A Welcome Rainy Morning

We are getting a soaking rain this morning. Here in the desert, these rains are especially welcome. The first heavy rains of the season tend to runoff. Later, after the ground has become more saturated, they soak in, where they do the most good.

Looking down my street to the north, the mountains, which loom over our city are completely obscured.

To the south, there are touches of blue sky at the horizon. This may be the first sign of clearing or the last of clear skies. I guess we will see.

I was watching a video presentation by Dr. Louise Leakey this morning. Dr. Leakey, like her famous parents and grandparents, has spent much of her life looking for clues to the origin of our species in East Africa. I'm fascinated by her family's work and our evolutionary trek.

It is inconceivable to me Americans are so scientifically ignorant that they buy into the notion that a sky god created the Earth a mere 6,000 years ago. According to about half the people in this country, Dr. Leakey is not finding traces of our ancestors, but instead is finding fossils planted in their current form by God, for reasons that we cannot understand.

If you Google 'evolution' and 'poll', you will get a bunch of hits confirming the near majority opinion in America, that God created us, as is. Here is a recent article.

Anyone who is not worried about religion and its supernatural belief system infiltrating our government even more than it has, should be. The specter of our two presidential candidates pandering to the religious blocks makes me uneasy.





Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky