This and That

No, I’m doubtful it is. But it makes for an interesting headline anyway. 🙂

This is quite the story:

Scientists have made one of the most important fossil finds in history: a missing link between fish and land animals, showing how creatures first walked out of the water and on to dry land more than 375m years ago.

Palaeontologists have said that the find, a crocodile-like animal called the Tiktaalik roseae and described today in the journal Nature, could become an icon of evolution in action – like Archaeopteryx, the famous fossil that bridged the gap between reptiles and birds.

Then, perhaps, we get to the real meat of the story:

As such, it will be a blow to proponents of intelligent design, who claim that the many gaps in the fossil record show evidence of some higher power.

Maybe that’s what makes this thing “one of the most important fossil finds in history.”

Let’s see how those IDers “spin” this one. 😉

This excellent piece over at PoliPundit reminds me of my Mexican friend LS:

Consider the case of two men, “Oswaldo,” and “Vikas.”

My Christian friend in Mexico has tried three times to get a visa to visit the US. He’s not trying to get up here to work or live. Just to visit two or three weeks, or less.

But the officials at the American Consulate in Hermosillo (Sonora) reject him as soon as he answers “Yes” when asked if he’s ever been in the States illegally.

His father brought him to the US as a minor.

He lived here long enough to learn English quite well.

Now that he is an adult (a ripe 22 years old or so), he refuses to do the easy thing: Lie.

So the Americans send him on his way, not even listening to the details of his case.

Thus no US visit for LS. Not even to attend his childhood friend’s wedding. That friend is RR, my oldest son.

God bless LS for his commitment to His Law as well as to man’s laws.

Be sure to read what Mr. Gaffney has to point out:

The Congress has received lots of free advice lately from Mexican government officials and illegal aliens waving Mexico’s flag in mass demonstrations coast-to-coast. Most of it takes the form of bitter complaints about our actual or prospective treatment of immigrants from that country who have gotten into this one illegally — or who aspire to do so.

If you think these critics are mad about U.S. immigration policy now, imagine how upset they would be if we adopted an approach far more radical than the bill they rail against which was adopted last year by the House of Representatives — namely, the way Mexico treats illegal aliens.

It seems I pointed that out in an earlier post (Two Southern Borders)

The above article is far more in-depth and substantive and documented than whatever little I took the time to write.

From the BBC:

The three-year-old girl stopped breathing and turned blue when she got stuck between the rubber handrail and a side partition at the H&M store.

From WorldMagBlog:

Rarer than a solar eclipse! Rarer than Hailey’s Comet. On Wednesday, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning . . . .

Maybe it will come.

Maybe.

Don’t count on it!

This fellow acknowledges some limits in his study, but it’s interesting nonetheless:

If you’re planning on a church funeral when you die, a new study suggests you can delay it by up to 3.1 years if you attend church regularly as opposed to waiting for a priest or pastor to say final words over your casket.

And that’s only for church attendance?!

What will throwing yourself into the “program” do for you?

And what if your church attendance and activity reflect a wholly-surrendered commitment to Jesus Christ?

That was a year ago.

No, I didn’t think it was good news that she was dead.

But that’s how too many people viewed it then. And likely still do.

I wonder what her perspective is on the matter.

I assure you, she does have a perspective on it.