Lies, with compound interest

Have you ever told a lie, and ended up telling even more lies to cover the original? It is common enough of an experience that people use it as an example of how much easier it is just to tell the truth from the beginning. Well, the other day I was thinking about that same concept with regards to that pet controversial subject of mine: EVOLUTION.

Now, I am not going to get into the topic of "who lied as the theory of evolution unfolded." That is crazy...I don't think anyone intensionally lied in the process. What I am getting at is that once the theory of evolution was accepted and became mainstream, new discoveries HAD to agree with the theory. And when they did not, elaborate rationals and justifications and exceptions to the rule had to be developed so that the theory of evolution was not disturbed. I am speaking this out of personal experience, because I have heard some really crazy reasoning in my science classes, trying to tie new findings back to evolution.

If we were comparing the probabilities involved in creating life through evolutionary means with the odds that there really is a higher power that created life as we know it, the god option would seriously win. Look into it. Ask you neighborhood math-nerd. And he/she doesn't even have to be a Christian to figure that one out.

Why is it that we humans think we are at the top of the metaphorical food-chain? I mean really! How arrogant are we that we can say there is no God? And so many don't stop there. They ridicule and look down on those that believe in a god or higher power. They restrict learning about the different possibilities in the public school system.

Mull over this one:
Yesterday I was listening to a seminar on how "epinephrine interacts with the G-protein coupled receptor beta-2" click for more. Very fascinating, but I won't go into any depth here for sanities sake. But basically this complex protein could sense EVERY SINGLE ATOM in epinephrine's small structure. One atom out of place, and signalling was dramatically reduced. Hmmmm, how interesting. Protein machines in one part of the body craft this molecule called "epinephrine" so that another protein can sense its exact shape. Sounds like design to me! One atom out of place, and a whole lot of proteins are out of a job...the ones that make epinephrine, the ones that package it, transport it, regulate it, detect it, degrade it, etc etc.

Home Remedies

I stumbled across this website in the most peculiar way: I was looking up that old wives tale about not swallowing gum for it will "sit in your stomach for 7 years." This is just not true. Anyway, I was looking up the ingredients for chewing gum to give an answer to those that quote this myth (unfortunately, the specifics are proprietary, and I got distracted by the following website to look deeper).

www.otan.dni.us/webfarm/emailproject/rem.htm

I am not even going to start defending some of these home remedies. I do know that some (perhaps I should say "a few") work from personal experience. Some just perpetuate old wives tales. Have a look the next time you have an ailment.