  "Youth go behind closed doors to have interviews with the bishop."  "Forced to do what was right so we all ended up in heaven."  Shunning:  "We do."  Making it difficult to leave the Mormon church.  Keeping tabs on people.  Denial of temple recommends.       Living in closed communities.  Parents of 18-year-old male missionaries forbidden to telephone their sons except at Christmas, can't even get their phone numbers.       Reddit.com:  "This isn't a cult?      Why does the LDS church get a pass on this behavior?  Anyone else would say it's kidnapping."    

2015 June 2  Dr. Jerome Corsi on Global Research       Declassified Documents:  Hillary Clinton aided the rise of ISIS, during Obama years.  Jerome Corsi on Coast to Coast AM July 3.  

2015 June 26 The New York Times  Ross Douthat   After the Supreme Court decision supporting homosexual marriage, "the central 'new dimension of freedom' being claimed by straight America is a freedom from marriage — from the institution as traditionally understood, and from wedlock and family, period."  "The traditional understanding, which rested on sex difference, procreation, and real permanence, went into crisis in the 1960s and 1970s. But in the 1990s...a kind of neo-traditionalism might still have purchase in America...Not so today. Since the ’90s, approval of divorce, premarital sex, and out-of-wedlock childbearing have climbed steadily, and the belief that children are “very important” to marriage has collapsed. Kennedy’s ruling argues that...the institution “safeguards children and families.” But the changing cultural attitudes that justify his jurisprudence increasingly treat this safeguard as inessential, a potentially nice but hardly necessary thing.  And the same is true of marriage itself. America is not quite so 'advanced' as certain European societies, but our marriage rate is at historic lows, with the millennial generation, the vanguard of support for same-sex marriage, leading the retreat. Millennials may agree with Kennedy’s ruling, but they’re making his view of marriage as “a keystone of the nation’s social order” look antique.

2015 Aug 20  http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/democratic-blues-121561_Page2.html#.WCoMZ7VMHIo  (Part of why Donald Trump wins presidency in 2016 as a Republican) Democrats have a notably weak bench of top-level candidates. The losses of U.S. Senate seats and gubernatorial offices across the country leave the party starved for next generation leaders.  Even as the party has won the presidency, Democrats down-ballot over the past six years have been hit with economic uncertainty, the realignment of many congressional districts and a midterm electorate that increasing looks different than the voter base of presidential elections.  In the late 1980s, Republicans “put everything in their energy and funding towards solving their problems in winning the House. And [in 1994] it worked. And they also recruited for state races—Democrats didn’t."

The big GOP gains in the House came in 2010, when Democrats lost 64 House seats—the worst midterm showing for a party since 1894. Moreover, in 2014, the Republicans won nine Senate seats.  In 2010 and 2014, the Republicans and conservatives reaped the harvest from years of effort at the state and local levels. 

In 2005, former Vermont governor and presidential candidate Howard Dean became chair of the Democratic National Committee, and pronounced a “fifty state strategy,” looking to find candidates and foot soldiers even in deepest Republican America. Dean conflicted with Rahm Emanuel, then head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, who wanted resources targeted to the most winnable districts. In the short run, Emanuel’s approach worked; Democrats won back control of the House in 2006. In the long run, however, it left the party virtually disarmed against a determined GOP drive to win state and local contests.

2015 Sep. 29      https://www.cpr.org/news/story/colorado-teacher-shortage-puts-rural-schools-brink-crisis

A Colorado Teacher Shortage Puts Rural Schools On The Brink Of Crisis     By Jenny Brundin Sep 29, 2015  CPR News

Rural school superintendents say low pay, isolation, and fewer teacher candidates make it hard to attract teachers.  About 1,000 freshly minted teachers graduated in Colorado last year with credentials in elementary education.  Genoa-Hugo Elementary school, an hour east of Denver, only needed one of them. But, "they had zero applications last year,” said Robert Mitchell, Academic Policy Officer for Educator Preparation with the Colorado Department of Higher Education. “That is somewhat telling.”  He says Colorado’s rural school districts are on the brink of crisis when it comes to finding enough teachers to lead classrooms. Even urban districts along the Front Range are struggling to fill positions.  Mitchell says Colorado is just not producing enough teachers. So far this year, enrollments in the state's teacher prep schools are down 23 percent compared with five years ago.  Math, science and special education teachers are especially coveted.

    “Our political landscape right now -- it is extremely difficult to be teacher right now in our state in my mind,” said Don Anderson, director of the East Central Board of Cooperative Educational Services, which provides services to local member school districts.  “In the last five to six years, we’ve had several mandates that were truly unfunded, went through a recession, put more on people’s plates and didn’t take anything off. And so that political landscape has caused people to ask, 'Do I really want to be a teacher?'"  Politics in individual districts also feeds the shortage.  Protesters opposed to the Jefferson County School Board majority march through Golden, Colo. on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014.  Principals and other school officials say that Jefferson County has lost hundreds of teachers because of political turmoil there.

2015 Oct  Approximate time when Russian phishing attacks on Democratic National Committee allow Russians access to DNC files.  See 2017 Nov 6 in this timeline.

2015 October   Nitrate/nitrite scare    https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/01/bacon-cancer-processed-meats-nitrates-nitrites-sausages

World Health Organization classifies “processed meats” as group 1 carcinogen, particularly colon cancer.  One hot dog daily raises the risk of colon cancer by 18% over a lifetime.  21% of bowel cancers can be attributed to eating processed or red meat.  When nitrates interact with certain components in red meat (haem iron, amines and amides), they form N-nitroso compounds, which cause cancer. The best known of these compounds is nitrosamine.

    The cancer risk from bacon is compounded by other risk factors such as eating low-fibre diets with few vegetables or wholegrains. In his book, Coudray points out that in coming years, millions more poor consumers will be affected by preventable colon cancer, as westernized processed meats conquer the developing world.

    In 2017, "uncured" hot dogs are increasingly available at regular grocieries.  They have no nitrite/nitrate.  If they are unfrozen, they have a labeled refrigerator life up to two months.

2015 August 27   Glenn Beck on his radio program, paraphrased.  "Fifteen years ago, we decided we would be light and funny, that's what people wanted.  We wouldn't do cause-based programs.  Well, no more."

http://www.centerformedicalprogress.org/2015/08/planned-parenthood-baby-parts-buyer-stemexpress-wants-another-50-liversweek-financial-benefits-for-abortion-clinics/

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25–The eighth video about Planned Parenthood’s sale of aborted fetal body parts shows StemExpress, LLC, a major buyer of fetal tissue from Planned Parenthood, admitting the company gets “a lot” of intact fetuses, suggesting “another 50 livers a week” would not be enough.  StemExpress is a for-profit biotech supply company that has been partnered with Planned Parenthood clinics to purchase human fetal parts since its founding in 2010. StemExpress’ Medical Director, Dr. Ronald Berman, is an abortion doctor for Planned Parenthood Mar Monte.  In the video, actors posing as a human biologics company meet with StemExpress CEO Cate Dyer...Cooksy, & Procurement Manager Megan Barr. StemExpress and the actors are discussing a potential partnership to supply extra fetal body parts to each other.  “So many physicians say, ‘Oh I can totally procure tissue,’ and they can’t,” says Dyer.  Abortion doctors must do the procedure in a special way to obtain useable fetal parts. Federal law requires that no alteration in the timing or method of abortion be done for the purposes of fetal tissue collection (42 U.S.C. 289g-1).  “What about intact specimens?” asks one of the actors. “Oh yeah, I mean if you have intact cases, which we’ve done a lot, we sometimes ship those back to our lab in its entirety.”  “What would make your lab happy?” asks one of the actors. “Another 50 livers a week,” says Dyer. “We’re working with almost like triple digit number clinics,” Dyer explains, “and we still need more.” She later notes, “Planned Parenthood has volume, because they are a volume institution.”  Dyer also agrees that payments to abortion clinics for fetal body parts should be financially beneficial to them.

http://www.frcblog.com/2011/page/15/        Sept 6 2011         Abby Johnson had been a Planned Parenthood location director.  It took a few weeks before I got the alarm code to our clinic. I guess it takes that long for them to trust you. I remember getting the code and feeling shocked. The code was 2229. That seems innocent…until they told me what it spelled out…BABY. Really. Wow. We were really joking about that…our alarm code was mocking the murder of children.  A few weeks later I was introduced to our freezer in the POC (products of conception) lab. This was the freezer that held the fetal tissue until the biohazard truck came for disposal. I found out the name for that freezer…the nursery. Again, that was a joke. How had that become a joke?

2015  The one-child policy of the Peoples' Republic of China officially is modified to allow two children.  (See 1980 in this time line.)  During the policy, there were forced sterilizations, and the imbalance of boys to girls (due to abortion of girls, infanticide, or "exposure" after birth) empowered single women to reject men without money, leaving a generation of single men called "bare branches" because they can’t add to their family trees. https://www.bloomberg.com/quicktake/china-s-two-child-policy     https://www.foxnews.com/world/women-one-child-china-policy-forced-abortion-sterilization-documentary  A midwife who kept count aborted 50,000 babies during the policy.          Bloomberg web site noted previously:  "High living costs, long work hours and surging child-care expenses mean that many couples feel that they can only afford to have one child — or none. A survey by Zhaopin.com, a job recruitment site, found that 33 percent of women had their pay cut after giving birth and 36 percent were demoted."

2015 Oct 30     https://www.icr.org/article/endosymbiosis-theory-crisis/     Symbiogenesis or endosymbiosis theory has been a darling of the evolution crowd since Lynn Margulis in 1967.  But...

The whole evolutionary idea of endosymbiosis has been thrown into utter confusion...the utter lack of identified genes that would support the evolutionary tale. As stated in a recent paper,

What was not anticipated was how relatively few mitochondrial proteins with bacterial homologs [sequence similarity] would group specifically with α-Proteobacteria in phylogenetic [evolutionary tree] reconstructions: At most, only 10–20% of any of the mitochondrial proteomes examined so far display a robust α-proteobacterial signal.  This lack of evidence...is a serious problem for the evolutionary story.

No steady evolutionary progression from simple to complex. Mitochondrial proteomes even in one-celled eukaryotes such as yeast and protozoa, are already highly complex, diversified, and complete. Also, one-celled eukaryote mitochondrial gene complements are just as complicated as those in plants and animals. A leading evolutionist recently commented, “It has become apparent that the LMCA [last mitochondrial common ancestor] was already as complex in its key functions as modern mitochondria,” and “evidently, basic endosymbiont-to-mitochondrion retailoring was essentially complete before the divergence of the main eukaryotic lineages.”  The sequences of many eukaryotic genomes are now clearly showing that the gene repertoires needed for the mitochondria to function are not derived from bacteria but are remarkably unique to the type of creature in which they are found...the concept of code re-use—common code to solve similar problems. The wealth of genomic data is now utterly destroying the idea of evolution on all fronts, even in the area of endosymbiosis, one of the secularists’ favorite theories.

https://evolutionnews.org/2012/01/on_the_origin_o/        On the Origin of Mitochondria: Reasons for Skepticism on the Endosymbiotic Jonathan McLatchie   January 10, 2012

While we find examples of similarity between eukaryotic mitochondria and bacterial cells, other cases also reveal stark differences. In addition, the lack of a mechanistic basis...caution and the expectation of some fairly spectacular evidence for the claim being made. At present, however, such evidence does not exist — and justifiably gives one cause for skepticism.

See in this time line 2010 Oct.

Cross Referencing a theme, complexity of simplest, self-reproducing life gives doubt of random mutation causation

Find on this page evox_cross

Time Line 1900-1990  

1966 genetic code, evolution is concerted

Time Line 1990-present

2007 Shkedi.  Flew becomes believer in God and ID.

2010 Oct Margulis, no simple branching, 17 steps of photosynthesis, concerted process indoctrination.

2015 Oct 30 Margulis lack of evidence.  LCMA already complex.  Data is destroying evolution.

2018 Gene Machine

2021 Jan 3 RNA by randomness is improbable.  Lucky Planet.

Essay:  When God Painted Himself Into a Corner

Footnote 9 even simplest cell is complex, 482 genes

Essay:  Creation-Evolution Personal Blog

80% down the page even microevolution by mutation is in doubt by The Third Way

Near the bottom, failed to get from simple...tar, entropy.  All critical questions are open.  No branching tree of life.

Essay:  Genius, Hawking, and Creation of Life

437 genes in super-simple organism

75% down the page smallest genome 160,000 base pairs

2015  Prof. Robert Clinton writes in "Dreams of a Perfected Beehive,"  p. 22 in New Oxford Review Nov 2015.  The "living constitution's" continuity with the Founder's constitution is "a lie that ...has since been sustained by men who disavow the idea of an essential human nature, substituting...an infinitely malleable humanity on which they want to do the malleating...presidents govern by decree, courts create rights and marginalize religion, and Congress sits by and watches while planning for the next election."  P. 26:  "past half-century and more...the Court has...nudged religion and traditional morality out of the public square."

2015 Oct 21    https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2015/10/21/25-percent-us-christians-believe-reincarnation-whats-wrong-picture        Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life (2009 survey), not only do a quarter of Americans believe in reincarnation, but 24 percent of American Christians expressed a belief in reincarnation.          George Noory on Coast to Coast AM, who is Catholic, popularizes reincarnation.

2015 Nov 18     as heard on WOAI in 2025(?)  San Antonio First Presbyterian  Dr. Bob Fuller  WOAI radio 7AM Sundays   Mark 7  teachers of the law asked Jesus, “Why don’t your disciples live according to the TRADITION of the elders?"   Jesus was criticizing their elevation of Mishnah above Torah.  Approx notes:  During the first 1500 years of the Christian church, there came about an accumulation of rules of men.  The rules came to be in the way of people repenting and receiving Jesus' forgiveness.  Rule by control and fear came about.  [JE:  Sounds like Bishop of Rome demanding.]  Luther and Calvin acting similar to Jesus' rebuke of the elders.  Dr. Fuller:  Elders and popes who place traditions above God's instruction are doing spiritual harm to the people they should be shepherding.    Seven last words of a dying congregation:  We have always done it this way.    "We have been losing members over the last three years over denominational issues."

     https://www.fpcsanantonio.org/who-we-are/   Covenant Order of Presbyterians, is a new Presbyterian denomination formed in 2012, reformed tradition (Calvin).  Leave aside doctrinal disputes [wandering from historical opposition to h      and ordination of men only].  Nov 1 2015:  heated debate.  Nov 18 2015, First Presbyterian Church of San Antonio was officially accepted into its new denomination.  The church voted by 87 percent to disaffiliate from the Presbyterian Church (USA).

     https://www.christianpost.com/news/texas-megachurch-votes-to-leave-presbyterian-church-usa.html    Large number of PC (USA) congregations that in recent years have decided to leave the Mainline Protestant denomination over its theological direction, which includes its growing acceptance of h        .     February 02, 2016 FPCSA to pay $1.5M to PC(USA) for buildings.

2015  Obianuju Ekeocha, Nigerian woman living in UK, founder of Culture of Life Africa, an organization dedicated to defending the sanctity and the dignity of human life.  Writes Target Africa, Ideological Neocolonialism in the Twenty-First Century.  Wealthy Western donors give to Africa but require African governments to liberalize policies about radicalized feminism, population control, sexualization of children,     .  These are policies opposed to traditional African morals.  See https://sites.google.com/site/solderandcircuits/home/more-circuit-design/physics-timeline/physics-time-line-1900-present/morals-shown-in-physics-timeline/getting-specific-about-what-morals-are

2015 New Oxford Review Dec 2015 p. 26 "Crossing the Chasm of Faith and Praxis" by Chene Richard Heady   "1965 to 1975 (Vatican II) was one of extreme tumult in the Church...conscience and authority, innovation and tradition, charismatic and hierarchical, structural sin and personal sin, ecumenism and Catholic particularity...decades that followed were marked by weariness and a desperate desire for peace...no real progress toward Christian unity, just a deep fear of offending Protestants."  John Paul II preached a clear, traditional Catholic doctrine but the divided Church was in a quandary, afraid of alienating one half or the other.  "The inspired solution:...John Paul's ideas...were ignored."  Pew Research Sept. 2015   (American Catholics)[weekly Mass attenders] cohabitation outside of marriage is morally acceptable (84%)[77%]  have cohabited (44%)[34%]  childbearing elective (70%)[55%]   Pope Benedict and Pope Francis are not leaving well enough alone.  They use the keys they possess, the former to bind and the latter to loose.

2015 Dec IEEE Spectrum  Hard DRAM errors are documented as a significant reason for commercial computer crashes, even when ECC is used, far outstripping the cosmic ray and heat problems.  Also affects home and office PCs.  In large data centers with 10,000 processors (blade servers, etc.), 100 crashes a day may be due to DRAM errors.  In Google data centers, DRAM errors tend to be isolated errors or recurrent bits, not so much same row or same column.  Around 1% of Google ECC-equiped computers shut down per year.  DRAM memory consists of a tiny number of electrons, about 30 per bit, stored in a tiny capacitor in the memory cell.  (So low a number allows the cells to be small, so that a DRAM hardware module can hold gigabytes.)  One solution can be page retirement managed by the OS, but this is not yet commonly done.    See 1978, 2009

2015 Oct. New Oxford Review p. 4     Responses to a letter to the editor from George Carney in a previous issue of NOR:

"The only thing these Christians took for granted was the right to live their Christian beliefs without being sued, fined, harassed, investigated, and threatened with death."

"The four-step approach taken by the hunotextual lobby, beginning in the 1970s...tolerate...accept...endorse...obey us." 

Concerning Obergefell v. Hodges, "3% of the population, with the help of five Supreme Court justices, have imposed their view of marriage...ignoring the law, the Constitution, and all Supreme Court precedents."  Wilson writes in The Marriage Problem, "marriage is a socially arranged solution for the problem of getting people to stay together and care for children that the mere desire for children, and the sex that makes children possible, does not solve."

Read some books to see how there is a war on religion.

Making Grey Okay by Reilly, Defending Marriage by Esolen, Christians in Danger by Fromager, 40 Days for Life by Bereit, Spiritual Life in the Modern World by Hardon, The Last Superstition:  a Refutation of the New Atheism by Feser, 10 Books that Screwed Up the World by Wiker.  (See 2011, Benjamin Wiker)

2015 Feb 18  Heritage Foundation Kim Holmes  "The Rise of Intolerant Liberals"   Liberals have become illiberal.  Liberalism had been about ideas, now it is about power.  Academic research had been about truth, now it is about proving points, the points that elites want to promote as neo-truth.  They mistake ideology for morality.  The end justifies the means of overcoming convention and taking power.

2015 Dec 11  http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2015/12/11/silicon-valleys-diversity-myth.html      Steve Tobak Published December 11, 2015

[Silicon Valley discriminates against conservatives.]  This is not about discrimination, bias, sexism, or micro-aggressions. It’s about the tech industry being bullied and extorted by minority activists and diversity consultants to violate the tenets of meritocracy that made Silicon Valley great and America the world leader in technology.    See 2017 Aug 9

2015 Muslim Reform Movement    Asra Nomani is interviewed on PBS (I read her book Standing Alone about being in the men's space in the New Jersey mosque)

2015 Muslim and non-Muslim refugees from war and ISIS, mainly Syrians, flood into Greece and northward into sanctuary countries, Germany, France, Sweden, Belgium.  ISIS declares that jihadists are placed among the refugees.  Radicalized Muslims travel to ISIS territory from European countries for terror training and return as jihadists to Europe, with some degree of tracking by security services.  Politicians in the European countries, and Pres. Obama, insist that Islam is a religion of peace, ignoring the meaning of the word Islam, which is submission to Allah.  The Holy Quran condemns the separation of church and state;  legitimate governments in Muslim countries are submitted to Allah as surely as individuals are.  New Oxford Review May 2016 p. 5:  web sites of people with experience in Islam warn of Islamic practices.  Ayaan Hirsi Ali writes of honor killing, forced marriage, and female genital mutilation in sanctuary countries.  Brigitte Gabriel warns of Sharia within the U.S.  Nonie Darwish, a Muslim as a girl in Egypt, questioned Muslim hatred of Jews and Christians.  She is now an American citizen, Christian, Republican, and advocate for the nation of Israel.  noniedarwish.org. 

2016 Jan 7  In the New Year's Eve party central of Cologne, between the cathedral and train station, Arabic-speaking gangs involving 1000 drunk young men from North Africa and also some recent immigrants from Syria shoot firework rockets at rival gangs with no regard for injury (typical in Arab cities), rob Europeans, and grab women under their dresses.  They flaunt their immunity from arrest.  "I'm a Syrian! You have to treat me kindly!  Ms. Merkel invited me."  Days pass before officials acknowledge what happened.  This provides grist for the mill of the xenophobic movement Pegida.  This is not just in Cologne.  Most days in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin, such assault is typical.  A dozen gangs have the district divided up.  41 percent of Germans believe that critical voices are suppressed when it comes to the refugee issue.  A confidant of Chancellor Angela Merkel: "Those who were already afraid see Cologne as confirmation.  And those who are fundamentally open to refugees are now saying: 'It can't go on like this.' "

German feminist Alice Schwarzer is interviewed on PBS Newshour on Jan 8.

2016 Largest proven prime is 22,338,618 digits.  Cooper, Woltman, and others.  primes.utm.edu/notes/by_year.html

2016 January  First Presbyterian Church San Antonio, an orthodox congregation dating from 1846, the first protestant San Antonio church, has already split from the liberal PCUSA, as have hundreds of conservative Presbyterian congregations.  As with Episcopalians and Methodists, bodies higher than congregations own the church buildings.  Through legal proceedings, FPCSA pays the Mission Presbytery $1,525,000 to retain their building.  Subsequently, a new lead pastor, Dr. Bob Fuller, is employed.  FPCSA continues in 2021 to have Sunday worship on WOAI radio.  They have a big choir and a pipe organ.  It is an interesting mix of old and new.     PCUSA is open about problems finding pastors for liberal churches, pastors who will even give lip service to orthodoxy.       PCUSA churches that endure internal strife about orthodoxy are written about like this (The Dallas Morning News):  the conservatives are "bad, not theologically up to date, knuckle draggers."

2016 Jan 29   https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/their-sexual-proclivities-are-killing-them-and-costing-us-billions

2016 Jan  IEEE Spectrum  Matthew Eisler says Battery Electric Vehicles aren't economical when gasoline is cheap and when battery life in heat and cold is reduced.  Tesla and Bolt.  His article is much criticized by bloggers.

2016 Feb 11 (published) Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger B. P. Abbott etal. LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration.  This is the first direct detection of gravitational waves and the first observation of a binary black hole merger.  Gravity waves were predicted by Einstein in 1916 but doubted until a conference in 1957.   Observation of the binary pulsar system PSR B1913+16 by Hulse and Taylor and subsequent observations of its energy loss by Taylor and Weisberg demonstrated the existence of gravitational waves.  The two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory [LIGO, Hanford, WA and Livingston, LA, a separation of 10ms considering the speed of light, Michelson interferometers with resonant light power of 100kW in 4km, with isolation from seismic motion amounting to 1 part in 1E10, in ultrahigh vacuum, with 100,000 channels of data collected] simultaneously observed a transient gravitational-wave signal, filtered to a bandwidth of 35-350Hz which lowers 60 Hz electric-power-grid harmonics. The signal sweeps upwards in frequency from 35 to 250 Hz with a peak gravitational-wave strain of 10E-21 [a very small number][the increasing freq of signal corresponds to the closer and closer approach of the black holes].  The sum of the Schwarzschild radii of the binary components is about 210km, sizes so small that the two components must have been black holes, not neutron stars.  It matches the waveform predicted by general relativity for the inspiral and merger of a pair of black holes and the ringdown of the resulting single black hole. The signal was observed with a matched-filter signal-to-noise ratio of 24 and a false alarm rate estimated to be less than 1 event per 203,000 years, equivalent to a significance greater than 5 sigma.  The coalesced black hole is 62 solar masses.   The observation is in the strong-field, high-velocity regime. The peak gravitational-wave emission is estimated at 3.6E56 erg/s.   The coalescence took about .2 second during which time the black holes orbited each other eight times.  [Must have been an awesome event but optical and radio telescopes do not routinely search for such events, and LIGO does not yield a direction to look in, plus it was a one-time event.]  The paper suggests that loss of energy of the binary system, leading to decreasing spacing of the black holes, is due to gravitational wave radiation.    See 2011, a paper predicting black-hole coalescence.

2016 Feb 28 Calais is the final frontier in the fight against illegal immigration. As many as 7,000 are currently holed up in the notorious Calais “Jungle” camp waiting for a chance to stow away on British-bound trucks and Eurotunnel trains.  The Jungle has existed for years.  Last year, around 50,000 illegal immigrants were blocked.  Those who make it into trucks and shipping containers damage the loads.  Truckers are threatened.  Dunkirk, Dieppe and Cherbourg are new refuges for those leaving the Jungle.  Belgium has increased border controls to keep them out.        With Britain considering whether to leave the EU, French threaten to stop cross-Channel checks which are now carried out at French ferry and train terminals, with monetary assistance from Britain.  If France retalitates against Britain in the event Britain leaves the EU, it would cause a massive security nightmare with migrants free to cross the Channel from where they could launch attempts to sneak [deeper] into the UK and into the black economy.  This invasion would center on Kent.        France is starting to raze the Jungle.  Initial demolition work was with a strong police presence.  When immigrants were turned back from the Channel Tunnel on Feb 28, then invaded Calais.  Local residents filmed the chaos, with gangs of migrants yelling "UK! UK!" and blocking up roads amid an intimidating atmosphere. http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/647793/Calais-migrant-crisis-Xavier-Bertrand-Cameron-act-refugee-violence-economy-truckers?_ga=1.1575865.966601127.1456790344

2016 March IEEE Spectrum The kilogram standard, internationally, is generally 90% platinum, 10% irridium. These standards lose mass when they are moved

(like for measurements) and gain mass from adsorption and absorption, partly from mercury from thermometers stored closeby.  (The standard masses are stored

in air, within nested bell jars.) Watt balances are being built to change the kilogram standard from physical objects to electrical force.  Precision is 0.000002 percent. http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/standards/massive-news-kilogram-redefinition-heads-into-crucial-test

2016 March  DeepMind, subsidiary of Alphabet, Google parent company, announces that the AlphaGo computer program has beaten Go champion Lee Sedol in Go.  Also has beaten humans at StarCraft II and Quake Arena III.  This is a success for AI. 

See previous computer success at 1997 in this time line, Russian Kasparov beaten by IBM Deep Blue. 

    Whereas Deep Blue's program won by exhaustive look-aheads (millions of moves) at the limited number of chess moves, AlphaGo does look-aheads

by the hundreds of millions but also relies on neural networks and reinforcement learning.  IEEE Spectrum Nov 2019 p. 38  "Others...point out that our inability

to understand the source of our own cognitive powers presents a daunting hurdle" to computers thinking like people think.  "Detecting the subtle patterns

underlying human intuition is an overwhelming challenge."

    Intuition and instinct can be looked up on Internet.  Intuition or gut feeling is said to be the brain trying to predict things based on (sometimes not consciously remembered) experience.  The gray matter of the human brain (cerebral cortex, etc.,

not insulated with myelin) is 80% unconscious mind, 20% rational mind.  Reasoning or analytic reasoning is in language areas of the brain (one often reasons by talking to oneself), intuition is in the limbic system and is more a feeling. 

With both intuition and creativity, it improves with experience.  Reasoning is slow, logical, conscious, deliberate.  Intuition is fast, automatic, and subconscious.  Reasoning and intuition proceed together to help a person think.

2016 March 7  Hillary Clinton says "giving immunity to gunmakers and sellers was a terrible mistake...You talk about corporate greed?” Clinton was referring to the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which protects gun manufacturers and sellers from being held liable when their products are used to commit crimes.  Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said, "hold those people who have used the gun accountable. You try to make guns as safe as possible.”  He said U.S. manufacturing and sales would be hurt if lawsuits happened.       https://www.yahoo.com/politics/sanders-and-clinton-clash-over-guns-at-debate-040537046.html

Ap 2018 New Oxford Review letter to editor, Hillary Clinton "the most pro-abortion candidate ever nominated by a major party."

Ap 2018 New Oxford Review letter to editor, "Democratic Party is made up entirely of progressives...feel that they have matured in political thought in a way that lets them go beyond what they consider to be fairytales, such as that there is a natural law or that there are inalienable rights."

2016 March 17 As reported by PBS News Hour Prof. Marc Edwards criticized the EPA for its slow response to the lead-in-the-water-supply crisis in Flint.

The EPA's Miguel del Toral tried to get the state to address the corrosion treatment question...del Toral was essentially sidelined by his own agency. 

"The EPA buried this problem. The record is absolutely clear. They've been in this up to their eyeballs since early July."  Much of the blame falling on the Governor

and Mayor can be directly traced to the actions of the EPA Region 5 Administrator.  EPA never communicated to either the governor or to the mayor that his concerns

should be taken seriously. Instead they apologized for what he did."  http://michiganradio.org/post/expert-says-legionnaires-no-longer-risk-flint-epa-buried-concerns-over-water

2016 Baylor University, Baptist by founding, has lots of controversy about football, "hunting ground for sexual predators."  Patty Crawford resigns, board full of "seniors...protecting the brand...instead of our students."        2017, rape victims sue Baylor, "at least 31 football players committed at least 52 rapes."  

2016 Ap  https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/04/conservatives-discrimination-universities/480372/     Jon A. Shields and Joshua M. Dunn Sr.’s book on conservative professors, Passing on the Right.     

American conservatives are united by two self-evident truths—Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer.  Conservative ends: budgets, deficits, taxes, and the Constitution. 

Fundamental tension in conservatism: you look backwards to understand now;  fast and quick revolutionary change is not what we’re looking for.

For many conservatives, they view great works of literature as a source of wisdom that we should be grateful for and approach humbly. They think that some of the focus on race, sex, and class—they call it the holy trilogy—

seems to denigrate these great works and minimizes them.

It took sociologists a long time to come around to the view that two-parent families were good for children on average. One reason is that [liberals] thought that [traditional] social institutions [like marriage]

are inherently oppressive things.  [Liberals still think that] traditional marriage is necessarily coercive, and it stymied our liberty and freedom and it was an institution that promoted gender inequality. 

[John E's comment:  the genders are, of course, unequal.  There is trouble when they are mashed toward equality.]

Politics will shape the questions we’ll ask.     It is only recently that scholars, economists, and historians have explored some of the darker parts of the progressive movement.

The eugenics component of the progressive movement has largely been unexplored

Ap 11 2016 Time Magazine cover:  "Why young men who grew up with Internet porn are becoming advocates for tuning it off" by Belinda Luscombe      March 30, 2014 globalnews.ca/news/1232726/porn-causing-erectile-dysfunction-in-young-men/

23 years old...Cialis and it didn’t have any effect on me. And that’s because...your problem is in the brain not below the belt,” he said...dopamine levels. Emerging research out of Cambridge University revealed that the brains of men who watch excessive amounts of online pornography appear similar to those of alcoholics and drugs addicts.  See 2016 Sept 1      Matt Fradd's The Porn Myth  "a wave of passionate individuals [burned out on pornography] trying to change the cultural norm [of pornography as normalcy and an exercise of the right of privacy]."

In 2007, Kinsey Institute observes that men who use pornography a lot need extreme pornography to...      2001 in Europe, ED is 13% for ages 40-80, by 2011 rising to 14-28% for ages 18-40. mdpi.com  Internet "tube sites" start in 2006.

2016  Playboy magazine experiments with modesty, dropping photos of nude women.  But sales lag and the chief creative officer, Cooper, son of founder Hugh Heffner, brings back the pictures. 

He says, "naked is normal."  This relates to the cover story of TIME on Ap 11, boys and men seeing voluptuous women so much in print, Internet, movies, and videos that the Creator-intended

satisfaction with wife malfunctions in many cases.  2017 Feb. 15  Yahoo feature is Scarlett Johansson who has ended a second marriage. 

Talking to Playboy:  "marriage is very romantic; it’s a beautiful idea and the practice of it can be a very beautiful thing. I don’t think it’s natural to be a monogamous person...It’s a lot of work...

for so many people — for everyone — the fact of that proves that it is not a natural thing."    Hugh Heffner dies

2016  Atlanta has high HIV.  "Atlanta is like New York in the 1980s in the need to develop a public health response."

https://blackdoctor.org/488961/atlanta-hiv-rates-2016    MSM in the South have 1 in 6 risk, heterosexual men are 1 in 473.

In a certain age range for black women, the leading cause of death is AIDS.

2016 May 16   Black Hole Blues: And Other Songs From Outer Space, the astrophysicist and novelist Janna Levin chronicles the decades-long development of a magnificent machine, LIGO, which has detected gravity waves from colliding black holes.  LIGO is in Louisianna.

Interviewed PBS Newshour May 16 2016     From the book:  "I noted her attention to "reason and emotion entwined.  In one emblematic scene, Drever bemoans a feud with his boss: 'He kept accusing me of not using the scientific method. And this hurt me tremendously.' ”

Levin writes of what is seldom acknowledged within science.  "Clashing egos, brushes with the F.B.I. and K.G.B., creationists holding town hall meetings across the street, enormous administrative entropy swirling between vision and reality — this discordant

cohort of idealists persevered for half a century" while gravitational-wave instrumentation was developed.  The scientific method is much overblown, it is never the stimulus for science, it is just one of the bases for validity of science.

2016 May 23  Survey:  82% of Americans who eat hamburgers think it is good nutrition.  But the WHO says processed meat (nitrated) is carcinogenic and red meat causes cancer.

2016  Life’s Rocky Start – PBS/NOVA is a neat video, geologists and biologists

2016  Nature Microbiology paper about LUCA, last universal common ancestor, 4 billion years ago.  Reducing, not oxidizing, environment.  Phylogenetics is enabled by the sequencing of genomes.  The two-domain tree, not three domains.

2016 May 17 Interviewed by George Noory on Coast to Coast AM    The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself    Sean Carroll, physicist at Caltech  

Some scientists (David Hume) have hoped that morals (principles of right conduct) would spring from some aspect of physics. 

But that hasn't happened.  In The Big Picture, Carroll deals with consciousness, the anthropic principle, soul, constructing

meaning and morality, all from a "poetic naturalist" view.  How this comes about in an "undirected universe."  (See anthropic principle in this timeline, 1973)

Elsewhere in his blog he says, "belief in God [may not be] the Big Lie, as the people who argue in its favor are generally quite sincere. But it is the Big Mistake; of all the incorrect beliefs in the modern world, this is certainly the one that combines the widest prevalence with the most significant impact. So it’s worth arguing against, gently but persistently."  John's comment:  Carroll may be willing to argue gently, but others want to suppress belief in God.

Carroll has many interesting views at  http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/greatest-hits/                Carroll cites the Brithish atheist* David Hume as having dealt with the origin of morals.       around 1740 Two of his writings are The History of England (a bestseller) and An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals.  Through his life, he strove to create a total naturalistic science of man.    (*Hume “seems to vacillate hopelessly” in his view of religion, according to Yandell in 1976)

2016 June  New Oxford Review p. 41  Refering to the April 11 Time magazine cover story (see this timeline), Robert Barron notes that the Time article never complained about pornography being immoral.  An "assumption of Freudianism remains...once we have been liberated from old taboos...we will overcome the neuroses and psychoses that so bedevil us."  The common claim is invalid:  "as long as you're not hurting anyone else, you should be allowed to do whatever pleases you in the sexual arena."  "Complete sexual freedom...has deeply sickened our society."  "The taboos...are the manner in which the relation between sex and love is maintained."

2016 June   https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/roger-simon/moral-narcissism-least-great-generation/      Referred to by Limbaugh or another conservative on radio, early May 2020     Moral Narcissism and the Least-Great Generation How the pre-boomers ruined everything by Roger L. Simon    I am of the generation that read The Communist Manifesto [history as class struggle] before we read the Constitution.  We overcame the Greatest Generation of World War II to become the commissars of the American zeitgeist, the arbiters of all things cultural.  The icons: John Lennon see 1971 in this time line, most subversive pop song, Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Gloria Steinem, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary 1969 criticized by Art Linkletter, 1962 LSD.  All our neo-Marxist declarations, recycled through hippiedom or not, were meaningless.  Forgotten is how the U.S. rebuilt Japan and Germany from the ruins of war, see in this time line 1948 Marshall Plan that saved western Europe from communism.  1979 Christopher Lasch published a now famous book The Culture of Narcissism.  1970s:  Rolfing, Hare Krishna, Buddhism.  Barack Obama was the apotheosis of this melding of lifestyle with political worldview, political correctness.  Narcissism is making us blind.       Moral narcissism has gained as religion has waned.  It is a pathology that underlies the whole liberal left ethic today and some of the right as well, what you claim to believe or say you believe—not what you do—makes you “good.”  What you say substitutes for what you do.  Consequences don't matter if your intentions are good.  Just parrot the received wisdom.  [It pushes Western progressive societies to push progressivism onto conservative cultures in Africa.  See in this time line 2015  Obianuju Ekeocha.]  It may be freedom to support any foolish, unexamined, self-aggrandizing belief you want, if that is your wish, but it is bad for your culture.

    Wikipedia:  Simon was liberal until the 1990s.  He doubted the innocent verdict of O.J. Simpson.  He disliked the racial politics of that case.     See also Turning Right at Hollywood and Vine:  The Perils of Coming Out Conservative in Tinseltown.

2016 June 24    Christine Wang  CNBC      Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan:  the U.K. vote, 52% to 48%, to leave the European Union ushers in a period that's even worse than the darkest days of October 1987, when the Dow went down by a record  23 percent.  P.M. David Cameron says he will be resigning.  Greenspan:  root of the "British problem is far more widespread...will "almost surely" lead to the Scottish National Party trying to "resurrect Scottish Independence."  The southern part of the euro zone is being funded by the northern part and the European Central Bank.  (Greece and other economies in the south have weak employment.)  The stagnation of real incomes doesn't have easy solutions.  "Our problem is fundamentally fiscal," he said, adding that this is true in the U.S. as well as "every major country in Europe."  The "developed countries are all aging very rapidly," which is leading to a higher ratio of government spending in the form of entitlements.  (Muslims in Europe have much higher birth rates.  By 2030, they will make up 8% of population, and are currently 7.5% in France due to former colonies of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.)        Other sources say that the popular vote in Britain was driven more by immigration (including Syrian refugees and Arabs fleeing ISIS) and unpredictable flows of people across borders, and the EU as a central government countermanding local traditions of production, even agriculture.

2018 July 10    Socialism in the USSR, Cuba, and Venezuela offers poverty, lack of freedom, special privileges for the elites, and protection for the criminals who pay off the elites.  Socialists in America claim that these failed socialist countries should not deter America from trying socialism.  A web site by Matt Palumbo, https://bongino.com/does-socialism-work-in-scandinavia-part-1/ , gives clarification.

 “I think we should look to countries like Denmark, like Sweden, and Norway and learn from what they have accomplished for their working people” said former socialist Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. And those countries offer much of what Bernie wants for America – free college, socialized medicine, paid maternity leave, among other generous welfare state benefits.     In response to Sanders, Denmark’s Prime Minister asked him to stop using the slur of calling his country “socialist.” And he is right. The definition of socialism is government ownership of the means of production – which isn’t the case in his country.     But while not explicitly socialist, the Scandinavian countries certainly lean in that direction, combining free market capitalism with high taxes and big government.

 Nima Sanandaji:  From 1870 through 1936, Sweden was the fastest growing economy in the world. But after 1975—when the Swedish state began to expand in earnest—Sweden’s economy noticeably slowed.

Many other details in this web site, parts 1 and 2, are interesting.  Scandinavian health care wouldn't work in the U.S., there are way too many fat people in the U.S. and no one is going to be allowed to force them to slim down.  Another consideration is the Scandinavian uniformity in the population, the low proportion of people who do not value education and uniformity of culture.  In the U.S., many welfare parents don't work but ignore the development of their children, let them sit in front of the T.V., and consider child rearing to be something for the schools to do.  Many poor communities will not call police to come investigate drug houses.  They shelter criminals.

2016 Aug 3  Repunit     see more at 1996 in this time line      John Engelbrecht concluded a long investigation of math:  when you use an algebra trick (that I learned when I was in middle school) to find the ratio of integers that produces a repeating decimal, like 3.013467013467013467... = 3013464/999999, very often the denominator of the ratio is all nines, or all threes or ones.  For a long time, that has sort of bothered me that nines, threes, and ones should show up so much, to the virtual exclusion of other numbers.  It didn't seem fair to other numbers.  But what I found was that all-ones denominators have a lot of prime factors, and various 0-and-1 numbers are building blocks that multiply out to all-ones numbers.  The most common prime factors of all-ones numbers, up to 42-digit all-ones numbers, are 11, 101,   3, 37, 41, 271, 9091, 7, 13, 239, 4649,   73, 137,   53, 79,   31, 2906161.   These pairs, or even the one triple, show up together in a reliable, periodic structure as factors of the all-one numbers.  I made use of the periodicity to factor all all-ones numbers through 28 digits, and also 30, 36, and 42 digits.     So, not only are the denominators of these ratios partial to all-9s, all-3s, and all-1s, but also a very limited set of primes are factors of these denominators.       www.javascripter.net/math/calculators/primefactorscalculator.htm is a great, 20-digit factoring program, and Ruby's arbitrary precision is key to doing factoring above 20 digits.

file on newGETTER, the new Ubuntu 16.04 powerful computer:  repeating decimal fraction resolved to division of integers puzzle of 9s verF.ods or .xls. 

