Let's today ignore the question of who created God or what happened before the Big Bang, or why anything like that even occurring.  Let's just assume that there is a   God who created Man in his own image .  Then, on this Sunday, set that possibility aside to consider that other option called the Big Bang. Of course, even science is speculative, so here is another point of view: So from left to right,  time marched on  where basic elements began to form 3 seconds after the BB,  stars/galaxies at around a time of 300 million years.  Now looking backwards from the present, life began to form 3.8 billions ago, dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago and we  Homo sapiens  evolved  600,000 years ago .  However, anatomically modern  Hs  appeared around  300,000 years ago . Now, imagine the entire history of the Universe compressed into a calendar year.  Each month would be equal to almost a billion years, so this is what December would look like: Okay, so here we are, 12 Septem

 The news of the day: 70% of American adults have taken at least one shot , finally hitting Biden's target, but about a month late.   However, keep in mind that the 0-11 age group has not yet been vaccinated, and they represent 15% the U.S. population.   This means that the unvaccinated figure is slightly higher than 40%. According to my posting yesterday, the Delta variant means herd immunity is at 92%.  We are thus today below 60%. Some states have returned to mandatory masking. While we are a humane country and don't want our citizens in jeopardy, those vaccinated are actually being discriminated against. What about allowing the vaccinated full freedom to not wear masks and letting them enter theaters, restaurants, cruise ships, airplanes and the like, while preventing those unvaccinated from these privileges? More and more mandates are actually being invoked, and found by the courts to be legal. But you say, some unvaccinated will find a way to circumvent the system.  I say