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

Just another Sunday musing today, reflecting on my life full of miracles.  The greatest was being born on 6 September 1940.  What were the odds? The average male produces  2 trillion sperms  in a lifetime.   The average female produces 500 eggs in a lifetime. Multiplying the two, and you get one chance in a quadrillion for me to have been born. And that's just only because my mother and father got together. Incidentally, the longer odds of this happening can be viewed in a  TedX talk by Mel Robbins.   He says:  1 in 400 trillion. And another view .  Essentially, we're all miracles. There have been  117 billion miracles  since the beginning of us. My childhood was mundane and totally uneventful.  I lived just to the right of that tall building on the right, in a day when there were no tall buildings.  Nothing much happened until I got into high school.  As a sophomore at McKinley High School (p hoto to the left ) in Honolulu, the odds on my getting accepted by one of the better

  A   Pew poll   showed that over a decade, Christian affiliation has dropped from 78% to 65%, and those without a religion rose from 16% to 26%. Of course, church attendance is also declining. A particularly interesting aspect of this survey is that: Millennials ( the youngest generation polled ) declined the most, 16%, while the older Silent Generation only dropped by 2%. By race: Whites  -12% Blacks  -11% Hispanic  -10% Education: Less than a college education  -11% College graduate  -13% Region: Northeast  -15% South  -12% Midwest  -10% West  -9% Political party: Republican  -7% Democrat  -17% More details about generation gap beliefs: Those with no religion grew by 30 million: According to  Pew , here are the least affiliated countries in the world: The map seems to indicate that the U.S. is among the most unaffiliated countries.  However, the color code is misleading, for, apparently, only 18.6% of Americans are unaffiliated, meaning that 81.4% must have a religion.  From yet ano