    By Dec 2017, the spreadsheet of my work is up to verJ.  I found a name for the all-ones denominator, "repunit," for repeating ones.  This name was given in 1966.  Knowing the name, I can find lots of information on Internet, and I find that none of my work is original.  Whether or not others find the dominance of repunits in finding the ratios that give repeating decimals to be suspicious or bothersome, I don't know.  But I suspect that repunits are the denominators in other bases. 

I don't know if the "building block" nature of the factors of large repunits is unusual, but I suspect it is.  (One building block is 100001000010000100001 =    21401*25601*182521213001 .  This block is used to multiply 11111 to get the repunit with 24 ones.  Obviously, you can get very long repunits by multiplying 11111 by 100001000010000100001 or 1000010000100001000010000100001000010000100001, etc.  This is why the factors of repunits keep showing up every so often.)  A different kind of building block may be 91, 9901, 99990001, 90090991, 900099009991, and 999999000001. 

There is a fairly limited set of primes that is well suited to generating repunits by multiplying by each other.  The most common are  3     7    11    13    37    41  101  271.  One of these, 11, is itself the repunit with length 2.  By just taking certain pairs of these eight primes and multiplying, we get repunits with length 3, 4, and 5.  (3*37, 11*101, 41*271)  Six repunit still uses this set of eight, 1001*111 = 7*11*13*3*37.  Once we ask for seven repunit, we need bigger primes that are outside the set of eight, 239×4649.  When I chart these common prime factors, I see this.

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Not too much of a pattern.       

As I consider the suspiciousness of repunits dominating the resolution of repeating decimals, it seems to me even more exotic that there would be repeating decimals, like 7.093210932109321.  And this finally seems to be somewhat of a satisfaction.

Wolfram’s http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DecimalExpansion.html       I found this Wolfram site by searching Internet for 2906161.   

Clicking on one of the Wolfram page’s links is http://stdkmd.com/nrr/repunit/ which shows all repunit factorizations to 100 ones, and in fact way beyond that.       

http://stdkmd.com/nrr/repunit/repunitnote.htm  is interesting in that it references several repunit web pages at 1.4       

https://gmplib.org/~tege/repunit.html    has some narrative.       

        The currently known prime repunits have 2, 19, 23, 317, 1031.  These are probably prime: 49081, 86453, 109297, and 270343 digits.

repeating decimal fraction resolved to division of integers puzzle of 9s verJ.ods   in GETTER computer   Nov 29 2017

These repunits, long numbers made up of all ones, seem suspicious.  Why should repunits dominate the denominator

when we do this algebra trick to find the fraction that gives a repeating decimal?  It seems there is some bias.

Partial answer:  The key feature of the algebra trick is getting various quantities of digits in the denominator, and

often a lot of digits, like 20 to 40 digits.  There is a fairly limited set of primes that is well suited to generating repunits

by multiplying by each other.  These are  3     7    11    13    37    41  101  271.  (And others, see the spreadsheet above.)

One of these, 11, is itself the repunit with length 2.  By just taking certain pairs

of these eight primes and multiplying, we get repunits with length 3, 4, and 5.  (3*37, 11*101, 41*271) 

Six repunit still uses this set of eight, 1001*111 = 7*11*13*3*37. 

Once we ask for seven repunit, we need bigger primes that are outside the set of eight, 239×4649.

Another partial answer:  I think repunits in the denominator show up also in bases other than base-10.

Another partial answer:  While there is a bias to the use of repunits in the algebra trick, it seems even

more exotic that there would be repeating digits at all in integer divisions.

    To back this up with an example, by the algebra trick, 1.20406080305070902040608030507090...   (16 digits repeat: 2040608030507090)

equals  1 + the fraction 185,509,820,955,190 / 909,090,909,090,909. 

The algebra trick is done with the Ubuntu-software download Genius, which reduces the fraction as much as possible. 

When you put this into an appropriate calculator, it gives back the repeating decimal number. 

The funny thing is that these long numbers overload the mind and the example turns out as a dud. 

11002/9999 = 1.100310031003... = 11002/(3*3*1111)

3668/3333 = 1.10051005...  = 3668/(3*1111)

1223/1111 = 1.10081008... 

Not too much of a pattern.               

It shows that a very few prime factors, like 79, get used quite frequently to make up repunits.               

        (79 gets used every 13 repunits.)       

        (2906161 gets used every 15 repunits.)       

The only  prime factors of repunits that are plotted here are the ones I know about.               

It suggests that if I extended the AP42 table to bigger repunits, I would find ever bigger prime factors that are needed occasionally               

Wolfram’s http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DecimalExpansion.html    has this information, but I don’t follow the context.               

        But it seems I am not the first to notice the repetitions of prime factors in repunits, though this web site doesn’t bear the word repunit.       

    2020 July 31    https://goudryan.com/why-p/origin-of-the-primes/the-repunit-and-the-wave/  is interesting, I don't follow some of it.       Related to the goudryan web site is something I noticed in the last week, repunits that aren't prime can always be divided by 11, or 111, or 1111, or 11111 etc. to get, for example, 1111 / 11 = 101,    111,111 / 11 = 10101,   111,111 / 111 = 1001,    111,111,111 / 111 = 1001001   111,111,111,111 / 11 = 10101010101,      111,111,111,111 / 111= 1001001001,     111111111111 / 1111 = 100010001,     111111111111 / 111111 = 1000001.  These quotients or factors are what I have been calling "building blocks."  And many of these building blocks can be further factored.  The pattern certainly holds for even-digit repunits.  Most odd-digit repunits can be divided by factors that are not so clean cut as 11 or 111, and the few prime repunits can't be evenly divided at all.

2016 August 16   summary from CNN, and continuing from this timeline, 2014 November 24 

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, a black sheriff, has opinions.  After a black policeman shot a black man, Sylville Smith, who raised a pistol (loaded with bullets, it was later found) toward police, violence roiled Milwaukee this weekend.  The sheriff  often blames Democrats for creating "misery-inducing, divisive, exploitative and racist" urban policies.   He called protests that turned violent "black cultural dysfunction."  "A collapse of the social order where tribal behavior leads to reacting to circumstances instead of waiting for facts to emerge," Clarke wrote.      In a July interview with CNN's Don Lemon, the sheriff said, "A manifestation of a population with no hope, no stake in the American dream that could provide advancement and purpose and pride of self. They are the ones lied to, exploited by and ultimately manipulated by the Democrats who claim to care. They are victims of the left, but they are not without blame."     Referring to the three Baton Rouge police killed by a black man, Gavin Long of Kansas City, he said, "This anti-police rhetoric sweeping the country [Black Lives Matter] has turned out some hateful things inside of people that are now playing themselves out on the American police officer," he said.

July 7  Micah Xavier Johnson, a black Afghanistan vet, ambushed Dallas police keeping order at a protest against [alleged] police violence.  He killed five.  He was allied to the New Black Panther Party.  He wounded nine others.  “He said he was upset about the recent police shootings. The suspect said he was upset at white people. The suspect stated he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers.”

https://capitalresearch.org/article/blm-roots/      James Simpson, Trevor Loudon, Matthew Vadum   Sept 21 2016  "The Black Lives Matter movement (BLM) casts itself as a spontaneous uprising ... most dangerous face of a web of well-funded socialist/communist organizations that have been agitating against America for decades."    The War on Cops, Heather Mac Donald       with the "sympathy of President Obama, the Black Lives Matter crowd appears to be spoiling for just such an outcome" (anarchy, civil war)    

Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Communist Party USA, Democratic Socialists of America, and the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism    the radical billionaires’ donor consortium, Democracy Alliance   

Soros a “racial justice” funder, $33 million in one year to groups that organized unrest in Ferguson      CAIR joined with BLM...        Lenin:  “We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth. … We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us”      Harvard professor Derrick Bell devised Critical Race Theory

2016 Aug 21      https://pjmedia.com/parenting/tyler-o-neil/2016/08/21/real-life-victims-of-the-t..........-cult-n107182   Real-Life Victims of the T 'Cult'

BY TYLER O'NEIL AUG 21, 2016     “G was done to me, g was traumatizing to me.” "Tes......... made me even more dissociated than I already was,” she said.  "The more I asked people to call me special pronouns, the more I tried to change my body...the worse I felt."  "How willing people on the left are to act like inconvenient people don’t exist.”  "The Left accepts shutting down critical thought."        The American Conservative’s Rod Dreher shared this excerpt from a comment on one of his articles (emphasis his):  "There are NO doctors who will do anything but agree. There is NO science behind this."  "This is the cool thing, and the school is falling all over itself to be supportive, and to encourage an 'ally' culture."  "Scientists are terrified to speak out because of the general atmosphere in academia."     See also Jan 2 2020 and Mar 12 2021.

2016 Sept   IEEE Spectrum   Advanced logic-chip manufacturing companies, which operate semiconductor fabrication plants (fabs), numbered 19 in 2001 but it is now down to four:  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Intel, GlobalFoundries (home for former AMD [since 2008] and IBM fabs), and Samsung.  Anandtech is a source of info, http://www.anandtech.com/show/11404/amd-updates-gpu-architecture-roadmap-after-navi-comes-next-gen     and     http://www.anandtech.com/show/10097/euv-lithography-makes-good-progress-still-not-ready-for-prime-time which shows extreme technology to generate extreme UV light for photolithography.   The 2015 International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors projects that 2021 is the end of transistor shrinkage, further progress on Moore's Law will be stacked layers of transistors.

2016  Spain's organized crime operates houses of prostitution using African and Eastern European women.  The women are told that their families will be killed (like Brazil or Nigeria) if they don't comply.  39% of Spanish men go to these places.  Sex slavery is widespread in Spain, Portugal, England, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany.  German men take charted bus trips to Amsterdam.  Movie, Not My Life.     Lifesite News:  Netherlands leads:  legalized drugs, prostitution, euthanasia, polygamy. 

2016 Sept 1  Pornography ‘Is a Public Hazard of Unprecedented Seriousness’ Us Weekly Sep 1 2016  https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/pamela-anderson-warns-op-ed-035409384.html   "Take the Pledge: No More Indulging Porn."     Pamela Anderson is taking a stance. The former Playboy model, 49, teamed up with Rabbi Schmuley Boteach to pen an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal... “How many families will suffer? How many marriages will implode? How many talented men will scrap their most important relationships and careers for a brief onanistic thrill?”  The opinion piece comes just days after disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner was caught in yet another sexting scandal. His wife, Huma Abedin — who works on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign and with whom he shares a young son — then announced that she was separating from her husband of six years.

"We have often warned about pornography's corrosive effects on a man's soul and on his ability to function as husband and, by extension, as father."  "A healthy, loving sexual experience demands both intimacy and respect, both of which pornography addiction destroys."

http://apa.org/monitor/2014/04/pornography.aspx  American Psychological Association    "the man may watch more porn to fill the void. Some women may feel threatened...They often report feeling less attractive, like they could never measure up to the X-rated actresses. The result: even less sex, even more porn and a relationship that continues to falter."

Brain studies show a similarity in brain response for pornography and alcohol.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/02/entertainment/pamela-anderson-porn/index.html      Cindy Gallop, writing for The Independent, complains against Pamela Anderson:  "many things are laid at porn's door, that should be laid instead at society's.  The issue isn't porn. The issue is the complete absence in our society of an open, healthy, honest conversation around sex in the real world."             See 2016 April 11

about 2016   Elon Musk (Tesla) is of the humanist mind when he insists that Mars be a human  reservoir in case of an extinction event on Earth.  He wants to send a million people to live in Mars City, flying 100 at a time on the Starship rocket, 1000 flights a year.  Artist conceptions show pressurized surface structures joined by tubes, but no radiation shielding is obvious.  Galactic cosmic rays are more intense than what the Sun pumps out.  Mars City is to be self-sustaining.  "A very hard and dangerous and difficult thing.  Good chance you will die."  In 2021, he says there will be governance that is different from on Earth.  "No Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over" Mars.  Satellites around Mars will provide an internet.    

2016 Sept 4-5  Coast to Coast AM radio program is all informative and non-bizarre tonight.

Dr. Hugh Ross author of Improbable Planet.  He is orthodox Christian but an old-earth advocate, in fact he sees our Sun as a third-generation star.  His book shows God's theme for the fine-tuned universe is redemption.  He says the Earth has hundreds of times more uranium and thorium than the other planets in the Solar System, and those two elements are needed for plate tectonics.  He describes angels as the other intelligent life in the universe and says they are not tied into space and time as people are.  Ross talks about hundreds of millions of years for advanced life to develop, yet says microevolution is valid but macroevolution didn't happen.      Some of John Engelbrecht's views coincide with those of Hugh Ross.  John sees the elements other than hydrogen and helium can be explained by the naturalistic theory of nucleosynthesis in supernovas, but there is no place in the Genesis creation for nucleosynthesis, which may merely be because the Spirit didn't want to drag out the creation account.   Find on this page or in this Google site similar paragraphs using search term "evoxcross."

2016 Sept 9  At an LGBT event in NYC, pres. candidate Clinton:  "you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic – Islamophobic – you name it.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basket_of_deplorables#Speech    The day before, "the deplorables—you know, the racists and the haters, and the people who are drawn because they think somehow he's going to restore an America that no longer exists."    Some conservatives go on to call themselves deplorables, mocking Clinton and disputing the passing of traditional values.

2016 Sept 16  A MainStGrowth.com economist speaks to the Jim Bohanan radio program, America in the Morning, on an anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse that precipitated the 2008 global financial crisis.  The economist says that many economic leaders at the time of the collapse expected Fanny Mae would get restructured to curtail the widespread financing of home loans to people who can't afford to make payments.  But this most common-sense measure has scarcely happened.     The recovery has been "tepid" and the geographical locations of recovery are in only 20 counties, mainly Silicon Valley, Austin, D.C., and New York.    Aside from the radio program, this is partly why Donald Trump is getting so much support for president, people see our establishment Democrat and Republican politicians unable to restrain themselves.  They are not doing what needs to be done.

2016 Sept New Oxford Review p. 5 Timothy Lusch  "Iran's motives...are quite clear...Shia clerics...teach the coming of the Mahdi...lead Muslims to unity and non-Muslims to destruction.  The Iranian ayathollahs' desire for enhanced nuclear capability must be understood...destroy Israel and bring death to America...Acknowledgement of these facts...by both Democrats and Republicans...until the coming of President Obama...Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and a weak Western monitoring regime...is nothing more than the handing of the sword to...clerics to lop off the heads of all non-Shia."   See 2016 Sept. 18

    p. 7 Anne Barbeau Gardiner  "radical-feminist theologians of our day vilify the Church....Women were despised...before Christ and how despised...they are wherever the Catholic faith...is lost...antiquity [before Christ] agreed...a woman was only physical matter.  In our own day, the new paganism is again treating woman with contempt as mere flesh.  Why don't feminist theologians object?...[Islam agrees with this modern paganism]...'Out of 99 women, one is in paradise and the rest are in hell'...contraception, abortion, and pornography feed this sordid paganism." 

    p. 8 Stuart Lyons  "Freudianism remains an absolute bedrock of our culture...the consensus accepts the worst of Freud's teachings:  'sexual repression is bad'...the intelligentsia swallowed his fraud whole and then passed it on to those they teach."  See 1927 in this time line.

    p. 15 Frank Salter  "the Left's social science is as corrupt as its philosophy...progressive dominance within the Western academy...at the cost of the dumbing-down of the humanities and social sciences."

2016 Sept. 18   http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-new-cold-war-nuclear-weapons-david-martin/               The New Cold War on 60 Minutes.

Drills on USS Kentucky in the Pacific, viewing the dive controls.  Multiple keys -- including one that unlocks the missile tubes which take up approximately one-third of the ship -- have to be brought out from different safes...No one person can make a launch happen...the safe where that key is kept...We get that combination with the launch order. That is my way of knowing that the president has ordered the launch, is when the combination he gives me opens that safe.

Head of the U.S. Strategic Command, Admiral Haney at U.S. Strategic Command headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska.  Who in the U.S. government has the authority to order the use of nuclear weapons?  Only the president of the United States.         Global Operations Center, three stories underground [and quite vulnerable to nuclear attack]. If a missile were launched against the United States the warning would be received here and that [red impact] clock would start ticking down.      Nuclear Decision Handbook also known as the Black Book...It’s in the safe down here, sir.  An identical copy of the black book is in the briefcase which follows the president wherever he goes...I can speak to the president directly from this microphone...the president has minutes, seven, eight, nine minutes.  [The leave clock is the time to leave the building and board the Looking Glass Airborne Command Post.]    

So what’s changed since the Cold War if we’re still on this hair-trigger alert?  William Perry: Fundamentally nothing has changed.  The number of weapons [over 1000] are sufficient to destroy, obliterate all of civilization.

Last year, the Kentucky actually fired an unarmed missile in a test flight which lit up the California sky [at reentry to the atmosphere] and caused a brief UFO scare. 

       Blog:  Why Obama would allow 60 Minutes access to such sensitive facilities and information...I predict the Democrat line of attack will now focus on scaring voters into not wanting to put Donald Trump in charge of our country's nuclear weapons...which is riskier, electing Donald Trump or telling our enemies our procedures?          John Engelbrecht thinks nothing secret was revealed, but 60 Minutes was given access to make Iran think twice about blowing up Tel Aviv.  See 2016 Sept New Oxford Review p. 5

2016 Sept 27   "Putin and Assad Left Obama In The Dust Of The Aleppo End Game"   Daniel Williams http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-williams2/putin-and-assad-left-obam_b_12212464.html

The Russian tactics in Aleppo [are like] Moscow’s 1999-2000 siege of Grozny, Chechnya. The siege flushed out civilians and guerrillas; anyone left in the city was dead meat. That’s what’s going on in Aleppo.

Washington’s haphazard policy has left Secretary of State John Kerry...down on his knees begging Russia to stop.  In Russia’s view, ceasefires are for losers.

Nobel Peace Prize winners aren’t supposed to shout, "bombs away."  [Obama is likely to] give way to Assad as the lesser of many evils.

New York Post Oct. 4:  “Overheard at the Pentagon: ‘Right now, we are Putin’s prison bitch,’” tweeted Daily Beast correspondent Nancy Youssef.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9145957/The-sweet-and-deadly-sides-of-President-Assad.html

Bashar al-Assad was never intended for the dictatorship.  That role was reserved for his...outwardly vicious brother who, however, was killed in a car accident caused by his typically intemperate driving.  Bashar was not like this...anxious to succeed in his own profession, ophthalmology.  Once he returned home from Britain, the logic of the situation was all against him. His father was a brutal, vicious mass murderer.  (1982 Hafez al-Assad brings tanks, torture, and mass killings against resistance in Hama for 27 days.  Up to 25000 die, mostly non-combatants.)  If Bashar had been a strong and brave man, he would have refused the poisoned chalice; but, having accepted it, he had to drain it to the dregs.

2016 Oct.    http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/10/france-secular-state-161003061405621.html    a growing pattern among French politicians and statesmen whose recent rhetoric places emphasis on the French identity's Christian roots.    Sarkozy, presidential candidate for 2017, portrayed France as "a country of churches, of cathedrals, monasteries and crosses, a Christian country in its culture and customs."  [This despite the French Revolution]   Gestures of solidarity by French politicians towards French Muslim citizens, whose faith is constantly vilified, are non-existent...tirades against Muslim women's veil such as the one made by Laurence Rossignol, France's minister for women's rights.     In the long term, such a stigma endured by Muslim citizens would force them into seclusion, which could entail grave consequences for France's social cohesion because isolation helps religious extremisms taking roots and develop.

Compare to the many Islamic terrorist cases since 1982 at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_France

(2015 and after, up to Sept 9 2016)

17 killed at Charlie Hebdo office Jan 2015

130 killed at Bataclan, stadium, bar, restaurants Nov 2015    Paris attacks 2015

86 killed in Nice   squashed by catering truck July 2016

13 other stabbings etc., not all fatal, one beheading

2016 Oct 9  The Washington Post  Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, writing about Hillary Clinton's alternative, Donald Trump, and the affronts to Christians in Trump's past. 

In the late 1970s, Democrats became the party of abortion rights and cheerleading for a moral revolution that would eventually include same-sex marriage. Republicans defended the sanctity of human life and the normativity of the natural two-parent family headed by a father and a mother. An entire platform of policies and positions drove a wedge between the two parties and evangelicals became a vital constituency of voters for the Republican Party. 

The days of sitting on the political sidelines were over. Evangelicals learned to see presidential elections in light of nominations to the Supreme Court and other manifestations of presidential power.

2016  From 2003...https://juicyecumenism.com/2021/01/21/why-united-methodist-church-splitting/           Methodist Bishop Karen Oliveto is in open defiance of our longstanding church law saying that clergy cannot be “self-avowed practicing homosexuals.”  Oliveto had taught Acts 16, Paul casting a demon out of a slave girl. According to Oliveto, getting to be free of the demon did nothing to make the girl’s life better and “probably made it worse.”    We should not “create an idol out of” Jesus Christ.  Jesus actually had such sins as “his bigotries and prejudices” and that as an adult, he needed to experience “conversion.”  Oliveto should be removed from being a bishop. But the denominational leaders support her.             Our breakdown of doctrine has led to a breakdown of discipline [, a foundational principle for Methodists]. There is militant, rule-breaking liberalism.   See 2020 Jan, CNN

2016  America's Four Gods     Froese and Bader  at Baylor

The Authoritative God, who is both engaged in the world and judgmental; The Benevolent God, who loves and helps us in spite of our failings; The Critical God, who catalogs our sins but does not punish them (at least not in this life); and The Distant God, who stands apart from the world He created.  Account for 95% of U.S. population.

U.S. atheists only 5%

Do these different Gods matter?  Yes. A person’s God is a direct reflection of his level of moral absolutism, his view of science, his understanding of economic justice, his concept of evil, and how he thinks we should respond to it. And these powerful relationships exist regardless of where a person lives, what he makes, schooling, or church.

Simply put, America’s four Gods lie at the heart of our moral, cultural, and political disagreements.  The nation’s greatest rifts are not between atheists and believers, or between those of different faiths. What divides us is how we conceive of God.  America’s most intractable social and political divisions arise from religious convictions held deeply but rarely discussed.  JE:  case in point, Roman Catholic Nancy Pelosi.

http://www.thearda.com/whoisyourGod/thegodtest/    John is rated as viewing God as being critical.   

2016 Oct.  New Oxford Review p. 15  Frederick Marks "A person who is unchaste, who calls me a homophobe, who seeks to deprive me of my religious liberty, and who parades his sin in front of me as I stroll down Fifth Avenue is anything but a friend...Discrimination that is based on the pride taken by an individual in mortal sin is not only right, it is mandatory for everyone who wishes to be taken seriously as a Christian, Jew, or Muslim...those among us who sin openly...are to be warned, and if they refuse to heed our warning, they are to be shunned.  (Mt. 18:15-17)."

2016 Nov  https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/climate-of-fear-in-the-vatican-is-very-real     "A consistent pattern of...real fear among faithful Church servants [in the Vatican]. We have never encountered this before.  Many were afraid of being removed...or of encountering severe public or private reprimands... They are also fearful and anxious about the great damage being done to the Church and being helpless to stop it." 

    Congregation for Divine Worship..."membership was recently gutted, with numerous progressives appointed as replacements...This has effectively left the orthodox Cardinal Sarah as a neutralized, silenced figurehead."  [JE's comment:  Cardinal Sarah is protected from banishment from his Vatican City office by his being a Black African, who survived the Marxist tyrant of Guinea.]  "The bishops being appointed now are generally tending to be of the most radically liberal views, such as now [very liberal] Cardinals Cupich..."  "Pope Francis has praised the 1960s German moral theologian Bernard Häring, one of the most prominent dissenters from Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae, for his new morality, which the pope said helped 'moral theology to flourish.'”     In Rome universities, "professors’ lectures screened to ensure they fall in line."    "War of the 'The Spirit of Vatican II' progressives against the orthodox Catholics."

    Bishop Schneider:  “We live in a climate of threats."  He was born in the Soviet Union, so he should know. His parents were sent by Stalin to Gulags after the World War II. “A very clear parallel to what is happening now in the reactions to the dubia of the Cardinals.”     Whatever happened to, “Who am I to judge?”    Bishop Schneider shows up at https://sites.google.com/site/solderandcircuits/home/more-circuit-design/physics-timeline as he counts four crises of the Roman Catholic Church.

    Amoris laetitia regarding whether Chapter 8 of the exhortation had changed the Catholic Church's sacramental discipline concerning access to the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist for divorced couples who are in grave sin, who have civilly remarried...            Letter to Pope Francis from six cardinals in Nov 2016, expressing doubt [dubia];  statements in the Vatican's Amoris laetitia that are not merely divergent from, but are actually contrary to long-established Catholic practice, the "Tradition of the Church."  What is sin in Poland is good in Germany.  Christian communities are being divided...we ask humbly and respectfully for an Audience.  "We are informing the entire people of God about our initiative."  The five doubts are in http://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/full-text-and-explanatory-notes-of-cardinals-questions-on-amoris-laetitia.

    See in this time line  2017 Dec New Oxford Review p. 19.

    New Oxford Review April 2017 p. 7   Cardinal John Henry Newman in about 1848:  writing about liberals in Catholicism, they "throw out its highest and most momentous disclosures into the background, you will deny its principles, explain away its doctrines."      Letter to editor:  "No pope in history ever did what Francis has done:  Set aside Jesus' clear teaching."    "Taking their cues from Rome, liberal prelates around the world are falling over each other to put into effect Francis' fast-track return of divorced-and-remarried Catholics to the Communion table."   "Don't expect them to stop here." 

    https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2016/12/an-open-letter-to-pope-francis protests that Catholics are being allowed by priests to continue in sin, moral weakness is excused, conscience elevated, steps toward acceptance of divorce, no need to believe that many human beings will end in hell.

     Isaiah 28, 29    Hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem [Vatican City]...These people [claim to] come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.  Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men.            The same criticism applies to many Protestants.    

2016 Oct 22  Malware targeted devices with default passwords by Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff     The day our fridges...finally turned on us. Friday's massive Internet outage, which affected sites including Twitter and Reddit, was caused by hacked "Internet of Things" devices including DVRs, webcams, and smart fridges, according to the Krebs on Security blog. Experts say malware called "Mirai" targeted poorly protected devices. Allison Nixon, a researcher at security firm Flashpoint, says Friday's attack involved components built by Chinese firm XiongMai Technologies—and it is "remarkable that virtually an entire company's product line has just been turned into a botnet that is now attacking the United States."  To launch a distributed denial of service attack and overwhelm its targets with traffic, the Mirai code infected devices that still had the factory-default password, Popular Mechanics reports.

got down to 2016 Oct 22, searching for excessive quoting

2016 Oct   Monroe at the University of Maryland claims to have created the world's first discrete time crystal.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_crystal      They talk about the time crystal as being a fifth phase of matter, the first four being solid, liquid, gas, and plasma.  Being a quantum phenomenon, this is far outside what people can understand.  In 2019, Google's Sycamore processor is claimed to do something amazing, quantum supremacy.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycamore_processor  

2016 Nov  New Oxford Review p. 40 by Timothy Lusch   Catholic leaders persist in excusing Islamic violence in the West, and other excusers are national leaders Obama, France's Hollande, and Germany's Merkel.  "The hierarchy has studiously avoided the elephant in the room."  Pope Francis can't bring himself to criticize Islamic violence unless he condemns Catholic violence (maybe he is thinking Italian "Catholics" who are violent in Italy).  Some Catholics insist that Islam is peace, compassion, and mercy, but Lusch suggests that few Muslims live that way.  Cardinal Burke, on the other hand, realistically says, "I don't believe it's true that we're all worshiping the same God ... Sharia must dominate every man eventually.  And it's not a law that's founded on love ... they believe most deeply that ... they govern the world."  Pope Francis:  not "right to identfy Islam with violence.  That is not right."  But Lusch says it is true.  Just read Qur'an.  Revenge is written into Qur'an.  The Catholic Church is threatened by Islamic supremacism.  

2016 Nov 10   Sen. Bernie Sanders, socialist, after Donald Trump's election:  we must break the Democratic Party loose from its corporate establishment ties and, once again, become a grass-roots party of working people, the elderly and the poor.  "We must open the doors of the party to welcome in the idealism and energy of young people, and all Americans who are fighting for economic, social, racial and environmental justice.  We must have the courage to take on the greed and power of Wall Street, the drug companies, the insurance companies and the fossil fuel industry.”      John Engelbrecht notes that these companies provide a lot of employment for "working people," how much unemployment would result from fighting their "greed and power"?  Also, do working people sit back and let the welfare poor keep getting welfare?  Can a coalition include both working people and welfare poor?      Sander's comments are more about how the Hillary Clinton machine and the Democrat elite held Sanders back during the Democrat primaries so that Clinton was assured of nomination at the Democrat convention from July 25 to 28.  Even the mainstream media made it clear that Clinton did fund raising among the 1%, at the Hamptons, for instance.      https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/us/politics/dnc-emails-sanders-clinton.html?_r=0  The DNC publicly insisted that it was neutral but in June admitted that Russian hackers had penetrated its computer system.  DNC chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and others favored Clinton over Sanders — a claim the senator made repeatedly during the primaries, and this claim was backed up by Wikileaks' posting of 20,000 DNC e-mails on July 22, just before the Democrat convention.    See the link in this timeline, 2017 Nov 6.

New Oxford Review Ap 2020 page 35 "The 2016 election devastated Ivy League English departments."

2016 Dec 16  Clifford Staples writes in CrisisMagazine.com "Abolishing the Moral Order."  Philosophical materialism inspires neuroscience, neuropsychology.  In New Oxford Review Dec 2019 p. 18, "materialism would mean the end of our belief in free will...law and the moral order of society.  Without free will, we are...ants in an ant colony."  Materialists aim for "free[dom] from all constraints other than those" materialists choose.  Auguste Comte, Ludwig Feuerbach [these two are not much read anymore], Karl Marx, Ludwig Feuerbach, Nietzsche.  "A society with no trace of God."  "In our post-Enlightenment phase (postmodernists), man claims the right to be free even from reason...if he is prevented from getting [whatever], he then wants power so he can go back to getting what he wants."  Modern fictions:  social justice (Black Lives Matter), diversity, intersectionality, white privilege, gender fluidity (trans)...cooked up in graduate seminars.  "Sociology...has become little more than propaganda on behalf of atheist humanism and left-wing utopianism," for 50 years.  Since 1965, the Sexual Revolution.  "Once you abandon the pursuit of truth (postmodernists), the pursuit of power is all you have left."   "The social revolutionary assumes for himself the...obligation to fix what is broken in man and society;  all he needs is the power to do it." 

    The Day is Now Far Spent Roman Catholic Cardinal Robert Sarah a Black African from sub-Sahara Guinea in conversation with French Nicolas Diat Ignatius Press 2019 page 163   "Gender ideology puts societies into chaotic situations."  Some Western governments now use "parent 1" and "parent 2," not father and mother.  This goes against Genesis chapter 1, "male and female He created them."  "Do you not know how necessary a father and mother are?"  "The last decades of the twentieth century have seen a visceral hatred of the family."  Children want to "be loved by a father and mother who love each other."

2016 Dec  Cuba's Fidel Castro, who defied US for 50 years, dies at 90   Associated Press

Castro's reign over the island-nation 90 miles from Florida was marked by the U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.  Castro survived a crippling U.S. trade embargo as well as dozens to hundreds of assassination plots.  For decades, the socialist supported revolutionaries from Latin America to Africa even as Western-style democracy swept the globe and other communist regimes in China and Vietnam embraced capitalism, leaving this island of 11 million people an economically crippled Marxist curiosity.  The news cheered the community of Cuban exiles in Florida who had fled Castro's government.  Upon Castro's revolution in 1959, members of the old Batista government went before summary courts, and at least 582 were shot by firing squads over two years.  Among reforms were expulsion of American gangsters and the closure of their casinos.  Neighborhood "revolutionary defense committees" kept an eye on everyone.  After 2006, brother Raul slowly enacted sweeping changes to the Marxist system.

2016 Dec 5  http://www.mcclatchydc.com/opinion/article118948938.html    Mike Abrams is former chairman of the Dade Democratic Party in Miami.  Democrats have learned nothing in defeat

Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Minority Leader Charles Schumer decided that Rep. Keith Ellison [a Muslim] should be the new national chairman...The chairperson of the Democratic National Committee must be a full-time job, and it requires a different skill set then those of a congressman.  Ellison praised Louis Farrakhan in the 1990s.

Obama ...ignored the [Democrat] party during his presidency...Katz begged the president’s people to engage in party building. Instead, they started a group called Organizing for America. OFA was to organize Obama’s activists around the president’s agenda. So instead of institutionalizing into the Democratic Party his new cohort of brilliant, idealistic activists, the president directed them to OFA.

2016 Dec 21  https://baptistnews.com/article/virgin-birth-debate-interrupts-regular-war-on-christmas-program/#.X64QifZrxhE   Albert Mohler said attacks on the Virgin Birth became popular in the aftermath of the Enlightenment in the form of attempts “to harmonize the anti-supernaturalism of the modern mind with the church’s historic teaching about Christ.”  “The great question of liberal theology has been to invent a Jesus who was stripped of all supernatural power, deity, status and authority,” Mohler said. “And in order to do that they have to begin by denying what the Bible so clearly teaches in terms of the Virgin Birth.”  See this time line, 1953 Fr. Brown, 1962 Vatican II

2016 December 22  MIT Technology Review    Ukraine continues to suffer at the hands of pro-Russia separatists.  Russian hackers, Fancy Bear, have interfered with power generation in Kiev twice and may have tracked Ukraine mobile artillery.  Fancy Bear is thought to be the Democratic National Committee e-mail servers' hacker in 2016.

2016  Victor Davis Hanson  conservative Christian, Hoover Institution at Stanford and Hillsdale College, writes a lot about the closing of the academic mind, hypocritical progressives.  Search Internet for 'progressives are naturally hostile.'  Self-appointed censors.  Bigots.  White liberals can't recognize their own irrationality.  Progressives take any action without apology because their view of their noble outcome is worth any tactic.

2017  Tom Nash, Catholic, says infant baptism is a first step of relationship to Jesus.  He says "grace-filled human works help us to grow in holiness and attain eternal life."  JE sees that many Catholics seek perfection.  This is not what evangelicals should be after.

2017 Jan 11  https://nypost.com/2017/01/11/why-liberal-elites-are-so-resentful-of-middle-america/       liberal coastal elites are so resentful of middle America: It’s because the supposed rubes and rednecks...They don’t aspire to be like their self-appointed betters.  Some Americans just don’t need [more than] a 1,500-square-foot house, watch football and go to church on Sunday. They don’t want to leave their hometowns to come to Silicon Valley or Washington, DC, or Manhattan.  Ned Resinkoff was...rattled that his plumber may have voted for Donald Trump...He “couldn’t shake the sense of potential danger.”  Melinda Byerley [Silicon Valley] said...Middle America needs to realize “no educated person wants to live in a _____ with stupid people,” which is why she said more big corporations don’t move to the Heartland: “Those towns have nothing going for them,” with “no infrastructure, just a few bars and a terrible school system.”        Bruce Haynes...we always suspected that these people felt this way, but now they are not even hiding it...“If you don’t engage in the things I care about, or desire the things I desire, there is something wrong with you.” 

Look at related items earlier and later, Dec 21 to Feb 3.

2017 Jan 22  AP   Mass. Congressman Joe Kennedy says Democrats should listen to the economic worries of Democrat voters who bolted the party in November [to vote for D. Trump and Republicans in Congress].  "Many voters that had traditionally come back home to the Democratic Party didn't," Kennedy told The Associated Press.  "We have to do a better job addressing the economic needs of working class and middle class voters."  "If you're just out there screaming and yelling..."

2017 to 2023  Progressives (here, represented by Unitarian-Universalists) speak frankly about their disbelief in sin, and how that sometimes is a problem.  But they sometimes pause to reconsider.  Are UUs in as much trouble as it sounds like?  (But most Christian denominations are down in attendance.)

I have to search in their writing for this:  humanity can approach perfection (one of Woodrow Wilson's hopes, the "perfected beehive," 1912 in this time line).   I continue to think in terms of progressives being confident that humanity needs to advance toward perfection, which would make Jesus' forgiveness unnecessary.  The frankness of these writers, denying the worthiness of thinking about people sinning and what to do about it, is striking.  Some of their writing is copyrighted, so my excerpts from their words are part of my critical review. 

https://www.uuca.org/worship-post/do-unitarian-universalists-believe-in-sin/  

YouTube  Rev. Taryn Straus    Do UU's believe in sin?  Speaking at Atlanta.  "Seek the truth in love."  "Making heaven or hell right here on Earth, this is our work."  "When we cast out original sin and the redemptive death of Jesus from our theology, did we also relinquish any chance at our own redemption?"  [Be careful with your words, "our own" makes it sound like it is something you bring about.]  "We need to embrace a humanist theology of sin."  We consider adding an eighth principle to our seven UU principles [six in 1985]:  "Affirm our journey to spiritual wholeness by working toward building a diverse, multicultural, beloved community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions."  [JE:  a claim to wholeness, but cutting off what the Bible talks about.]

Can it be OK for UUs to call themselves sinners, not against God but against each other?  [JE:  "not against God," why say that?  Sin against God is the leading sin!]  Someone trying to get it right but failing.  Channing's 1819 sermon (excerpted following) declaring the love of God, not damnation, rejecting the atonement of Jesus on the cross for all humanity.  The center of people's lives is their own moral compass.  [The call from the Enlightenment, make way for each individual to be tolerated no matter how strange his demand.]

William Ellery Channing 1819 sermon at First Unitarian Church, Baltimore (or The First Independent Church of Baltimore on May 5, 1819)

...fears and anxieties...believing that they are grounded in part on mistake, I have thought it my duty to lay before you...some of the distinguishing opinions [of Unitarians]...God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.     Whatever [Jesus] taught...we regard as of divine authority, and profess to make the rule of our lives.      We are particularly accused of making an unwarrantable use of reason in the interpretation of Scripture.  We are said to exalt reason above revelation.     [The Bible] nowhere affects the precision of science.     Without these principles of interpretation...we cannot defend the divine authority of the Scriptures.    How can the Protestant escape from transubstantiation, a doctrine most clearly taught us [and taken literally by Catholics], if the submission of reason, now contended for, be a duty? 

We object to the doctrine of the Trinity...different wills [of the three]...sustaining different relations; and if these things do not imply and constitute three minds or beings, we are utterly at a loss to know how three minds or beings are to be formed.      According to [trinitarianism], Jesus Christ, instead of being one mind, one conscious intelligent principle, whom we can understand, consists of two souls, two minds, the one divine and the other human.   

...our belief...that there is one God, and that Jesus Christ is a being distinct from, and inferior to, God.      He created us for good and holy purposes.  [This is decades before Darwin and evolution.]     We venerate not the loftiness of God’s throne, but the equity and goodness in which it is established.      [God's justice] defers punishment, and suffers long [that much is true to the Old Testament], that the sinner may return to his duty, but leaves the impenitent and unyielding, to the fearful retribution threatened in God’s Word.      We look upon this world as a place of education, in which he is training men by prosperity and adversity...by motives to duty and temptations to sin...for union with himself, and for a sublime and ever-growing virtue in heaven.  [JE:  ever-growing in Heaven?  What happens in Heaven is worship, not growth, and if unending worship sounds boring, there is a deficit of understanding of what Heaven is, because what people call worship in earthly churches is far inferior to the worship of God in Heaven.]

We object...to that system [named Orthodoxy, probably he means five-point (TULIP) Calvinism where T means total depravity;  Wikipedia says this is not an absence of any goodness but is instead that people's intentions and actions are corrupted by sin], which is now industriously propagated through our country...it teaches, that God brings us into life wholly depraved.  [If true, for God] to give existence [to any child] under this condition would [be] unspeakable cruelty.

God selects from this corrupt mass a number to be saved.  [This confirms the suspicion that he is criticizing Calvinism.]       These proffers of forgiveness...to beings born under a blighting curse, fill our minds with a horror.   [The] many positive declarations of God’s universal kindness and perfect equity [counteract this cruel conception of God].     [It] shocks the fundamental principles of morality, and by exhibiting a severe and partial Deity...forms a...servile religion.     We [Unitarians] see a lovely image of [Divine perfections] in Jesus Christ.

[We see] the unity of Jesus, and his inferiority to God.    We believe, that [Jesus] was sent by the Father to effect a moral...deliverance of mankind; that is, to rescue men from sin and its consequences, and to bring them to a state of everlasting purity and happiness...promises of pardon to the penitent [is pardon the same as forgiveness?  JE doesn't think so, see https://thecontentauthority.com/blog/forgiveness-vs-pardon.  But Channing mentions forgiveness in his next paragraph, and also uses both pardon and forgiveness, though in the context of religion that Unitarians disagree with.]    [Jesus' mediation] guides us to perfection.  [There it is, finally, but does Channing mean perfection now or in Heaven after forgiveness?]    [Jesus] judging the world.  [Interesting!]    

