How are Religion and Science Compatible?

You should read a book by DeDuve called life evolving. It describes how the evolution of RNA was an extended process involving reactions between amino acids and common elements over 150 millions years or so. Hardly an accident. I admit that feel that Christianity has become shortsighted in not embracing a rather obvious theology - that God created the laws of the universe to create life, which naturally results in evolution and eventually intelligence. It would be a brilliant design, and provide for the development of life anywhere in the universe.

It also allows for an explanation of humanity that can be embraced by atheists, which gives people a choice about whether they want to believe or not. If there was evidence of instant human creation, the required courageous leap of faith to believe in God wouldn't be necessary - there would be evidence. By my understanding, God doesn't want you to know of his existence except for in your heart. If you knew God existed, it would destroy free will, because you would feel compelled to be good. It has to be a choice borne of noble sentiment. This is how the worthy are separated from the unworthy.

Some Priority Ideas for Canada and the World, While We're Rich

1. Get the Provinces and the Feds to team up to conquer provincial and national debt. Start with the provinces, and then take their debt service payments and apply them to the federal debt. If we keep the budget steady, and apply all increases in the economy (providing our manufacturing sector doesn't bottom out), it will take less than 20 years to make this nation debt-free. Possibly as few as 15. Try the math.

2. Space elevator. Let's do it. We can get rid of waste (just shoot/drop it into the sun), set up nuclear reactors less likely to overheat, solar arrays, and build real space developments such as large spacecraft for exploration, freighters and robotic mining craft that can plomb the unlimited resources of moons or asteroid belts. Best way to save the environment and gain resources and manufacturing. Sure, it's a few years off, but we the sooner we start, ...

3. Nuclear reactors. Diversify Albertan economy while the world wants to give us money. They say that oil could be such scarcer in 65 years. That's very close. Alberta is going to need a fallback economy for lean times in any event - how about technology manufacture and nuclear power.

4. Teach way more history, literature and theoretical science in school. I'm tired of our crappy culture with PhD's who can't spell or speak English. I oughta know. How about extending school until the age of 20, speeding it up, dropping the excessive math and sciences (which they can take in university if they are interested - I'm not saying get rid of it, just trim it back - these courses eat up 1/2 of our school time, and meanwhile our children don' know world geography or history, can't quote an author who lived before 1980, and think everyone who lived before 1980 was evil and stupid. This kind of ignorance is unacceptable. Strong language skills are at the heart of culture, intelligence and sophistication), and tacking on an automatic degree in arts. It's a necessity these days anyways, and public school delivers a pathetic amount of actual academic training and knowledge. Maybe let them make it a science degree if that's their preference.

5. How about 2 years of mandatory employment after that point, 20-22, so that no youngsters slip through the cracks and we trim down on our greedy government union employees by replacing them with these kids. Give the kids a wage, assure them 40,000 in cold hard cash when they are done, and everyone has comparable and respectable administrative experience, a degree, some maturity and no excuses. Let's get rid of some debt in this country.

6. Let kids out of this plan at 18 if they want to do trade work. Fund a significant portion of it. Germany's not so dumb.

7. Like the ancient Greeks, let's promote the arts and give significant awards for artistic works of high and skilled quality, not political merit if possible. These measures by Parmenides resulted in Greece's Golden age and the great artists, such as Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles.

8. Children will require more of a Renaissance-type education if they want they skill to accomplish #7. This requires doing away with Postmodernism, that intellectual dead-end which is consuming all of our university resources in the humanities. I'll justify that statement in another piece. Let's go back to the classics so people can learn where they come from, who they are, and they meaning of eloquence and insight. Political correctness stands directly opposed to these things.

9. More to come.