Sunday is my day for spiritualism and philosophy.  So today I inquire into why we are here.  There is, of course, the biblical version, where God created everything.  But you can refer to the   Bible   or   Quran   or other historical source to find this answer. This not a particularly religious blog site, so I will instead today look into how  Homo sapiens  came to be and maybe not quite answer the question of  why  we are here. The Big Bang, followed by the subsequent formation of stars and galaxies, is the leading theory of our beginning, from which came our solar system with Planet Earth, then evolution to us.  You've seen these forms of graphic before: Clearly, there are galaxies, and our Milky Way is but one. When you look up into the night sky, almost all what you see are stars from our own galaxy.  If you searched and searched with your naked eye, you would be able to see only three galaxies.  The others are t...

A lot of Trump stuff in the news, but I'll let you  watch the Lawrence O'Donnell Show on MSNBC to bring some reality to what is happening .   Senate today votes on whether  Pete Hegseth  becomes Secretary of Defense. That  DEI order  about the federal government order.  This is just the beginning of what will affect people of color, especially African Americans, in the years to come.  Many of them are going to be pissed about voting for Trump. The mass deportation arrests have begun .  In time there will also be a lot of irritated Hispanics. President Donald Trump is visiting North Carolina and California today .  Want to know how your state will be accommodated if you have a cataclysmic natural disaster?   See what he says today .  Hawaii is in bad trouble, for a higher percentage of presidential voters supported Biden than California, and our governor flew to DC to protest the nomination of RFK Jr. for health secret...

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 ...