[The Calvinist] doctrine [of the atoning death of Christ, to fulfill the Old Testament requirement of a blood sacrifice] seems to carry on its front strong marks of absurdity.     Not ONE WORD of this description [atonement] can we find in the Scriptures; not a text, which even hints at these strange doctrines. They are altogether, we believe, the fictions of theologians.    God cannot, in any sense, be a sufferer.       The sins of [mankind are the sins of] frail and feeble men [as if God should pity us].      Whilst we gratefully acknowledge, that he came to rescue us from punishment, we believe, that he was sent on a still nobler errand, namely, to deliver us from sin itself, and to form us to a sublime and heavenly virtue. We regard him as a Saviour, chiefly as he is the light, physician, and guide of the dark, diseased, and wandering mind.     Restoration of the soul to purity.  [Later, "understands God by being like him."]     [We] value the Gospel chiefly as it abounds in effectual aids, motives, excitements to a generous and divine virtue.     [The best religion is for] purifying the mind, of changing it into the likeness of his celestial excellence.   The highest object of Christ’s mission...is the recovery of men to virtue, or holiness.     We believe that all virtue has its foundation in the moral nature of man, that is, in conscience.    We object, strongly, to the idea of many Christians respecting man’s impotence and God’s irresistible [he again brings up Calvinism] agency on the heart, believing that they subvert our responsibility...that they make men machines.

If religion be the shipwreck of understanding [as those Calvinists practice their religion], we cannot keep too far from it...We cannot sacrifice our reason to the reputation of zeal. 

We lay no stress on strong excitements.  [This alludes to the Second Great Awakening, about 1800, which reached out to the unchurched, the less wealthy and less educated.  Hellfire and damnation preaching gave rise to the area being called the Burned-over district in western New York State.  Dozens of new denominations.  Wikipedia.  Channing:  "When we observe a fervor...in men whose general character expresses little refinement and elevation, and whose piety seems at war with reason, we pay it little respect."]     We esteem him, and him only a pious man, who practically conforms to God’s moral perfections [list of four things that sound like works rather than faith.  If there is a strain of Latter Day Saints here (Channing:  "Texts of Scripture may come to them as from Heaven"), know that The Book of Mormon was published later, 1830.]

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https://davidcycleback.substack.com/p/how-unitarian-universalism-is-in

The True Believers: UU is in Danger of Becoming Just Another Church    David Cycleback    Aug 2, 2023

Eric Hoffer predicted the current state of affairs

My late mother...was a...politically left rabble-rouser, she joined the local Unitarian Universalist congregation after reading UU’s Principles and learning that it accepted atheists...viewpoint diversity and freedom of belief. 

She quit her congregation and Unitarian Universalism in 2019 after seeing the increasing intolerance, dogmatism, and authoritarianism in the national Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). Those were things UUs were supposed to stand up against...appalled at the censorship and...punished for expressing unapproved opinions. She explained, “UU is no longer UU. It has become like other religions. I don’t like how the UUA tries to control what are supposed to be independent congregations, and I don’t go for dogma. UU has also become mean.” [JE:  When people ignore God, do they really become mean?  Sure they do, that is sinfull man.  Read about that all through the Bible, if you dare.] She compared the UUA’s new Robin DiAngelo-inspired ideology [white guilt] to Calvinism.  

Lifelong UU Chris Brimmer said in his farewell ‘Why I Resigned’ sermon [see below, 2022]: “The Church writ large has become a labyrinth of language traps, purity tests, and half-baked ideas that have become sacred cows that are above critical examination. I cannot be the member of a church that is now just like any other church, with dogma above questioning and a hierarchy that conducts heresy trials.”   

My work involves studying the world’s religions and belief systems, and the national UUA has transformed into a textbook example of an authoritarian, dogmatic organization. A congregant who quit said that the UUA leaders aren’t revolutionaries as they describe themselves, but “reactionaries,” trying to return the church to Puritanism.  

Everyone has their necessarily imperfect ideology and subjective way of viewing the world. The problem is when it is presented as dogma. People and groups think they’ve discovered “the one true universal truth” and “the one correct way of viewing the world” and that everyone must follow it.  [It is a problem when everyone disagrees with everyone else.] [ Do orthodox Baptists say there is one universal truthf?  Sure, but there are several doctrines that are all necessary. ]

The Unitarian Universalist Association has adopted as dogma an extreme, rigid and Robin DiAngelo/Ibram X. Kendi/Tema Okin-influenced version of critical theory that resembles a fundamentalist Evangelical religion.  

The ideology is full of Abrahamic ideas of 

• Original Sin (whites are inherently and inescapably racist), 

• Chosen People (blacks are morally pure truth-tellers), 

• spiritual awakening (“woke”), 

• blasphemy, 

• thought and expression control, 

• suspension of disbelief, 

• believers versus unbelievers, 

• moral versus immoral, 

• repentance, 

• admission of sin (“All whites must be shown that they are racists and confess their racism”), 

• submission to authority, 

• binary thinking, and 

• calling those who do not fully subscribe to their theories immoral (“racists,” “upholders of white supremacy”). 

• ..ministers often dressed up like Christian Priests in robes and clerical collars

Former Unitarian Universalist Sasha Kwapinski wrote, “The comparison with religious fundamentalism is spot on. I turned away from fundamentalist Christianity decades ago largely due to their hammering about how we are (supposedly) collectively guilty or culpable due to Adam’s transgression in the Garden of Eden. Collective ‘white guilt’ is little more than an updated, politically correct remake of the same fictional concept.”  

Organizational capture of the church  

Unitarian Universalism has been a liberal church premised on independent and self-determining congregations, bottom-up governance, and democratic processes. [JE:  much like Baptist congregations] However, the UUA has recently been organizationally captured by a small group of activists who wish to transform UU into a top-down dogmatic religion and has worked to dismantle democratic processes.  [Democracy being in General Assembly, see the full essay in the web site for the yellow ballots.]

In “How the UUA Manufactures Consent,” UU Minister Rev. Gary Kowalski details how power was consolidated in the Board of Trustees...an insular group...the power to judge, punish, and control the livelihoods of others who stand in their way, while cloaking themselves in a mantle of moral purity.”   

Rev. Sickafoose writes, “They abuse power to serve their vision...it isn’t different because of who is abusing power.”   

Miles Fidelman:  Pretty standard practice for any cabal. What's worse, is they generally think they're doing the right thing, for the right reasons. 

Attempts to control members  

Dogmatic churches work to create conformity in their members...punishment, propaganda, and social pressure.  [JE:  But this is true in most human organizations.]

UU World removed letters to the editor and has stated that it will only publish articles that support the UUA’s new ideology. Ministers who have spoken out in dissent have been censured or removed from positions.  

The two UU seminaries have become dogmatic. 

Many newly ordained ministers work to stifle dissent in congregations.

The General Assembly has banned...kicked out...   "The entire meeting felt unloving, unsafe, and bordered on an abusive environment.”  

Undermining reason, critical thinking, and individualism  

UU author Jim Aikin wrote, “It is a common characteristic of religious cults, as well as ideological ones, that individuality and critical thinking must be suppressed. 

White UUs have been told they must automatically accept the subjective expressions of UUs of color, and that questioning these expressions and even asking for evidence is harmful and racist. 

Ideological language  

The Woke signal their wokeness with words like 

• intersectionality, 

• cultural appropriation [JE:  such as appropriating an ethnic menu item at a restaurant, which is condemned by the woke], 

• trigger warning, 

• microaggression [a problem for snowflakes, give them a safe space], 

• privilege, 

• fragility [trigger phrases], 

• problematic, or 

• decolonization...[these are] signs of belonging and moral virtue. 

Shaming, defaming and shunning heretics

UUA leaders and zealous ministers have publicly ad hominem attacked ministers and laity who have spoken up against the new dogmatism and intolerance. 

In a 2017 open letter to UUs, former UUA President Rev. Peter Morales wrote, “This is what an inquisition looks like.”  

In his essay “The UU Inquisition,” UU Jim Anderson wrote, “The point is not to burn heretics, it is to create a climate of fear by burning heretics.”  

Rev. Cynthia Cain writes, “UUs everywhere, but particularly clergy and particularly on social media, are afraid to speak their truth.” 

Tarico writes: “Shaming and shunning have ancient roots as tools of social control...Maoist struggle sessions (forced public confessions) and Soviet [USSR before 1991] self-criticism are examples of extreme shaming in social-critical movements seeking to upend traditional power structures. 

Echo chambers  

Dissent and heterodoxy are essential for all organizations, from businesses to academic fields. Echo chambers are dangerous.

UU used to have...police officers, blue-collar workers, soldiers, and conservatives. However, over the years, UUs have become politically narrow, with most UUs being politically progressive. 

Sasha Kwapinski wrote, “I left Unitarian Universalism when I came to realize that it is little more than a left-wing political advocacy group masquerading as a religion,” and “They talk a lot about tolerance and diversity—until you disagree with them.” 

Retired UU Minister Rev. Dr. Davidson Loehr and Jim Aikin have written that UU...no core theological belief.  

A psychologist compares the current UUA to a cult  

Julie H. Hotard Ph.D. 

    "The White Supremacy Culture ideologues who are now leading UUA show characteristics of a cult."  

    "Reports from the 2023 UU General Assembly show how UUA leaders shamed, blamed, censored and scapegoated. 

UU laity  

Independent thinkers and open-minded?  I find them to be as much of group thinkers and crowd followers as in any religious denomination. Social clubs with community peace as the primary goal. 

UU Minister Rev. Rick Davis wrote, “In founding our two traditions our Universalist and Unitarian forebears sought to create a religious refuge from the oppressive attitudes and practices engendered by ideological, dogmatic thinking.” 

Why the UUA is Doomed to Fail at Its Goals  

The UUA is attempting to both increase general UU membership and greatly increase racial minority membership.

Mar 20, 2023    The full essay:  © 2024 David Cycleback

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https://www.facebook.com/chris.brimmer/posts/10220807490683244

[An informative review by Chris Brimmer]

Chris Brimmer  March 6, 2022

Why I Resigned [excerpts]

Ever since the merger [Unitarians, Universalists in 1961] there has always been a tension in the relationship between the transcendentalist, mystical humanism of Unitarianism that demanded intellectual rigor and critical thought and the tolerant, generous Christian theism of Universalism that even demanded a suspension of disbelief for it’s “miracle origin story” of the becalmed ship. In many ways it was a shotgun wedding both churches were following very liberal and tolerant paths but from two completely different origins, however Universalism was poor but had membership, Unitarianism had money but shrinking membership. We chose almost by exhaustion to become non-creedal and to just plain ignore the difference.

The newly formed UUA put together one of the most liberal religious education programs that has possibly ever existed. 

Then came the Principles in 1985. Creeping creedal dogmatism. After the debacles of Common Ground I and II, the kids I had spent my Sundays with began to drift away. That drift of our youth continues to this day. 

An organizational “audit” lead by Robin DiAngelo, author of White Fragility that found that the UUA was not only a white supremist organization but irredeemably so. Dogma. It is also reductionist beyond any utility.

“The Gadfly Papers: Three Inconvenient Essays by One Pesky Minister”, written by Rev. Dr. Todd Eklof minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane, WA since 2011. The last of three essays "Let's Be Reasonable" about the 2017 UUA hiring controversy...charges that the UUA was a white supremist organization and the subsequent...audit and analysis...makes a pretty good case that it was riddled by logical fallacy and was really designed to come to one conclusion, the UUA and indeed ALL white people are involved in propagating a white supremist culture. 

Then came the defrocking...Nothing speaks to me more of the fundamental dishonesty of the whole process then when the Good Officer acting on Rev. Elklof behalf, Rev. Rick Davis, has found himself the subject of professional discipline when he defended Elkof.  Since I read the item about the “trial” and defrocking in the New York Times. The deeper I dig, the worse it gets. The Church writ large has become a labyrinth of language traps, purity tests, and half baked ideas that have become sacred cows that are above critical examination. 

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https://centerforartifactstudiesorg.files.wordpress.com/2023/07/sichafoose_essay.pdf

“Standing on the Side of Power” by UU Minister Rev. Munro Sickafoose

[A few excerpts to whet the appetite, see the web site]

This essay expresses two contentions. First, that Unitarian Universalism has been misguided into adopting what can only be called a fundamentalist stance by a small group of religious reactionaries, and that this not only damages our faith [JE:  faith in what?  Internet says UU faith is in the Seven Principles.], but our broader social justice efforts in our communities. 

The second contention is that they have done so through the misuse and abuse of power of governance, and by undermining our polity [governance] and the tenets of our faith.

ARAOMC (Anti-Racism, Anti-Oppression, Multiculturalism) at Starr King School for the Ministry (SKSM). A political ideology from: 

• Critical Race Theory, 

• the writings of a number of very brilliant people, 

• the concept of intersectionality, and 

• the opposition to mainstream cultural norms, including whiteness, the patriarchy, gender norms, etc.

It is like the Counter-Enlightenment-- 

• against rationalism, 

• against universalism and empiricism, which are commonly associated with the Enlightenment. 

It is like the Counter-Reformation.

It is not Unitarian Universalism as we have known it, nor is it an “evolution” of our faith.

A Culture of the Abuse of Power

There is flawed understanding of power in ARAOMC (Anti-Racism, Anti-Oppression, Multiculturalism), and abuse of power by its adherents. Some of that abuse is deliberate.

Starr King was rife with 

• cliques, 

• the Oppression Olympics [who wins in the category of Most Oppressed], 

• students literally getting in another student’s face because of their whiteness, or cisness, or some flawed identity. 

https://www.uuworld.org/articles/really-happened-starr-king

Regulatory Capture and the MFC

For years, the MFC (Ministerial Fellowship Committee) has been a select committee of gatekeepers into UU ministry. The reactionaries...took over the Board. In the ensuing years, believers in The Gospel have discarded any process that could challenge their power – parliamentary procedure and due process to name a couple. They have instituted on-the-fly moderation at General Assembly. 

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https://uucastine.org/sermons/can-we-talk-about-sin/  no copyright is evident on the web page    April 7, 2019  Rev. Margaret A. Beckman     Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Castine, Maine  

“I have never agreed with those who tried to tell us that the whole idea of sin is out of date.”  ~ A. Powell Davies   The Moral Crisis 1950    "To the best of my observation and belief, sin is highly contemporary and we are all up to our necks in it."

Sermon:  But this doesn’t mean...that we must surrender all attempts at swimming our way to shore. Nor does it mean that there is nothing left to do but call on God for a miracle.  [UUs are determined to conduct their affairs in secular ways.  Some UUs act religious but is their religion empty?  Is it pride that insulates UUs from spiritual thinking?  Are UUs recoiling from some past, unpleasant experience with religion?  Orthodox Christians call on God for all kinds of things, great and small;  they have a God who is not bothered to listen.]

READING ~ Rev. Amy Butler, Head Minister at Riverside Church in NYC from 2014 to 2019

    Riverside is a very progressive Protestant congregation, and progressives are notoriously reticent to speak about sin. Because of that, we often cede responsibility for that kind of conversation, theological dialogue and exploration to our conservative brothers and sisters.  I think that’s a mistake.

SERMON [excerpts]

The first humans disobeyed the instructions – commandments perhaps - given to them by God...sin came into the world...Sin. We Unitarian Universalists of the 21st century seem not to have much use for sin – the concept or even the word.  Why is that?

In my experience, we most often refer to the theological doctrine of Original Sin as being completely useless and probably damaging to the human spirit.  Useless for two primary reasons.

First, to suggest that each and every human being is conceived and born in sin and then carries that sin until a designated holy person [JE:  are you willing to name him?  Does it contaminate your thinking to say his name?] washes that sin away is irrational at best and downright terrible and mean at worst.  [JE:  when did you change your mind about sin?  After your staff positions in Baptist churches in New Orleans and Washington D.C.?]

Second, and perhaps more important for theologically inclined Unitarian Universalists, the notion that a loving God would place the first human beings in a beautiful garden and then set them up for almost certain failure... that...manipulation insults us. If God is this mean and terrible...[, UUs will ignore that and invent] a loving and merciful God.

So, ok. We throw out Original Sin. Watch what happens next.  We throw out sin altogether.

And now, we don’t have a useful religious understanding of sin within our Unitarian Universalist world view.

I consulted our UU Worship Web, [I did a search for 'sin'.]  There is nothing there.  Yet, I think we must [talk about sin.]  [JE used it to search for forgiveness, orthodox, progressive, sin;  all of those show results.]

I find agreement for my opinion from A. Powell Davies who served All Souls Unitarian in Washington, D.C. in the 1940s and 1950s and Amy Butler who is the lead pastor at Riverside Church in NYC right now. In times of social and moral trouble, it’s time to talk about sin. It’s time to re-envision our notions about sin and create a useful process for responding to evil in our world – sin.  [JE:  but are you willing to consider an individual's sin?]

What happened to bring us to this place? We tossed out the whole notion of sin because we have such a deep aversion to Original Sin.  I propose to you that this is a problem for contemporary people of faith – especially for people of liberal and progressive faith.

...those with the very theologies we find so problematic have taken over the entire conversation about sin.  So, what is sin and what shall we do about it?

[Bible:] “The wages sin are death.”

Would a loving God punish people who “miss the mark” with death – followed by eternity in hell?  Surely not.  [The shallowest treatment of what God thinks about dealing with disobedience:  You could summarize the Old Testament by saying that God's covenant was to cover sin with the blood sacrifice.  Sacrifice a valuable animal, and do it according to the way God tells you.  Once the Jewish nation stumbles over that, for 1300 years, the perfect sacrifice, Jesus on the cross, is a new covenant, and it doesn't even require a repetitive sacrifice.]

I credit Amy Butler’s Lenten sermon series on sin...look for what is lost through sin or misdeeds. When we begin to appreciate and understand what is lost, we may find...a loving God.  [Is your response to a loving God to understand his written word?]

If we begin to see sin as resulting in loss and brokenness then we are not served by throwing out sin altogether. As Powell Davies reminds us – evil is real, very real real, and evil acts have very real consequences. [Adam and Eve had a] loss of their relationship with their God.  When we fall short, we suffer a loss. Usually, this is a loss of relationship.

The next thing is to work for restoration. [JE:  be careful, don't rush to push a human agenda for restoration.  Look for restoration done in God's way.]

In the Christian and Jewish traditions, there is a process for all of this.  

• Sin. 

• Recognition of sin. 

• Accountability. 

• Confession/Personal Responsibility. 

• Restitution/Restoration. 

• Forgiveness. 

• Absolution. 

• Wholeness.  

[If we don't participate in that process,] we suffer the consequences of living with faith crushing, life limiting brokenness.  [This sermon does not end with an encouragement to look for God's way.]

2017 or anytime after 1960     Following the thread of progressives, search Internet for "why are progressives angry," irritating, annoying, divisive, rage.

Columbia [Univ] Political Review:  progressives set a goalpost, then move it.  Never enough.  Seeking crisis.  The entire point is to be annoying.  Moderate liberals treat progressives as the children in the room.  

Politico:  clear divisions among progressives.  

UM-insight.net    United Methodist Church       Decline in a church can be from progressives or conservatives, it is from organizational dysfunction, shift in cultural attitudes like "spiritual but not religious," decline in a community of faith.

Newsweek:  Pushback against progressives by middle-class, against the excesses of the Left.  Systemic racism is not popular.   Cultural conformism, climate emergencies, dogmatism and intolerance are not popular.  A group, More in Common, survey:  8% of American voters are progressive.  80% say poltical correctness is a problem.  Pres. Biden goes for the far-Left measures and "undermines his pitch."  

ricochet.com:  "Progressives gotta rant."  

thisNation.com:  Progressives are beginnning to be aligned with Collectivism.  [Read that as Communism.  Lose your possessions, all property becomes owned by the Party.  Live in a commune, share the kitchen and bathroom.]

UU is syncretistic, "wisdom" from many non-Christian religions.  Non-creedal.  Few in UU believe in divine judgement, and many doubt any sort of life after death. 

2017 Feb 2  The Mysterious 98%: Scientists Look to Shine Light on Our Dark Genome | UC San Francisco (ucsf.edu) 

Brand new to JE on Oct 11, only 2% of DNA codes for proteins, whereas I had thought most of DNA coded for proteins.  The other 98% is "noncoding."  "Many crucial regulatory elements that control the activity of thousands of genes...turning genes on or off."

2017 Feb 2  "Violent Protests Shut Down Milo Berkeley Talk" by Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff  1:54 AM CST

(Newser) – A talk by far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos at the University of California, Berkeley had to be called off Wednesday night as protesters smashed windows, ignited fireworks, and chucked bricks and Molotov cocktails. The university blamed the violence on 150 "masked agitators who came onto campus." They are accused [well, none were arrested, it seems rioters in California usually get a pass] of disrupting otherwise peaceful protests against the Breitbart editor and his "Dangerous Faggot" speaking tour, CNN reports. There were 1,500 demonstrators at the height of the protest, many of which chanted anti-President Trump slogans, reports the Daily Californian. Police say they were forced to call off the event because of safety concerns, despite extensive preparations. Five people were injured.

Feb 2 evening:  The Berkeley event continues in national news when Pres. Trump tweets, “If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view – NO FEDERAL FUNDS?”  Milo calls himself a provocateur.  A photo on Yahoo browser home at 3:48 A.M. CT:  signs, "Trans Dykes are Good and Pure," illuminated by some kind of fire.  Other signs:  "Become ungovernable," "This is War."  Windows were smashed and large fireworks were thrown at police.  The Milo event was organized by Berkeley College Republicans.  Rush Limbaugh is saying that the violent demonstrators are not spontaneous, they are hired.  A UCB statement:  "threat, disruption and organized violence.”  Milo:  “The left cannot tolerate anyone on their campus who does not subscribe to their own crazy views.”

2017 Feb 3  The Principle is a movie by Rick DeLano    Interviewed by George Noory on Coast to Coast AM.  The Earth is a special place, not an insignificant speck on a nondescript filament of an ordinary galaxy.  400 to 500 years of scientific thinking, which has steadily reduced esteem for Man and the Earth, is going to turn around soon, and more and more people will see how a loving God put intelligent life on a hospitable Earth for purposes.  DeLano supports fine tuning and intelligent design.  He speaks of multiverse as an invention of people who can't tolerate Genesis 1:1, see 1973 in this time line.    This is hours after John Engelbrecht purchases a 2014 book by David Waltham, Lucky Planet, at Half Price Books for $8.  This book is by an atheist author, probably, but he says the longevity of an environment hospitable to life is extraordinary.

2017 to 2023    The next 28 lines or so     Topic:  origin of life from abiotic chemicals.  Is it just the science writers who keep mentioning the famous warm little pond of Charles Darwin?  Or do the esteemed professors also use this old phrase?  If they do, maybe it is because it gives them a sentimental reverie, an interlude during a busy day of meetings, advising grad students, applying for grants, editing the next journal article, and negotiating with attorney to avoid a charge of plagiarism.  Related phrases:  primordial soup or ooze.

https://evolution.berkeley.edu/from-soup-to-cells-the-origin-of-life/     Copyright © 2023 · UC Museum of Paleontology Understanding Evolution

Until the early 1980s, biologists were stumped by a “chicken and egg” problem...which came first, the nucleic acid or the protein? [RNA or DNA requires proteins to make them, but proteins require RNA or DNA to make them.  A simple protein with 50 bases requires an exact lineup of bases, just random lineups are not functional even if they are "tried" by the trillions.  And even if one in a trillion was functional, it can do a function only when concentrated together with raw materials and some beneficiary.]  RNA was discovered to catalyze chemical reactions — and that means that RNA can both store genetic information and cause the chemical reactions necessary to copy itself...later on, life switched to DNA-based inheritance.

Many of the gaps in our knowledge have been filled in recent years...UT Austin professor Andy Ellington:  “Origins is a huge knotty problem — but that doesn’t mean it’s an insoluble one.”      [drawing shows components of a supposed solution:  biochemicals, tree of life, geology, RNA.]

https://evolution.berkeley.edu/from-the-origin-of-life-to-the-future-of-biotech/      Copyright © 2023 · UC Museum of Paleontology Understanding Evolution

Prof. Andy Ellington "evolves molecules."  [JE:  No, I don't think he evolves anything.  Maybe what the science writer means is that he does biochemistry to generate and isolate biochemicals.]  His "burning interest lies in the billion-year old chemical reactions of the primordial soup...lab of 50 people with millions of dollars in research grants...origin of life typically does not attract much in terms of research funds."  [JE:  An insight, grants for origin of life are meager.  Maybe because they are looking in the wrong place for origin of life.  Maybe they should look at Genesis Ch. 1 and John Ch. 1.  "The Lord said, 'I am Jesus whom you persecute: it is hard for you to kick against the pricks.'" Acts 9:5]

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090109173205.htm           Copyright 1995-2022 ScienceDaily or by other parties

The [in-cell] process of copying a genetic molecule...exceedingly complex, involving many proteins and other cellular components.  [How could abiogenesis happen naturally, without a cell to be an incubator?]         Joyce and Lincoln...replicating system actually involves two enzymes, each composed of two subunits and each functioning as a catalyst that assembles the other...Joyce says that only when a system is developed in the lab that has the capability of evolving novel functions on its own can it be properly called life... each contain many nucleotides, so they are relatively complex and not something that would have been found floating in the primordial ooze.

https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/flaws-in-the-rna-world/4011172.article          BY PHILIP BALL   12 FEBRUARY 2020

Self-copying ribozymes have been made [in a lab, how much was genetic engineering???], they typically work only if provided with just the right oligonucleotide components to work on. What’s more, sustained cycles of replication and proliferation require special conditions...prebiotic soup...concentrating and segregating prebiotic molecules...needs energy: it can’t shelve metabolism until later...had a roughly 8% chance of inserting any nucleotide wrongly, and any such error increased the chance that the full chain encoded by the molecule would not be replicated...any prebiotic molecule will have been too inefficient, inaccurate, dilute and noise-ridden to have cleared the hurdle. 

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1710339114    October 2, 2017

A long article using much math to model biochemicals delivered to warm little ponds (WLP) by interstellar meteors.  Wet/dry cycles promote polymerization which could end up as RNA.  

 Find on this page or in this Google site similar paragraphs using search term "evoxcross."

2017 “Pigliucci basically said: ‘Sure, it’s a culture war, and we’re going to win it,’ and half the room burst out cheering.”

Michael Lynch   His books rail against scientists who accept the status quo and fail to appreciate the rigorous mathematics that undergirds his work. “For the vast majority of biologists, evolution is nothing more than natural selection,” he wrote in 2007. “This blind acceptance […] has led to a lot of sloppy thinking, and is probably the primary reason why evolution is viewed as a soft science by much of society.” 

2017  500th anniversary of the Reformation.  There is a loud and growing chorus in the media, telling us that the Reformation was a bad thing, something to be repented of. So on the 499th anniversary, the 31st of October 2016, Pope Francis said this in Sweden at a symbolic joint ecumenical service for Catholics and Lutherans.  “As Catholics and Lutherans, we have undertaken a common journey of reconciliation.  Now, in the context of the commemoration of the Reformation of 1517, we have a new opportunity to accept a common path. We have the opportunity to mend a critical moment of our history by moving beyond the controversies and disagreements that have often prevented us from understanding one another."

http://www.ligonier.org/learn/conferences/next-500-years-2017-national-conference/after-darkness-light/?

https://catholicstarherald.org/a-common-journey-of-reconciliation/

John E.:  The press ignores this 500th anniversary.  They love Pope Francis' ambiguity and political correctness and belittle born-again Protestants who insist that Jesus (not any mortal priest) offers forgiveness, good works being important but having no part in salvation.  Search Internet for Romans Road.   See in this timeline 1536 Farel and Viret

2017 Feb 6 Pres. Trump press conference Feb 16 2017

2017 Feb 15  The Guardian   Church of England (Anglicans) General Synod, plunged into fresh turmoil over LGBTI.  The traditionist side is very traditional, "lifelong permanent union of one man and one woman."  Salvation depends on it.  Fury of LGBTI.  Same-sex marriage services in Anglican churches prohibited.    2020:  same-sex marriage legal in Australia, considered by Australian Anglican clergy to be a right.

2017 Feb 17  SEHWAN, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistani forces killed and arrested dozens in raids overnight as the deaths from a suicide bombing by the Islamic State at a famed Sufi shrine, Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, on Feb 17 stands at 80.  [slight edit by JE]  The terror attack — Pakistan's deadliest in years — raised questions about the authorities' ability to rein in militant groups.  Pakistan shelled across the Afghan border and said the bombing was planned by Sunnis in sanctuaries in Afghanistan.

Afghan Pres. Ghani:  "Sufis always preach peace and brotherhood among people."  39 militants were killed in hideouts during shootouts.  [distinguish between Sunni, Shia, and Sufi]

    Sunni ISIS views Shia as apostates and views Sufi shrines as a form of idolatry.

    Afghanistan and Pakistan have long accused each other of failing to crack down on militants who operate along the porous mountain border.

    http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/27/osama.escape/index.html Usama Bin Laden escaped into Pakistan across the rugged Kunar border more than a year after the Sept 11, 2001 airliner attacks in the U.S.  UBL bought protection from Afghan tribes with $100,000.  He lingered in Afghanistan for so long to avoid capture by Pakistanis who sought the $25 million bounty.  UBL was killed by a team of U.S. Navy SEALs in May 2011, at his walled compound near Abbottabad, Pakistan, east of Kabul, Jalalabd, Khyber Pass, and Peshawar.

2017 Feb 22  The Washington Post includes a new slogan just under "The Washington Post," at least the web site.  "Democracy Dies in Darkness."  lewrockwell.com bionic mosquito:  Democracy also dies when the people are fed lies and nonsense...lack critical thinking skills to recognize they are being fed lies and nonsense.

2017  interview with German Klaus Schwab   World Economic Forum   Transnational Institute     says WEF wants to replace democracies with "self-selected group of stakeholders to make decisions on behalf of the people."  Davos conference   "silent global coup d'état"  Young Global Leaders [have included] Putin, Merkel, Trudeau [, Soros, Gates]

2017  What Democracies Can Learn From Greece's Failed Populist Experiment   short-term pain for citizens      decades of Greece receiving loans, then can't pay them back

2017 February 23    https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/im-silicon-valley-liberal-traveled-163400168.html      excerpts

(I found a copyright notice in neither the yahoo.com web page nor Altman's blog, searching for © or (c).)

I'm a Silicon Valley liberal, and I traveled across the country to interview 100 Trump supporters — here's what I learned   Sam Altman, Y Combinator, Business Insider     wanted to learn about how the rest of America thinks and feels. So he spent months traveling the country, interviewing Trump supporters. He published his findings on his personal blog and has allowed Business Insider to publish them here as well.      I did not expect to talk to so many Muslims, Mexicans, Black people, and women.

"You all can defeat Trump next time, but not if you keep mocking us, refusing to listen to us, and cutting us out."

"He is not politically correct." Note: This sentiment came up a lot.

The mainstream left has resorted to name-calling and character assassination, instead of debate, any time their positions are questioned. This atmosphere became extremely oppressive and threatening to people, like myself, who disagreed with many of Obama's policies over the past several years. Intelligent debate has become rare."

"He is anti-abortion." Note: This sentiment came up a lot.

What's wrong with preserving the good parts of American culture?"

"I'm Mexican. I support the wall. The people who have stayed have destroyed Mexico, and now they want to get out and cause damage here. We need to protect our borders, but now any policy like that is called racist. Trump was the first person willing to say that out loud."

"I don't like most things about him. The way it worked is we got to choose one of two terrible options."

"The left is more intolerant than the right." Note: This concept came up a lot.

"Stop calling us racists. Stop calling us idiots. We aren't. Listen to us when we try to tell you why we aren't. Oh, and stop making fun of us."

"I'm so tired of hearing about white privilege. I'm white but way less privileged than a black person from your world. I have no hope my life will ever get any better."

Enough with calling all of us the devil for wanting to try Trump. I hate Hillary and think she wants to destroy the country, but I don't demonize her supporters."

"The amount of violent attacks and economic attacks perpetrated by the left are troublesome. My wife and I recently moved to the Bay Area. I was expecting a place which was a welcoming meritocracy of ideas. Instead, I found a place where everyone constantly watches everyone else for any thought crime."

"Silicon Valley is incredibly unwelcoming to alternative points of view. Your curiosity, if it is sincere, is the very rare exception to the rule."

"There is something hypocritical about the left saying they are uniters, not dividers, they are inclusive, and then excluding half the population with comments on intelligence and irrelevance in the modern world."

2017 Feb 25  Tom Perez elected chairman of Democratic National Committee.  The challenges Perez and Democrats face as they look to recover from a disastrous electoral slide that was obscured by Obama's two national victories but laid bare by Hillary Clinton's stinging defeat. Now, besides Trump occupying the Oval Office, Republicans control Congress and about two-thirds of statehouses, and they're one Senate confirmation vote away from a conservative majority on the Supreme Court.  "We suffer from a crisis of confidence ... a crisis of relevance," Perez told DNC members ahead of his election.

2017 Feb 27  INDIVISIBLE:  A PRACTICAL GUIDE for RESISTING THE TRUMP AGENDA by former Congressional staffers...Pres. Trump is "racist, authoritarian, and corrupt."  Tea Party is "wrong, cruel, and tinged with racism."  " Members of Congress love cutting ribbons and kissing babies back home. Don’t let them get photo-ops without questions about racism, authoritarianism, and corruption."                     JE:  This nonsense sounds like the Occupy events;  Occupy Austin was in 2011.

2017 March  700,000 deaths in 2012 from heart disease, strokes and diabetes and on an analysis of national health surveys that asked participants about their eating habits. Most didn't eat the recommended amounts of the foods studied.             The 10 ingredients combined contributed to about 45 percent of those deaths.  Journal of the American Medical Association.  lead author Renata Micha

—Fruits: 3 average-sized fruits daily            —Vegetables: 2 cups cooked or 4 cups raw vegetables daily            —Nuts/seeds: 5 1-ounce servings per week — about 20 nuts per serving

—Whole grains: 2 ½ daily servings            —Polyunsaturated fats, found in many vegetable oils: 11 percent of daily calories            —Seafood: about 8 ounces weekly

"Bad" ingredients

—Red meat: 1 serving weekly — 1 medium steak or the equivalent            —Processed meat: None recommended            —Sugary drinks: None recommended            —Salt: 2,000 milligrams daily — just under a teaspoon.

2017 Mar 20    https://www.returnofkings.com/116603/20-reasons-why-modern-women-are-so-unstable-and-miserable

Modern women are unstable and unhappy.  Anger, hate, blame men, low self-respect, many are unattractive by choice or diet, try to act like men,  constantly engage in outrage reading to entertain themselves,     they seek equality for women, but they still want all the privileges that come with being a woman,   women have cats rather than children, alcohol, expect the world to deliver, unrealistic expectations, seek the bad boys,      the more freedom women are given, the unhappier they get,     bought into the feminist lies and now they are hollow beings drifting around.

2017 28 March  Loyola University Chicago Offers Whites-Only Anti-Racism Group  http://barbwire.com/2017/03/28/loyola-chicago-offers-whites-anti-racism-group/    Students who “self identify as White” can apply to join a safe space to learn about white privilege, institutional racism, and internalized racism.  RAW, also known as Ramblers Analyzing Whiteness, is a small, closed group at LUC for white people to “engage in dialogue about their own racial identity” and “critically reflect on…their actions.”

2017 March 14  Amazon.com   No Campus for White Men shines a bright light on the growing obsession with diversity, victimization and identity politics on today's college campuses, and shows how it is creating an intensely hostile and fearful atmosphere that can only lead, ultimately, to ever greater polarization in American society.  Across the country, ugly campus protests over speakers with dissenting viewpoints [conservatives], as well as a preoccupation with micro-aggressions, "trigger warnings," "safe spaces," and brand-new "gender identities," make it obvious that something has gone terribly wrong with higher education. For years, colleges have pursued policies favoring students based not on their merit, but on their race, gender, and sexual orientation. 

2017 Mar 23  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10097/united-church-of-christ-unicef   Dexter Van Zile   UCC   "In 1965, the denomination had more than 2 million members; in 2016, it had just over 900,000."  "The people left in the pews in the UCC probably have a good idea they are being misinformed, but do not expect them to fight back. They will just continue to leave."  "Jeffrey K. Hadden, author of The Gathering Storm in the Churches: A Sociologist Looks at the Widening Gap Between Clergy and Laymen, published by Anchor Books in 1969."

2017 March 26  https://www.wnd.com/2017/03/female-athletes-crushed-by-women-who-were-once-men/

Transgenders [men who identify as women, without or with surgery to various degrees] dominate in weightlifting, track, wrestling, football, basketball, mixed martial arts.  [Including high school]     Physiologically speaking, there’s a gender gap between men and women...bones are also more dense, and they have tougher ligaments...recognition will be taken from the women who rightfully deserve them and given to a man who essentially cheated by putting on makeup, injecting himself with hormones, and saying he’s a woman.”

The Snapping of the American Mind  by David Kupelian:  "mass delusion infecting our whole society in which, thanks to the influence of the powerful LGBT movement, everybody now has to either affirm the absurd and crazy – that a man who is essentially a female impersonator can fairly compete against women – or they have to suffer abuse and persecution as bigots just for speaking the truth.”  [And lawsuits.]     Political movement rooted in a mixture of personal trauma, utopian ideology and demonic forces.                      The article gives a dozen sports with trans women with pictures.

2017  p. 20 in a review of Chaput's Strangers in a Strange Land, Ignatius Press Spring 2017 mailout catalog:  aspects of post-Christianity are growing gap between rich and poor, what students are taught in public schools [and how they are insulated from orthodox Christianity and sometimes taught undue respect for non-Christian religions to instill mulitculturalism], decline of Christian orthodoxy among youth, disrespect for civil and natural law, respect for [and even the demand that equal honor be afforded to, and in Canada the criminal charge of hate crime for criticizing] alternative sexual identity [LGBTQ], power concentrated at the national level [coupled with institutionalized outrage against orthodoxy], isolation and elitism of leadership, political leaders as a social class [notice the reaction against this as Donald Trump beats Hilary Clinton for president in 2016;  Clinton spent much time with east-coast elite in the Hamptons], decline of the sustaining role of family and community. 

Must [we] turn women into men so that women can achieve economic parity with men? As Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg put it in her book Lean In, we need to set a goal of getting more women “in the door” of male-dominated, prestigious, and high-paying fields, even if doing so requires that women act more like men. 

When the percentage of male nurses increased from a miniscule 3 percent in 1970 to 10 percent in 2011, something else very interesting developed: a gender pay gap in the field of nursing. In 2011, the average female nurse earned $51,100, 16 percent less than the $60,700 earned by the average man in the same job.      Men earn more because they believe they are worth more—and women agree...The fact that women undervalue themselves (and by extension, the work they do) has been amply demonstrated in carefully designed experimental economics studies...we [women] should not be ashamed if our interests differ from men’s.

2017 April  Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign  by  Allen (NBC) and Parnes (The Hill), from hundreds of anonymous interviews.  NYT review:  "a wildly dysfunctional and ‘spirit-crushing’ campaign that embraced a flawed strategy (based on flawed data) that failed, repeatedly, to correct course...an out-of-touch candidate and her strife-ridden staff.” New York Times

2017 Apr 27  Rush Limbaugh names Robert Creamer and George Soros as funding anti-Trump protesters and rioters, and says Creamer trains them and gives them their signs.  Limbaugh says Democrats have all along denied such manufactured protests, but an article in the Washington Post says "so what if they are paid?"        http://conservativetribune.com/disturbing-detail-anti-trump-signs/  By Ben Marquis  November 15, 2016

Thanks to the efforts of both Project Veritas and WikiLeaks, it was revealed not too long ago that Democrat operatives with shady funding were behind the organizing of purportedly grassroots-led angry protests against then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.             Now that the election is over, protesters have once again taken to the streets in major urban centers to lodge their displeasure with President-elect Trump, again we are told due to spontaneous uprisings of angered citizens unwilling to accept Trump as the nation’s next president.              But anyone who has been paying any attention to the multitude of protests and riots at various points over the past year has noticed something awfully familiar about the recent rash of anti-Trump marches, that being the presence of obviously professionally-made signs at supposedly spontaneous events.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/18/politics/project-veritas-action-robert-creamer-donald-trump-rallies/  By Daniella Diaz and Drew Griffin, CNN

October 18, 2016  Washington (CNN) A Democratic operative whose organization was helping Hillary Clinton's campaign announced Tuesday that he would be "stepping back" from the campaign after an edited video suggested that he and other staffers hired people to attend Donald Trump's campaign rallies and incite violence...Robert Creamer -- husband of Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky -- announced his resignation in a statement after conservative activist James O'Keefe released a video under his organization Project Veritas Action, which showed Creamer and other operatives purportedly discussing methods for inciting violence at rallies for the Republican nominee.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/robert-creamer   Robert Creamer Political Organizer, Strategist, Author; Partner Democracy Partners

Robert Creamer ... and his firm, Democracy Partners, work with many of the country’s most significant issue campaigns. He was one of the major architects ... defeat the privatization of Social Security. ... consultant to the DNC and President Obama's campaigns in 2008, 2012 and 2016 -- and is heavily involved in "the Resistance". Creamer is married to Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky from Illinois. Arianna Huffington calls his book, Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win, a master’s class in electoral politics.

http://general.mtstars.com/458553.html   Robert Kramer, the husband of an Illinois Democrat congresswoman, met with - Obama over 300 times in the WH    Feb 23rd, 2017 behind many of these riots against the Republicans. It's an organized effort to riot and they are bused in during events, including Ferguson and Baltimore.

