First, from the  New York Times  this morning: President Biden will meet with King Charles III and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London tomorrow. Major League Baseball’s Home Run Derby is also tomorrow, followed by the All-Star game on Tuesday. NATO leaders are scheduled to meet for a summit in Lithuania starting Tuesday. Friday is Bastille Day in France. The Wimbledon women’s singles final will be on Saturday, and the men’s final is on Sunday.  The surprise so far is 16-year old  Mirra Andreeva  of Russia, playing here for the first time, earning a spot in the fourth round. The conventional Christian view of evolution can be found in the  King James version of  The Bible , where  Genesis  says (y ou can refer to the first link to view missing elements ): [ 1 ] In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. [ 3 ] And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. [ 8 ] And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. [ 13 ] And the e

Genesis in the  Christian Bible  mentions that  God created the heavens and the earth .  In the  Qur'an , Allah created the heavens and the earth .  Also mentioned was an intimation of a  Big Bang .  And  so did  The Bible , although it is in the interpretation. ' IN THE BEGINNING   God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the face of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters. – Genesis 1:1-2 The Buddhist Genesis is supposedly in  The Aggañña-sutta .   Yet from any logic, the Big Bang, followed by evolution, can be said to  question the validity of God  in six days creating everything.  Arguments have been made, however, that time is a variable in these early texts, and six days could very well be the equivalent of nearly 14 billion years.  In any case, it is interesting that  Hindus believe that the Big Bang offers no challenge to their belief in creation .  Nowhere is this scientific theory mentioned. Th

My posting today is all about those three grand miracles that led to us,  Homo sapiens  today.   You either believe in religious creationism or science, for how we humans came to be.  This posting will focus on the latter. The history of guessing the age of Planet Earth and the Universe  goes back to the beginning of our species, and in the early 18th century, was only speculated to be on the order of millions of years old. The first scientific theories began to appear around the time of the U.S. Civil War. Until as recently as 1999, astronomers thought the age of our universe was between 7 and 20 billion years old In 1929 Edwin Hubble observed that the universe was expanding.  So the thinking was, if space is expanding, what if we trace backwards to the beginning.   It was a Catholic priest and Belgian cosmologist,  Georges Lemaitre , who in 1931 published an original paper on this subject. But  Miracle #1, the Big Bang , was coined in 1949 by a British astrophysicist who in time beca

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