News Commentary

...Asteroid Apollo 2004 XP14 crossed Earth's orbit yesterday about 430,000 km away or about as close as the moon. It is one of a class of Apollo asteroids which cross our orbit at regular intervals. Not one is predicted to even come close to impacting Earth during the rest of the 21st century. (Whew, I was worried there for a minute! I love how the news media proclaims it in headlines as a near-miss, or coming within a hair's breadth of Earth at least in astronomical terms. The amusing thing about cataclysmic near-misses is that the same scientists hold to beliefs about uniformitarian principles in their philosophy of evolution.)

...A man who has been in an almost vegetative state for 19 years has begun to awaken; talking in slurred speech, but aware of his surroundings. It seems that the scientific explanation is that his brain has been healing on its own and producing new axons and neuro paths for brain activity. (Hmmm...could it be that man was created with a brain that could heal itself? Now who would be intelligent enough to create such a thing? Darwin's natural selection philosophy would argue that someone with that extensive amount of brain damage would probably just die in the natural order of things. Now, the medical doctors who had previously given up on the patient state that they want to study his brain to see if they can help with the use of chemical drugs, therapies, etc. Sure, jump on the bandwagon when the Creator has already done most of the work.)

...The Battle of Gettysburg ended on July 3, 1863, but the there is another battle going on in modern times that is pitting neighbor against neighbor, family members against each other, and threatens to divide an entire city. It's the issue of whether a casino should be allowed to be built just 2 miles from the Gettysburg battlefield. Proponents feel that adult tourists to Gettysburg don't have enough entertainment in the evening after they have toured the historical memorials and the sobering events of the Civil War. (Sure, attract tourists with something of substance so that they can have their money taken away by a master which enslaves its own customers: gambling. Its still a war over taking advantage of other people.)