    New Oxford Review Dec 2017 p. 22    Pres. Trump is a celebrity populist with qualities like Huey Long, Gordon Gekko, Ronald Reagan, and Patrick Buchanan.  He challenges the Establishment's globalist orthodoxy, denouncing free trade, immigration, and foreign wars.  He has declared himself to be pro-life.  Republican Never-Trumpers protest Trump, before the 2016 election and after.  Conservatives had "endured eight years of a president (Obama) who despised them and ...opposed their world view."  For the 2016 election, social conservatives emphasized opposition-to-abortion, sexual morality, and the conventional family (as opposed to the splintering after 2017 of ideas of gender).      "A quick Google search" turns up academicians who advocate denial of custody of children to parents who are anti-LGBTQ.     Pres. Trump has been vilified by a "vicious and unhinged smear campaign" in the media.       Trump won over Hillary Clinton, "who epitomized everything wrong with modern" feminism.

2017 April  A high-school soccer team of boys beats the U.S. Women's National Team in a less-than-official scrimmage.  Much is made by some about men being stronger and faster than women.  To make the point that men shouldn't be identifying as women to beat women, especially when the male organs remain intact.  "Trans-identified six-foot-tall male player with facial hair playing for the KIPP Academy girls’ basketball team..."  Education Secretary Miguel Cordona’s interpretation of “sex” in Title IX to also include “gender identity or expression.”  Volleyball player Payton McNabb suffered serious injury after a trans-identified male player spiked a ball at her head.  Lia Thomas.  2024 Oct, United Nations “Violence against women and girls in sports,” female athletes have lost nearly 900 medals to trans competitors.  Aayden Gallagher of Portland crossed the finish line to become the Oregon girls’ 6A 200-meter state champion, though she (he) is a trans woman with superior physiology to the female competitors...towered over the vast majority of the girl runners.

2017 May 3  https://www.yahoo.com/news/comey-says-mildly-nauseous-possibility-october-letter-led-clinton-loss-155312113.html    FBI Director Comey, speaking to Senate Judiciary Committee, said that on Oct. 27, 2016, the investigative team informed him that the metadata analysis of e-mails on disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s laptop — seized by the FBI in an unrelated investigation — showed thousands of Clinton’s e-mails on that device, possibly including those from her first three months as secretary of state, which had been missing until then. [The missing e-mails were highly controversial during months of the 2016 presidential campaign.  They were missing from her famous personal e-mail server which was located, possibly illegally, in her personal residence or office, not in a government location.  Whether there was adequate security and whether there were government secrets on the server were never settled.]  Weiner was married to Clinton’s close aide, Huma Abedin.  Comey said he then authorized the team to seek a search warrant.

To “not speak about it” to Congress — which had been assured months earlier that the investigation was closed — would have been “an act of concealment,” the FBI director concluded.  “So I stared at ‘speak’ and ‘conceal,'” Comey recalled. “Speak would’ve been really bad. There’s an election in 11 days. Concealing, in my view, would’ve been catastrophic, not just to the FBI but well beyond. And honestly, if it’s between really bad and catastrophic, I said to my team, ‘We’ve got to walk into the world of really bad.'”     The FBI director sent his letter to Congress the next day, news of which leaked almost immediately.       Comey’s comments came a day after Clinton first publicly blamed his letter, in part, for her election loss.

“If the election had been on Oct. 27, I would be your president,” Clinton said at the Women for Women International luncheon in New York City. “I was on the way to winning until a combination of Jim Comey’s letter on Oct. 28 and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off.”  [Conservative speakers deny that Clinton lost the election due to these influences.  They say she was popular to limited audiences and believed faulty polling.  Several conservatives continue to say that Democrats can't get beyond a Democrat losing to Donald Trump.]

2017 May 4  Senate Democrat minority leader Nancy Pelosi is open about something that is new to the U.S. in the last year or 30 years, health care being a right.  This used to not be.  Maybe it should be a right, but it used not to be.  It used to be that people got sick and died.  Think about being chronically sick before there was air conditioning, like in the early 1950s before window air conditioners came in.  Lots of people used to die in the summer when it was hot and there was no good way to cool off.  At this time, health care was no right.      http://www.democraticleader.gov/newsroom/5317-5/    A web site that appears to be the official site for "Office of the Democratic Leader

H-204, US Capitol  Washington, DC 20515  (202) 225-0100"    "a transcript of the Leader’s remarks" on May 4, 2017 about Trumpcare   "This is about health care being a right, not a privilege just for the wealthy who can afford it – but for everyone.   It’s time for Republicans to abandon this moral monstrosity and pull the bill."     JE:  Limbaugh on 2017 May 3 explained that, under the 2010 Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), health insurance moved from being insurance to being entitlement.

2017 May New Oxford Review http://www.newoxfordreview.org/article.jsp?did=0517-gregor    By A. James Gregor    Excerpts     The notion of a Creator as a “first cause” was in the earliest Greek thought. Yet neither Plato nor Aristotle argued that the First Cause displayed any apparent interest in His creation. The world had somehow been put in motion as a consequence of the Creator’s will, but then it proceeded with His total indifference.  Thomas Jefferson and other deists thought a reasoned ethical system would provide the substantive core of a "civil religion"  (We hold these truths to be self-evident") that would guide behavior without a state religion.  Skeptics in Europe, even from the Renaissance, doubted a Creator.  Some even dismissed mathematical truths, asserting that they are functions of particular languages.  Among these thinkers, there is still no confidence in any truth claim;  any ethical system is baseless.  From the 1800s, many argue that morality is a personal choice.  This is advanced in the 1930s by the Vienna Circle.  Currently, some Westerners contend that the Hindu thought that disease is spread by deities is as valid as any theory;  arguments otherwise are "cultural imperialism."  The enemies have become those in churches who defend traditional morality. 

2017 May 03  Brett Molina, USA TODAY, WFAA   Facebook will add 3,000 more people to its community team to review videos on the social network, says CEO Mark Zuckerberg, after several surfaced in recent weeks including a father livestreaming the killing of his daughter...videos either streamed live or published later involving violence. In Thailand, a father used Facebook Live to stream the killing of his 11-month-old daughter before committing suicide...The videos remained on Facebook for 24 hours before they were taken down.  Last month...murder of 74-year-old Robert Godwin Sr. in Cleveland, as well as suspect Steve Stephens detailing his plan and confessing to the killing. 

2017 May 18   http://pix11.com/2017/05/19/times-square-suspect-wanted-to-kill-them-all-told-police-he-smoked-marijuana-laced-with-pcp-complaint/

JE:  does this say something about legalizing marijuana?      "I smoked marijuana," he allegedly told a police officer. "I laced the marijuana with PCP."   Police said he also told them that officers should have shot him after he ran from his car, running, yelling and jumping before being subdued by police and bystanders. Rojas' eyes were glassy and he slurred his speech at the time, according to a complaint.  "I wanted to kill them all," Rojas said as he was being detained.  Police say he approached Seventh Avenue at 42nd Street, and waited for vehicles to pass before speeding down the avenue.  Rojas sped for some three blocks, plowing into pedestrians, before crashing near 45 Street.  “He actually goes underneath the scaffold. Parts of his car, the side-view mirror, license plates, are falling off as he’s striking these pedestrians. People are being dragged. They’re on top of the car,” Aubry said.

2017 May 18  Saudis see better relations with U.S. through Pres. Trump than from eight years of Pres. Obama, who angered the Saudis for what they saw as his abandonment of Egypt Pres. Mubarak, a longtime American ally, during the 2011 Arab Spring protests, Obama's lack of intervention in Syria despite his red-line-in-the-sand declaration in 2012 (about Pres. Asad using chemical weapons), and his nuclear deal with Iran which is criticized as legitimating the Iranian atomic bomb, eventually.  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/world/middleeast/trump-saudi-arabia-summit.html?_r=0   “Any new president has to be better than President Obama, because no one was worse for us than Obama,” said Salman al-Dossary of the newspaper Asharq al-Awsat.      http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/17/politics/trump-saudi-arabia-relationship-reset/index.html  Obama had blocked an arms sale to Saudi Arabia in Dec. 2016 over concerns about civilian deaths in Yemen (Shia Houthi rebels allied with Iran), and the Sunni kingdom is eager to see that arms transfer green-lit during Pres. Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia.  The day before Trump's arrival, Houthis attacked Saudi Arabia for the second time in two years with a Scud-class, half-ton-warhead Burkan (volcano) ballistic missle launched toward Riyad, but Saudi forces shot down the missle near Mecca using a US-supplied Patriot defensive missle.  Patriots have been sold to Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Israel, Taiwan, Germany, Greece, Japan, and Spain. 

2017 June New Oxford Review p. 18  Perhaps following the lead of Pope Francis' Amoris Laetitia, the Jesuit superior general says Jesus' condemnation of divorce must be discerned according to the conscience of each individual.  No one had a recorder to take down Jesus' words.  They must be contextualized.  Over the last century there has been a great blossoming of studies to understand what Jesus meant.  That is not relativism.  P. 19:  "With the number of poorly catechized Christians wandering about blindly these days, the gnostic Jesuits have a captive audience that would love to know the various ways they could engage in immorality."

2017 June New Oxford Review p. 28  Pope Francis and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops are willing captives to the contemporary ideology of multiculturalism, which enforces a moral equivalence between religions...While Christians in Egypt, Pakistan, Iraq [and Sri Lanka 2019] are dying [at the hands of Islamists] but our leaders tell us they are not persecuted by Muslims, it has nothing to do with Islam.     New Oxford Review 2018 Nov. P. 43  Catholic theologians firmly oppose any historical research on Islam, for 50 years.  Catholics think they only need to dialogue with Muslims to end mutual misunderstanding.  (Dialogue especially with Sufis, the gnostic side of Islam.) p. 44  Karl Rahner:  non-Christians are "anonymous Christians" with an "implicit faith."  This leads to the idea of universal salvation.  P. 46  In 2011 Pope Benedict XVI urged us to see ourselves as pilgrims marching with Muslims toward the truth.

2017 June New Oxford Review p.37  The speaker at a conference of unbelieving Protestants:  "We have to find the truth for ourselves, on our own grounds and using our own criteria, without deferring to authority, without letting anyone tell us what to believe."  The Catholic visitor, David Mills:  "Gosh, you're a bunch of narcissists."

2017 June IEEE Spectrum   p. 25    Brain       Human brain at 20W outperforms a 20MW supercomputer on many tasks.  "The brain has relatively shallow but massively parallel networks...feedback loops that keep the system in balance and change it in response to neighboring units."  "Even a single synapse contains hundreds of different protein types having complex interactions.  It's a molecular computer."  Not only are there hundreds of protein types, there are hundreds of neuron types."  p. 30  "The pyramidal cell...30,000 synapses [per cell] and so 30,000 inputs from other neurons.  And the brain is constantly adapting.  Neuron and synapse...are always changing."  "Neurons accumulate electric charge just as capacitors...the brain is a mixed-signal system."  p. 38  "A single neuron can recognize hundreds of distinct patterns."  "Up to 40% of the synapses on a neuron are replaced with new ones every day."  p. 39  "In the neocortex, sensory input is processed in a hierarchy of regions.  As sensory input passes from one level...to another, more complex features are extracted...Deep-learning networks (logic chips) also use hierarchies, but they often require 100 levels of processing to recognize an image, whereas the neocortex ... just four levels."  p. 70  "Every region of the neocortex learns 3D models of objects much like a CAD program...converts it into a location in the object's reference frame, and then combines the location with the sensory input to learn 3D models of the world."

2017 June 26  Sen. Al Franken, former Saturday Night Live star, is asked on MSNBC’s Morning Joe how members of “the corporate wing” of the Democrats might be able to erase the “limousine Democrat” image in the minds of some voters.  “We gotta stop riding in limousines.”  https://www.yahoo.com/news/al-franken-democrats-gotta-stop-riding-limousines-164552540.html

2017  https://news.utexas.edu/2017/07/21/what-does-100-percent-renewable-really-mean      David Spence    In red states such as Texas and Iowa, market forces are driving rapid growth in wind generation. In blue states such as New York, policy is pushing the development of smaller, decentralized sources, most prominently rooftop solar.

California appears poised to adopt legislation that would require the state's utilities to obtain 100 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2045...difficult tradeoffs between reliability, affordability and environmental performance – tradeoffs that proponents of renewable energy frequently ignore and opponents often exaggerate.

But cities such as Georgetown, Texas, and Aspen already claim to be meeting the 100 percent renewable standard.  "100 percent renewable" means that those cities purchase as much renewable electricity as they can get. It does not mean that all the power they consume comes from renewable sources.  Georgetown will depend on the 194-megawatt Spinning Spur 3 wind farm, now under construction in West Texas, and a solar plant Sun Edison will build in West Texas.

2017 July 10  PBS Newshour sets out some Russian background as Westerners try to understand Putin, Crimea, Gerogia, Ukraine, and Russian hacking of DNC in 2016.  Putin, formerly KGB, is a champion of the Russian Orthodox Church.  That church has been strengthened in recent years, especially in the conservative south of Russia.  A high bishop says that, in Russia, tradition comes ahead of law.

July 13  PBS Newshour quotes what is in the press, 38 opponents of Putin dead in suspicious circumstances in three years.  https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/suspicious-russian-deaths-sacrificial-pawns-or-coincidence/   On the T.V. program, a Russian says the people who do the murders don't need direct orders to carry out their work.  The dead include some who were close to Putin but turned away to oppose him.  The dead include some murdered outside Russia.

2017 July 14  Esteemed Tibetan Buddhist leader and author Sogyal Rinpoche receives a 12-page letter from eight women, who were with him 14 to 33 years, from 1979, who claimed he abused them, with violence.  Rinpoche had fended off detractors with "massive efforts...organizational culture."  

     2011  Prakashanand Saraswati was the Hindu leader at Barsana Dahm, 200 acres in Hays County near Austin.  (John and Margaret knew that regular people could visit this place, and we did, you just have to remove your shoes when going in the temple.  There are shoe cubbies, just like at mosques.)  https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/06/us/guru-convicted-of-abusing-followers-children-fled-justice/index.html  “He held absolute power over anything.”  The children of the ashram loved...an Indian version of Santa Claus,” said Kate Tonnessen...cuddly and he’d give you hugs and kisses that just felt like your grandpa. But then sometime his kisses got weird.”  (Read more on the web site.)  The girls' mom "not only didn’t stop it but promoted it."   "I turned 18 and moved out."  When the abuse came to the attention of law enforcement, Saraswati was convicted, but taken off to Mexico just before sentencing, and is believed to be a fugitive in India.

2017 July 16  U.S. Episcopal Church https://www.beliefnet.com/faiths/home-page-news-and-views/why-is-the-episcopal-church-near-collapse.aspx

“Liberal Christianity has been hailed by its boosters for 40 years as the future of the Christian church. Instead...the mainline churches that have blurred doctrine and softened moral precepts are declining and, in the case of the Episcopal Church, disintegrating.”   See 2012 July 8, 2020 May 1, 2020 NOR March

 "Resolution introduced by conservatives to declare the church’s 'unchanging commitment to Jesus Christ as the son of God, the only name by which any person may be saved'...when a Christian church cannot bring itself to endorse a bedrock Christian theological statement repeatedly found in the New Testament, it is not a serious Christian church,” wrote Allen.  "No talk about sin."  "No sin, please, we're Episcopalians."  "The sin of Sodom...was a failure to care for the poor."  

2017  Prof. Mark Armitage, Christian, publishes evidence of original, soft tissue in a dinosaur bone, evidence that the dinosaur lived recently.  California State U at Northridge fired him.  Christian professor Klinghoffer:  "Endorsing Darwinian evolution is the safe careerist move."  But more leading scientists publicly doubt evolution.  A Dissent list, "We are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life."

2017  Asgard archaea cause many biologists to switch from the three-domain system to the two-domain

2017 Aug 9  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/09/google-diversity-memo-conservatives-react   Olivia Solon in San Francisco     The firing of James Damore, the Google employee who authored a controversial 10-page manifesto about the company’s “ideological echo chamber”.

For conservatives...in Silicon Valley, the reaction to the manifesto has confirmed the very issue the manifesto sought to highlight. As Damore put it: “Google’s left bias has created a politically correct monoculture that maintains its hold by shaming its dissenters.”     The 10-page document, leaked to the public, has been described as “anti-diversity” and has triggered outrage for suggesting that women are less suited to certain roles in tech and leadership than men. The manifesto also argues that Google’s diversity programs unfairly discriminate against men to the point that when a man complains about a gender issue affecting him “he is labelled as a misogynist and whiner”.  Damore was fired on Monday.  See 2015 Dec 11

2017 Aug 18 Alexander Kaufman, HuffPost      "Gore, a guy who bought a 6,500-square-foot seafront home in California for $8.8 million, and who hangs around with other celebrities who talk big on climate but who live lavish lifestyles, is the perfect target at this point in time.”    Can [climate change] be averted by enough ordinary people putting solar panels on their homes, buying electric cars or forgoing distant travel to save the jet fuel?...The jet-setting class ― with their warm, palatial homes and intercontinental trips ― bear the most responsibility for adopting a climate-conscious lifestyle.    John Engelbrecht:  there are so few rich people that their impact is minor.

2018 Feb 12  David Klinghoffer    Whether to name Jimmy Wales, [Wikipedia's] other co-founder, as Censor...the masked mob, who do the actual “editing” win out for their tireless, frequently spiteful dedication to misleading the public.  JE:  example from Wikipedia, obvious opinion in article on intelligent design.  By 2022, Facebook and Twitter bias and cancelling is obvious and influences elections.  Gunter Bechly, Walter Bradley don't get fairness.  Cancelling:  news10.com/news/technology... Facebook algorithm change in 2018 causes more divisiveness but it "keeps people coming back," sells more advertising.  Whistleblower Frances Haugen had worked in Facebook on civic integrity, that unit was dissolved, they aren't "investing what needs to be invested to keep Facebook from being dangerous."  Intelligencer:  terms of service favors elites.  BBC.com  Facebook shareholder group suing, Facebook protecting Zuckerberg from personal liability.  "Instagram impacting the mental health of teenagers."  "13% of UK teenagers...desire to kill themselves to Instagram."  NSPCC Andy Burrows:  "They've obstructed researchers...run...PR...campaign...to prove the opposite."  

2018 Aug 19  Catholic world report blog   Bishop Morlino:  It's the homosexuality, stupid.  The cleanup job is for Catholic leaders;  lay Catholic should take no part, especially since laymen are ignorant of belief, ecclesiology, polity, sacramental theology.  Their defiance of morality.

2017 August 25    https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rumors-swirl-ligo-snagged-gravitational-waves-neutron-star-collision  By Emily Conover   Rumors swirl that LIGO snagged gravitational waves from a neutron star collision...several telescopes have observed a section of sky around the galaxy NGC 4993, located 134 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra, [which is far beyond our Milky Way galaxy]. The Hubble Space Telescope has made at least three sets of observations in that vicinity, including one on August 22 seeking “observations of the first electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave sources.”    Previous LIGO events have been black-hole mergers, which do not emit as much light.

2017 August 29  Berkeley Mayor Calls for Antifa to be Classified as Crime Gang After Clashes at Weekend Protest   https://www.newsweek.com/berkeley-mayor-calls-antifa-be-classified-crime-gang-after-clashes-sunday-656286     (I found no copyright notice, searching for © or (c).)

By Tom Porter   Mayor Arreguin said that new measures were required to tackle a violent fringe of left-wing demonstrators.  “I think we should classify them as a gang,” said Mayor Arreguin. “They come dressed in uniforms. They have weapons."  He called for nonviolent protesters to take a stand.  “I think we are going to have to think ‘big picture’ about...these violent elements on the left as well,” said the mayor.  “We also need to...encourage people not to associate with these extremists because it empowers them and gives them cover,” said Arreguin.

2017 Sept 9  North Korea's state-run KCNA news service alleges that it now has the ability to send a “large-size heavy nuclear warhead” across the Pacific following its test of a Hwasong-12 missile over the weekend.

2017 Sept 11  Coast to Coast A.M. guest is Dr. Tim Ball, author of The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science;  the "misuse of climate science by dishonest brokers to advance the agenda of the progressive left," quoting from Amazon's review.  Amazon's web site's "Customers who bought this item also bought" shows up Miracle Molecule: Carbon Dioxide, Gas of Life.

2017 Sept 14  https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lust-and-the-undoing-of-men_b_59baa2c7e4b06b71800c374d    Shammi Paranjape provides an Indian perspective on sex in media.  "India too, the entertainment industry has changed its colors dramatically. Where even a kiss was not allowed on screen, and scripts were chaste and judicious in referencing sex and women, now its gone to another extreme...There is global sanction now, you see. It’s part of being a progressive nation...Why cannot a society be safe for a woman who is out in the night alone, in any kind of dress?"     JE:  silly idea, a woman alone in the night.           Ranaut, Rohatgi

2017 September  book:  The Welfare State's Legacy   http://walterewilliams.com/the-welfare-states-legacy/

What goes a long way toward an explanation of yesteryear and today are the various labor laws and regulations promoted by liberals and their union allies that cut off the bottom rungs of the economic ladder and encourage racial discrimination.  Labor unions have a long history of discrimination against blacks. Frederick Douglass wrote about this in his 1874 essay titled “The Folly, Tyranny, and Wickedness of Labor Unions,” and Booker T. Washington did so in his 1913 essay titled “The Negro and the Labor Unions.” To the detriment of their constituents, most of today’s black politicians give unquestioning support to labor laws pushed by unions and white liberal organizations.      The No. 1 problem among blacks is...very weak family structure [due in large part to Democrat's War on Poverty, the welfare state].       The most damage done to black Americans is inflicted by those politicians, civil rights leaders and academics who assert that every problem confronting blacks is a result of a legacy of slavery and discrimination.

2017 Sept 28   https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2017/09/28/anal-cancer-new-gay-epidemic-media-wont-talk/

2017 Sept. 29    ban of “traditional energy vehicles,” which China has announced, but laid no timetable for...follow the examples of countries like France and Great Britain—who laid out plans to rid of ICE-powered (internal combustion engine) cars by 2040—and The Netherlands, which plans to get rid of new ICE cars by 2025.  California Air Resources Board:  Given the existential challenge we face, the administration is looking at many, many possible measures – including additional action on electric vehicles – to help rapidly decarbonize the economy and protect the health of our citizens.

2017  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-used-to-think-gun-control-was-the-answer-my-research-told-me-otherwise/2017/10/03/d33edca6-a851-11e7-92d1-58c702d2d975_story.html?utm_term=.c2b9cc878a21

The Washington Post  By Leah Libresco October 3

I used to think gun control was the answer.  My research told me otherwise. 

My colleagues and I at FiveThirtyEight spent three months analyzing all 33,000 lives ended by guns each year in the United States, and I wound up frustrated in a whole new way. We looked at what interventions might have saved those people, and the case for the policies I’d lobbied for crumbled when I examined the evidence. The best ideas left standing were narrowly tailored interventions to protect subtypes of potential victims, not broad attempts to limit the lethality of guns.      Two-thirds of gun deaths in the United States every year are suicides.      By the time we published our project, I didn’t believe in many of the interventions I’d heard politicians tout.      We save lives by focusing on a range of tactics to protect the different kinds of potential victims and reforming potential killers, not from sweeping bans focused on the guns themselves.

2017 Oct 3  newsweek.com/transgender-women-transgender-men-sex-change-sex-reassignment-surgery-676777  When there is dissatisfaction with the results of surgery, there is "regret."  Charles Kane or (f) Sam Hashimi was on BBC 2004 One Life:  Make me a Man Again after being an anatomical woman for seven years.  Claudia:  "What happened to me was all about money."  Gender psychiatrist Dr. Reid was reprimanded by the General Medical Council "for rushing patients into" surgery.  As a woman, "it is much easier to make your presence felt."  "I became much more creative as a person, and less aggressive."  "The worst part...is being treated as a sex object...the worst chat-up lines."  "I still had a male brain" [that still produces male hormones, which has to be overcome by estrogen injections].  "Shallow and limiting."  "I wasn't interested in shopping...friends would spend hours shopping."  "I had no one to talk to, no one to tell me I might be making a mistake."  Sam H. became engaged, but "he'd say things like 'so and so doesn't think like that because she's a real woman'."  "I now think that sex-change operations shouldn't be allowed...too much choice can be a dangerous thing."     Oddee.com:  "detransitioning" or "retransitioning." 

2017 Oct     http://enews.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20180102/23b95650-28dd-4733-be65-96094f070ee8

A letter circulated in mid-October 2017 by lobbyists, lawmakers, legislative staffers and other political consultants cited a pervasive culture of harassment in California's capitol. Women eventually came forward with specific allegations that prompted Democratic Assemblymen Raul Bocanegra and Matt Dababneh, both of Los Angeles, to resign.  [Hollywood is in Los Angeles.]

     Melissa Melendez will bring forward for the fifth time a bill that would give whistleblower protections to legislative employees who report ethical violations, including sexual misconduct. The Senate has killed her bill four times.

    2017 Nov 10  http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/schmich/ct-met-schmich-sexual-harassment-20171110-story.html  Mary Schmich

Famous actors. A powerful comedian. A judge running for U.S. Senate. A studio head. A couple of high-profile publishing types. The top editor of a radio network. An Illinois legislator. Countless lesser-known men whose names now live in ignominy on Facebook...the turmoil over sexual harassment seems to be growing, a relentless churn of muck and gunk.  [It continues weekly through Jan 14 2018 and beyond.]

2017 Nov 6  U.S. media are buzzing about the failed Hillary Clinton presidential campaign of 2016, Russian hacking.  Democrats and Russia Much in News

2017 Nov New Oxford Review p. 9  releasing students to replace truth with opinion, to "unleash the hate and unsheathe the knives."  "In the absence of truth, all that remains is power."  Marxists are about redeeming the world, whereas Christians are about redeeming the soul.  Intolerance in Academia

2017 Nov New Oxford Review p. 16  "Gerhard Cardinal Műller recently expressed concern abut the [Pope] Francis-flavored group-think that currently dominates the Vatican."  They "condemn all people of another standpoint as stupid, rigid, old-fashioned, medieval." 

2017  https://torontocatholicwitness.blogspot.com/2017/07/did-cocaine-fueled-homosexual-orgy-in.html?m=1     Monsignor Luigi "Cocaine" Capozzi of the Pontifical Council of Legislative Texts

http://m.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/the-drug-fueled-homosexual-scandal-allegations-at-the-holy-office       complained about a steady stream of young visitors and of noisy parties in the secretary’s apartment — complaints that prompted the police raid

2017 Nov 13 Show on Austin PBS, Closer to Truth with Robert Lawrence Kuhn      Existentialsim.  Funding from the John Templeton Foundation (Templeton Foundation), a philanthropic organization with a spiritual or religious inclination that funds inter-disciplinary research about human purpose and ultimate reality. It was established in 1987 by investor and philanthropist Sir John Templeton, who had links with fundamentalist Protestantism.

2017 Nov 21   http://enews.earthlink.net/article/us?guid=20171204/59602872-6cad-49c6-b736-855b43f9a9cb    she saw Conyers touching and stroking the legs and buttocks of Brown and other female staffers on "multiple occasions."    Grubbs said witnessing such harassment "was a regular part of life while working in the office of [Democrat] Rep. Conyers."

2017 Nov 22   http://thefederalist.com/2017/11/03/research-proves-no-1-social-justice-imperative-marriage/   Research Proves The No. 1 Social Justice Imperative Is Marriage    Charles Murray:  “Marriage has become the fault line dividing America’s classes” more than income and race.  New York Times   Two Classes, Divided by ‘I Do’  By JASON DePARLE JULY 14, 2012

2017  Suzanne Venker The Alpha Female’s Guide to Men and Marriage    confronting other type-A women about how they can save their marriages from feminist hell. She doesn’t care about being politically correct.  Women, do things the popular culture shuns: serving instead of leading, accepting men as they are, respecting their husbands, letting men take the lead in the male-female dance, shutting up for once and actually listening to what men have to say, having sex with their husbands even when they don’t feel like it.

2017  http://thefederalist.com/2015/03/17/dear-gay-community-your-kids-are-hurting/   Heather Barwick was raised by her mother and her mother's same-sex partner. She is a former gay-marriage advocate turned children's rights activist.   Copyright © 2017 The Federalist    Same-sex marriage and parenting withholds either a mother or father from a child while telling him or her that it doesn’t matter. That it’s all the same. But it’s not. A lot of us, a lot of your kids, are hurting. My father’s absence created a huge hole in me, and I ached every day for a dad.

Also see  https://rethinkingtheology.com/2012/10/29/what-homosexuality-advocates-dont-want-you-to-know/

2017 Nov 22    http://wgno.com/2017/11/22/at-least-45-pennsylvania-teachers-quit-citing-violence-unprecedented-misbehavior/

HARRISBURG, Pa. - City teachers pleaded with district administrators to support them as they deal with misbehavior among children in Harrisburg schools...resignations of at least 45 teachers between July and October.  Some of the worst behavior has come from some of the district's youngest students, Barksdale said.  "Teachers and students are being hit, kicked, slapped, scratched, cussed at.... and observing other students flip over tables, desks and chairs.     Amanda Sheaffer, a first-grade teacher in the district for four years, described the bad behavior she has experienced personally.  "I have been hit, I have been kicked, I have been restrained from behind where I've been unable to move my arms," she said. "You have to do a room clear, get all the students out, and then after that you have to take the time to do the write-up, and you have to make sure security comes and gets the kids."  The HEA says the complaints come from three or four school sites                   http://neatoday.org/2013/02/19/violence-against-teachers-an-overlooked-crisis-2/     A physical attack was more likely to come from a parent as opposed to a student.

2017 Dec  New Oxford Review p. 19  A 25-page document written by conservative Roman Catholics, Correctio Filialis de Haeresibus Propagatis, went to Pope Francis in August.  It asserts that Pope Francis has propagated seven heresies:  a man who leaves a wife, after a Catholic wedding, and civilly marries another during the lifetime of the original wife is not necessarily in mortal sin, a person who knows a divine law but breaks it is not necessarily in mortal sin, some prohibitions do not absolutely forbid certain actions, etc.  The Vatican had no response and the signatories made public their document. 

    In a separate letter to the Pope, in July, Thomas Weinandy, Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, told the Pope that his public statements often obscure doctrine with ambiguity.  Also, some of Francis' bishops openly refute Christian beliefs.  Conservative bishops are silent (protecting what they have).  Francis has allowed "harmful...views the license and confidence to come into the light and expose their previously hidden darkness."   Weinandy published his letter after three months, then the next day was forced to resign from an important office.

    See in this time line 2016 Nov  https://www.lifesitenews.com.

2017 Dec. 2  UN voices alarm about spread of HIV in Egypt     By NARIMAN EL-MOFTY    AP     Spread of HIV in Egypt...up to 40 percent increase a year...hampered by social stigma...Egypt, pop. 95 million, ranks behind Iran, Sudan and Somalia in the Middle East for the rate at which the epidemic is spreading...patients are often jailed on trumped up charges and ostracized by society. The disease is associated with homosexuality.

Quran 7:80-84, 26:165-166, 4:16

2017 Dec 20   http://enews.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20171220/00caabce-e331-4469-8635-0a6f26d5448c   By RACHEL ZOLL and NICOLE WINFIELD

From Associated Press   December 20, 2017   The American Catholic sex-abuse scandal, largely against boys.    January 2002, The Boston Globe began a series of reports that used church records to reveal that Cardinal Law had transferred abusive clergy among parish assignments for years without alerting parents or police. Within months, Catholics around the country demanded to know whether their bishops had done the same.

Law tried to manage the mushrooming scandal in his own archdiocese by first refusing to comment, then apologizing and promising reform. But thousands more church records were released describing new cases of how Law and others expressed more care for accused priests than for victims. Amid a groundswell against the cardinal, including rare public rebukes from some of his own priests, Law asked to resign and the pope said yes.

"It is my fervent prayer that this action may help the archdiocese of Boston to experience the healing, reconciliation and unity which are so desperately needed," Law said when he stepped down as head of the Boston archdiocese in December of that year. "To all those who have suffered from my shortcomings and mistakes, I both apologize and from them beg forgiveness."

It was a stunning fall from grace for Law and a rare step for the church, which deeply resists public pressure but could no longer do so given the scope of the crisis. Since 1950, more than 6,500, or about 6 percent of U.S. priests, have been accused of molesting children, and the American church has paid more than $3 billion in settlements to victims, selling off schools and other church properties.

He publicly challenged public officials such as Gov. William Weld and Lt. Gov. Paul Cellucci over their support for abortion rights. The cardinal was among a chorus of bishops sharply critical of Geraldine Ferraro, the 1984 Democratic nominee for vice president and a Catholic, over her support for abortion rights.

2017 Dec 29

http://www.newser.com/story/253466/apology-could-fundamentally-change-apple.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=earthlink&utm_campaign=rss_topnews

Apple apologized Thursday for deliberately—and secretly—slowing down older iPhones to make sure their batteries continue to function, it was an "extraordinary move," Business Insider reports. Weinberger writes that the apology "could fundamentally change a key piece of how Apple does business" by setting the company down a new road of "openness and transparency." Apple's decision to make it easier for iPhone users to know what's going on with their older phones and batteries could extend to other aspects of the company in the future. 15 separate lawsuits pending against Apple over its decision to slow old iPhones, 9to5Mac reports.  Apple lowered the cost of replacing an iPhone battery from $79 to $29 for a limited time.     [There is no notification on-screen.  Some say it is a hint to buy a new iPhone because slim, water-resistant smart phones have batteries that are hard to replace.]

2018  IBM data storage is offered with multiple systems:  flash memory, hybrid storage arrays, SAN, and magnetic tape.  Tape handling equipment continues to be available.  IBM FlashSystem V9000 up to two petabytes.  TS2280 Tape Drive uses next-generation LTO Ultrium 8 technology to store up to 30 TB of compressed data per cartridge.  Organizations which use tape over decades find their equipment becoming obsolete, requiring them to upgrade equipment and re-archive.    IBM LinuxONE Emperor, the enterprise Linux server for security and scalability – paired with the flexibility and agility of open technology.

2018 Jan  Hundreds of thousands in federal funds (from taxation) are distributed to a category of low-income people in Austin with an intent of stimulating entrepreneurs.  It is largely wasted.  https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2018/01/auditors-cite-lax-oversight-in-low-income-savings-program/

2018 Jan  The Thomas fire, a really big one, burns for five weeks near Los Angeles.  Montecito, elevation 150 feet, population 10,000 is saved from fire, but fires in the high hills northward (Los Padres National Forest) destroy tree roots that hold back mudslides.  At night, after sudden rain, a major mud flow buries 23 people.  Pacific Coast Highway (is it U.S. 101 here?) is interrupted.  Throughout Southern California, subdivisions are built on top of old alluvial fans that spread out from steep valleys and gullies.  The rains that washed out the allumium will happen again. 1969:  100 buried at Azusa.         Small homes that are blocks from the Pacific are destroyed by mudslides;  these homes are often worth $2 million before a slide.

2017 December 24   https://www.lutheranhour.org/sermon.asp    Topic:  truth.     DALE MEYER:  I just had a collection of sermons published, it's called Word Alive, and in the introduction I write about the great changes that have happened in American culture during my 48 years of preaching.

MARK EISCHER: What would you say is the greatest change?

DALE MEYER: People today don't believe in absolute truth. Years ago, people believed there was some kind of absolute truth. Maybe it was science, maybe reason, and for us it was-and still is-the Word of God. In that environment, we believed we could prove Christianity from the Bible. But today people tend not to believe in absolute truth. We often hear, "You have your opinion; I have mine. Who are you to tell me that I'm wrong?" That befuddles a lot of Christians. If people don't regard the Bible as absolute truth, where does that leave us?  See the following 2018 Jan 15.

2018 Jan 15  Steve Deace 7 Deadly Worldviews That Threaten Christianity reviewed by Don McCullen on CP Voices Dec 20 2019 

Deace calls it Progressivism but there may be a better umbrella term.  John E's editing...

a. Modern Gnosticism, a modern enlightenment displaces Christian scriptures and Jewish scriptures. 

Choose among postmodernism with its rejection of reason, language, and law,

the cult of the moment (transgender and its random offenses at language, Black Lives Matter, the American political ruling elite irrespective of party), etc. 

In pop culture, Da Vinci Code, The Golden Compass. 

Free thinking from Collins in 1713, John Stuart Mill in 1863.  In this time line, 100 A.D. and thereabouts and https://sites.google.com/site/solderandcircuits/home/more-circuit-design/physics-timeline/gnostics-keep-going.

b. Works-based righteousness, called legalism.

c. Good and evil are two sides of one coin, called dualism.  The Force in Star Wars comes with light and dark aspects.  Harry Potter, Lion King.  Human, personal choice of what is good instead of obedience to God's take on things;  autonomy.  The Christian view is a holy God who is separated from evil, it is not a matter of duality.  Satan's realm has no aspect of parallelism with the Kingdom of God or Heaven. 

Rousseau in 1755.

d. Materialsim and its handmaiden, evolution, chance as the creator. 

Marx in 1843.

The observed fine tuning of the universe (in this time line, 1973 astrophysicist Brandon Carter, 1980 Guth, https://sites.google.com/site/solderandcircuits/home/more-circuit-design/physics-timeline/physics-time-line-1900-present/higgs-boson-from-movie-particle-fever) must be explained away by the silly idea of the Multiverse (in this time line, 2017 Feb 3  The Principle). 

In academia, the faith of evolution replaces the Christian faith that professors used to have, and this new faith demands submission. (In this time line, 2017 Nov New Oxford Review p. 9, 2018 June 26  New book, Outrage, Inc., https://sites.google.com/site/solderandcircuits/home/more-circuit-design/physics-timeline/physics-time-line-1900-present/physics-time-line-1990-present/intolerance-in-academia,

https://sites.google.com/site/solderandcircuits/home/more-circuit-design/physics-timeline/physics-time-line-1900-present/solzhenitsyn-addresses-harvard.) 

Darwin (in this time line, 1859, 1883, 1896) set loose a law of the jungle as he proposed survival of the fittest.  Eugenics (in this time line, 1903, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1919, 1920s eugenics, 1926, 1927, 1929).  Machiavelli in 1513.

e. Autonomy, personal choice, every person for himself, called pragmatism. 

Descartes in 1637, Thomas Hobbes in 1651, Kant in 1784. 

Autonomy in this time line 1983 Pope John Paul II, 2018 March The Austin Bomber,

https://sites.google.com/site/solderandcircuits/home/more-circuit-design/bioethics-and-radical-autonomy,

https://sites.google.com/site/solderandcircuits/home/more-circuit-design/physics-timeline/physics-time-line-1900-present/morals-shown-in-physics-timeline/radical-individualism-autonomy,

https://sites.google.com/site/solderandcircuits/home/more-circuit-design/physics-timeline/physics-time-line-1900-present/solzhenitsyn-addresses-harvard

f. Syncretism until conflict brings about the dominance of the most powerful. 

Marx in 1843.

g. People are all basically good, sentimentality acting contrary to everyone's experience that people are basically selfish.  Secular humanism, Islam (sin is no big deal; government and religion must be integrated, it is heresy to separate religion out of government), corruption in the Russian fashion or in the Mexican cartel fashion. 

"People are basically good" in this time line at 2018 March 4 On the Fox Channel,

https://sites.google.com/site/solderandcircuits/home/more-circuit-design/physics-timeline/hegel-and-germany-after-french-revolution

The preceding world views, a through g, are associated with Jewish and Christian history in the following sub-page.

The Story of the Bible with Keys to 7 Deadly World Views

2018 January 23  “Why should your right to freedom of speech trump a trans person’s right not to be offended?” Channel 4 News host Cathy Newman asked crusader for the protection of free speech in Canada, University of Toronto professor of psychology Jordan B. Peterson, The Washington Times reported.    https://www.westernjournal.com/psychologists-explanation-right-not-offended-absurd-silences-media-host/

“Because in order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive."

Canadian Human Rights Act      Identifiable group means any section of the public distinguished by colour, race, religion, national or ethnic origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or mental or physical disability.

evidence that the offence was motivated by bias, prejudice or hate based on race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression, or on any other similar factor,

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/18/12-rules-for-life-jordan-b-peterson-review by Hari Kunzru   © 2018 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies.  This quote is part of a critical review by JE.

He is contemptuous of ... Marxists and “Postmodernists.”  He is a culture warrior, who has no truck with “white privilege”, “cultural appropriation” and a range of other ideas associated with social justice movements.  His views have marginalised him within the academic community but bolstered his reputation in conservative circles.

