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And the alternative would be: The ecological system of earth is far too complex for humans to create or even understand, so it must have randomly occurred through happenstance and fortuitous mutations. Yeah, that must be the answer. Ha ha!

Fair enough. I realize that some people believe that if you watch a swamp long enough eventually lightening will strike and somehow create a living cell. And in turn, as you sit watching that swamp, millions of years later a pack of Cub Scouts will pitch their tent there, having been evolved from the muck that was struck by lightening. I just don't have enough faith in happenstance to believe in something like that.

To your point about there being lots of misinformation and misunderstanding about God, yes I agree. There's LOTS of misinformation and misunderstanding. But that just proves how small and ignorant man is. As for the existence of a higher power, just look around you at the magnificent system of life on earth. Would you, as an atheist, have us believe that all these incredibly complex, interacting systems of life came into being and multiplied through happenstance and random mutations? There are around 9 million different species of animals on earth and 400k species of plants. If you had a planet with ideal conditions—or even a billion planets—how long would you have to wait until the conditions occurred to produce one cell of a plant or animal? A billion years? A trillion years? Who knows? And if that one cell somehow did come into being, how could it reproduce? How could it cooperate with other cells to form a simple plant or animal? And how could that simple plant or animal evolve on its own to create what we have on earth today? I amuses me that some people pooh pooh the difficulty of creating life—plants and animals. It's really, really hard. Certainly it's far beyond the capabilities of mankind. We (all of mankind) could devote all the collective resources of the world to this problem for a 100 years and we couldn't create one simple creature from scratch. Yet many would have us believe that life was created by a lightening strike in a swamp. Heh.

49 percent of GOP men say they won't get vaccinated: PBS poll BY CELINE CASTRONUOVO - 03/11/21 03:58 PM EST LINK =========================================================================== This is disturbing and sad. Granted, it's a story from The Hill which isn't exactly lauded as unbiased or accurate. But to the extent this is true, it's disturbing.

Heh, that's a good read. What's in it for Berenson anyway? It seems like his followers would realize how inaccurate his claims are and he'd simply fall by the wayside. Don't people fact check anything on their own? Was his reporting this inaccurate when he was a reporter at the NY Times?

Awesome! Those are some high marks. I'm a bit surprised, and very pleased. You'd think those numbers would translate to the field at some point. Wouldn't you?

Do we know whether the 2016 vs. 2021 numbers are apples to apples?

Volkswagen shares drop 3.7% after April Fool's name change to Voltswagen MARK FRAUENFELDER 10:21 AM WED MAR 31, 2021 www.boingboing.net LINK

The media has become so polarized in the past decade or so that it's nearly impossible to find unbiased reporting. Nearly every source is either right-leaning or left-leaning. The left-leaning sources seem to out number the right-leaning sources. Almost all news sources slant stories to suit their agenda. The most unbiased news source today is Reuters. I used to love NPR. A lot of people still like NPR. But I can't stand them anymore. /jmho

Do you think MSM provides fair and balanced news coverage? What about MSNBC, NPR or CNN—do you think they are fair and balanced?

+1 for proper contextual use of the term "covidiots". lol

I think her point wasn't so much that there should be positive news about Covid, but that the volume of stories in U.S. coverage contained so many more negative stories than elsewhere in the world. Or as she said, "dramatically more negative coverage than international, regional and scientific news sources." Her secondary point was that the negative coverage appeared to be politicized. I agree with both those points. Covid is a deadly virus, somewhat worse than SARS was, and comparable to measles for deadliness and contagiousness. (Although measles is pretty much under control now).

I'd sort of lost track of him, and was shocked to learn that he died a couple years ago. He packed a lot of living into his short lifespan. RIP Jared.

Agreed! America is the most powerful country in the world. But the choice we were given to lead our nation was between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. An egotistical jacka$$ and a senile crook. What kind of a choice is that? Clearly our political system is broken. /smh

What do you think? Does this instill confidence in President Biden?

You pretty much just want to argue with everyone, don't you? Good bye.

Hutmacher is listed on huskers.com as weighing 330 this year. LINK That's 25 lbs more than he played at last year. I'd bet a lot of that new weight is muscle rather than fat. Or I'd like to think so anyway.

Ever notice how fans always give the QB too much credit for winning, and too much blame for losing? He's only one cog in the machine! That's what this conversation reminds me of.

If measles was new to the world like Covid-19 and no one had immunity or was vaccinated then, yes, there would likely be a measles pandemic right now. The hospitalization rate and death rate for measles is comparable to Covid-19. And measles is much more contagious.

Somebody please explain to me why vaccine passports are good, but voter IDs are terrible?

I doubt any B1G schools even get a sniff. Bet he heads back to Cali--maybe USC.

I'd say both those numbers are suspect. Of the 160, there are a lot of people who had other conditions and would have died soon anyway. And some of the 160 died from other causes but tested positive to Covid. So the real number is something less. Maybe 150/100,000 or maybe 30/100,000. Nobody knows for sure. Regardless of how much lower the actual number is, the Covid-19 virus is a nasty, deadly disease. People who think its not real have either been mislead, or are just plain stupid. The same holds true for the vaccine. Even if 1.9/100,000 died shortly after receiving the shot, probably a fair percentage of them died from other, unrelated causes. So the 1.9 would be somewhat less as well. /btw: I got my shot last week, when it first was available to me.

Watched John Wick with my son this weekend. Uggh! What a terrible movie. Virtually no plot at all. Just some former assassin going around killing gangsters It's not the excessive violence and killing that I mind so much in movies like this. It's just that it's so incredibly unrealistic, and the plot is virtually nonexistent. It does make me curious though. How is it that such a poorly written script with a childish plot get made into a feature film with a big budget and popular movie stars? Is this representative of the creative talent in Hollywood?