Inneresting

Meet Your Ancestors (All of Them)

Puts the timelines into understandable terms. For example:

...your greatx550,000 grandfather was a very important monkey and more than 55 million years, when the first primates are thought to have lived—that our great-a-million-times-over-grandparent was the size of a mouse.

Awesomeness

Spectacular show during rare alignment of Mars, Venus

Moon, Venus, Mars Perform Rare Cosmic Show In Night Sky

Fascinating...

...history of planet earth. Kinda drives home the real possibility that some day we will be extinct.

Cool Science From "Out There"......

...and other stuff.

First, the other stuff:

Texas Researcher Explains Evolution of Life

"Origin of life on earth is a mystery that still baffles science. Many theories have been proposed to explain the origins of biological forms. However, none of them independently explain the start of life.

Now, Sankar Chatterjee, Horn Professor of Geosciences and curator of paleontology at the Museum of Texas Tech University, says that he has connected the dots and found how life may have originated."

RTWT

Melting Arctic sea ice could increase summer rainfall in northwest Europe suggests new study

And wouldn't that be awful.

Now, out there...

Hell on earth -er- Astronomers Find Earthlike Planet, but It’s Infernally Hot



Do-Do, Do-Do, Do-Do, Do-Do, Do-Do,....

Reason Versus Morality

Why Wait For Thanksgiving...

...to express some gratitude:



They are all good, but I especially like the second one.

Of Course...

...we have to have our spring blizzard, don't we?

Just when you thought the interminable winter was almost over.

AAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!

The Guardian Asks...

...the big question:

Stephen Hawking's big bang gaps

"In his new book, Stephen Hawking reiterates that there is no big gap in the scientific account of the big bang. The laws of physics can explain, he says, how a universe of space, time and matter could emerge spontaneously, without the need for God. And most cosmologists agree: we don't need a god-of-the-gaps to make the big bang go bang. It can happen as part of a natural process. A much tougher problem now looms, however. What is the source of those ingenious laws that enable a universe to pop into being from nothing? Traditionally, scientists have supposed that the laws of physics were simply imprinted on the universe at its birth, like a maker's mark. As to their origin, well, that was left unexplained."

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"The multiverse comes with a lot of baggage, such as an overarching space and time to host all those bangs, a universe-generating mechanism to trigger them, physical fields to populate the universes with material stuff, and a selection of forces to make things happen. Cosmologists embrace these features by envisaging sweeping "meta-laws" that pervade the multiverse and spawn specific bylaws on a universe-by-universe basis. The meta-laws themselves remain unexplained – eternal, immutable transcendent entities that just happen to exist and must simply be accepted as given. In that respect the meta-laws have a similar status to an unexplained transcendent god."

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"...there is no compelling need for a supernatural being or prime mover to start the universe off. But when it comes to the laws that explain the big bang, we are in murkier waters."

Although way over my head, I still find it fascinating. Every new advance in science raises new questions. We'll probably never run out of questions nor ever have all the answers. And that's rather humbling -- which is good.

This Just In, From Mars...

So, there is life on Mars - - - and they're leftards!!

Well, At Least It's Not...

...tax payers money (I don't think):

Philosopher to Lead $5 Million Study of Immortality

Okay. So They Think...

...they're closing in on the "God Particle", but as usual, that raises other questions, such as "Who or what created the God Particle"?

Seriously, every advance in science merely increases the mystery of how, and under who's direction, it all began.

My idea of God, and whether or not He/She/It exists is just that. The Great Mystery that we may get closer and closer to seeing/understanding/knowing, but, like the speed of light, we will never quite reach a conclusion.

All the religious interpretations that have been written down and preserved in sacred texts, whether Judeao-Christian, or otherwise, merely reflect humankind's attempt to explain the unexplainable, and as such they are products of the human imagination, which itself is a mighty wondrous thing.

But to declare you are an atheist just because you reject these bits of human imaginings, which include the great strides made by modern science, is to suggest that everything that can be known is now known, or will be, some day.

We will never arrive at the ultimate end of the human endeavour to understand creation and prove or disproved the existence of a Creator. Merely rejecting the products of the human imagination is not the same thing as rejecting the notion that there is a Creator. No. It is rejection of the capacity of the human imagination to arrive at the ultimate answer to the biggest question, which all of science endeavors to explore.

Ain't gonna happen. But, the human imagination, being what it is, we're gonna try anyway.

Same Thing...

...is happening in Edmonton. Different river, same problem.

Most of the houses on the riverbank, in both places, are were worth megabucks, too. Not so much now, one would hazard....

Just goes to show ya', Mom Nature can still have her way, regardless of what human brained scientists can come up with. Kinda like the global warming hysteria, in a way. It's gonna happen no matter what we fools do...

On a Lighter Note...

...enough of psycho-cannibals.

I was just outside "front-step-sitting", watching a full moon rise. Almost felt like howling. It was gorgeous.

Here's Something...

...to replace the AGW scam especially made for scaremongers, except this one has happened before and could be genuinely catastrophic:

Mysterious Siberian blasts point to rapid pole reversal

First time I've heard of Tunguska explained this way. Not much we can do about it, either.

I Readily Admit...

...I know nothing about physics. I flunked high school physics way back in the 1960s and have gotten along just fine without it. But this just blows my mind and makes me even more convinced that Atheists are wrong and there must be a Intelligent Creator, call him/her/it God, a Cosmic Force or whatever you like. The more science uncovers the more unanswered questions there are to ask.

Awesome Pics...

...from Hubble:

Hubble's Best Photos

All you atheists have some 'splaining to do.

Another Good One from TED

Another Lovely Evening...

...here in nowheresville, Saskatchewan. I was sitting out in my back yard enjoying the warm evening looking up at the sky. Looking back at me were:

Cassiopeia

Orion

Ursa Major

Ursa Minor

...and of course, the North Star (Polaris).

You have to wonder what those ancients were smoking, though.