...“big five” personality traits – openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. His work on the psychology of political correctness has raised eyebrows, given his recent proposal to purge “corrupt” academic departments of courses and teachers he deems infected by this pathology.        “Don’t blame capitalism, the radical left, or the iniquity of your enemies...If you cannot bring peace to your own household, how dare you try to rule a city?”  “Male and female and parent and child are categories for us – natural categories, deeply embedded."         Chaos is the realm of lies...ethnic studies and boys who think they’re girls. ... 12 Rules for Life is saturated with Christian theology.  Many pages are devoted to biblical exegesis, though Peterson sidesteps the question, "Are you a Christian?" 

Jordan Peterson is professor at U. of Toronto.  The  Guardian article shows that Peterson can't be pinned down as being liberal or conservative.  He just seems to be writing down truth, which can be defined as "reality."  This is the same use of the word truth as I think Jesus used when he told Pilate, "for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth hears my voice."  I consider Jesus' word, truth, as meaning reality.  Jesus was telling Pilate to deal with reality, not politics.  Don't get caught up in a controversy that is a diversion, where some are mad at you and use any tactic to make you stop talking.  (Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals)    If I could talk with Prof. Peterson, would he talk with reason, logically?  Peterson is critical of Marxists, it seems.  My view of Marxists is that they hasten to tear down culture that has served humans well for thousands of years.

More about post modernism.

Black Livees Matter is associated with hatred of police,  https://www.dailywire.com/news/7537/11-worst-anti-cop-signs-black-lives-matter-rallies-aaron-bandler

For example, the Dallas police ambusher, five police dead, "He said he was upset at white people. He said he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers," Police Chief Brown added." Though I don't know that Johnson was stirred up specifically by BLM.

The point is, post modernists openly say that each person has his own reality, there is no single reality. Wikipedia has a lot more beliefs of post modernists, " postmodern critique includes universalist notions of objective reality, morality, truth, human nature, reason, language." Post modernists are against capitalism. They do not trust reasoning or logic!

Assange writes, "we must understand what aspect of government or neocorporatist behavior we wish to change or remove. Secondly we must develop a way of thinking about this behavior that is strong enough to carry us through the mire of politically distorted language."

"Authoritarian regimes give rise to forces which oppose them by pushing against the individual and collective will to freedom, truth and self realization. "

Assange"s "self realization" is at the core of post modernism. But when he says "truth" he is talking about his private view of reality. And he refers to language. Post modernists distrust even language because language is a possession of those in power, those who own the companies who publish dictionaries.

Ccommon targets of postmodern critique include universalist notions of objective reality, morality, truth, human nature, reason, language, and social progress.  Postmodern thinkers frequently call attention to the contingent or socially-conditioned nature of knowledge claims and value systems, situating them as products of particular political, historical, or cultural discourses and hierarchies.  Accordingly, postmodern thought is broadly characterized by tendencies to self-referentiality, epistemological and moral relativism, pluralism, and irreverence.

1980s and 1990s    http://encyclopedia.uia.org/en/problem/136818   ???

strictly speaking, postmodernism and post-structuralism are not the same thing. What I mean by these terms is an array of literary and cultural theory rooted in a Nietzschean -- as opposed to a Marxian -- critique of bourgeois modernity. Postmodernists hold that reason -- the leading principle of European post-Enlightenment modernity -- is not universal, but merely masks relations of power. Rather than conceiving of power as residing in centralized institutions like states, which can be seized and transformed, they regard power as dispersed and reproduced in every form of social discourse. Postmodernists reject the notion that the interests and outlook of the working class or any other group constitute the basis for liberation of all of people. They are suspicious of abstract categories like class, and deny the existence of unified subjects -- individuals or classes -- with historical agency. They do not speak of the origins of things because originary narratives inevitably privilege certain historical actors and forces while obscuring and repressing others. Postmodernists argue that because it is embedded in culture, language cannot transparently represent real historical objects; thus they concern themselves with the study of discourses and the cultural construction of meaning and difference, rather than with the study of society. They often adopt a playful, ironic, self-contradictory style, reflecting their view that there is no correct analysis of anything, but only an infinite variety of “readings.”

2018 Jan 24  J___ calls in to Todd and Don show on KLBJ.  He is a teacher in AISD, 2nd - 5th grade.  If you knew how history is taught, how discipline is handled, how politics is introduced in the classroom, you wouldn't send your child to AISD.  A lady calls in, charter schools [publicly funded] are so much better but you have to apply.  [They are probably cherry picking the best students out of the public schools.]  Austin taxpayers are annually sending $500M out of the district, to poor Texas districts.

2018 Jan-Feb  New Oxford Review p. 12  Islamic Anti-Semitism & the Culture of Hate (especially in Europe)  "French scholar Georges Bensoussan was sued for 'incitement to racial hatred' because he mentioned in a radio debate how widespread anti-Semitism is among Muslims in France."  Many Muslim refugees into Europe were consumers of propaganda and were exposed to "bizarre conspiracy theories" in their home-country mosques before they came to Europe.  In 2016, 51% of racist crimes in France targeted less than 1% of the population, the Jews.  Though French Muslims are portrayed as victims, it is French Muslims who victimize Jews.  These Muslims do not assimilate into French society;  they eskew French diversity and tolerance.  Politically correct European governments and press, in a dash to avoid appearing right-wing, cover for Muslims and hope Muslims will sometime decide to assimilate.  Exceptions are Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. 

2018 Jan-Feb  New Oxford Review p. 38  Gardiner reviews Gosnell:  The Untold Story of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer by McElhinney and McAleer.  Gosnell, a doctor, killed up to 1000 pre-birth and born-alive (sometimes breathing) babies per year in Philadelphia.  Drugs were administered to clients by untrained staff.  The Dept. of Health provided cover for Gosnell.  Toilets were clogged by fetal remains.  Many or most abortion clients were past the state limit of 23.5 weeks.  Gosnell's clinic received no DOH inspections for 17 years.  Gosnell is a lifer in prison but "the abortion industry emerged unscathed."

2018  Michael Harthorne,  Newser Staff    new longest prime number nicknamed M77232917 is 2 to the 77,232,917th power minus 1.  Nearly a million digits longer than the previous record-holder.  By Jonathan Pace, a 51-year-old FedEx employee, for the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search.  Big enough to fill 9,000 pages with this one number.

2018 February 1  "Richard Buckley fired as artistic director of Austin Opera for alleged inappropriate behavior" by Michael Barnes  http://arts.blog.austin360.com/2018/02/01/richard-buckley-fired-as-artistic-director-of-austin-opera/  

Feb 2  https://texasnewz.com/austin-opera-fires-artistic-director-richard-buckley/  “Richard Buckley engaged me in unwanted sexual behavior repeatedly during my one season at Austin Opera, and he was a big reason that I did not continue working there,” one woman said.  On KLBJ radio, it is said that Buckley used crude language and gave unwanted massages in the office.

2018 March 4  On the Fox Channel, a program about Billy Graham follows his death.  An emphasis is how Graham was counseled in the 1940s to doubt the reliability of the Bible.  By the time of the 8-week Los Angeles crusade in 1949, Graham is convinced that the Bible by itself is adequate for truth and faith.  Here are influences from the time, from Bill Austin's Topical History of Christianity, 1983.  Secularism is strong in the communist countries, Turkey, and India.  Evolution is gaining in universities.  Many teach that man is basically good.  The History of Religion School teaches that much of the Bible is from Babylon and Egypt.  Related is existentialism and Paul Tillich, the Social Gospel movement, Rudolf Bultmann's form criticism, and the Chicago School, which has influence toward Wheaton College, Billy Graham's college.  The Chicago School is led by Wieman, who teaches that science reigns and it is dangerous to believe in a transcendent, supernatural God.  Archaeology at Ras Shamra, Mari, and Qumran (Dead Sea Scrolls) support the reliability of the Bible.  Graham nets out these influences and comes down on the side of orthodoxy.

2018  http://www.travisdickinson.com/no-faith-not-belief-without-evidence/#comments

Christian faith is entrusting ourselves to Christ and venturing on the truth and reality of the gospel. 

Christians have faith in Christ because they have become convinced by

• the preaching of the gospel,

• the testimony of the Spirit,

• the richness of Scripture,

• a work the Lord has done in their own lives,

• answers to prayer,

• a world that appears designed and finely tuned,

• needing an explanation for value, purpose and hope, science, philosophy, logic.

Wrong:  Mark Twain: “Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.”  This from the writer of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte    1896 novel     which recounts the life of Catholic Joan of Arc, a martyr.  Twain called this book his most important writing.

Wrong:  Peter Boghossian: “belief without evidence.”

Wrong:  Richard Dawkins, the British atheist: “Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.

John Engelbrecht:  If you have faith is Jesus, you don't need backup plans to save you.  If you need a horoscope to keep from feeling anxious, that is a backup plan.

2018 Ap 1  RadioTimes.com  Britain      Martin Bashir, raised in a UK-resident, nominal-Muslim family, became a Christian early on.  More than half of Brits have no religion.  London bus ad:  There's probably no God--now stop worrying and enjoy your life.  But...Pew Research 2015 84% worldwide affiliate with a religion.  Especially Africa, now 46% Christian.  Christianity less by inheritance and more by choice.  Those who are religious by inheritance often fall away, while those religious by intent "tend to be committed and active."  Affecting parenting, etc.

2018 Sept 27  https://theconversation.com/why-atheists-are-not-as-rational-as-some-like-to-think-103563  “I don’t believe in God, I believe in science.”  Some atheists say this.  "The science increasingly shows that atheists are no more rational than theists. Indeed, atheists are just as susceptible as the next person to “group-think”."  "A new generation of postmodern atheists highlight the limits of human knowledge, and see scientific knowledge as hugely limited, problematic even, especially when it comes to existential and ethical questions."  "The idea that being atheist is down to rationality alone is starting to look distinctly irrational. But the good news for all concerned is that rationality is overrated."

     JE comment:  With this in mind, what should atheists (not Freedom from Religion Foundation extremists) think about materialism, or miracles, or faith in God?  Why should an atheist say there are no miracles and never were?  That type of atheist shows a severe closing off of his mind, he refuses to think about some things.

    Doug Wilson's observation about some atheists:  "Two tenets of atheism:  One, there is no god.  Two, I hate him."  JE:  a person who thinks this might be that way from some bitter experience.  Or the person might just be copying the thinking of another person, without thinking whether that person is worth copying.

2018 Mar 31  http://politics.earthlink.net/channel/politics/article?guid=20180331/tag-reuters-com-2018-newsml_KBN1H70QZ-3

Atlanta suffers a devastating "ransomware" virus attack.  Cyber extortionists moved from attacking individual computers to businesses, healthcare organizations and government agencies. Previous high-profile attacks have shut down factories, prompted hospitals to turn away patients and forced local emergency dispatch systems to move to manual operations.  Hackers demanded $51,000 worth of bitcoin from Atlanta.  City officials have not disclosed the extent to which servers for backing up information on PCs were corrupted.  Ten of 18 machines in the auditing office were not affected.

2018 March   The Austin Bomber, Mark Anthony Conditt, 23 yrs old, kills two and doesn't care how many more could have died.  The 25-minute-long, recorded statement, a sort of confession, by Mark Conditt, the 24-year-old Austin (Pflugerville) package bomber, says little about his motive.  Radio news is saying that Austin Police Department Chief Brian Manley described Conditt's recording as "an outcry from a person with a lot of issues."  His motive was not terrorism or hate.

John Engelbrecht comment mixed in with the jtcontracelsum article:  People try to imagine what Conditt meant.  (Reference:  https://jtcontracelsum.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-end-game-of-radical-individual.html)  It goes back hundreds of years to the core idea of the Enlightenment:  humans are not bound by religion, tradition, or any obligations that are not self-chosen.  John Adams said that our Constitution is only suitable for “a moral and religious people.” Absent this, the unbridled passions of men would tear through our constitutional order “like a whale through a net.”  Conditt had his own idea, that society should serve him up a fair and pleasant life, and when society ignored his personal needs, he had a right to punish society.  Conditt took on the liberal thinking that is common in America.  Liberalism is not producing the kinds of people our society needs to perpetuate itself.  Liberalism often claims neutrality about the choices people make.  Liberalism defends the “Right,” not any particular conception of the “Good.”  Liberalism cannot perpetually enforce order upon a collection of autonomous individuals increasingly shorn of constitutive social norms. We can either elect a future of self-limitation or we can back slowly into a future in which extreme license invites extreme oppression.  Liberal democracy in this radically individualist, post-Christian culture will eventually devolve into tyranny [as individuals imagine they have new kinds of rights.  The Ferguson, Missouri rioters imagined they had a right to loot and burn, as a way to work through their rage over the shooting of Michael Brown, the thief who was styled as a gentle giant, who they imagined to be a righteous person.]

Conditt is like the Russian nihilists of the 1860s. They left traditional morals in the dust.  They believed in science and autonomy, and they wanted to destroy the religious and moral traditions that had guided humankind in the past in order that a new and better world could come into being.  This gave the world the radical autonomists Marx, Lenin, and Mao Tse-tung, people who discarded the morals of the past and designed new morals on a whim, believing they could order their societies in a better way.  Conditt merely followed the lead of liberals, imagining new rights, demanding that society serve him up fairness and pleasantness.  He only bombed because he imagined that society was treating him badly.  Most of the violent American men who act in this way use guns to get even with society.  Mark Conditt chose bombs.  He didn't want to look his victims in the eye before shooting them, he let chance choose his victims.

If you search Internet for "why do men do mass shootings in schools," the fourth response is by Dave Roos Feb 23, 2018 https://people.howstuffworks.com/why-do-school-shootings-keep-happening-in-us.htm.  "In Hollywood Goes to the Movies, sociologist Bulman says that Hollywood films set in suburban settings focus on student journeys of self-discovery.  'Many suburban school shooters see what they are doing as acts of self-expression...it's called expressive individualism.  What we see in movies and TV is students engaged in this process of self-discovery, breaking through norms of the school, breaking through social cliques.'  Self-discovery and individual expression aren't necessarily bad things, says Warnick. But for certain troubled young men who harbor deep resentment of the system that rejected them, there's no better way to express their true, tortured selves than through a dramatic act of violence."

2018 March 7  Professor Gerald Kominski  Medicare is "...driving more and more seniors into poverty, which is the situation we were in before Medicare was enacted. And I don't think we should be going backward on the progress that we've made over the last 50 years."

Many Americans think the Medicare program provides government health care for free. Indeed, this perception fuels the frequent left-wing talking point about replacing the language of "single payer" with "Medicare for all."

For people on it, Medicare can actually be very expensive.  Much of Social Security income goes to out-of-pocket health care...past 50% of Social Security payments by 2030, at which point health care expenses will consume most of a Social Security retiree's assets, for those who are fully dependent on Social Security.

To qualify for Medicaid, you have to pass what's known as the asset test, spend all of your saving. If you're single or widowed, you have to sell your home… So they started off as middle class with savings and a home, but all of that money's gone and now they qualify for Medicaid."  This is health-care-driven poverty.

https://www.thestreet.com/how-to/medicare-is-not-free-here-is-why-it-costs-so-much-14499999

2018 March 14  Prof. at Cambridge Stephen Hawking, physicist, well known for outlasting (by decades!) doctors' predictions of early death from ALS, dies.  In recent years he fostered a video series, Genius.  See a sub-page about this series and comments about evolution Genius, Hawking, and Creation of Life

2018  March 10 Eli Lake     https://nypost.com/2018/03/10/its-time-to-label-putin-the-terror-promoter-that-his-is/

Last year, a Buzzfeed investigation revealed that US intelligence agencies identified 14 murders in the UK linked to Russia.  Britains's response is wishful thinking and willful blindness.  A key objective of Russian foreign policy: to be recognized and respected as a great power. Disclosing evidence of Russian criminality exposes it as a sponsor of terror.  [The West should name and shame.]  There should be reform or replacement of Interpol, which Russia abuses. (Red notices.)  Russia should be designated a state sponsor of terrorism.

An Interpol Red Notice is an international arrest warrant.  By Bill Browder, Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice is about the murder of Browder's Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, probably at the direction of Putin.  Heard on Brian Kilmeade radio March 15 2018.

2018 Ap 24  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5650489/Who-Alek-Minassian-Toronto-van-attack-suspect.html   Women-hating Toronto van driver 'targeted females' in rampage that left ten dead     hates women      no sex opportunity, women don't like him      IncelTears, a group, wants rape legalized

2018 Ap 26  80-year-old Bill Cosby is convicted on all three counts of felony aggravated indecent assault after decades of accusations by women.  Sentencing is in 5 months.      Many women were paid off and signed non-disclosure agreements.  The defense in the last case was that there was consent, despite the use of pills and alcohol.     http://people.com/crime/a-look-back-at-earlier-coverage-of-cosbys-sex-assault-allegations/

Phrases from the web page:  even in 2014, "The accusations keep coming...a starstruck young woman, a world-famous mentor, sometimes a proffered drink or pill [Quaalude], a sexual encounter the women claim was forced on them."   "Blacked out on his couch, awaking to find the comedian removing her underwear."  "A new wave of women recently started coming forward."  2014:  "Cosby’s resurgent career took a heavy hit."  "Once lauded as America’s Dad, who has been married to his wife, Camille, for 50 years."  "Settled lawsuit, signed a confidentiality agreement."  "Public image: a family man dedicated to promoting education, donating millions to charity while often lecturing the African-American community about morals."  An accuser raped during the final NBC Cosby Show year, 1992, when "he powered the entire NBC network."  Tamara Green in 2005:  “He intended to destroy her [Constand], and I couldn’t allow that.”  "When she was a secretary in 1965."  A list of 11 women accusers, with their real names.

These quoted phrases from people.com are part of a critical review by John Engelbrecht.  Cosby is one of many male VIPs who have gotten along for who knows how long with abusing women.  Some would blame women, saying "if she doesn't like that, she shouldn't be around him."  I think most of the women victims were trying to get ahead in their lives.  Some actually thought Cosby could help their careers.  When Weinstein, Cosby, and other men take advantage of women, they can say, "it has always been like this," but it is time for the culture to change.  Women need to be respected.  See Sept 25 2018

2018 June 7      https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/helping-trans-people-address-sense-of-foreshortened-future-0607185            I’m 21, I don’t have plans, and I don’t know what to do because everything is a mess.”      “I’m 45, and 5 more years just feels impossible.”      "Escape the pain of living in a body that doesn’t fit who they are. "  [no clue in the context of whether this person has transitioned or not]        "Many trans people report feeling a great sense of dysphoria."  "A future based on those gender roles [sounds like a non-transitioned person] might seem impossible."

2018  bmcpublichealth Food retailers are "key shapers of the food environment which influences consumers' diets."  Decision makers at supermarkets often try to promote healthy food, but when it doesn't sell, they retrench.  40% of American adults are obese.  "Energy dense and processed foods."  Poor communities are the most resistant to healthy eating, partley because unhealthy food tastes good and is cheap.  "You would see a cart full of sodas and chips and things are not healthy, that we know is not healthy, but at the end of the day is what people buy."  "Many, many people are just lazy."  Peeling an orange is too much work.  "If the manufacturers create the demand, then we are obliged to carry it."  JE:  food we purchase is around 0.5% of what is on the shelves.  The rest is just not healthy.

2018  The June 2025 issue of New Oxford Review, p. 16, by Victor Bruno, Who Murdered Christendom?    2017:  Pres. Trump starts "sweeping re-evaluation of...policies--a shift on a scale not seen since" FDR in the 1930s.  Trump's changes come to the fore in 2025.  Bruno reviews Frederick Wilhelmsen's writings;  U.S. politics are from the Enlightenment (1637 in the Time Line)...American Revolution (1776) from Britain was "calculated, premeditated, launched by" revolutionary colonial leaders to forward the economies of the colonies.  [Remember, the revolutionists were a minority, the majority were Royalists.     This idea of American Revolution as economic freedom runs counter to the popular concept of liberty-seeking patriots motivated by philosophy, rebelling against a despotic King George III.]  "The U.S. was...a work of art," "an indictment...linked to the very birth of modernity."  Christendom declined, replaced "cruelly" by The West, which is not Christendom.  Politics and society are less and less measured by "God and His Church."  As NOR is a Catholic publication, The West's antecedents are 

Martin Luther (1517), 

Machiavelli (1513), 

systematization of the law with Thomas Hobbes and Hugo Grotius (1651, Hobbes an early atheist), and 

systemization of the State with the Peace of Westphalia at the end of the Thirty Years War, early 1600s.  

The West is a "shrunken husk" that used to be Christendom.  The West suffers from "individual design and will of man."  The first two "products" of the process are the United States and the French Revolution.  The U.S. Constitution (1789, well after Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776) sets up something of a democracy, in that policies are "based on the number of people who vote."  "Manipulate people to 'go my way,'" and society goes awry.  "Great men...manipulate and outfox all other men."  "The West is adrift because it forgot its basic political element:  God."  JE:  to appreciate this type of thinking about the U.S., one needs to think outside the box of righteous American revoltutionaires vs. despotic King George III.  In light of toxic American politics after 1988 and 2017, Wilhelmsen's writing does help one focus on the fact that politics is rarely judged on spiritual scales. 

2018 Patrick Deneen Notre Dame  "Why Liberalism Failed"    An interview with Deneen, web site paraphrased by JE

     Deneen:  deep costs...in economics and society,  from ascendancy of individualism.  [JE:  autonomy, search for autonomy in this web site]  ...breakdown of social norms that govern sexual behavior, breakdown of family [single-parent families do not work as well], decline of reproduction.  In the light of the liberal world view, these look like successes.  Governing our appetites should be a higher function of our human nature.  How many disagree that excess is bad?  Too far in autonomy.  I have worked at Princeton, Georgetown, and Notre Dame, the last two being [nominally] Catholic.  They have career service centers to help graduates get jobs.  They don't have a "build your family" service center.  

     David Brooks NYT:  "The important debates...about values of our social order."

     Amazon review:  Liberalism trumpets equal rights while fostering material inequity [and some liberals demand equity, equal outcome no matter the starting conditions].  The U.S. is trying to give both autonomy while promulgating the most far-reaching state system.  Centripetal forces [flying outward] in politics are inherent features of a system that is failing.

     Review by PRNLM:  liberalism is radically individualist, consent-based...rights are opposed to living together.  Again, this is maximal freedom considered to be rights, and the strong state insuring individuals have their radical rights.  Both liberals and conservatives use the state to enforce rights.  People complain about inadequate liberty but also inadequately protected rights.  The state is cold, impersonal, paradoxical, ungainly, bloated.  [90% of federal lawsuits are the agencies of the government prosecuting people who violate, not the laws, but the regulations promulgated by the U.S. executuve agencies, which have great liberty to regulate.  "Published regulations hold the force and effect of law."  The IRS has liberty to interpret tax law;  agents sometimes target individuals and small companies and pursue settlements that are corrupt, but the target can't afford the high hourly rate of an "enrolled agent" attorney that is qualified to practice before the IRS.]  

     Review by Walter Olson:  liberalism is the greatest freedom from constraints, including norms.  Customs are replaced by laws.  Liberalism is a false concept of human nature.  Regarding the U.S. Treasury, the government borrows on the future.  There is no plan to pay back the debt [, while legislators age and die (before they can be prosecuted for fraud) and pass on a legacy of debt to a new flock of legislators who grow up thinking debt is normal].  Schools no longer teach history and scarcely study culture.  Virtues are lost.  

     Answersingenesis:  non-religious or anti-religious world view from Darwin, Marx, John Dewey, cheering on the secular march.  Dewey pushed radical, secular ideas into schools.  Dewey signed the Humanist Manifesto I, denying a creator and the soul and affirming evolution.  Dewey:  "Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society."  (Koscak, "Undoing John Dewey's Impact on American Public Education," The Renewanation Review 9 #2)  God is irrelevant and so is our individual existence.  American trends once secularism reigns in schools:  less belief in God, fewer church members, fewer children living with two parents, promiscuity, abortion is fine, same-sex marriage.  Chaos in morals.

2018 June 26  New book, Outrage, Inc.: How the liberal mob ruined science, journalism, and Hollywood by Derek Hunter     Jim Bohanan's America in the Morning June 26 2018  Rep. Maxine Waters, Dem. CA, told liberals to harass Trump-administration officials at all times when they are in public places, on June 26.  This is in line with what happened in Ferguson, MO.  The liberal line is that racism is acting against minorities in the U.S. at all times and in all places.  The liberal press set up camps in Ferguson for weeks to fan the flames of outrage.  The Washington Post observed that the facts of the Brown case didn't matter to liberals, it was a time to inflame emotions in service of condemnation of the country.       "There are three institutions in American life run by gatekeepers who have stopped letting in anyone who questions their liberal script: academia, journalism, and pop culture. They use their cult-like group-think consensus as “proof” that science, reporting, and entertainment will always back up the Democrats.  Celebrity scientists like Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson blending liberal activism with pretend expertise outside their fields."   http://www.jimbohannonshow.com/2018/06/25/outrage-inc/

2018 Ap  New Oxford Review book review, Terror in France:  The Rise of Jihad in the West by Gilles Kepel.  Salafis lavishly funded by Saudi Arabia and the Gulf.  They reject Muslim integration.  They despise Christians, Jews, and secular Muslims.  American Muslims are more affluent, better educated, and far more closely integrated into American society.  [My college students] lack even the vaguest sense of what Christian faith and life are about.  On a mosque visit, they are dazzled and attracted by the spectacle of worshipers packed shoulder-to-shoulder and prostrating in unison.  Many of my Roman Catholic students have never even attended a Mass. 

2018  New Oxford Review July-Aug  War in Syria and unrest in North Africa since the Arab Spring (a Western press phrase) push over a million Muslim refugees into Europe, though many come for job opportunity.  Some countries' leaders welcome them.  Not so with Italy, Austria, Hungary, and Poland.         The same NOR issue comments about Islam not fitting in with Western Europe, not assimilating.  P. 8, "freedom is a concept completely alien to Islam."  P. 10, narrowing of "Islamic reason" by Sunni al-Ashari, al-Ghazali, turning away from Greek and Christian thinkers.  P. 10, "mullahs are not theologians...they are [jurists]."  P. 11, "Islam...ultimate goal...rule the world...won't be democratic."  John E's comment is informed by his 18 months living in the 95%-Muslim Dearborn, Michigan South End and two semesters of Arabic-language classes at Wayne County Community College.  Paris has a large Muslim population that the government pushes toward assimilation, but Muslims don't want it.  When Muslims in Western countries gain a majority in a region, things really change.  Muslims are by culture persistent and patient.     

2018 July 4   https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/letter-from-a-frustrated-parish-priest-catholic/

Rod Dreher  Letter From A Frustrated Parish Priest

[Christian ministers always have problems with congregation members.  But when there is a hierarchy above the minister, the problems can be much worse.  Critical review of copyrighted web site.]

We have dedicated decades to one career and most of our education is only applicable in Church work...our bishop has almost unlimited power over us, financial power, spiritual power, power of assignment, power to suspend, power to send [to a mental hospital, a humiliating psychological evaluation] for psychological assessment.

(Clergy receive a Form W-2 but do not have social security or Medicare taxes withheld. [If they are to receive benefits,] they must pay social security and Medicare by filing Schedule SE, Self-Employment Tax.)

The sexuality of the priesthood is going to mirror the sexuality of the culture.  I know this to be true because I hear confessions.

You learn how to work within the system and keep the bishop happy.

Since I was ordained the Church has become more and more of a joke to the world.  [Especially after Vatican II, which coincided with the U.S. Sexual Revolution.  [If I had understood the degree of corruption,] I would never have become a priest.  (Priests are lonely and depressed, with feelings of being persecuted by those they serve.  Persecution by church members is common in all U.S. denominations.)

[A letter received...I am] a priest in a diocese that is, sadly, riddled with corruption,  manipulation, and bullying of priests on the part of the bishop and chancery staff...nobody had the guts to do anything.  [We are waiting for the bishop to retire.]

Recruitment and formation of diocesan priests favors “company men.”  The “good pastor” does not challenge his parishioners [does not provide the "correction" of 2 Tim 3:16], limits all innovation, allows stagnation, allows godparents and sponsors who are not qualified.

2018 July 18   CNN  Phillip Mudd seems to ask for a shadow government (Limbaugh:  the deep state) to come forth and save the U.S. from Pres. Trump

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/07/18/cnn_philip_mudd_when_will_a_shadow_government_challenge_trump.html#!

2018 July 18  Young German Mirjam Heine gives a TEDx Talk and defends h     pedophiles.  She says they need acknowledgement, toleration, and acceptance.  She says this will protect children.  She blames the consequences of pedophilia on everyone else.  Uproar.  The TEDx Talk is being scoured from the Internet.

2018 July 22   In the midst of Brexit complexity, Judi McLeod writes, "Time to Tell Socialist European Union:  "Hands Off Private Enterprise!"  "Brutal, soul-killing socialism of the EU."

2018 Aug 26     "Race-based school criteria roils Asian-Americans - Again"

By JANIE HAR   From Associated Press

Chinese-American ... parents bemoaned what they saw as an unfair racial advantage given to black and Latino children while their own children were overlooked.  In the 1980s, San Francisco ... required Chinese applicants to score higher on an admissions index ... legal mandate to diversify its schools.     ... Progressives on the left, such as de Blasio, vilify Asian-Americans instead of seeing them as partners.  ...     Cheng graduated from Harvard, he helped found the Asian American Legal Foundation and sued San Francisco schools in 1994...At issue was a 1983 consent decree aimed at desegregating San Francisco schools, the result of a lawsuit filed by the local NAACP. The parties agreed to settle in 1999, and the quota system was eventually dropped.

2018 Aug 14   https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/08/14/grand-jury-report-pennsylvania-details-abuse-catholic-priests/980687002/

Catholic Church leaders protected more than 300 "predator priests" in six Catholic dioceses across Pennsylvania for [60 years] because they were more interested in safeguarding the church and the abusers than tending to their victims, says a scathing grand jury report [developed over two years] released Tuesday.  Prominent on PBS Newshour, Aug 14.

More than 1,000 young victims were identifiable from the church's own records, the report says.  “The main thing was not to help children, but to avoid scandal.” "Priests were raping little boys [80-90% boys, see below] and girls and the men of God who were responsible for them not only did nothing: They hid it all.”

Only two priests are to be charged.  The rest have died or are protected by statutes of limitations.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, interviewed by PBS' Judy Woodruff:  "they documented it, and they locked it in a vault called a secret archive that the bishop had the key to."

https://archive.triblive.com/local/valley-news-dispatch/priests-with-ties-to-alle-kiski-valley-used-whips-violence-and-sadism-report-says/   Aug 14 2018    a “ring of predatory priests … who shared intelligence or information regarding victims as well as exchanging the victims amongst themselves (and) also manufactured child pornography on diocesan property.”  Father Zirwas was passed through seven parishes.  He took leave in Miami and requested added support.  Archbishop Wuerl "paid him to shut up and stay away."  New Oxford Review March 2019 p. 20.  Zirwas fled to Havanna, joined the     scene, and was murdered in 2001.  Archbishop Wuerl claimed his own actions were honorable, but Pennsylvania AG Shapiro said he is "not telling the truth."      “This group of priests used whips, violence and sadism in raping their victims.”      Wuerl later claimed that the predation of Cardinal McCarrick had slipped his mind.  Pope Francis called Wuerl a "model bishop."  NOR p. 22:  Francis has surrounded himself with men who are at the heart of the scandals.

2017  http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2017/04/20/how_the_catholic_priesthood_became_a_haven_for_many_gay_men.html    © 2018 The Slate Group LLC 

Quotes here are part of a critical review by John Engelbrecht.

15% to 50% of U.S. priests are     , which is much greater than the 3.8 percent of people who identify as LGBTQ in the general population.

In the last half century there’s also been an increased “    of the priesthood” in the West. Throughout the 1970s, several hundred men left the priesthood each year ... the proportion of remaining priests who were       grew.  Los Angeles Times found that 28% of priests between the ages of 46 and 55 reported that they were    . This statistic was higher than the percentages found in other age brackets and reflected the outflow of straight priests throughout the 1970s and ’80s.

The high number of      priests also became evident in the 1980s, when the priesthood was hit hard by AIDS. The Kansas City Star estimated that at least 300 U.S. priests suffered AIDS-related deaths between the mid-1980s and 1999. The Star concluded that priests were about twice as likely as other adult men to die from AIDS.

“H      persons are called to chastity,” states the Catechism of the Catholic Church [1992, see this time line, a listing of 2800 items of belief]. “By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.”  [Orthodox Protestant belief is that perfection cannot be approached, grace is needed.]

Pope Benedict once said that      in the priesthood was “one of the miseries of the church” and that the church needed to “head off a situation where the celibacy of priests would practically end up being identified with the tendency to     .”  “Bishops are caught in the middle and running scared,” priest-theologian Richard McBrien told reporter Jason Berry in his book Lead Us Not Into Temptation.

Wikipedia for Catholic Church sexual abuse cases, According to the 2004 John-Jay-Report, commissioned by U.S. bishops, 81% of the abuse victims in the United States were male;  Dr. Thomas Plante found as high as 90%.  A number of books, such as The Rite of S    :       and the Roman Catholic Church, have argued that      priests view sex with minors as a "rite of passage" for altar boys and other pre-adult males.  In the secular public, child sexual abuse harms twice as many girls as boys.  New Oxford Review Mar 2019 p. 4

JE's comment:  It is apparent that the Catholic Church views discipline and internal crime as a matter for Church action, independent of civil authority.  The worldwide Catholic hierarchy maintains a system that is parallel to and non-intersecting with national laws, in both discipline and the segregation of offenders from the public.  The latter point is addressed by the Church in terms of isolation, penitence, and prayer, only after an offender demonstrates repetitive abusing after assignment to multiple dioceses.  From 2004 to 2018, 19 dioceses and orders in the U.S. have filed for bankruptcy due to payments to victims.  Bishopaccountability.org says there has been $3 billion of settlements.

Anyone who makes a charge that a person is        is almost always trying to scare the person and make him stop talking.  But here is another way to answer that person.  A reasoning, logical person is hunophobic.  A reasoning person, knowledgeable of facts about      , should be afraid of what radical      do.  They want to change the world's culture.  (African culture and Russian culture is solidly against h      .)  It is a self-perpetuating practice that recruits boys and young men, those who are at hand and have no       leaning, it is just that they can be recruited.  S    to men is quite addictive, and recruited young men rapidly become addicted.  I learned this in the 1980s as I read books by conservative and Christian authors. 

Up and down this time line, I cite problems with         .  One problem is what the CDC acknowledges,        men engage in high-risk behavior (risk of HIV).  They like it that way, it is a type of thrill.  So many      don't even want to get tested for HIV.  So, yes, people who take the facts and go with reason are hunophobic,  I am afraid for world cultures.  That is a reasoning way to think about it.  It is logical thinking.

The U.S. Roman Catholic church lobbies hard to prevent extensions to the statuutes of limitations.  More lawsuits is the way to the closing of more schools and social-service programs.  New York State Child Victims Act, look-back windows.

2018 Sept 2   Coast to Coast A.M. with George Noory, guest Tamara Laroux, author of 2018 A Second Chance at Heaven Thomas Nelson.

The best Coast to Coast I have heard in three years, since most are baloney.  But George chose a good guest for two hours.  Tamara's story lines up very closely with my understanding of Heaven and Hell and peoples' choice, where my understanding comes mainly from Bible study and teaching I hear in Baptist churches.  She says "soul" where I say "spirit," but that doesn't negate how she and I think along the same lines. 

Tamara was without hope in (sounds to be) Midland-Odessa, Texas, at age 15.  (She is now a grandmother.)  She was going to put a bullet in her head, but she knew what a trauma that would be to her family, so she shot herself in the chest.  She felt her lungs filling with blood and she felt death.  Then her soul separated from her body and she fell at high speed into Hell.  There was no Purgatory.  During the Coast program, she didn't say if she had a sense of being there for a longer or shorter time. 

Hell was black.  But she was aware of many souls nearby, and everyone's life story was available to listen to.  As many souls as she wished to be aware of, she could see.  Each of the damned was alone, subjected to blasting fire and pain for eternity.  There is no physical body that burns up;  the fire continues in the soul.  There is no hope, all know that God will never rescue them.  They know what they are missing by being separated from God.  Many seek a way to warn those living on Earth, just like Luke 16:19-31.  "Testify to my brothers lest they come to this place of torment."  "If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead."

Tamara felt the horror and pain.  She was constrained by a demon behind her.  Then she saw a white cloud coming, and the hand of God lifted her up at great speed through the universe to Heaven.  She was there briefly and was not given liberty, but she sensed light, peace, joy, and love.  She could sense a large number of Heaven's residents, as many as she wished to be aware of.  She knew she could kneel in gratitude to Jesus the Christ (Jesus the Messiah), submit in her heart to him, and be accepted by him.  She knew that one's goodness or badness on Earth doesn't matter.  It just matters that one surrenders to Christ.  For those who make that choice, there will be fruit in their lives.  But there is still disobedience;  Tamara was later a teen mother without being married.

When her brief time is Heaven was over, she was present again in her body, but she was now past death.  But the EMTs that her mother called saw no hope.  They advised that the morgue be called, but the mother asked for transport to an ER.  Tamara lived and recovered quickly.  She had troubles through her teen years, but she had a new hope.

I was struck by the alignment of Tamara's Heaven and Hell descriptions with what I understand from the Bible.  I have been writing "essays" in my Google Sites web site for some years, and they really line up with what Tamara says.  See the essays at https://sites.google.com/site/solderandcircuits/home/more-circuit-design.  Look toward the end of the links at this page.

George Noory, a Catholic with a family background in Lebanon and a childhood in Detroit, fished for his personal favorite, reincarnation.  (Though reincarnation is not in Catholic teaching.)  Tamara said reincarnation is not there.  She said all the religions that offer alternatives to acceptance of Jesus and submission to him are lies.  George said, "You are being very strong about that."  Tamara said that there is one truth and the rest is lies.

The program concluded with callers.  All but one affirmed Tamara.  July 19-20, 2019  Noory definitely says he is Catholic (maybe not Roman Catholic), said he was in catechism class as a boy 

2018 Sept     https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2018/10/aa34294-18.pdf

Flares are seen around the massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, in infrared light that can penetrate the dust clouds that obscure visible light.  Clockwise, looping motion is detected, in addition to the orbital motion of the material that is emitting the flares.  This may be from intense magnetic fields interacting with plasma.  30% of the speed of light.

2018 Sept 7  https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/09/blumenthal_whitehouse_harris_and_booker_the_four_horsemen_of_the_democrat_apocalypse.html  by Patricia McCarthy

At the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for Judge Kavanaugh, Senators Blumenthal, Whitehouse, Harris, and, Booker and boisterous demonstrators in the hearing room put on a show, "care about nothing beyond ending the Trump presidency."  All the Dem senators took turns talking over the Republican Judiciary Committee chairman, on the first day of the Kavanaugh hearing.  "Nominees such as Ginsburg and Kagan [had been] celebrated for their refusal to answer certain questions.  Kavanaugh...has been eviscerated by these same Democrats and the press for his handling of the questions asked."  They "count on the SCOTUS to advance the far-left agenda they cannot get done legislatively." 

"Democrats...cruel, vicious, and vindictive.  Republicans [are castigated in the press if they aren't] passive, kind, and considerate." 

About American Thinker:  "National security...is emphasized. The right to exist and the survival of the State of Israel are of great importance to us."  Editor Thomas Lifson came from liberalism toward conservatism as he observed that liberal dreams of perfecting society "run smack into human nature."

These sentiments are what Limbaugh often says.  The part of the public which seeks to be fair wonders if Republicans have ever behaved so badly.  How do the Democrat tricks with Kavanaugh compare to the Republican denial of hearings, for the last eight months of Pres. Obama's presidency, of nominee Merrick Garland?  In fact, a so-called "Biden rule" was recommended by Dem. Senator Biden in 1992.  NYTimes Feb 22, 2016

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/brett-kavanaugh-assault-allegations-ford-testimony/   Rich Lowry Sept 21 2018 © 2018 by King Features Syndicate

"The Democratic-media complex isn’t very interested in proving [Dr. Ford's allegation]. It wants to take her truthfulness as a given, as a matter of cosmic

and gender equity."  "Now, “liberal” means braying for collective justice to right historic wrongs."  Rich Lowry notes recent charges that were deemed unfounded.  "The Duke lacrosse players weren’t guilty. The University of Virginia fraternity story wasn’t true. The Columbia University student who carried a mattress around as a symbol of her alleged rape falsely accused her supposed assailant."  JE:  The Left and the liberal press were all in agreement with these charges, but after months, each charge was deemed untrue.  There were no apologies from the Left.

JE comment:  Conservative radio commentators are saying that Ford is surely remembering an attempted assault 36 years ago.  But she must be remembering another man, not Kavanaugh.  When she can't remember a date or place, and when so many of the people she cites to back her up end up denying, why should her charge scuttle a Supreme-Court nomination?  Dozens to hundreds have vouched for Kavanaugh's character.  A woman caller to KLBJ Austin radio took the liberal line, essentially saying the accused is guilty until proven innocent.  How should innocence be proven when no date or location is charged?

