Is everyone else sick and tired of the avalanche of paper that gets stuffed into our mail boxes each week?

I don’t just mean the advertising junk mail - that has a short lifespan at our house, straight into the yellow bin. Never even makes it inside or gets opened (well apart from the odd Dick Smith one so I can see what geeky toys there are that I can’t afford).

I mean the endless bank statements - why do we need two copies of every joint account we have? Why do we need wads of advertising brochures stuffed into bill envelopes? Why do we constantly need to be reminded of how easy it is to contact businesses that we already know how to contact? Why? Why? So many questions and so few answers… read more…

I just finished reading the Rev Bird’s article in our local newsletter where he cites the book Darwin on Trial and seems to be a proponent of Intelligent Design (I think, I’m not sure exactly what point he was trying to make, but he does mention ‘the accomplishments of intelligent design’ in the article).

I have quite different views on the subject of religion and this isn’t the place to discuss or promote them as I’ve always believed ‘each to his own’ and providing that believers stick to quoting the bible (or whichever holy book they claim to be written by their particular god) and not pretending to discuss ‘pseudo science’, then I don’t have a problem at all.

Most ‘family church goers’ and the vast majority of mainstream christians are as appalled at the I.D nonsense as non-believers are.  There’s no conflict in most christian’s believing in their religion and also understanding and accepting that natural selection and evolution are the cornerstone of our understanding of how life came to be on the planet. Many don’t accept that the original ’spark of life’ could also have come about by purely natural means - they believe in a supernatural event at the very beginning. Again, I don’t have a problem with them believing that either. Science has yet to fully explain the phenomenon - but science may be getting close. read more…