Sept 27 Brett Kavanaugh picked an appropriate time during his Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to frankly criticize the circus that Chairman Grassley allowed to develop.  Ford and Kavanaugh got national, live media.  He accused Democrats of “frenzy,” highlighting “crazy-stuff” accusations of sexual assault, rape, and group sex.  "What goes around comes around.”  “This confirmation process has become a national disgrace,” he said.

He said the onslaught of allegations was the natural result of the venom Democrats have expressed toward him, pointing out that one member of the Judiciary Committee had called him evil, and another had said his confirmation would kill Americans.

“You sowed the wind for decades to come. I fear the whole country will reap the whirlwind,” he said.  And he said his years of promoting women and the rave reviews he’s gotten from female students and lawyers should speak loudly.

2018 Sept 25    From April 26, Bill Cosby, age 81, sentenced to 3 to 10 yrs in Pennsylvania state prison for being a sexually violent predator.  Up for parole in 3 yrs.  He was in jail today.     After about a year, Cosby is exercising and eating better.  He trades unhealthy food for broccoli, apples, and bananas.  He is down from 220 to 187 pounds.  He doesn't want diabetes.

2018 Oct 5  Judge Kavanaugh nominated for Supreme Court.  Excerpts with comments added by JE, making this a critical review.  Kavanaugh's high school was a Jesuit Catholic prep school in the D.C. area.  Lots of beer drinking, by students under age 19, was normal.

    Judy Woodruff:  And now the analysis of Shields and Brooks. Senator Susan Collins today talked about how the Senate's Supreme Court confirmation process has been on a steady decline [over 20 years], and she hoped it's hit rock bottom with what we have watched with Judge Kavanaugh.  Have we?  [The political show in the Senate Judiciary Committee started fifteen seconds into Sen. Grassley's opening statement.  All the Democrats took turns talking over the chairman.  During that day's committee meeting, many in the audience shouted to disrupt the meeting.  It looked completely staged.  Brooks calls it a spectacle, below.]

    David Brooks:  It's hard to see any rock bottom down here.  I would say this was  one of the most unpleasant and undignified and depressing spectacles I have seen in my career...a very complicated case of two different stories that were thrown before us...How much importance do you give to high school behavior [36 years before]?

The Supreme Court used to be held up above politics.  Now, on the key issues, it falls on party-line votes. It's just another tribal institution in American life.

    And when the Supreme Court falls on party-line votes, then the Senate confirmation process falls on party-line votes and the American public falls on party-line votes. And so reason and investigation and intellectual humility and conversation, any attempt to persuade, they seemed to play no role in this process. It was about base mobilization and the mobilization of power.  A depressing commentary on democracy, really.

    Mark Shields:  Our politics is broken.  I think the central [reason] is money and gerrymandering. The big societal questions, it isn't the Congress that deals with them.  They're locked in gridlock. It has been going to the courts.  [Shields is wrong about money and gerrymandering.  The reason is the insistence from increasingly extreme Democrats that only liberals can save America.  Liberals, 30% of the population, ride the tsunami of the continuance of the Enlightenment, and they insist that the majority of Americans be silent as liberals remake America.]

[For Judge Kavanaugh,] it was this bitter and ugly campaign. But Kavanaugh did become the candidate.

David Brooks:  We got Michael Avenatti and these people saying, oh, he's been in gang rapes.     https://people.com/politics/michael-avenatti-brett-kavanaugh-gang-rapes-high-school/       Stormy Daniels‘ lawyer, Michael Avenatti...alleging that Kavanaugh, his friend Mark Judge, and others targeted women with drugs and alcohol “in order to allow a ‘train’ of men to subsequently gang rape them” at house parties in the early 1980s.  Avenatti did not present any evidence about the allegations, but said he was aware of “multiple women” who “will corroborate these facts.”  [Are we to think that the same high-school girls continued to go to multiple parties that had rape trains?  Really?]

    I saw the pulverization of two human beings for ideological reasons.

    A lot of people felt uncomfortable really changing the trajectory of a man's life over this, without that corroborating evidence [to support Prof. Ford's allegations].

[She cited four people who would corroborate, but none have.  The FBI investigation this week, the seventh for Judge Kavanaugh, showed no corroboration for Prof. Ford.]

    Mark Shields:  18 years ago, the Supreme Court resolved Bush v. Gore [the presidential election]. I don't know, given today's climate, if a court decision would be accepted without fighting in the streets.  The critics of Judge Kavanaugh who are holding rallies in the Capitol today and tomorrow are only hurting their cause.  The time for protest and shrieking is over.

    David Brooks:  Over the last couple weeks, Donald Trump's approval rating has gone up eight points [in red states]...We have 3.7% unemployment in the country [lowest since 1969], and yet we're still talking about driving ourselves into our corners and writing people off.

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2018 Oct 10  After witnessing the rebellion of Democrats in the Senate Judiciary Committee during Judge Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing, with coordinated disruptions from noisy liberals in the audience in the hearing room, the Senate Office Building, and around the Supreme Court building, I put together some strands of thinking on the topic of Western society willing its own demise.  A general theme is that liberty results in disorder or even riots.

1) Democrats and extreme liberals hate the institutions of conservative America.

2) The decades-long push to give freedom to marginally stable men, coupled with the the ready availability of guns and the elimination of state-budgeted mental institutions, kills dozens to hundreds of Americans in mass shootings every year.

3) Extreme liberals want to erase the U.S.-Mexico border.  This is for their longer-term goal of letting non-U.S. citizens vote, yielding an electorate which will always vote liberal.

4) University professors train students to work for  the disruption of traditional ways of making society work.

5) Transsexual and h advocates

6) Spiritual alternatives dilute the influence of Christianity.  The Catholic Church's decades-long practice of keeping sexual abusers active in the priesthood leads many (both in parishes and non-Catholics) to disdain Catholics.  Disagreements among Protestants splinter their churches.

7) Hollywood, advertising, and marketing want men to think that unrestrained sexual exploits are normal for men and saying yes is normal for women.  Including freedom of the press in the area of pornography.

8) Liberal politicians participate in self-loathing.  This is obvious in the contrast between Presidents Obama and Trump.

9) People vote for themselves immediate prosperity in return for long-term debt.  This has been a problem since the Roman Empire.

10) Climate-change advocates and the deniers clash ovprincetoner whether fossil-fuel burning is significant in ice melting.  The issue is complex (geology records ice ages before people burned fuel), the variables are numerous, and the modeling has plenty of assumptions. 

11) Advocates for abortion and euthanasia muddy the ideas about what human life is about.

12) Ideas coming from the Enlightenment, Marxism, etc. foster libertine thinking.  A theme here is that most think Man is perfectible.

13) Nuclear war is not part of this thinking.  Nuclear-bomb stockpiles are still sufficient to kill most people in the Northern hemisphere.

14) Government corruption, paying off law enforcement to allow cartels and organized crime to stake out territory, is not part of this thinking.

2018 Oct. New Oxford Review p. 10  Secularization is destroying all world religions without exception...Islam will fall before burgeoning secularism.     New Oxford Review letter from M. Suozzi, "Hedonistic materialism in the West and dialectic materialism in the East...destroying all 'world religions'...only a matter of time until Islam falls."

2018 Oct  firstthings.com   liberal Lutherans  Glaring departure from classic Christian teaching...2018 ELCA Youth Gathering...high schoolers heard most radical speakers the ELCA could possibly put forward.  Nadia Bolz-Weber.

In a book...Lutheran preacher:  Do you believe that through me, a called servant of God, you will receive the forgiveness of all your sins?  Then declare so by saying, I do believe.    This is a holdover from Roman Catholic practice, understandable in that Luther objected first to indulgences-for-pay but didn't object so much to other Catholic practices.  (Calvin, the reformer, carried through with additional reform, giving rise to Reformed Theology, and exposed many corruptions and deficiencies in Catholicism.  A modern deficiency in Catholicism is letting laymen get along without Bible study.)  The Roman Catholic practice is that a priest can insert himself into the way of forgiveness;  in contrast, the New Testament way to be forgiven is to ask Jesus for forgiveness, then the New Testament explains that forgiveness-by-faith must be accompanied by repentance.  (But not penance, necessarily, where penance is contrition, confession to a priest, acceptance of punishment, and absolution.)

2018 Oct 31  Wacky California Prop 65, requiring many products bear a warning of cancer risk, leads fearful retailers to label anything and everything with the state-required label, for fear of damage lawsuits.  A tree sold in a nursery has a Prop 65 label.  Attorneys "sue their way into a new yacht."

2018 November  New Oxford Review Oct. issue p. 36 archbishop Vigano has cracked open the Vatican cone of silence and exposed...McCarrick...seduced seminarians.  McCarrick is Pope Francis' "trusted counselor."  Vigano calls on the Pope to resign.    November issue on pages 4-6 & 28-31 are plenty of charges by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano   accused Pope Francis of covering up the abuse of the former cardinal Theodore McCarrick     Vigano's "third letter:"  denouncing corruption ... allows it to flourish ... does not meet with congratulation in our times ... I am charged with fomenting a rebellion.      The editor of NOR has strong words of warning to the Roman Catholic hierarchy.

2018 Nov  Gene Machine by  Venkataraman Ramakrishnan        3 things Driving scientists. Curiosity about why things work. Ego and ambition, being right and first. Making money from commercialization.   JE comment:  These truly are motivations for real scientists.  Scientists are not driven by the scientific method, but school children are taught that they are.

Says on Coast to Coast AM November 22 2018 that he doesn't value or promote Hinduism as truth (JE words), many Indians have started companies in California not India because of freedom in California.

2018 Nov. New Oxford Review p. 24:  Belloc:  Religion is the making of a culture.  While we are accustomed to think of religion as a private matter, in social fact, it is a public matter.  John Locke bears the most responsibility for this.      What really differentiates humans is culture, and at bottom that is founded on religion or some secular substitute.     See 1637 Descartes, and within that note about Locke.  See also 1690.

2018 Dec.  New Oxford Review letter from C. Gawley about K. Schultz's article in the Oct. issue commending Pope Paul VI's canonization.  Gawley says Paul VI will be remembered as the worst pope in history, because of Vatican II, laicized priests, declines in "vocations," closed seminaries, dioceses bankrupt due to court judgments against so. priests, and apostasy.  Gawley notes that the "worst generation [of priests] of the 1960s and 1970s is dying...their time of control and desolation is at an end."  The next letter to the editor notes claims of Peyrefitte and Bellegrandi that Paul VI was a so   . and promoted such into the Lavender Mafia.  S. Frost's letter:  if Vigano's allegations put pressure on the Lavender Mafia, "they will fight fiercely and dirty to preserve their culture and agenda."    Page 42:  Robert Cardinal Sarah decries the new postmodern ideologies in the realm of sexuality, the family, and marriage.  He criticizes activism which attempts to improve everything but never fixes anything.  "The Church's mission is not to solve all the social problems of the world."  Page 47:  Eugenics has now made a comeback with genetic diagnoses prior to implantation to discard imperfect embryos.  41% of the trans population of the U.S. has attempted suicide, but only 4.6% of the overall population.  Bell and Weinberg:  83% of h     are with >=50 partners, 43% with >=500, 28% with >=1000.  [This is the high-risk behavior the CDC warns against, see this timeline at 2017, "how the catholic priesthood became a haven for     ."

2018 Dec 3 Violent protests in France reveal a hard-to-heal fracture      By ELAINE GANLEY      PARIS (AP) — Discontent about the rising cost of living among the "little people," as many protesters call themselves, had been growing, along with a sense of marginalization. The approach of Macron's fuel tax increases in January, meant to wean the French off fossil fuels, has caused things to snap...130 people were injured and over 400 were arrested...the worst in the country in decades...The Yellow Vest movement ... Macron is surrounded by a young team with little experience...The protesters filtering traffic to a slowdown in the protests that began Nov. 17... Shops were looted and cars torched in plush neighborhoods around the famed Champs-Elysees Avenue. The Arc de Triomphe, which cradles the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and was visited by world leaders last month to mark the centenary of the end of World War I, was besmirched with graffiti and vandalized inside.

2018 Dec 19   John E's 506-word article is published in the IEEE journal, IEEE Life Members Newsletter Dec 2018.  This issue has a doubled or tripled section, 8 pages, of Tales from the Vault, which are articles by older IEEE members, important, amusing, or historical technical incidents from their engineering lives.  My article is on p. 9, A Logic Recorder Tolerant of Static Sparks.  This is the first article I have had published in a public journal.  In 1984, I and two Texas A&M co-op students published a paper about the low impedances of capacitors, and their measured self resonances, within the IBM publication system.  John's IEEE Article is Published

2018 Dec 21  https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2018-12-21/pope-to-priestly-sex-abusers-turn-yourselves-in

After Illinois Attorney General reports investigation since August of Catholic Church, and months after a critical Pennsylvania report of a secret vault, Pope Francis "urged victims to come forward and issued a stark warning to abusers: "Convert and hand yourself over to human justice, and prepare for divine justice."   Copyright 2018 The Associated Press."  The Christian doctrine that the pope ignores is forgiveness.  Any priests who abused children (it is normally boys who are abused, see the John Jay report) can seek Jesus' forgiveness.  The pope's comment implies that there is no forgiveness.  The pope is edging toward giving up on the Catholic Church's seeming justice system that they have always used, which is an alternative to civil justice.

The pope hasn't responded much to Archbishop Vigano, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/world/europe/archbishop-carlo-maria-vigano-pope-francis.html   condemning the h networks inside the church that act “with the power of octopus tentacles” to “strangle innocent victims and priestly vocations.”  "Archbishop Viganò sided with conservative culture warriors and used his role in naming new bishops to put staunch conservatives in San Francisco, Denver and Baltimore. But he found himself iced out after the election of Pope Francis."  Vigano went public after the Pennsylvania case broke out.

2019 Jan 9    Einstein's Quantum Riddle on PBS Nova   Irish John Bell 1960s theory      The Bell test for entanglement      The EPR Paradox   

2019  category:  high-speed photography      laser pulse sees electron motion at time scale of 10-18 second

2019 Jan 22.  Daily Caller Chuck Ross   "Jerome Corsi Adds Washington Post, Jeff Bezos to Lawsuit Against Mueller"    Corsi, a frequent guest on Coast to Coast AM, alleges that the Mueller special-counsel office leaked information and caused Corsi to lose a $15000-per-month severance deal with InfoWars.  Corsi's initial suit against Robert Mueller, FBI, Justice Dept., CIA, NSA on Dec. 9.  "Defendants...are attempting to financially deplete Plaintiff Corsi."  Corsi says his prediction of Wilileaks' release of Podesta e-mails was from Corsi's "forensic analysis" of other e-mails (1000 pages about e-mails in the Democratic National Committee computers), not from a conspiracy.  The special counsel office interrogated Corsi for 40 hours and charged Corsi with a process crime but Corsi was eventually allowed to amend his earlier statement, concerning his recollection of five e-mails about Assange.  The idea of process crime is new to the general public.  One famous trial involving process crime was Martha Stewart's case in 2004 about a stock sale.  She served five months in "Camp Cupcake" and returned to TV cooking shows.  Process crimes are widely criticized as an abuse of power.

2019 Jan 22  Rush Limbaugh starts the program by vigorously criticizing the anonymous social media activists who are condemning the Catholic Covington high school, telling colleges to reject any applicants from the school.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/covington-catholic-high-school-students-smeared-by-mainstream-media-lies-dont-expect-an-apology  Native American activist Nathan Phillips gave a story to liberal media and they didn't fact check it.

“Boys in ‘Make America Great Again’ Hats Mob Native Elder at Indigenous Peoples March,” read The New York Times story.  And now, thanks to video evidence, we know that the entire story was a hoax – a flat-out lie.  Phillips and some of his associates were the ones who instigated the confrontation. It was Phillips who thrust his drum in the face of the teenage boy wearing the MAGA hat.  “White people go back to Europe where you came from,” one of the activists shouted at the Catholic students. “This is not your land.”     And the young man in the so-called “stare down” can be seen trying to calm down a classmate while one of the adult activists cursed the child.    

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/nathan-phillips-lied-the-media-bought-it/   According to The Washington Post,Phillips, 64, said that he felt threatened by the teens and that they swarmed around him. This is a lie. They didn’t swarm around him. He strolled right into the middle of their group.

Limbaugh draws a parallel to Ferguson and Black Lives Matter. Liberal media run with a story that is false and cooperate with radical liberals to make the American public outraged.  Limbaugh also criticized the Silicon Valley social-media owners who allow false news to propagate.   See in this timeline, 2014 Coast to Coast AM show on morning of Nov 18

July 2019:  The maligned school or students sue and win

2019 Jan 24   https://lidblog.com/alveda-king-planned-parenthood/      "At the heart of the philosophy of Planned Parenthood is this ideological and scientific commitment to a kind of racism.”  "The Congressional black caucus—...dollars from eugenicists, such as Planned Parenthood.”    Dr. King is niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

2019 Feb 16  By FRANCES D'EMILIO and NICOLE WINFIELD   VATICAN CITY (AP) (excerpts)  — Pope Francis has laicized former U.S. Cardinal Theodore "Uncle Ted" McCarrick, age 88, after Vatican officials found him guilty of soliciting for sex while hearing confession and sexual crimes against minors and adults.  It was an open secret that he...with adult seminarians.  McCarrick moved from his Washington retirement home to a Kansas friary after Francis ordered him to live in penance and prayer while the investigation continued.  It is a downfall for the globe-trotting powerbroker and influential church fundraiser who mingled with presidents and popes.  Francis himself became implicated in the decade-long McCarrick cover-up after a former Vatican ambassador to the U.S., Vigano (see timeline Nov and Dec 2018), accused the pope of rehabilitating the cardinal from sanctions imposed by the retired Pope Benedict XVI despite Francis being told of McCarrick's penchant for young men...compared the McCarrick cover-up scandal to that of the Rev. Marcial Maciel, perhaps the most notorious pedophile.  Maciel's sex crimes against children were ignored for decades by a Vatican impressed by his ability to bring in donations and vocations.

    Rev. Ramsey in the Immaculate Conception Seminary calls the papal nuncio in 2000 in alarm when he learns that McCarrick is going to be the Washington D.C. archbishop.  "I was just shocked."  McCarrick routinely took students to his New Jersey beach house, into his bed.  In spokesman.com etc. in Dec 28 2019, it is known that McCarrick donated $600,000 to various Catholic leaders, including those investigating McCarrick's alleged abuse.  The names Montalvo, Sandri, Sodano, Bransfield are associated with this.  The predator priest scourge first was known in Ireland and Australia in the 1990s.  The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is a body that investigates abuse.  Catholic canon law is followed, "a parallel legal system to civil law enforcement." (Detroit News)  "Tends more toward ordering errant priests to prayer, penance and prohibition from celebrating Mass in public."  Dismissal or laicization is sometimes a penalty.  "If the priest accepts th[is] penalty, the case ends there."  From 2004 to 2014, 848 priests were laicized.  The Catholic legal system imposes secrecy on victims.  "Pontifical secret."  The laicization rate is reduced under Pope Francis.

2019 Feb 4   Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together (Abu Dhabi Declaration) by Pope Francis and Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar.  Wikipedia:  Values of peace, justice, goodness, beauty, human fraternity and coexistence as anchors of salvation for all.  "Salvation for all" means that all may be saved.  Saved from what gives wiggle room.  Orthodox Christianity says that the saved are the ones who receive Jesus' forgiveness.  The rest are bound for Hell.  "Diversity of religions...willed by God" is a controversial or heretical saying.  See in this time line 2013 May  Pope Francis where he says do good so you can meet everyone.  The Imam is criticized for Islamic heresy. 

2019 Feb 5     https://www.thetimesusa.com/is-darwinian-evolution-in-trouble/         “Because no scientist can show how Darwin’s mechanism can produce the complexity of life, every scientist should be skeptical,” said biologist Douglas Axe, director of the Biologic Institute.   “The fact that most won’t admit to this exposes the unhealthy effect of peer pressure on scientific discourse.”    "The extreme intricacy of the genetic code and its many most intelligent strategies to code, decode and protect its information,” said Dr. Marcos Eberlin     evoxcross

     Life to biologists is marked by food consumption or other energy harvesting (mushrooms in mind, and plant photosynthesis), respiration, etc., and most significantly by reproduction, since a) most living organisms age and die (https://elifesciences.org/articles/20340 Some fissioning yeast does not age) and b) living entities multiply and spread.  One of the goals of materialistic evolution promoters (with no part played by a creator God) is showing that self-replicating molecules could have naturally happened inside some sort of cell membrane such as a lipid membrane.  This is a small step toward the complex biochemical machinery that is seen in even the simplest prokaryote cell known today.

     Self-replicating molecules show up in Internet searches in 1987, 2015, and frequently since 2020.  This is a modern pursuit, as biologists have turned up amazing complexity in all cells as their microscope tools have improved.

     Lipid-bounded vessicles, empty ones, can be demonstrated.  Some say that clay surfaces can be a scaffold for self-replicating molecules to be built on.  (It seems to JE that self-replicating molecules inside vessicles, without clay, would be isolated from the scaffold.)

     https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4613-0883-6_5  Leslie E. Orgel  self-replicating molecules with sufficient length and concentration to get life started—without the interference of an organic chemist?  without the presence of protein catalysts?  "The five bases that occur in the polynucleotide nucleic acids DNA and RNA came into existence. We have a rather good model of how the sugars formed and a modest...understanding of how they may have joined together to form nucleotides.  I do not want to underestimate the difficulties that remain: 

• getting these molecules in large enough amounts, 

• excluding other substances that interfere, and 

• preventing dilution of reactants 

all remain severe problems."  Two features of life:  "a self-replicating molecule and the other is the origin of a genetic code, that is, of a mechanism by which nucleic acids [in chains hundreds to thousands in length] came to control the sequences of proteins and thus to control their environment."

     Darwin's warm pond, soup of organic molecules keeps coming up after 155 years, that hasn't lost its following despite the competing theory, deep-sea hydrothermal vents.

     2020  https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/pdf/S0169-5347(20)30003-3.pdf  2020  ...RNA alone but suffers from a number of seemingly intractable problems. Instead, we suggest that the self-replicator consisted of both peptides and nucleic acid strands.     "The last universal common ancestor (LUCA) of all cells (not a single cell of course but a population) is understood in some detail; it possessed 

• a cell membrane, 

• DNA, 

• the basic molecular machines for copying DNA (i.e., polymerase etc.), and 

• a functional ribosome, 

• among many more. 

From this highly truncated list alone it is clear that LUCA was far too complex to spontaneously assemble. It must have evolved from simpler systems, themselves able to self-replicate with some tolerance for error [error or diversity] (otherwise they would not be able to evolve [by mutations])."  "The first such replicator is referred to as the initial Darwinian ancestor (IDA)."  "Clay crystals have been invoked but are unconvincing as they require a complete takeover of one substrate with another."  "The RNA World attractive because it is able to house both encoding of sequence information and catalytic activity in a single molecule in a way which proteins (which are poor at information storage) and DNA (poor at catalysis) are not."  "...if a simple self-replicator was present in any cells today. In fact, no such single molecule replicator exists. Instead, replication is split between nucleic acids and proteins with the general rule being that nucleic acids encode and transfer information (DNA and mRNA), and [folding] proteins [machines] (enzymes) carry out catalytic functions including synthesising new copies of the nucleic acids."     JE:  "nt" is nucleotide, 50 nt is 50 nucleotides in a specific order, which brings up the question of how that order came to be.      "The stereochemical hypothesis , first put forward several decades ago and which remains one of the main theories for how the genetic code first came about."  "Support the RNA World theory over competing theories," which indicates that the biology world has not settled on the RNA World as a step toward the more complex and more machinery dependent DNA World.

2019 Feb 19   Donald R. McClarey  http://www.the-american-catholic.com/2019/02/19/popewatch-vigano-3/    about the Vatican Dog and Pony Sex Abuse Summit    Archbishop Vigano comments     the overwhelming majority of abuse has been inflicted on post-pubescent boys by h   clerics... ultimately ineffectual if it does not address this problem.     Why does Pope Francis keep ... people who are notorious h    ?

http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/despite-grave-problems-the-lord-will-never-abandon-his-church    1965  doctrinal and moral corruption of many seminary formators,      corruption that increased exponentially [in the seminaries] beginning in the 1960s.    professors of moral theology favored situation ethics.    seminarians...continual grave sins against chastity.

    Pope Francis:  "The faith of Europe and in much of the West is...marginalized and ridiculed."  He urges the hierarchy to embrace reforms that will make the church attractive so that it can fulfill its mission to spread the faith.  JE's comment:  an attractive message is not likely to spread faith, it is more likely to spread worldly thinking.  "We have to beware of the temptation of assuming a rigid outlook...born from fear of change and ends up disseminating ... obstacles...and hatred."  Newsmax:  "The true tradition of the church is one of a discerned path of change.  'Tradition is not static, it's dynamic.' "  JE's comment:  what does he mean?

     https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archbishop-vigano-clarifies-points-arising-from-new-interview/ June 14 2019 Vigano: actions to control "Uncle Ted" McCarrick are to prevent a trial that would expose the coverup. The actions are administrative and are without appeal, so no followon corruption will be exposed. Self-protecting networks that the Vatican protects. Cardinal Bertone impeded progress. My letter to Cardinal Parolin: no response. I trusted that Pope Francis would do things as any Pope would have done. But he was covering up.

2019 Feb 21  Martel:  In the Closet of the Vatican     Around 40% of Vatican Catholics are gay.  "A large, silent community."    CBSnews.com  Mangiacapra, a sex worker for Vatican residents, compiled a 1200 page dossier about 50 clients.  "The libido is higher than the fear" of being exposed and disciplined.

2019 Feb 20-21  Coast to Coast AM is normally apolitical.  Guest is Peter.  Topic is detecting political deception in the U.S.  Deception is carried out by changing the language.  John Brennan, director of CIA until 2017, is called deceptive.  Public media and Hollywood accept deception.  There is more deception now than since 1860s.  Peter:  two ways the U.S. can go, Christian resurgence or armed conflict.  All Democrat presidential candidates for 2020 tell us how we should live.  The new Virginia governor Northam, a doctor, says publicly that a baby is subject to abortion, and if the mother desires to have its life end, that could be done after birth, but until a decision the baby would be kept comfortable.  A caller says that in the last two weeks on Coast there have been two guests critical of Pres. Trump.  To JE, Peter is balancing the politics. 

2019 Feb 28  The Washington Post   Liberals lash out at moderate Democrats.  Freshman representative Ocasio-Cortez threatens to put two dozen moderate Democrats, who sometimes vote with the minority Republicans and were elected in swing districts which voted for Trump in 2016, on a list for primary challenge in 2020.  These moderate Democrats allowed the party to gain a House of Representatives majority.  "A fractured caucus and diverse freshman class."  A split between Speaker Pelosi and top lieutenants Hoyer and Clyburn.

2019 Feb  Unitied Methodists vote conservative, 53%-47%, about homosexual leaders in UMC.  Congregations must affirm the UMC stance against gay marriage and non-celibate LGBT clergy, by 2021.  UMC leaders from Africa vote conservatively.  Reb. Kulah from Liberia:  "You cannot be performing Christianity differently in America and Africa."        A web site, phyllisschlafly, says the university elite Methodists demanded the liberalization, a "relentless attempt."  "Total of 93 college and university presidents demanded...working class Americans reject the ivory tower agenda."        ChristianityToday?  Some Methodists have left.      JE:  individual Methodists can leave with no problem, but congregations can't take the building with them?   And pensions?        Wesleyan Covenant Association:  first time since 1792, General Conference policy is being ignored or defied with no consequence.    Bitter polarization of North American culture has infected the church.  

    https://imarc.cc/edit/harted_19.html     "Open Minds, Open Hearts, Open Doors - Need Screens"   By Rev. Dennis Hartman   Does this motto really illustrate the kind of catholic spirit that our founder, Rev. John Wesley, taught? Or does it illustrate more of the same old humanistic liberalism cloned in religion?     While Jesus loved the sinner, he never let that sinner dictate his message or moral standards.     Over the last fifty years the leadership of the United Methodist Church has challenged the very substance of the church with their liberalism and higher criticism. They worked hard to build a society and a modified religion based on human vanity.         baptistnew.com    United Methodism is not moving in the direction of the Episcopal Church and declining liberal Protestanism in the West, said Tooley.  It is moving in the direction of global Christianity, which is robustly orthodox. 

2019  https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/the-lavender-mafia-unmasked     cultural and moral shift has not only changed the consciousness of most American Catholics (67 percent of whom support civil marriage for       couples) and      priests (many of whom are close to quitting) but also broken the silence that long shrouded the subject.    

2019  In the Closet of the Vatican:  Power,      Hypocrisy by Martel

2019 March 19   "There has been a drift [in U.S. foreign policy] going back through the post-Cold War period."  William Burns, former deputy secretary of state and ambassador to Russia, may have spent more time with Vladimir Putin than any other American diplomat. In his book, The Back Channel, Burns discusses how a “sense of grievance” underlies Putin's interactions with the U.S.  Putin is the apostle of payback.

2019 Spring   Claremont Review of Books   Head of Computer Science at Yale, Jewish Dr. David Gelernter, breaks with the academic establishment.  Influenced by Stephen Meyer, Darwin's Doubt, 2013, intelligent design, though Gelernter doesn't accept ID.  Gelernter article:  "Giving Up Darwin."  Darwinism does not explain the biomolecular workings in cells.  Darwinism "has been overtaken by [biomolecular] science."   Gelernter:  ID haters have Darwinism as "a worldview, and an emergency replacement religion for the many troubled souls who need one."  "How cleanly and quickly can the field [of biology and philosophy] get over Darwin, and move on?"  Gelernter joins Tom Wolfe, Thomas Nagel, Dennis Prager, and Ben Shapiro.  Another Meyer book:  Signature in the Cell.  More from Gelernter in the blue section following.

Marcos Eberlin is for ID:  Foresight:  How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose.  Endorsed by three Nobel winners.  Planning and purpose are antithetical to Darwin's purposeless and undirected mutations and natural selection.

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2020 Oct. New Oxford Review p. 16    Law expert Dr. Phillip Johnson was the first "academic of real stature in recent decades to question" Darwinism.  The Darwinist consensus is propped up by a philosophy of naturalism rather than by scientific evidence.  Darwin On Trial 1991.     Neo-Darwinism is Darwinism molded to include modern genetics.  But the more that is known of genetics, the less genetics supports the mutation-survivial-of-fittest concept.  "The iron grip of institutional" materialism derails dissenters.  "They cannot get grant money;  their papers are not published...promotion and advancement are foreclosed."

NOR 2020 Oct p. 19   DNA-encoded proteins fold in ways intimately connected to the precise base sequences.  Thus, a 250-base-pair protein works differently if any one base pair is changed.  "The chance of a positive change occurring by random mutation is vanishingly small."  Darwin's Doubt proposes probabilities.  150 base pairs gives 10^195 folding possibilities.  Mutate such a protein, it will be useful in one out of 10^77 instances.  The number of cells that ever existed is 10^40.  If every bacterium had one mutation (most do not), probability of making a beneficial mutation is one in 10^37.  To have new-body-plan, Cambrian animals appear in abundance is impossible to explain with mutations and natural selection.  This matters because "Darwinian evolution has become a quasi-religious worldview in stark contradiction to the Judeo-Christian conception."  "No other philosophical worldview has so undermined the Christian faith among the highly educated."  "The Darwinian consensus is now tottering."

Same NOR issue p. 42   Dennis Allen The Reality Oriented Mathmatician:  A Memoir (5th Ed.)    The reviewer:  "Anyone who raises even minor queries relating to the truth of [relativity and quantum mechanics] is ostracized."  Theories are often doubted in small circles, but "these concerns are not mentioned in the media."  "Research is certainly not as pure as many would like to believe."  Stephen Hawking's "first wife is reputed to have said...that her biggest problem during their marriage was convincing Stephen that he wasn't God."  "His work could never be criticized."

     2019  youtube Uncommon Knowledge Peter Robinson.txt  JE  transcribed July 8 2022            Does the Hoover Institution have a liberal bias?  From the web site:  For more than two decades the Hoover Institution has been producing Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson, a series hosted by Hoover fellow Peter Robinson as an outlet for political leaders, scholars, journalists, and today’s big thinkers to share their views with the world.     Hoover Institution’s community of supporters in advancing ideas defining a free society.     A public policy think tank that seeks to improve the human condition by advancing ideas that promote economic opportunity and prosperity, while securing and safeguarding peace for America and all mankind.       "Free people, free markets, and prosperity and peace are to be sought." Condoleeza Rice, Director of the Hoover Institution, Republican and former Secretary of State      On April 22, 1919, Herbert Hoover sent his wife a telegram pledging $50,000 for the purposes of collecting historical material on the First World War. Hoover’s collection rapidly expanded to document not only the causes and course of that conflict but also its tumultuous aftermath and, within a few years, the broader forces of war, revolution, and peace in the modern era.      The Hoover Tower in the middle of Stanford University is the logo for the Hoover Institution.      John & Margaret took in a short tour of the Hoover Tower while at Stanford in 2010, during their month-long California road trip.  Stanford is on the outskirts of the Bay Area, the hotbed of California's and San Francisco's liberal capital, Silicon Valley, and social-media establishment.

A clue to Hoover Institution thinking:  The Peoples' Republic of China "thwart[s] democratic norms. [Just look at Hong Kong.]  Hoover scholars are committed to research centered on how America can better understand Beijing’s worldview, and confront the challenges it poses."

Gelernter from Yale     Darwinism has passed beyond scientific argument ... you take your life in your hands if you challenge them, intellectually speaking.  They will destroy you.  ...  What I have seen in their behavior in the West is nothing approaching free speech.  A bitter rejection, an angry outrage, violent rejection which comes nowhere near scientific discussion.  [They say of themselves,] I am a Darwinist, don't you say a word against it.

Robinson    That proves you are attacking their religion [and their world view, which is scientism].

Later in the program, one of the people says that Darwinism is so irrelevant to how biology works that mention of it will fade away.  Intellectuals will find other things to talk about, things that deal more with reality.

The interview is openly associated with Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the discussion during the program about Intelligent Design is not shied away from.

The reference to China above is that China's economy is giant.  In comparison, Russia's GDP is lower than the GDP of Texas.

2019 March 19  https://news.yahoo.com/ted-koppel-york-times-washington-175139275.html   legendary journalist Ted Koppel shared his thoughts on the New York Times' and Washington Post's coverage of President Trump. Koppel said he feels the newspapers 'decided as organizations' that President Trump is bad for America, and that Trump's perception that 'the establishment press is out to get him' is indeed accurate.

2019 March 20   European study:  high-potency marijuana on a daily basis were five times more likely to have a diagnosis of first-episode psychosis

April 4, 2019   Spooky action at a small distance       Physicist Lee Smolin     https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/space-the-final-illusion/

The intuitive idea that objects influence each other because they're in physical proximity, the principle of locality, is soon to become another of those beliefs that turn out to be wrong when we look deeper.  (He probably includes impact of hammer on nail head, which is the electron clouds of iron atoms impacting each other.  The electron clouds of atoms are not wispy, they are really hard.)  Newton opined that motion is ultimately defined as change of position with respect to absolute space.  Newton assured us that absolute space is seen by God.  Leibniz declared that all that exists is relative positions and motions.  And this, after two centuries, is Einstein's general theory of relativity, spacetime.  Forces must act locally is a consequence of a deeper principle, which is that physical effects are due to causal processes. And the basic principles of relativity theory insist that causes can only propagate through space at a finite speed, which cannot exceed the speed of light.  The principle of relativistic causality is violated by quantum phenomena, like particle entanglement.   I believe that the completion of quantum mechanics will be a major part of the resolution of another deep problem—that of unifying our understandings of gravity, spacetime and the quantum, to produce a quantum theory of gravity.  Each second there are around 10120 elementary events happening within each cubic centimeter of space [, whether it is a vacuum or uranium ??]. 

2019  China  He Jiankui creates gene-modified human babies Lula and Nana.  Widespread criticism.    (Web sources do not reveal whether there were edited embryos that were not viable.)  These two girls were born and are living, but they are kept secret.  Time:  CRISPR is not as precise as researchers would like it to be.  It makes mistakes.  Dr. He was prosecuted and jailed.    Animal cloning has a history over decades;  sheep Dolly is famous, one success in 277 tries.

2019 April 8  https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-death-of-an-adjunct?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Graduate school can be a mix of those who are “completely anxious and neurotic” and those who are “backbiting and mean,” Jim Downs, a professor of history at Connecticut College.

Nearly 80 percent of faculty members were tenured or tenure-track in 1969. Now roughly three-quarters of faculty are nontenured. The jobs that are available—as an adjunct, or a visiting professor—rest on shaky foundations, as those who occupy them try to balance work and life, often without benefits.

2019 Ap 12    Biological Journal of the Linnean Society  REVIEW The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: what is the debate about, and what might success for the extenders look like?  TIM LEWENS University of Cambridge       12 April 2019   Each side nonetheless regards the other as deeply mistaken. Some exchanges have been full of suspicion.    

Epigenetic inheritance, 

developmental plasticity and 

the origins of adaptive novelties 

brings with it a basic conceptual re-orientation of evolutionary theory’s core.    "Long been entrenched in evolutionary theory."  See Wikipedia, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis.  Stephen Jay Gould argued for EES in the 1980s.  Dr. Mueller:  natural selection has no way of explaining speciation...selection has no innovative capacity [JE:  any statement about 'the protobird needs larger chest muscles for its new wings, thus it will develop larger chest muscles' is wrong]...generative..aspects..are absent from evolutionary theory.   evoxcross

2019 May 10    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/05/postmodernism_and_the_democratic_party.html

Postmodernism and the Democratic Party By George De Vries III

Democrats acting according to postmodernism seek:

• denial of anatomy [cooperation with transsexuals]

• infanticide [see below, New York state legislature, Virginia governor]

• wealth taxes

• Medicare for all, of all ages

• victim-pandering [BLM]

• New Green Deal

• unlimited ... dependent immigrants [who might in future be granted voting rights, overwhelming conservatives]

• character assassination such as of Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh

Virginia Gov. Northam:

"It’s done in cases where there may be severe deformities, there may be a fetus that’s non-viable. So in this particular example, if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”  Just one physician makes the decision.

New York state: 

Permitting late-term abortions when a woman's health is endangered. The state's previous law only permitted abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy if a woman's life was at risk.

Governor Cuomo celebrated the passing of the bill.  "In the face of a federal government intent on rolling back Roe v. Wade and women's reproductive rights, I promised that we would enact this critical legislation within the first 30 days of the new session — and we got it done."  He directed state landmarks like the spire of One World Trade Center to be lit up in pink.

These extreme values date from the 1950s to 1970s.

"Aggressive smugness always emanates from the Democrats."

2019  https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth     Around 108 billion people have ever lived on our planet. This means that today’s population size makes up 6.5% of the total number of people ever born.    The global population growth rate peaked long ago.  [1963]  Since then, world population growth has halved...for decades now, growth has been more similar to a linear trend.

2019 June  Extinction Rebellion has carried out civil disobedience in London.  Some in XR pledge to be arrested or go to prison.  XR thinks about carbon net zero and the end of airplanes by 2025.

2019 June 26  Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Catholic, to the House about H.R. 3401:  "children...have a spark of divinity that we must protect."  Speaker Pelosi also goes along with the Democratic Party, pushing hard on abortion rights.  What is her logic?

2019 July  Star S5-HVS1 is traveling at 4 million miles per hour.  It may be traveling out of the Milky Way due to a gravity assist from Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole in the center of the galaxy.

2019 July 9  https://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/2019/07/warning-to-orthodox-church-false-teachers-and-deceitful-venues-that-contradict-and-distort-church-teaching/      The ranks of the false teachers include academics who openly promote the h     agenda and oppose the Orthodox Church sacred Tradition. Some of these individuals openly and proudly self-identify as ... Many are not Orthodox Christians... Some were deposed by the Orthodox Church, openly declare and celebrate their ... and publicly promote the ... ideology. Others abandoned the Orthodox Church to become priestesses in other churches. All want to radically change the Orthodox Church teaching and Tradition to accommodate distorted and corrupt ideas.

2019 July  newsradioklbj.com  AGE of Central Texas:  75% of residents think older people will be forced out of Cental Texas by high housing cost and property tax, even for people who have paid off mortgage.  JE thinks part of this is Austin's recent history of 8% per year increases in property taxes.  With the 2019 Legislature capping increases to 3.9% or so, Austin PARD is thinking about creating their own taxing district.

2019 Sept. New Oxford Review p. 18   National Public Radio's talk shows are "obnoxiously slanted, blatantly partisan, progressive propaganda." 

2019 Sept. New Oxford Review  U.S. professor Mark Brennan talked to leading, visiting students from Beijing, China Tsinghua Univ. about fiduciary duty.  A question asked if society is always improving and if there are drawbacks to mounting U.S. debt. 

"Let's be serious, it's game over...Americans are too busy arguing about which gender pronouns they prefer [trans] and obsessing about the Mueller Report...Your country, by contrast, has spent 5 billion yuan on Belt and Road infrastructure.  You win.  Game over.  My grandchildren will be curled up in a fetal position, sucking their thumbs in the corner, while your grandchildren rule the world.  Congratulations."  The Chinese students were impressed and thrilled.  One of them asked, "You're allowed to admit that?"  The questioner would not dare make such a derogatory statement about her own Communist country, she would risk being jailed and re-educated.  She can't believe the West allows people to think such thoughts openly.

2019 Sept 3  https://sovereignnations.com/2019/09/03/southern-poverty-law-center-hate-based-scam/    "New York Times, Politico, NPR ... reporting on the corruption at ... Sou _ _ _ _ _ Pov _ _ _ Law Center, dismissed its co-founder in March, and its president has resigned amidst numerous claims of sexual harassment."   Since 1995, paid millions in lawsuits.  Millions in the Cayman Islands.  Making Hate Pay.  Bob Moser in The New Yorker.

2019 Sept 23 https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2019/09/23/vatican-experts-german-catholic-church-moving-toward-schism/   Catholic Church in Germany ... toward a schism with Rome under the banner of “synodality.”  Under the leadership of Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich-Freising, “the Church in Germany is poised to pursue a radical ‘binding synodal path’ that seeks to dislodge settled Church teaching” warn the editors of the U.S.-based National Catholic Register.

In open opposition to Pope Francis ... a lay group that has demanded the ordination of women, an end to clerical celibacy, the blessing of same-sex unions.

    https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/models-political-meddling-by-clerics/  Father Pokorsky knows a priest who said of his archbishop, "If I'm a Catholic, he's not" a Catholic.

2019 Dec 22  Pastor Jared Kress Calvary Hills Baptist  Ideas about humility    Jesus was humble at a time that Greeks considered humility to be weakness.  Naturalism and humanism steer away from humility, they pay attention to power.  Opponents of Christ, in modern times, disdain Christians for their arrogance in insisting there is only one way to relate to God.  If Jesus had chosen power instead of humility, he would have chosen power brokers, wheelers and dealers, for disciples. 

2019 Sept 24 to 2025 June   Nationwide injunctions imposed by the 94 U.S. district courts are often being judged by the Supreme Court as being invalid.  Progressives are suing the Trump administration, early in Trump's second term, in 2025 to slow down Trump actions, to the extent that those actions will be swept under the rug.

2019 Sept 24  U.S. Pres. Trump addresses the U.N. General Assembly and counters globalism in a pointedly un-politically correct way.  "The future does not belong to globalists...If you want freedom, take pride in your country.  If you want democracy, hold onto your sovereignty.  And if you want peace, love your nation."  He criticizes open borders and social justice warriors.  He says they aid human traffickers.  "Socialism and communism are about one thing only, power for the ruling class."  Trump criticizes

• the apologies for the U.S. that Pres. Obama made from 2008 to 2016,

• North Korean, Cuban, and Chinese communists,

• Germany, Sweden, France, and other countries that have accepted millions of Muslim refugees (which jeopardize their national identities since Muslims have a high birth rate while the base population has a low birth rate). 

Pres. Trump continues his theme from the 2016 election, "make America great again."  (MAGA)

2019 Sept 10     http://my.earthlink.net/channel/news/article/top?guid=20190910/219a4c39-3fc0-47d3-9839-ec9903021c0a      By MATT O'BRIEN | Tue, September 10, 2019 05:03 EDT

Big tech companies have long rebuffed attempts by the U.S. federal government to scrutinize or scale back their market power. Now they face a scrappy new coalition as well: prosecutors from nearly all 50 states.

In a rare show of bipartisan force, attorneys general from 48 states along with Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia are investigating whether Google's huge online search and advertising business is engaging in monopolistic behavior. The Texas-led antitrust investigation of Google, announced Monday, follows a separate multistate investigation of Facebook's market dominance that was revealed Friday.

The state moves follow similar sweeping antitrust tech investigations launched by the Federal Trade Commission and the Trump administration's Department of Justice; the Democrat-led House Judiciary Committee is conducting a similar probe. But should federal officials tire of their work, the state-led efforts could keep them on their toes.

2019 Sept 26  House Intelligence Committee hearing, Democrat committee chairman Representative Adam Schiff, saying this is what Pres. Trump said to Ukraine President Zelensky:

“I want you to make up dirt on my political opponent, understand, lots of it, on this and on that. I’m going to put you in touch with people, not just any people, I’m going to put you in touch with the attorney general of the United States, my attorney general Bill Barr. He’s got the whole weight of the American law enforcement behind him.” ... “And I’m going to put you in touch with Rudy — you’re going to love him, trust me. You know what I’m asking, and so I’m only going to say this a few more times in a few more ways. And by the way, don’t call me again, I’ll call you when you’ve done what you’ve asked."  [Schiff phrases it so that it sounds like Donald Trump.]

Schiff:  "This is the sum and character what the president was trying to communicate with the president of Ukraine. It would be funny if it wasn’t such a graphic betrayal of the president’s Oath of Office.”

A careful listener can tell Schiff is constructing a story line, but Schiff meant for the American public to take it as the actual words of President Trump.  Schiff is widely criticized for lying.  The next day, Schiff admits he delivered "a parody," but said it wasn't a lie, it was "a problem."  "...a parody.  The fact that that is not clear is a separate problem."  Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel:  "Schiff lied for TWO years about a phony Russia collusion hoax [Mueller Report].  He promised evidence that didn't exist."

Rep. Schiff often tells the press things that are made up.  They play it back for their liberal audience as if Schiff is truthful.  They could be fact checking or noting qualifications, but they don't do that.  The press contributes to misinformation.  The press stirs up trouble, creates fake news, and causes people to act in irrational ways.     See in this time line  2014 Nov 18, 2014 November 24, 2016 August 16, 2017 Apr 27, 2018 March, 2018 June 26, 2019 Jan 22.

2019 Sept 26  http://enews.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20190926/caea971d-ca5b-42c2-9bbf-7af201b873f4 "Big world around tiny star puts new spin on planet formation"

By MARCIA DUNN   GJ 3512   A giant world discovered around a tiny star is putting a new spin on how planets form.  A Jupiter-like planet orbits a star that's a mere 12% the mass of our sun, 31 light-years away from the Earth.  Science   The usual, gradual way of building a planet, a solid core of merging particles takes shape before a gas buildup. This planet seems to have arisen straight from gas.

"A new population of massive planets may also exist around low-mass stars."

2019 Sept 29   Julio Rosas  https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2019/09/29/hillary-clinton-corrupt-human-tornado-trump-is-obsessed-with-me-because-he-knows-hes-an-illegitimate-president-n2553873     "Hillary Clinton: 'Corrupt Human Tornado' Trump Is Obsessed with Me Because He Knows He's an 'Illegitimate President'"

The loser of the 2016 U.S. President election, Hillary Clinton, flat-out says elected President Trump is an illegitimate president.  But her reasoning may be about the recent, Democrat-alleged politics with Ukraine, not about Clinton's election loss;  Rosas' article places her election-loss comments adjacent to her illegitimate-president comment, and that gives an impression that may be misleading.  But jealous liberals are happy with an idea that is baseless.

Clinton:  "There were a bunch of different reasons why the election turned out the way it did and I take responsibility for those parts of it that I should," Clinton said on CBS Sunday Morning."      "It’s like applying for a job and getting 6 million of letters of recommendation [voters?  Does she mean 60 million?] and losing to a corrupt human tornado. And so, I know that he knows that this wasn't on the level."  "He’s obsessed with me and I believe it’s a guilty conscience."   

John E's comment:  Trump is obsessed with Hillary Clinton?  How about, "I [Hillary] am obsessed with Donald Trump." 

Hillary Clinton, the Trump election campaign was on the level.  The Trump campaign polling showed the campaign where to spend the money.  If the election law had been, "you win if there is a plurality of votes" rather than the electoral college, the Trump campaign would have spent its budget in a way that would have still won! 

In the three years since the 2016 election, the press continues to say that Hillary Clinton's presidency was to have been earned, not by election, but by

• her political service prior to the 2016 election,

• her womanhood,

• the extreme liberalism of her party (the most liberal platform of any Republican or Democrat U.S. presidential candidate), which aligns with the aims of the liberal press, and

• the perceived (in the minds of the political elite) misfit of a conservative- and patriotic-speaking businessman living in the White House. 

The conduct of Clinton on election night 2016 spoke volumes;  she celebrated early on in the evening, showed nervousness as key states went red, and disappeared into seclusion as her coronation fell flat. 

Conservative radio talk shows speak of a Democrat coup in the works at various times since 2016, and Democrats surely appear to be of that mind as the public looks at their conduct:  the Kavanaugh hearings, Mueller Report, Brennan and Clapper, etc.

2019 Oct 17  On one of several Democrat 2020 presidential candidate debates, Freedom From Religion Foundation (which is referred to in two other places in this Time Line) runs an ad with son of venerable Pres. Ronald Reagan, Ron Reagan, who looks to be in his fifties.   

(This image is widely seen on Internet today, I didn't save it myself.) 

"Hi, I'm Ron Reagan, an unabashed atheist, and I'm alarmed by the intrusion of religion into our secular government. That's why I'm asking you to support the Freedom From Religion Foundation, the nation's largest and most effective association of atheists and agnostics, working to keep state and church separate, just like our Founding Fathers intended. Please support the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Ron Reagan, lifelong atheist, not afraid of burning in hell."                                      JE:  no, the founding fathers were largely deists, and many of them considered religion to be necessary for a democracy.

This gets much attention from conservative press the next day.      Rush Limbaugh, responding to an agnostic caller:  "For those of you who missed it, I can think of no better advertisement, product placement than I saw Wednesday night in the Democrat debate.          Democrats, they really publicly despise evangelicals. They despise the so-called Religious Right...they think people that believe in God are a bunch of hayseed hicks who have gun racks in the back of pickup trucks, and they show up in the church parking lot on Thursday night to get a good parking spot for the sermon on Sunday...the most condescending, arrogant view toward religious people. And they’re scared to death of religious people because American leftists and socialists do not like the competition that God provides. In their world, the state is where everyone must turn for everything...they don’t talk about [abortion] in a religious vein. They talk about “a women’s right to choose.” They talk about, “It’s a health care issue. Pregnancy is an illness. Pregnancy can kill you.” ...they decided the best place to run their ad ripping and criticizing religion and Christianity would be in the middle of the Democrat presidential debate."

    El Paso former U.S. Congressman and 2020 Dem candidate "Beto" Robert Francis O'Rourke is being extra controversial:  about churches that oppose same-sex marriage,  "There can be no reward, no benefit, no tax break for anyone or any institution or organization in America that denies the full human rights, and the full civil rights, of everyone in America.”

2019 November   New Oxford Review p. 14  Large-Scale GWAS Reveals Insights into the Genetic Architecture of Same-Sex Sexual Behavior debunks significant genetic causation for homosexuality.  The "gay gene" had received much press for years.     Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court justice, wrote in favor of abortion and eugenics in Box v. PP of Indiana and Kentucky.

2019 November   Coronavirus is infecting people in Wuhan, China and travelers are spreading it.  The coronavirus has jumped from some animal species to a human being. See longer blog at March 27 2020 in this time line.

2019 Nov 1  "Three reasons a Dutch ethicist changed his mind about assisted suicide"  Theo Boer   Netherlands 2001 euthanasia was a naive mistake.  "Suicide legislation is purposely crafted with loopholes that allow for the gradual expansion of killing."

2019 Dec 2    AP by BERNARD CONDON and JIM MUSTIAN 

http://my.earthlink.net/channel/news/article/top?guid=20191202/8ea0835f-0f48-4018-ab95-839d7768cbad

This is a critical review of copyrighted material.

"Veteran abuse litigators" "are scrambling to file a new wave of lawsuits" against the Roman Catholic Church, "alleging sexual abuse by clergy, thanks to rules enacted in 15 states that extend...statutes of limitations."  "Potentially more than 5,000 new cases and payouts topping $4 billion."  New York, California and New Jersey are concentration states..."ads on talk radio and news channels:  'If you were sexually abused by a member of the clergy, even if it happened decades ago ... you may be entitled to financial compensation.'"   The long AP article is a cascade of four articles. 

    For some years on broadcast TV, there are many ads fishing for victims of asbestos, Roundup herbicide, defective joint implants, etc.      "The FTC sent letters to seven law firms voicing concerns that some of their TV ads soliciting clients for personal injury lawsuits..." https://www.truthinadvertising.org/knightline-legal/      These expensive TV ads are paid for by what must be billions of dollars of profit to the legal firms.  Is this freedom of speech?  Is it license to sue and see what you can come up with?  Is it victimizing companies that provide important services?  Is it a corruption of the legal system?

    "Dioceses...considering bankruptcy, victim compensation funds and even tapping valuable real estate."    "Fueled by the #MeToo movement, the public shaming of accused celebrities and the explosive Pennsylvania grand jury report last year."   

    The AP article curiously couches its stories in terms of guilty unless proven innocent:  "If a diocese gets a claim that Father Smith abused somebody in 1947, and there is nothing in Father Smith’s file and there is no one to ask whether there is merit or not, the diocese is stuck.”  

    "Out of 3,000 calls [to one] firm...300 clients" are signed up.  "Money to be made...a third of any awards."  Churches and extension organizations "provide essential services in education, charity and health care” and could go away due to jury awards.  "Bankruptcy can also leave abuse survivors with a sense of justice denied because the church never has to face discovery by plaintiff lawyers and forced to hand over documents, possibly implicating higher-ups who hid the abuse."

    A "suit in Minnesota...contending some of the responsibility rests with...the Vatican."  There is speculation about the art treasures being sold off.

    The AP stories do no hand wringing on behalf of faithful Catholics who contribute to their parishes.  There is no defense of the majority of priests who have no guilt.  An uninformed reader would be left with the impression that the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. is a haven for abusive men.

    JE comment:  Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, it is more and more in the public eye that promiscuity has no consequence and is sometimes good.  H   is promoted as normal by h    advocates.  The Catholic abuse situation is about 90% male on male.  It is commonly thought that a third of priests are h   .  A particular problem for the Roman Catholic Church is its hierarchy.  See in this time line 2002 Nov New Oxford Review.  Roman Catholics have, for centuries, maintained an internal legal system apart from the laws and courts of the various countries in which Roman Catholics have churches.  This is how the Pennsylvania vault came about, see 2018 Aug 14 in this time line.  Protestant churches that have no hierarchy, such as Baptists, have only local consequences when there is sexual abuse in a church.  There are Baptist churches that have defended male employees in the face of clear evidence, but there is no hierarchy that can organize a hush-up, and there is no hierarchy to be promoted up or be shifted horizontally to a different parish.

    The Day is Now Far Spent Roman Catholic Cardinal Robert Sarah a Black African from sub-Sahara Guinea in conversation with French Nicolas Diat Ignatius Press 2019 page 13  "Activism has infiltrated everywhere [, displacing the proper spiritual work of priests.]  "We seek to imitate the organization of big businesses."  A Catholic "who no longer prays has already betrayed.  Already he is willing to make all sorts of compromises with the world."  "Catholic doctrine is called into question.  In the name of so-called intellectual positions, theologians amuse themselves by deconstructing dogmas and emptying morality."  Churchmen with "an anemic interior life" are in command of the Vatican's Roman Curia.  p. 15 "The Church is dying because her pastors are afraid to speak in all truth and clarity.  We are afraid of the media...We bishops ought to tremble at the thought of our guilty" silences.  p. 17 "We owe the Christian people clear, firm, stable teaching.  How can we accept bishops' conferences" where bishops contradict one another?  I suffer from "the degrading maneuvers and the manipulations that are making their way into ecclesial life."  page 98  "We have to teach the faith, not the latest fashionable theories of historical-critical exegesis."  page 110  "The worst thing is that some [h     predators,] clergymen claim that these acts are normal and benign."  page 159  "The Barbarians...are in positions of influence and in government."  As I opposed the tyrant of Guinea, Sekou Toure, "no one will silence me [now]...they tell us, 'Be quiet, you are losing popularity, you are not well regarded by the media world, you risk losing your faithful.' "  "In gender ideology, there is a deep rejection of God...Some international organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, International Planned Parenthood Federation and its affiliates are spending extraordinary sums to introduce this ideology in Africa...a new form of ideological colonialism."  "Poor people in Africa, Asia, or South America are profoundly more civilized than the Westerners who dream about fabricating a new man to their own specifications."  "Given the pressures of the international lobbies, I want to emphasize what an immense value your simple life has.  See in this time line 2015 Obianuju Ekeocha How Not to Kill Africa.

    Page 171  "I...denounce the hypocrisy of making people believe that Western woman is respected and flourishing because whe is liberated from the 'burden' of maternity and because she is man's equal."

       See in this time line     2002 Nov New Oxford Review p. 9     2018 Aug 14 (32 lines)     2018 Oct 10 Western society willing its own demise, liberty results in disorder     2018 November New Oxford Review     2018 Dec 21 Archbishop Vigano     2019 Feb 19      2017 Oct  

At 2018 Aug 14, see "Pope Benedict once said that      in the priesthood was 'one of the miseries of the church' and that the church needed to 'head off a situation where the celibacy of priests would practically end up being identified with the tendency to     .'”  

At https://sites.google.com/site/solderandcircuits/home/more-circuit-design/physics-timeline/physics-time-line-1900-present/morals-shown-in-physics-timeline/getting-specific-about-what-morals-are/morals-in-modern-europe, 3/4 of the way down the web page, see a list of Hollywood male VIPs who are accused, including Tavis Smiley, Kevin Spacey, Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Weinstein.  See #MeToo and public shaming, 19 lines above.

2019 Dec 2  Sad to say, HIV remains a big topic, though the drugs get better at extending lifetime.  San Antonio is the largest U.S. "hot spot," says CDC, 6 clusters here whereas there are 16 clusters in all of Texas.   

2019 December 6 The Lancet the symptom onset date of the first patient was “Dec 1, 2019 . . . 5 days after illness onset, his wife, a 53-year-old woman who had no known history of exposure to the market, also presented with pneumonia and was hospitalized in the isolation ward.” In other words, as early as the second week of December, Wuhan doctors were finding cases that indicated the virus was spreading from one human to another.

2019  "Wokeness" can be a problem for corporations.  "Get woke, go broke" as advertising stresses "toxic masculinity."  Moguldom Nation Sept 6 2019    Gillette says it's backing off social issues.      boundingintocomis...   "Men in Black International will probably be the last in the franchise."  "The men are all morons. "  "Hollywood is still fully in the tank for radical woke Leftism."  "Appease the fractional minority...end up alienating the other 94%."    The 2016 all-women Ghostbusters has been criticized.

2019 Dec 18  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell: "most unfair" House impeachment of President Donald Trump. "Moments like this are why the United States Senate exists...risks deeply damaging the institutions of American government.”  “It could not be clearer which outcome would serve the stabilizing, institution-preserving, fever-breaking role for which the United States Senate was created and which outcome would betray it.”  “The most rushed, least thorough and most unfair impeachment inquiry in modern history.”  The House “has let its partisan rage at this particular president create a toxic new precedent that will echo well into the future.”  On the radio on Dec 18 is the oft-told analogy of the House being the teacup that boils over, the steaming tea falling into the Senate cup where it cools and becomes drinkable.    Radio personalities remind the public that a president's impeachment is of no effect until the Senate holds the trial, at which the Supreme Court Chief Justice is the judge.

2019 Dec   Gender identity and fluidity continues to be controversial.  Organizations are bullying people who have traditional opinions.  "Gender dysphoria."  "85.2% of childhood gender dysphoria resolves at about puberty."     A radio talk-show host's son says, "Dad, do you know there are 63 genders?"  The dad responds, "No, there are three.  Male, female, and confused."     https://quillette.com/2019/09/24/no-one-is-born-in-the-wrong-body/  Some are claiming that a gender identity opposite to the body parts can be decided at age 3.  In the news is an account of a mother seeking a surgeon to do a change on her 7-year-old son.  This is a permanent body change.  What is the mother thinking?  The Quillette article says there is some overlap, maybe 1%, of behavior so that a few boys behave, in a limited sense, more girlish than the average girl.  Same with girls behaving like boys. 

2019 December 21: Wuhan doctors begin to notice a “cluster of pneumonia cases with an unknown cause.”    December 25: staff in two hospitals in Wuhan are suspected of contracting viral pneumonia and are quarantined. This is additional strong evidence of human-to-human transmission.         Much of the COVID-19 info is from https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/chinas-devastating-lies/   The Morning Jolt  Jim Geraghty March 23, 2020

2019 Dec 24 approx.  New England Journal of Medicine   “an exponential increase” in the number of cases that cannot be linked back to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market.  In March 2020, U.S. radio shows are saying that exotic animals like pangolin are used in the Wuhan biolab and then smuggled for profit to the market.       A University of Cambridge expert Professor James Wood who specializes in infectious diseases believed the similarity in the virus between humans and pangolins could be the result of the animal being contaminated in a "highly infected environment".  https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/pangolin-animal-coronavirus-facts-a4358086.html

2019 Nov or Dec      Coast to Coast AM radio show for Sept 16 2024 with George Noory interviewing Dr.  Marty Makary.  The doctor says the evidence (in the last year) is clearly that Covid-19 was from the Wuhan lab, an intentional gain-of-function experiment (but the doctor is not saying that the virus was spread intentionally to create a worldwide crisis).  The evidence is in part from Freedom of Information Act disclosures, some of this is e-mails that Dr. Fauci sent and received.  In November or December, Dr. Fauci met (in person?  Online?) with numerous doctors to talk this over.  After the meeting, all the doctors involved were saying the virus came from the wet market or crossed over from some animal.  This is a deception.  On the 2024 Coast to Coast AM program, Dr. Marty noted there were bats being taken long distances, from caves to cities, to study disease, and this wasn't the best thing to avoid disease spread.  (Similar with the book Hot Zone, the dreaded and recurring Ebola virus is thought to have come from people exploring an African cave where elephants would walk in to feed on minerals, and they stirred up Ebola from abundant, decomposing animal waste or dead animals, and humans picked up the virus and spread it through villages     See in this time line 1976 for Ebola..)    Dr. Marty makes it sound like U.S. doctors making decisions for the public steered the narrative away from the truth of the Wuhan lab as the source of the Covid-19 pandemic.

2019 December 30  Dr. Li Wenliang messages other doctors, possible outbreak of a SARS-like illness, urging them to take protective measures against infection.    December 31: The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission “The investigation so far has not found any obvious human-to-human transmission and no medical staff infection.” This is the opposite of the belief of the doctors working on patients in Wuhan, and two doctors were already suspected of contracting the virus.      China contacts the World Health Organization, WHO.    In April 2020, conservative talk-show hosts in the U.S. will complain that the People's Republic of China has spent money on WHO and groomed the WHO to be sympathetic to Chinese interests.  Sen. Rick Scott: “When it comes to Coronavirus, the WHO failed...promoting misinformation and helping Communist China cover up a global pandemic. We know Communist China is lying about how many cases and deaths they have, what they knew and when they knew it – and the WHO never bothered to investigate further. Their inaction cost lives.     Tao Lina tells the South China Morning Post, “I think we are [now] quite capable of killing it in the beginning phase, given China’s disease control system, emergency handling capacity and clinical medicine support.”

2020 January 1  The Wuhan Public Security Bureau summons Dr. Li, accusing him of “spreading rumors.” Two days later, at a police station, Dr. Li signs a statement acknowledging his “misdemeanor” and promising not to commit further “unlawful acts.” Seven other people are arrested on similar charges and their fate is unknown.  “...after several batches of genome sequence results had been returned to hospitals and submitted to health authorities, an employee of one genomics company receives a phone call from an official at the Hubei Provincial Health Commission, ordering the company to stop testing samples from Wuhan related to the new disease and destroy all existing samples.”                 According to a New York Times study of cellphone data from China, 175,000 people leave Wuhan in one day. According to global travel data research firm OAG, 21 countries have direct flights to Wuhan. In the first quarter of 2019 for comparison, 13,267 air passengers traveled from Wuhan, China, to destinations in the United States, or about 4,422 per month. The U.S. government would not bar foreign nationals who had traveled to China from entering the country for another month.           January 2: One study of patients in Wuhan can only connect 27 of 41 infected patients to exposure to the Huanan seafood market — indicating human-to-human transmission away from the market. A report written later that month concludes, “evidence so far indicates human transmission for 2019-nCoV. We are concerned that 2019-nCoV could have acquired the ability for efficient human transmission.”

Wuhan Institute of Virology completes mapping the genome of the virus. The Chinese government will not announce that breakthrough for another week.

2020 Jan 2     https://quillette.com/2020/01/02/the-ranks-of-g.....-de.............-are-growing-we-need-to-understand-why/    Lisa Marchiano 02 Jan 2020

"Many of the de............. I have spoken with, by contrast, have cut ties completely with the t.......... community, and certainly don’t identify as t."      "New trend, so-called “gatekeeping” practices should give way to a model based on “affirmation” of a patient’s announced perception...And so many people have been able to access ... interventions after only minimal evaluation. This rush to “affirm” patients has outpaced the clinical data."       "For most of these [patients of mine,] identifying as t worsened their mental health...these drugs eventually ... intensified depression and suicidality. Some of the women who underwent surgeries such as ma.......... or hy............ found that these procedures brought no relief from their suffering and instead resulted in nerve damage, regret and, in some cases, life-long dependence on synthetic hormones."        See also Aug 21 2016 and Mar 12 2021

2020 Jan 3  http://enews.earthlink.net/article/us?guid=20200103/e8e1cb1c-dfd8-4354-b1ef-131bd8360dfe

United Methodist Church leaders from around the world...a new conservative denomination that would split from the church in an attempt to resolve a decades-long dispute over gay marriage and gay clergy.

Methodist Bishop Karen Oliveto, the denomination’s first openly gay bishop, said the United Methodist Church leadership “was clearly at a point in which we couldn’t agree to disagree” over same-sex relationships.  [Last year,] U.S.-based delegates opposed a plan but were outvoted by U.S. conservatives teamed with delegates from Methodist strongholds in Africa and the Philippines.  The Wesleyan Covenant Association, representing traditional Methodist practice, had already been preparing for a possible separation.

2020 Jan 3  the U.S. government is notified. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, gets initial reports about a new coronavirus from Chinese colleagues, according to Health and Human Services secretary Alex Azar. Azar, who helped manage the response at HHS to earlier SARS and anthrax outbreaks, told his chief of staff to make sure the National Security Council is informed.        Wuhan Municipal Health Commission: “As of now, preliminary investigations have shown no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission and no medical staff infections.”

2020 Jan4  International doctors suspect communicability of virus. Hong Kong Ho Pak-leung:  “the city should implement the strictest possible monitoring system for a mystery new viral pneumonia that has infected dozens of people on the mainland, as it is highly possible that the illness is spreading from human to human.”     January 5: The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission put out a statement with updated numbers of cases but repeated, “preliminary investigations have shown no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission and no medical staff infections.”  Refer to Dec 21....Dec 25 to the contrary.

2020 January 6 The New York Times publishes its first report about the virus, declaring that “59 people in the central city of Wuhan have been sickened by a pneumonia-like illness.” Wang Linfa at the Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore, said he was frustrated that scientists in China were not allowed to speak to him about the outbreak. Dr. Wang said, however, that he thought the virus was likely not spreading from humans to humans because health workers had not contracted the disease. “We should not go into panic mode,” he said.      CDC  “issued a level 1 travel watch for China’s outbreak. The cause and the transmission mode aren’t yet known..travelers to Wuhan to avoid living or dead animals, animal markets, and contact with sick people.”  CDC offers to send a team to China to assist with the investigation. The Chinese government declined, but a WHO team that included two Americans will visit February 16.

2020 Jan 7  Coast to Coast AM George Noory has an interesting repeat guest, space author Robert Zimmerman.  Robert comments on many topics.  He says on his web site, behindtheblack.com, that celebrities, politicians, and the press are really quite ignorant on many topics that they talk about and, in the case of politicians, vote for, and it contributes to "decay and childishness of our culture."  His example is Greta Thunberg, currently 17, who at age 15 was not attending school and instead organized a school climate strike movement.  Robert says no adult should give such a person any credence about her opinions.  Robert does not use Google, Facebook, and Twitter.  "They practice corrupt business policies and target conservative websites for censoring."  He says there are powerful public opponents to his views who seek to force him to write as they demand. 

    Tonight on Coast to Coast, Robert says the case for the Big Bang and dark energy are tenuous.  The data is sketchy and from a time and place a very long way away.

    Robert brings up the cataclysmic variable star V-Sagittae.  https://www.ibtimes.com/binary-star-v-sagittae-will-explode-2083-researchers-predict-2898141     It is a binary star, a regular star with an abnormal amount of gas surrounding it, where a lot of gas is in-spiraling to a smaller white dwarf, releasing a lot of energy and a lot of solar wind.  This binary has brightened by a factor of 10 from 1890 until 2019, and the increase will accelerate until all the mass of the heavier regular star will be gobbled by the white dwarf, making a nova but not a supernova.  The merger will make this star as bright as Sirius or even Venus, for a month.  (John E. will not be around to see it, but my children might see it.)

2020 January 8  China: “there is no evidence that the new virus is readily spread by humans, which would make it particularly dangerous, and it has not been tied to any deaths.”   WHO:  “Preliminary identification of a novel virus in a short period of time is a notable achievement and demonstrates China’s increased capacity to manage new outbreaks . . . WHO does not recommend any specific measures for travelers. WHO advises against the application of any travel or trade restrictions on China based on the information currently available.”  January 10  After unknowingly treating an eye patient with the coronavirus, Dr. Li Wenliang started coughing and developed a fever. He was hospitalized on January 12. In the following days, Li’s condition deteriorated so badly that he was admitted to the intensive care unit and given oxygen support.       Chinese doctors continue to find transmission among family members.

Possible time that COVID-19 is introduced to California, based on note at    2020 Feb 6  autopsies.      See note at 2020 Jan 22, travel to and from Wuhan if finally stopped.

2020 January 11  Wuhan City Health Commission:  “All 739 close contacts, including 419 medical staff, have undergone medical observation and no related cases have been found . . . No new cases have been detected since January 3, 2020...no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission has been found.” “Most of the unexplained viral pneumonia cases in Wuhan this time have a history of exposure to the South China seafood market. No clear evidence of human-to-human transmission has been found.”    Political leaders in Hubei province begin their regional meeting. The coronavirus was not mentioned over four days of meetings.

2020 Jan 12  Axios.com is on San Antonio WOAI radio at 1200 on the AM dial       at night    seems to be "fair and balanced."  An alternative to mainstream media which is usually leading Democrats down the liberal path.

2020 Jan 12  British royalty is stirred up.  Prince Andrew, of the royal family in Britain, is scandalous.   Nov 22 2019 "interview defending his friendship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, the Times of London reported."  https://nypost.com/2019/11/22/prince-andrew-kicked-out-of-buckingham-palace-over-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/        Andrew has had staff and offices in Buckingham Palace but no more. 

Meanwhile on Jan 11, Meghan, American wife of Prince Harry, former actress, raised in Los Angeles, and her husband Prince Harry have let it be known that they want to step back from British royal life, be more independent, and spend more time in America or Canada.  Canada is one of fourteen British Overseas Territories, the remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in the 1920s, encompassed almost a quarter of the world's landmass and was the largest empire in history.  When you think about Germany taking on Britain in WWII, consider that Germany wanted to conquer Britain, which has strong cultural ties to the United States, which has Jews in high places in politics and public life.  During WWII, Britain had India, Egypt, and (to some extent) Canada.    Remember that the Industrial Revolution came from Britain.

2020  The role of the "primordial soup" in warm ponds, in evolution thinking, is discounted in https://thesearchforgod.org/primordial-soup/.  Thaxton, Bradley, Olsen The Mystery of Life’s Origin: The Continuing Controversy, from Discovery Institute Press:  no ozone in the early atmosphere blocking UV, methane gas would have combined with itself into larger molecules and fallen into the ocean.  Carbon monoxide, ammonia, and formaldehyde would also be diminished by UV.  Demise of theory that life started in a Primordial Soup.  But it is still taught in schools.  Origin of life around hydrothermal vents is more popular now.  

Meiosis on Wikipedia:  no current consensus among biologists on the questions of how sex in eukaryotes arose in evolution, what basic function sexual reproduction serves, and why it is maintained, given the basic two-fold cost of sex.       Evolution of sexual reproduction:  Though it is ubiquitous in multicellular organisms, there are ostensibly many inherent disadvantages to reproducing sexually when weighed against...asexual reproduction. Thus, because sexual reproduction abounds in complex multicellular life, there must be some significant benefit(s) to sex and sexual reproduction that compensates for these fundamental disadvantages.  JE:  these statements do not carry the certainty that evolutionists normally speak with.  If a person reads enough along these lines, it may be that evolutionists say that sexual reproduction must have evolved because there is no other explanation for its current ubiquity.  Find on this page or in this Google site similar paragraphs using search term "evoxcross."

2020  The Miracle of the Cell by Michael Denton      You would think Denton is a creationist, the way he is continually agog about how physics and chemistry are fine-tuned to life.  But he speaks of an old earth and evolution.  Page 135:  "the transition from soup to cell."   Page 136:  "The depth of the mystery..."   "we remain at a complete loss as to what may have been the basic steps."   Page 137:  "Impasse."       Page 138 casts some light on his intentions.  "My own preferred position...novel properties of matter yet to be discovered, which enabled the path from chemistry to the cell."  Page 140:  Jack Szostak and Itay Budin:  "novel physical mechanisms."     These people hold out against the divine foot in the door.        Late in The Miracle of the Cell, Denton brings up teleology, which is not at all theology.  Teleology is the idea that biology happens in order to bring about outcomes, which is opposed to random mutations.  Even so, evolutionists often use teloeology language, such as when they say that fish developed fins so they could pursue prey faster and thus be selected for enhanced reproduction.  A writer says they such language is not to be taken literally, it is shorthand.       2016  By Paul Davies on May 23  Scientific American  guest blog  "Maybe Life in the Cosmos Is Rare After All"  "The conclusion that the universe is teeming with biology is based on an unproved assumption."    "We don’t know the process that transformed a mish-mash of chemicals into a living cell, with all its staggering complexity, it is impossible to calculate the probability that it will happen. You can’t estimate the odds of an unknown process.   Affirmations that life is widespread are founded on a tacit assumption that biology is not the upshot of random chemical reactions, but the product of some sort of directional self-organization that favors the living state over others [teleology]—a sort of life principle at work in nature. There may be such a principle, but if so we have found no evidence for it yet." Find on this page or in this Google site similar paragraphs using search term "evoxcross."

2020 Jan    CNN     from 2016...  https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/17/us/united-methodist-church-split-christianity/index.html          By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor  "If you try to be welcoming and open to all people, the question becomes: Who are you? What are you offering?"   Burke echoes United Methodists' moto, seen widely in front of churches, "Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors."  JE:  if you are a Methodist who is so open or free-thinking that you hear a visitor saying things opposed to the Bible, but you choose to not explain how the visitor is missing Jesus' forgiveness, what is the value of the person visiting a Methodist church?       But many steady-attending Methodists deny fundamental Christian beliefs.  They attend an organization that says it is spiritual, and the web site may sound spiritual, but the organization points in a direction different from what the Wesleys founded.  The same with Presbyterians and Episcopalians.      When Roman Catholics complain that there are thousands of Protestant denominations, they are talking about denominations where the leaders have bailed on Christian fundamentals, and new leaders have risen up to lead the fundamentalists (yes, that is a correct term, but maligned in the press) back to fundamentalism, the time-honored fundamentals of the Christian faith.

2020 January 13 Thailand detects the virus in a Chinese woman who was visiting from Wuhan, the first case outside of China. “Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health, said the woman had not visited the Wuhan seafood market, and had come down with a fever on Jan. 5. However, the doctor said, the woman had visited a different, smaller market in Wuhan, in which live and freshly slaughtered animals were also sold.”     January 14  Wuhan city health authorities release another statement declaring, “Among the close contacts, no related cases were found.” Wuhan doctors have known this was false since early December, from the first victim and his wife, who did not visit the market.   WHO: “Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in Wuhan, China.”    This is five or six weeks after the first evidence of human-to-human transmission in Wuhan.

2020 January 15   Japan first case.  The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission begins to change its statements, now declaring, “Existing survey results show that clear human-to-human evidence has not been found, and the possibility of limited human-to-human transmission cannot be ruled out, but the risk of continued human-to-human transmission is low.” Recall Wuhan hospitals concluded human-to-human transmission was occurring three weeks earlier. A statement the next day backtracks on the possibility of human transmission, saying only, “Among the close contacts, no related cases were found.”  January 17 The CDC and Customs and Border Protection announce that travelers from Wuhan to the United States will undergo entry screening for symptoms associated with 2019-nCoV at three U.S. airports that receive most of the travelers from Wuhan, China: San Francisco, New York (JFK), and Los Angeles airports.       The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission’s daily update declares, “A total of 763 close contacts have been tracked, 665 medical observations have been lifted, and 98 people are still receiving medical observations. Among the close contacts, no related cases were found.”

January 18   HHS Secretary Azar has his first discussion about the virus with President Trump.      Despite the fact that Wuhan doctors know the virus is contagious, city authorities allow 40,000 families to gather and share home-cooked food in a Lunar New Year banquet.

2020 January 19  The Chinese National Health Commission declares the virus “still preventable and controllable.”   WHO “Not enough is known to draw definitive conclusions about how it is transmitted, the clinical features of the disease, the extent to which it has spread, or its source, which remains unknown.”    January 20: The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission declares for the last time in its daily bulletin, “no related cases were found among the close contacts.”            China’s national health commission team investigating the outbreak, confirmed that two cases of infection in China’s Guangdong province had been caused by human-to-human transmission and medical staff had been infected.  Wuhan Evening News mentions the virus on the front page for the first time since January 5.

2020 January 21  The CDC announces the first U.S. case of the coronavirus in a Snohomish County, Wash., resident who returning from China six days earlier.  By this point, millions of people have left Wuhan, carrying the virus all around China and into other countries.   January 22: WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus continues to praise China’s handling of the outbreak. “I was very impressed by the detail and depth of China’s presentation. I also appreciate the cooperation of China’s Minister of Health, who I have spoken with directly during the last few days and weeks. His leadership and the intervention of President Xi and Premier Li have been invaluable, and all the measures they have taken to respond to the outbreak.”       In the preceding days, a WHO delegation conducted a field visit to Wuhan. They concluded, “deployment of the new test kit nationally suggests that human-to-human transmission is taking place in Wuhan.” The delegation reports, “their counterparts agreed close attention should be paid to hand and respiratory hygiene, food safety and avoiding mass gatherings where possible.”      WHO Emergency Committee, panel members express “divergent views on whether this event constitutes a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern’ or not. At that time, the advice was that the event did not constitute a PHEIC.”

2020 Jan 22  Wuhan, China, People's Republic of China:  travel halted to and from the center of the coronavirus infection. Quarantine of the city of Wuhan, the Chinese government is tracking its citizens’ movements using two mobile phone apps, AliPay and WeChat, asking neighbors to watch people who are tempted to break the quarantine, and launches 1,800 teams to trace confirmed cases.  On April 10, Senator Tom Cotton will charge that domestic travel to and from Wuhan was stopped while international travel went ahead, and charges that such international travel was calculated to spread coronavirus to the world.  "The Chinese Communist Party won't open up to international experts."  50 million people under mandatory quarantine in the Hubei province, financial incentives for people who inform on anyone under quarantine trying to break the law by leaving their homes.

    "The Washington Post and New York Times have taken millions and millions of dollars from something called 'China Daily'  to run so-called inserts that purport to be news but in reality are Chinese propaganda."

    See March 27 in this time line.

2020 January 23: Chinese authorities announce their first steps for a quarantine of Wuhan. By this point, millions have already visited the city and left it during the Lunar New Year celebrations. Singapore and Vietnam report their first cases, and by now an unknown but significant number of Chinese citizens have traveled abroad as asymptomatic, oblivious carriers.    January 24  Vietnam reports person-to-person transmission, and Japan, South Korea, and the U.S report their second cases. The second case is in Chicago. Within two days, new cases are reported in Los Angeles, Orange County, and Arizona.

2020 Feb 1  Dr. Li Wenliang tests positive for coronavirus. He dies Feb 7.  Early Feb:  Cruise ships, at the end of cruises, are being denied docking at many ports worldwide.  In most cases, travelers are confined to their rooms and are delivered food.  Some ships have dozens of COVID-19 victims.

2020 Feb 6   After the U.S. Senate trial after Pres. Trump's impeachment, “These people are vicious. Adam Schiff is a vicious, horrible person. Nancy Pelosi is a horrible person. And she wanted to impeach a long time ago,” Trump said.

2020 Feb 6  autopsies in April will reveal that a Feb 6 death in Santa Clara County is from COVID-19.  If the person contracted it 2.5 weeks earlier, that would be Jan 20.  And how many people were asymptomatic but positive (if they had been tested) and were spreading the virus?     https://www.newser.com/story/289905/autopsies-reveal-stunning-virus-news.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=earthlink&utm_campaign=rss_top

2020 Feb 9   https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/9/millions-left-wuhan-china-coronavirus-quarantine/       By Erika Kinetz - Associated Press     For weeks after the first reports...millions of people poured out of the central Chinese city as the first wave of China’s great Lunar New Year migration broke across the nation. Some carried with them the new virus.      The top 10 global destinations for these travelers:  Thailand, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, the U.S., Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and Australia... 9 of the 10 countries with the most flight connections to at-risk mainland cities also had the highest numbers of confirmed cases.

Feb 14  Lawyer Michael Avenatti is convicted of attempting to shake down Nike for as much as $25 million over claims it illegally funneled payments to college basketball players.  Avenatti — who gained fame representing porn star Stormy Daniels in failed lawsuits against President Trump — now faces up to 42 years behind bars...scamming bank loans, evading taxes and lying during bankruptcy proceedings.  https://nypost.com/2020/02/14/michael-avenatti-convicted-of-trying-to-extort-up-to-25m-from-nike/       Avenatti had spent millions on housing and a jet and is deeply indebted.

2020 Feb 20  Dr. Alicia Reyes-Barrientez raises eyebrows as she delivers an invocation for San Antonio City Council.  She is Tx A&M San Antonio, Santa Fe Episcopal Church.  "Divine Mother."  We stand on the sacred land of the Tonkawa.  She asked for forgiveness for “the sins we have committed against them.”  "We ask for forgiveness for our ancestors’ complicity in the evils of colonization in San Antonio."     Note:  Tonkawa were scouts and troops for the Texas Rangers and the U S Army on several occasions.

2020 Feb 26  acc.org  Older Adults and Hypertension:  Beyond the 2017 Guideline for Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults   Hypertension and cardiovascular disease make older adults susceptible to death by flu.  70% of Americans over age 65 have high blood pressure.  Clinical trials for treating hypertension have been limited as older adults are frail, experience falls, have poor renal function, use five prescription drugs at once, etc.  "Blood pressure treatment targets remain controversial."  There is evidence of optimum systolic and diastolic blood pressures, below which risk increases!  A J-shaped curve.      Patient preference figures into treatment with drugs.  Masked and white-coat types of hypertension.  

2020 Feb 26  first confirmed "community-spread" case of COVID-19 in Solano County

2020 Feb    https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/02/homeless-koreatown-unhoused-people-los-angeles-community.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab  Homeless people camp along sidewalks, blocking them, in Koreatown.

2020 Feb 29  The Guardian reports on new research, "striking findings" of stressors in men

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9923159/    Dec 1998    biomedical and life sciences literature 

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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2020 Jan  Pachankis, a 5-yr study

The Social Organization of...  Laumann

The Male Couple:  How ...  1984  McWhirter and Mattison,       couple, psychiatrist and psychologist

Extramarital Sex  Wiederman

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2020 Mar 27  Brookings Institution:  18 layers of government, from the top of Dept of Health & Human Services, standing in the way of people receiving personal protective equipment for COVID

2020 Mar 27  CARES Act passes Congress and is signed by Pres. Trump.  Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.  It is two trillion dollars, though an added four trillion is mentioned sometimes.  The Act deals with the coronavirus, also called nCoV2019, 2019 novel coronavirus, COVID-19, and Wuhan [China] coronavirus. 

    There are other coronaviruses.  One was MERS-CoV, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, in 2012, but it was more deadly but less contagious.  Another was SARS-CoV, the beta coronavirus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome.  It was a problem in 2003.

    COVID-19 has a lower death rate, about 2%, but is being carried by travelers who don't exhibit symptoms.  When they are tested, they test positive, but the test is not widely available as of late March 2020 and takes hours to days to show a result after the swab is pushed, uncomfortably, into the nose.  The incubation time for COVID-19 is said to be two weeks, a long time.  

    COVID-19 is spread by droplets coughed out into the air.  For weeks, people have been told to keep a "social distance," six feet.  Quarantining is actually being done in many places in the world, and in the U.S., which hasn't had much quarantining for a long time.  (HIV was famously off-limits for quarantining because homosexual activists opposed it and were supported by the U.S. press.  But HIV quarantining was done in Cuba from 1986 to 1997 and it worked.)  Schools in the U.S. are shut down since Spring Break, walk-in business at restaurants is halted, and many people are filing for unemployment benefits.

    An early sign that COVID-19 was a problem was when cruise ships were quarantined in early February at the end of cruises and denied docking at many ports worldwide.

    National, state, and local authorities are prohibiting gatherings of more than 50 or 10 people.  On March 29, a Pentecostal San Antonio church had a large gathering.  Two police or deputies went to investigate and were denied entry.  The press interviewed people afterward in the parking lot, in the dark. 

    The important phrase from medical people is to limit the spread of COVID-19 and "flatten the curve."  This refers to a bell-shaped curve that comes from infection modeling.  If the curve is flattened, there may be the same number of people infected, but it will be over a longer time and hospitals will not be so seriously overloaded.

    The death rate from COVID-19 is compared to the death rate from flu.  Flu kills more people but is less contagious.

    There are closing exemptions for "essential" businesses, groceries, building supplies, buses, gun stores (in Texas), government workers.  Restaurants can't have table service but curbside delivery (take-out) works.  Airplanes are flying but many flights are canceled as airlines consolidate the few passengers into fewer flights.  Auto assembly plants in the U.S. are shut down.

    There is food and paper-goods hoarding.  Groceries have had, for weeks, lots of empty shelves for paper towels, facial tissue, toilet tissue, diapers, hand sanitizer, canned meat, rice, and sometimes eggs and milk.  John ran low on paper towels (John needs them to "blot" the grease out of meat) and encountered empty shelves on several grocery trips, but found them at HEB at 8:40 AM after finding no stock at Target, Walmart, Dollar Tree, and Lowes'.  But wife had to stand in a line inside the store until the fork lift cleared the aisle, and the line was metered out to avoid a run and to try to keep some spacing between people once they were allowed on the aisle.

    HEBs have commonly metered people into the stores for two weeks, and this is sometimes done by off-duty police in uniform.  These grocery queues never have a six-foot spacing between people.  HEBs are putting up acrylic "shields," two feet on a side, at mouth height at the checkout, to give a little protection to checkers.  There are red, adhesive stickers on floors in groceries to remind people to be spaced out.

    Being broadcast TV viewers, not paying for satellite or cable, we don't see the superior PBS Newshour and we find that the news we are getting lacks a lot of information.  We hear almost no comparison between the U.S. experience and Europe.  People compare the annual deaths from flu to the deaths so far from COVID-19;  there are many more flu deaths but who knows what a year of COVID-19 deaths will be.  Conservative talk radio on WOAI gives spotty details that we aren't hearing on the national news.

    Schools are trying to get learning on-line in ways that work can be turned in and checked by teachers.  Day cares are open to children who have normal temperature but elementary students who are stuck at home need adult or teen care, and we don't hear statistics about that.  But some parents are off work and can oversee school work.  Time will tell how that works.  About Ap 5, locally, 40% of students are not participating.    TV news says that spouse abuse is way up.  That is probably due to alcohol. 

    The two-trillion-dollar CARES Act was suspicious to John early on.  We hear that many American adults will receive $1200 and children $500.  That adds up to only 250 billion, just 8% of two trillion.  If you listen carefully, the rest is corporate bailouts, unemployment coverage, etc.  John suspects many people will take their handouts and blow it on lottery.  For people who provided IRS or Social Security with direct-deposit routing number and account number in 2018 or 2019, funds will suddenly show up in bank accounts.  For those who have to get paper checks through the mail, there will probably be a rash of mail thefts from mailboxes and community mail centers.  There is no talk on the news about Congress being concerned about funding the Act.  The money is being printed.

    There is a little talk on talk radio about looming recession and depression.  Stock markets are down about 20%, and the daily up or down on Dow-Jones is up to 2000 points.

    On April 1, talk radio is mentioning that peak unemployment in the U.S. might reach 32%, which would be far higher than the 25% of the Great Depression.  Younger Americans don't know much about the Great Depression;  government didn't consider that depression to be so much in the government's court until Franklin Roosevelt, a charming and confident politician, was elected president in 1932 and brought about The New Deal.  Many consider this an enormous power grab and expansion of the government.  The "alphabet agencies," CCC, CWA, WPA, FDIC, TVA, FCC, FHA, SEC, NLRA, REA, SSA (Social Security), and FSLA resulted.

    Hospitals are making contingency plans in case of serious overloading.  ("Flatten the curve" is not so much to reduce the total infected, it is to reduce the peak in hospitals.  April 14, Texas hospitals have plenty of beds, but New York hosptials are crowded.      Medical people are short of face masks, though it is said that keeping a space from people is more effective than using a face mask.  Funeral homes and cemeteries warn that they may become overloaded.  Pres. Trump said on April 1 that the next two weeks may see 100,000 to 250,000 U.S. deaths from COVID-19.  But on April 7, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (University of Washington) revised this toward 70,000 deaths by August 4.

    The CARES Act in the House of Representatives was going to be voted on by voice vote (how is that?) with many congressmen back home in their districts.  But Representative Thomas Massey objected and caused at least a quorum to return to the Capitol for a vote on March 20, at which time they rebuffed Massie’s demand for a formal roll call vote.  He said that the Constitution must be followed.  "They were planning to subvert the Constitution.”  He says he was promised things if he would refrain from his demand, and he was threatened.  He said other Congressment secretly supported him.  https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/27/thomas-massie-rejects-trump-demand-152212

    In San Antonio, we grandparents are driving about one day in three.  We can get to-go food from restaurants.  Restaurants that don't deliver or provide take-out are closed.  There is much less traffic on roads.  Churches are using recorded messages, Zoom, and Facebook Live.  More neighbors see each other as families are out and enjoying the nice weather.

    In New York City, deaths at home are up to 200 per day (April 6), compared to 22 to 32 per day, a year ago.  Military are being used to collect bodies.

    About April 4, Coast to Coast AM guest was Dr. John A. McDougall.  He had a lot to say about coronavirus.  He said treatment is largely ineffective, those infected should stay at home until near the end, then go to the hospital to die.  Don't die at home.  His big emphasis is diabetes, overweight, and other preexisting conditions that weaken the body's ability to fight pneumonia.  His diet is high in starch and low in meat, and he claims that many diabetes cases go away when the patient does serious starch and fruits and vegetables, and loses five pounds per week.  This doctor sees harm in a  lot of cancer treatments and participated in animal-rights movement.

2020 April 7  Conservative Cardinal Pell is freed from prison after appeal to the Australian supreme court.  The Australian Broadcasting Corporation "led the public campaign of vilification."  National Catholic Register:  Victoria police are corrupt.  15 years of corruption concerning organized crime.  

    April 10 Rush Limbaugh program:  caller from West Coast, on a construction team finishing out a new building on the inside, says the whole team was sick for two weeks in November but continued to work.  Doctors could not identify the illness.  He thinks it was coronavirus.

    April 9:  radio talk show and Internet sources (Radio Free Asia) say Chinese people have seen living (moving) elderly victims of coronavirus stuffed into body bags, and have heard screams from crematory ovens.

    Pope Francis has said that coronavirus is Nature's response to people who don't care about climate change.  He says people should make less and buy less.

    U.S. black Americans who can be called activists and charge U.S. society with being racist are complaining that too many blacks are victims of coronavirus.  In San Antonio, blacks are 7% of the population but are 34% of the coronavirus cases.  The activists don't want to hear that coronavirus attacks where there is pre-existing bad health.  Dr. Lisa Cooper:  "as a group, African Americans have ... poverty ... chronic medical conditions."  Bell on CNN:  "People don't tend to care...narrative in this country that [says] whatever happens to black folks is the black folks' fault, which is clearly not true."  "People...can't trust the federal government to tell them what's going on."  "We can't even trust the black surgeon general."

    Townhall.com, information from Taiwan, a delay from Chinese experts in confirming person-to-person transmission.  WHO accepted the lie.

2020 Ap  New Oxford Review p. 30  "Literature Matters" by Michael Rose, about a "seminal essay," "Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell in 1946.  Orwell is famous for his 1949 fiction, Nineteen Eighty-Four.  The 1946 essay proposes that the English language in the twentieth century is purposely manipulated to affect the social order. 

    Michael Rose, writing in 2020, notes that there was, following WWII, a "general collapse of language as a reflection of the general collapse of civilization."  This collapse is not widely acknowledged except for the sexual revolution and growing drug use starting in the 1960s.  The decline of mainline Christian churches may be part of the collapse;  mainline churches (which doesn't include Southern Baptists) gave up on Christian orthodoxy and went with the social gospel and liberal theology.  Roman Catholicism also pursued liberalism. 

    "Orwell...showed that social activists can unduly manipulate language...by obscuring meaning, corrupting thought, and rendering language a minefield in the political landscape.  Why?...shame those who are...impervious to manipulation."

    After 1999, the customary "he" referring to men and women was increasingly replaced by "he and she."  In 2013, California State University, Chico, called the old way sexual harassment.  In 2019, the American Psychological Association's stylebook advocated "they" instead of "he and she" to cooperate with transgender activists and the non-binary genderists.  The APA was preceded by a year by the National Council of Teachers of English, a secondary-education, long-time council.  The NCTE guideline "is not about language clarity."  It has a sociopolitical agenda.  It includes gender fluidity and agenderism.  It prohibits "he or she."  An NCTE example of the singular "they":  "Alex needs to learn their lines by Friday."  One can find web sites that give sample, acceptable conversations in which people introduce themselves and reveal their preferred personal pronouns, and these sites assume that people can keep track of all that.

    In 2019, the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education published "Male and Female He Created Them."  Pope Francis says the transgenderists want to eliminate "the anthropological basis of the family."  One remembers Hillary Clinton's 1996 book, It Takes a Village.  (At least 75% was written by Barbara Feinman, but she was not credited.)  In Saul Alinsky's 1971 Rules for Radicals:  "He who controls the language controls the masses."  One can also acknowledge the language twists utilized by Jehovah's Witnesses and Latter Day Saints. 

2020 Ap 28  Glenn Beck Program    Dr Tom Yadegar    They continue to save COVID-19 patients by watching them frequently and, when the excessive auto-immune response is detected, such as blood clots or stroke, suppress the immune system with powerful immunosuppressants.  The dosage would be fatal to patients who don't need it, but it can save patients whose immune system has gone awry from COVID-19.

A YouTube video (by Dr. Y and associates?) has been removed by YouTube because most doctors think the treatment is unproven.  Dr. Y says this censoring is dangerous.

https://twnews.us/us-news/california-pulmonologist-on-how-he-s-identifying-and-treating-extreme-covid-19-cases   4/7/2020, 9:53:33 AM FOX News

Identify and treat the most extreme COVID-19 cases, saying the key is to find these patients and prevent them from going on ventilators...droplets from coughs or sneezes...Dr. Tom Yadegar...“This happened to me just like it's happened to every other doctor who is taking care of these patients and it was very alarming that I didn't understand what happened,” said Yadegar, medical director of ICU at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center.  [He has over 20 years of experience, heads departments at two hospitals.]...cytokine storm syndrome.”...“a handful of lab tests”...it was a very clear pattern that we learned.”...suppressing that person’s immune system, which he said was “pretty counterintuitive.”

2020 Ignatius Press  The Sexual Revolution by Catholic Bishop Peter Elliott         Foreword by Julian Porteous

Morality keeps shifting, and this won't stop.  Legislators gradually go with the flow, creating a "legislative fiction."  They are "ruthless" (p. 13), saying that they know better than the rest of us what is good for us.  "All being pushed aside."  Proponents of fringe morality increasingly demand "total endorsement" of "identity and agenda," and media increasingly censor the voices of moderation, placing the fringe ahead.  There is a pause in the rush to the edge in April 2023, the Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light (transgender influencer) ad cut sales of Bud Light.  "Target opted to protect employee safety by removing certain items that it said caused the most “volatile” reaction from opponents" for LGBTQ pride month, https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/25/business/target-lgbtq-merchandise-pressure-trans/index.html.

A Catholic falsehood is on p. 8, "human nature was created good by God...desire for goodness."  This Catholic idea makes Catholics believe that people are basically good, whereas conservative Protestants look to Genesis 6:5, "The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become."  Page 8:  "There lies within each human a desire for God."  JE:  I think this sentiment is correct for a small minority of Westerners, most want autonomy to make their own choices.  P. 9:  "Every human heart."  JE:  Many hearts are hardened.    

Elliott notes on p. 15 that the sexual revolution has been proceeding for centuries.  

2020 July 14 https://thebridgehead.ca/2020/07/14/richard-dawkins-changes-his-tune-on-christianity/

Religion, Hitchens famously stated, “poisons everything.”  [Take care, he didn't say Christianity poisons.  He may have in mind Islam.]  Many intelligent atheists are beginning to realize that the Enlightenment may have only achieved success because it wielded influence on a Christian culture.

Douglas Murray...the atheist project to be a hopeless one...There is a very real possibility, he noted, that our modern concept of human rights, based as it is on a Judeo-Christian foundation, may very well outlive Christianity by only a few short years.

Jordan Peterson’s phenomenal popularity is partially based on his recognition that people are not generally good, and that the past century proves this with the blood of millions...the Soviets murdered their millions [of their own citizens] in the firm belief that there was no Judge waiting for them when the killing was over.

    By 2018, however, Dawkins was warning that the “benign Christian religion” might be replaced by something decidedly less benign...a radical shift [in Dawkin's thinking] in only a handful of years—and the fact that atheists are sounding the alarm should be a warning to Christians about the consequences of our ongoing secularization.

2020 U.S. Supreme Court   Bostock v. Clayton County    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is broadened to protect employees who are h      or tra     .  New Oxford Review May p. 25  Gender identity assigned at birth can be chosen later.  "Male-female duality and therefore also marriage and the family" are undermined.  Catholics who fall for the lie are choosing personal autonomy over "responsible sexual behavior demanded by the Gospel."  "Most bishops and cardinals have been quite diffident in their defense of indissoluble, heterosexual marriage."  Auxiliary bishop of LA, Robert Barron, says "the Church should no longer devote valuable resources to promoting her teachings on sexual morality and marriage because doing so has become an exercise in futility."  "Hierarchical oppositon to Humanae Vitae" started in 1968 and has advanced the sexual revolution ever since.  Pope Francis writes ambiguously in Amoris Laetitia that there are two ways to excuse moral violations, ignorance and something about extenuating circumstances.  (In American law, ignorance of the law is not an excuse.)

2020 May 1  https://virtueonline.org/renowned-anglican-theologian-historian-weighs-future-orthodox-anglicanism    David Virtue has opinions about worldwide Anglicanism (Episcopalians in U.S.  Church of England.) (Anglicans are the third largest religious group in the world after Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy).  Heresies and dysfunctional behaviors ... in the Western branch of the Anglican Communion which led to the formation of the Anglican Church in North America and Global Anglican Future Conference.  Liberal Anglicans have redefined marriage.  "Progressives who embrace gay marriage worship another Jesus, a different gospel, and proclaim another Spirit (2 Cor 11.4). These are not two ways of being Christian; they are two religions worshiping different gods."  Orthodox Anglicanism is from Africa and South America.  " For them, the gospel is not salvation from sin, death and the devil by the life, death and resurrection of Messiah Jesus, but liberation from earthly structures of oppression such as (their definition of) racism, sexism, so-called homophobia, and climate change. The means of liberation, for progressive Anglicans, is not the dynamic and supernatural work of the Trinity, but political and social forces. This is indeed a new form of pagan religion."  "The Anglican Communion is 80% orthodox, and the progressive wing is gradually dying. So we are seeing increasing strength for orthodoxy in Anglicanism globally, if not in Western Anglicanism. Here in the States, the orthodox in ACNA are growing steadily, while TEC [The Episcopal Church] diminishes by the day."     Blog:  "political correctness with its foundation in cultural Marxism and moral relativism"

2020 May 3  http://enews.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20200503/508baaf7-f68c-4c02-9d59-2dd9fdf4269a

      Report: China hid coronavirus' severity to hoard supplies  By WILL WEISSERT       WASHINGTON (AP) four-page Department of Homeland Security report dated May 1 and obtained by The Associated Press.

     China held off informing the World Health Organization that the coronavirus “was a contagion” for much of January so it could order medical supplies from abroad — and that its imports of face masks and surgical gowns and gloves increased sharply.          On ABC's “This Week," Pompeo..."China has a history of infecting the world, and they have a history of running substandard laboratories.”     See above, January 21 2020:  the story that is reported to the world turns around.

2020 homesnacks  10 most liberal cities U.S. over 100,000 population  Berkeley, San Fran, Oakland, Arlington VA, Pasadena, Boulder, Sunnyvale, Alexandria across from D.C., Durham, Portland.  Most conservative Tyler TX.

2020 about May   WashingtonExaminer  70% of NYC Black people age 18-44 not vaccinated against Covid-19.  Distrust of government, even the most liberal government of De Blasio.  Hawk Newsome and Chivona, Black Lives Mattere:  "weaponized against Black community."  

     hrexecutive.com  Henderson:  toll of pandemic on women who had to drop out of workforce to care for children who were out of school reverses decades of progress for working women.  

2020 May 26  Rioting and looting break out in the U.S. after George Floyd dies under the knee of a policeman.  Austin and San Antonio have dozens of downtown businesses broken into and in many cases looted.  The combined pressure of COVID-19 closures and looting are sinking some businesses.

2020 June 4  Some large U.S. cities are thinking about reducing police-department funding.  Police unions are opposed.  San Francisco and LA.  The activists show so much faith in the perfectibility of people.  They really do hope that people won't loot if we just show kindness.  The U.S. AG states Antifa is organizing some violence.  "In many places, it appears the violence is planned, organized, and driven by anarchistic and far left extremists, using Antifa-like tactics, many of whom travel from out of state to promote the violence."   Minnesota Governor Tim Walz:  about 80% of the people causing destruction in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul are “outsiders.”

https://www.dailybreeze.com/2020/06/03/la-city-leaders-call-for-cutting-police-funding-amid-protests-against-police-brutality

Los Angeles city council is under pressure from activists to shift funding away from the police department.  The campaign predates the death of George Floyd.  Los Angeles activists, many of them part of LA’s Black Lives Matters chapter, advocate funding cuts.  “If we are going to finally end the sin of racism and all of its illogical, dehumanizing and sometimes deadly consequences, including in our police department, then we have to provide real solutions for real people who need our assistance,” Council President Martinez said.  United Teachers Los Angeles, in contract negotiation, calls for police defunding, moratorium on charter schools, new wealth taxes, Medicare-for-all (which many lliberals think is free of premium payment). 

BLM LA organizer Melina Abdullah, in a statement relayed through the People’s Budget campaign:  "confront the racist police state that is the city of Los Angeles.”

https://thecrimereport.org/2020/06/05/u-s-spends-twice-as-much-on-police-as-on-welfare/

Steve Fletcher, Minneapolis City Council:  disband the PD and start over with “a community-oriented, nonviolent public safety and outreach capacity.”  Professor Alex Vitale: “Pointless training programs...let’s divert that money into building up communities and individuals so we don’t ‘need’ violent and abusive policing.”  Much of the increase in law and order spending stems from the war on drugs, which required massive investment in police and prisons.

2020 June 9  "Reverend" Al Sha _ _ _ _ _ is given credibility by U.S. media and has a lot of clout but is called a race hustler by some.  See "race hustler" in Urban Dictionary.  Another hustler is Jes _ _ Jac _ _ _ _, search for Silicon Valley Capitulates to Jes _ _ Jac _ _ _ _ Shakedown May 30, 2014

2020 June 22  https://www.newsweek.com/white-jesus-statues-should-torn-down-black-lives-matters-leader-says-1512674         Shaun King announced Monday that he supports the destruction of statues that depict a white Jesus...Black Lives Matter movement...noted that historians believe Jesus likely had the appearance of people who typically lived in the Middle East during his time, rather than the white man who is often depicted in Christian iconography.  [he doesn't consider that artists of hundreds of years ago didn't travel to the M.E.]    "Yes, I think the statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down," King tweeted. "They are a form of white supremacy... stained glass windows and other images of a white Jesus, his white mother and "their white friends" should all be destroyed.

2020  China   Baogang Steel and Rare Earth complex dumps process waste in a lake    In 2009 China produced 95% of the world's supply of rare earths, such as neodymium and cerium.  But neodymium is no rarer than copper or nickel.    Baotou is fueled by coal.      https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-dystopian-lake-filled-by-the-world-s-tech-lust?utm_source=pocket-newtab

The Dystopian Lake Filled by the World’s Tech Lust

2020 July   The U.S. organization that is in the press so much is more and more said to be Marxist.  Some were making that claim a year ago.  https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/models-political-meddling-by-clerics/  Father Pokorsky:  Violence in U.S. cities has "little...to do with racism.  I believe it is a Marxist-Leninist diabolical assault on the family and our culture.  We've seen it before in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and...Russia."

2020 July 14  A Los Angeles teacher union demands defunding police departments, shuttering charter schools, Medicare-for-All, state-level taxes on wealthy people.

2020 July 16 A poster or flier from Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture is published but withdrawn quickly.  Everyday microaggressions toward people of color, the most identifiable aspects of white culture imposed on other races:  individualism, autonomy, father-mother-children, the scientific method of objective, rational linear thinking, Judeo-Christian tradition and Christianity as the “norm,” hard work, respect for authority and private property, justice based on English common law, politeness and written communication.  Those who would push back on this narrative are simply showing their white fragility, the museum says. 

    The poster at the museum is along the track of the shaming of America.  A person at the museum had a channel open to get this out to the public;  that person really thinks these things or took the advice of another radical person.  Radio talk shows have been complaining for some time that racial and ethnic, non-majority groups get a free pass from the Left to be racist.

    As a matter of fact, liberal Westerners are aggressors toward conservative, traditional African values.  See in this time line 2015 Obianuju Ekeocha.

2020 July 17  BPR News   Major networks ignore nightly violence and riots in Portland as mayor blames Pres. Trump.  Violence from Antifa and radicals in BLM.  For 45 days, almost nightly battles outside the federal courthouse.  "Politicians [lie and] describe rioters as peaceful while declaring police violent."

    Chicago gun violence is boiling up.  Democrat Mayor Lightfoot alternates between accepting and rejecting federal agents sent at the direction of Pres. Trump. 

    New York police, including the highest-ranking uniformed officer, have been injured (blood trickling down faces from head wounds).  YouTube video shows four baseball bats pulled from a car. 

2020 July 21  Keith Ellison, former Democrat National Committee vice chairman and current Minnesota attorney general, said he does not want police officers to respond to rape calls. PBS NewsHour  

Wouldn’t you rather talk to somebody who is trained in helping you deal with what you’re dealing with, as opposed to somebody whose main training is that they know how to use a firearm?   A feminist, Donegan:  "the police are more likely to hurt women than to help us."

2020 July  Portland mayor Ted Wheeler highlights special needs on his web page within portland.gov, https://www.portland.gov/wheeler.   "Access to...Civil Rights Title VI and ADA Title II laws and reasonably provides: translation, interpretation, modifications, accommodations, alternative formats, auxiliary aids and services."  John E thinks this is an overemphasis, like pandering.   Wikipedia labels him moderate Democrat, and he indeed has requested National Guard multiple times for the Portland riots, but Governor Brown refuses. 

    On July 22, Mayor Wheeler and more than five bodyguards attempt to talk to protesters beside the Federal Courthouse, which has been a siege target for up to 50 days.  The mayor can't make himself heard to many protesters, despite his audio system, as they shout and crush against the fence.  But he is jeered and verbally abused.  If he was attempting to make protesters like him, that didn't work.  See in this time line 1969 Dec 6 about the Altamont Speedway concert disaster:  New Yorker 2015 Richard Brody:  Altamont ended "the idea that, left to their own inclinations and stripped of the trappings of the wider [corrupt] social order, the young people of the new generation will somehow spontaneously create a higher, gentler, more loving grassroots order. What died at Altamont is the Rousseauian dream itself."

    Protesters (up to 1000) and camera crews gather around a tall fence all around the courthouse.  They throw all kinds of things over the fence (flaming garbage) and shoot fireworks at police.  Federal agents shelter inside the building and come out to dispense rubber bullets and tear gas when the protesters riot.  The mayor said, "the federal government unleashes paramilitary forces against its own people."  This is a complete distortion.  Three of the federal agents have been partially blinded by lasers.

    Recently, Black hip-hop singer and protester Edreece Phillips was keeping other protesters off the courthouse fence, trying to moderate the near-riot.  "All that stuff people are doing is making it so that Black voices are being heard less and less."  White protesters "throw ___ and start ___ and run away and yell 'Black Lives Matter,' and then go home and take off their clothes.  But I can't take off my black."

    Stephen Miller, senior advisor for policy to President Trump:  "We in the federal government have a responsibility to...enforce at least federal law in that city [if not state and local law]...you can't have...an autonomous zone where the law does not apply...uniform standard of law throughout the whole of the country."  Not announced is whether FBI has been tracking movements of criminal agitators (Antifa?) from city to city, and whether this type of anarcist is being arrested.

2020 July 22  Dr. John Lott on Coast to Coast AM    https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/07/04/887257243/2-people-injured-after-vehicle-careens-into-protesters-in-seattle?fbclid=IwAR2vYwk2rcdTvJgpzoYDQkg7ttNvSeR5T5BxVse5YmdhupGCAgY_3gT-FD8  Doesn't mention race of driver nor protesters.  Research shows driver was black and protesters white. 

Clue from https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/07/08/selective_media_reporting_further_fuels_our_racial_divide_143649.html

Similarly, concerning the same incident, https://abc7.com/dawit-kelete-seattle-protesters-hit-by-car-summer-taylor-diaz-love/6299313/ gives no clue that driver was black, protesters white.

    Real Clear Politics commentary by John Lott:  "The [U.S.] media...rather just have people assume that a white driver attacked two black protesters. Acknowledging...ethnicity wouldn’t advance their narrative of oppression."  "Crime Prevention Research Center, of which I am president...from 2013 to 2015."  Coast to Coast AM:  Black officers are no less likely to shoot suspects than white officers, local news coverage of black officers shooting black suspects gets picked up by the national news in just 9% of cases. By contrast, 38% of the cases in which local news reported on a white officer shooting a black suspect get national coverage.  The selective coverage creates the belief that white officers are the problem, and liberals blab about police racism even though the evidence is to the contrary, and most of the American public believes the lie.

John Lott studied economics at UCLA.  Ph.D.  Lott has held positions in law and economics at Yale Law School, the Hoover Institution, UCLA, the Wharton Business School, and Rice University.  A fellow at the University of Chicago.

2020 July  Chicago police, starting in Rahm Emanuel's mayoralty, must file a two-page report on contact (even conversation) with citizens.  Chicago police are prevented by the City from engaging in many common-sense policing and goodwill-building practices.  But the City pays much attention to "defunding police."

    https://nypost.com/2020/07/05/former-nypd-commissioner-ray-kelly-rips-mayor-de-blasio/  Former NYPD Commissioner Kelly calls "Mayor de Blasio ‘atrocious’ for weakening the police department, allowing crime to run rampant across the city."  "Kowtowing to protesters."  "Mayors...are telling cops to back off.”  Kelly said [Democrats] are "sitting on their hands" and letting de Blasio take down police.

2020  newsmax.com frankpavone     "I wrote a letter to then-candidate Biden ... to fail to advocate for and advance the protection of children in the womb, when it is in your power to do so, is itself a contradiction of what it means to be Catholic."  Nancy Pelosi is in the same situation.  Both of these national leaders call themselves good Catholics.  Peolosi calls abortion "sacred ground."

2020  New Oxford Review March 2020 p. 10  "Souls must be purified in the fires of Purgatory, and prayers are needed to release our friends and family."  This Roman Catholic delusion dies hard.  The same issue, p. 46, pulls back the veil shielding the elites.  A lady in New York City talks with an elite, "Clinton-supporting" woman who owns a high-end, Park Avenue designer shoe store.  The writer relates the derision the elite have for regular people.  They "laugh at the poor," who are mainly Hispanic and Black.  The elites speak with phrases one would expect from rednecks.  "Their bathroom habits!"  They speak in private without a filter, in the National Arts Club, a safe space where the elite speak to the elite.

The NOR Dec 2020 issue, page 35, has a rundown about liberal Episcopalians.  "A funny thing happened while the Episcopal Church was busy expanding the types of marriages it will bless:  it hasn't been marrying much of anybody at all," down 66% from 2003 to 2019.  Bishop Curry in 2019, concerning reversing the tide:  We need to do nothing about church decline, that is second-order.  "The first-order questions are whether we are helping our people --Episcopalians--to have living relationships with God and with other people."  But the progressives are steering their people in the ways of the world, not the ways of the Spirit.  "The culture has no real use for a Christianity remade in its image."

2020  completechristian  German Roman Catholic bishops are going to make a big thing of schism.  A rival Vatican.  Ordination of women will mark the split.

2020 July    New Oxford Review p. 4   Interesting Catholic thought about Protestants          American culture is so thoroughly lacking in Catholic distinctives that archbishop F. George said, "American Catholics are Protestants who go to Mass on Sunday."    How can Catholics regain their identity and transform American culture out of the cesspool?  [Yes, it is a cesspool due to commercialism in movies and TV.]  Thomas Stork in the May issue named two Protestant, anti-Catholic, cultural influences:  Protestant neglect of reason (and natural theology from Scholasticism), and individualism.  The former draws on the Catholic teaching that Mary was not depraved (Calvin) like the rest of us.  [Backed up in New Oxford Review July 2020 p. 12, Mary "the only perfect woman."]  The latter breeds a distrust of hierarchy [so many Catholic problems are from their hierarchy] and breeds an overarching tolerance of deviancy.     The article overplays individual Bible interpretation [despite 2 Peter 1:20, and cross referencing any Bible truth in light of other verses] and charges there are thousands of Protestant denominations.  Some Catholics count 33,000 Protestant denominations worldwide.  This last point is disputed by the National Catholic Register Oct 31 2017  Stephen Beale who can count 188 U.S. denominations.

2020  progressivechristianity.org/resources/updated-8-points-of-progressive-christianity    following the path of the teacher Jesus can lead to healing and wholeness, a mystical connection to “God”...the teachings of Jesus provide but one of many ways to experience the Sacredness, Oneness and Unity of life, and that we can draw from diverse sources of wisdom.  Create community with creatures and plants.  Questioning more important than dogma.    JE:  in two places, Jesus is just a teacher.  "Mystical" sounds like gnosticism.  God is in quotes, an indication of skepticism.  Jesus is but one of many ways.  Sacredness, Oneness and Unity, not sacredness, oneness and unity.

2020  A summary of some Democrat issues, from Wikipedia:  

toward universal health care,  single-payer system. diplomacy over military action, stem cell research, the legalization of same-sex marriage, stricter gun control and environmental protection laws,  abortion rights. Immigration and cultural diversity cultural pluralism, against military spending and the mixing of church and state. This ideological group differs from the traditional organized labor base.  strong business regulations, social programs

2020 Sept 28  California legislature bans sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035, but electric grid is not going to support charging millions of electric vehicles, 25% increase in power generation needed.

2020 Aug 11  https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/08/why-biden-picked-harris/615100/?utm_source=pocket-newtab       Edward-Isaac Dovere

Kamala Harris has Indian and Jamaican parents.     "Reentering the Iran deal and the Paris Agreement would be early goals, as would reestablishing America’s role as an internationalist force and a moral leader."  Liberal causes, an interesting statement, does it mean liberal morals?  Scott Mulhauser:  "As someone who has mastered pushing the Senate as far as she could, he wants her as a partner to drive big agendas and to know when to cut the deal to get almost everything you want and actually get it done.”  Eric Ortner:  “They care about ... the rule of law."  A Democrat is concerned about rule of law?    "Harris, 55, is now the odds-on favorite to be the Democratic nominee after Biden, whether that’s in 2024 or 2028."

2020 Nov 23  https://www.opb.org/article/2020/11/23/portland-protest-racial-justice-oregon-black-lives-matter/   Whatever became of Portland?   “We always made sure that Black faces were in the front and ... then a lot of ... whiteness started seeping into the forefront.  Boss and Golden ... among the first leaders to be toppled by a tumultuous protest movement that is defiantly leaderless and rife with subplots, cliques and personality conflicts.   “... turned into power dynamics.”  Golden's detractors found that Golden had guarded nuclear weapons in the Air Force ... critics accused him of being a former police officer and collaborating with law enforcement ... how the racial justice movement evolved in Portland: At some point, it stopped being about racial justice and started being anti-establishment.  “Black folks that get in power ... are somehow squashed ... by a white political leadership.”  “If you’re privileged, if you’re white, you care less about whether or not a protest is going to result in reforms."

2020 Dec New Oxford Review p. 25.  Lewis Andrews    (see in this timeline 1978...Burns)   Today's psychologists are finding themselves witnessing the importance of religious faith.  For much of the 1900s, psychologists prtrayed "neurotic religious thinking."  Faith is now often seen as a predictor of well being.  AA's 12-Step Program seeks God.  "General Dynamics [and other large companies] encourage faith and hope groups."  Many workers, cooks to IT techs and beyond, contribute more when they work according to deeply held values.  Belief in an afterlife correlates to a region's economy.

2020  Occasional media campaigns promote PrEP (Truvada) for HIV prevention.  Wikipedia says it may be 99% effective if carefully taken.  EndingHIV.org.au highlights the freedom.  "Prevent HIV, it can unlock a feeling of independence and provide a sense of security."  Wikipedia shows that non-HIV STI is 25 times higher, more or less, among PrEP users, because of reduced use of con____.

2020 Dec 14  American Journal of Managed Care    Only 60% of type-2 diabetes patients take prescribed medicine, partly because of the cost.  50% fail to achieve glycemic goals.  Adherence rates for diet:  65%, for exercise 20%.  "It's easy to just take a pill" and keep on eating the same delightful, bad food.  John E estimates that 99% of HEB grocery stock is food that he can't eat. 

2020 Dec 21  Planetary astronomy shows up on nightly, local TV news during the weather reports.  Jupiter and Saturn, as seen from the Earth, are the closest since the year 1226, excluding conjunctions that were drowned out by sunlight.  They are both seen at once by a small telescope, complete with Jupiter's moons and Saturn's rings.  By moving the telescope 20 degrees, the Moon and Mars are also seen.  Though the planets seem to be close, they are in different orbits and are 450 million miles apart.  Saturn appears smaller both because it is smaller than Jupiter and because it is much farther away.  The photo, showing bands on Jupiter, is probably from a 14" telescope.      From a Jupiter-centric standpoint, Saturn, night-by-night, slides past Jupiter along a line parallel to Jupiter's moons.          Another type of planet event happens when the Moon occults various planets.  Mars is occulted by the Moon in most years but for some reason this is visible in limited areas.     Dr. David Dunham, the UT Austin grad student in 1973 who organized grazing occultation expeditions with the Austin Astronomy Society, along county roads, to determine the hills and valleys at the Moon's limb, is still active with occultations.  http://lunar-occultations.com/iota/planets/planets.htm

2021 Jan 3     https://www.livescience.com/1804-greatest-mysteries-life-arise-earth.html     Linked from Earthlink on Jan 3 2021     Written by Ker Than 9-2-2016     "Origin of Life" and evolution continues to show up on Internet web sites. 

Stromatolites in Greenland that are about 3.7 billion years old...these bacteria (which are still around today) are already biologically complex—they have cell walls protecting their protein-producing DNA, so scientists think life must have begun much earlier.  Scientists are still far from answering how it appeared.  Most scientists agree that life [started in an] "RNA World."  RNA...took a backseat when DNA and proteins—which perform their jobs much more efficiently than RNA—developed.  "The appearance of [RNA by random processes,] given the way chemistry functions, is incredibly improbable. It would be a once-in-a-universe long shot," said Robert Shapiro, a chemist at New York University. "To adopt this [view], you have to believe we were incredibly lucky."

John E expects more and more main-line scientists to become dissatisfied with the materialist explanation, "in billions of years and perhaps 1024 planets, statistics ensures that there will be a self-replicating RNA [with thousands to tens of thousands of amino-acid rungs that have to be in just the right order] that will spontaneously develop on its own, on a planet that has life-conducive climate over billions of years.  And if the universe doesn't give enough chances, we can always fall back on an infinitude of chances in the multiverse."    The molecular biologist and Roman Catholic Michael Behe became dissatisfied in the 1990s and wrote Darwin's Black Box.  David Waltham and many other writers became dissatisfied with "a practically infinite number of Goldilocks-zone planets with long-duration, stable climate," Waltham writing Lucky Planet in 2014. 

But the materialist orthodoxy in academe is a smothering blanket, and they churn out young graduates who have taken their marching orders.

Romans ch. 1 v. 20  For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made [by the Logos, http://www.bible-researcher.com/logos.html]. So they are without excuse.     Hard-hearted materialists think up any number of reasons to reject God's love and Jesus' sacrifice.  They will not receive His forgiveness.  They insist that, over centuries, people are getting better and will eventually achieve communal perfection.    Find on this page or in this Google site similar paragraphs using search term "evoxcross."

Physics Time Line continues to 2021 Jan 20 on a third subpage of the earliest Physics Time Line, the one up to 1820.  The 1990-present web page is too long.  The link for the 2021 Jan 20 subpage is not from the 1990-present page because that is too deep in the nesting.