Thought Quotient

Why am I suddenly getting flashbacks to Star Trek: Wrath of Kahn? Oh yeah, both are science fiction.

Scientists Salvage Some Genesis Materials

Let me see. The capsule crashed and was severely damaged. Contamination has almost certainly occurred. And yet, something tells me that the Evolutionary Intelligentsia are going to miraculously “salvage” enough of this experiment to make more wildly unsubstantiated claims that they have once again “proven” that the solar system is billions of years old. I thought you only had to prove something once… they must not have done such a good job the first thousand times.

Let us ask the question, what can we determine scientifically from the data that might have survived this incident. Remember the scientific method: observe, test, repeat. We should be able to observe and identify - at least in one sample - what these so-called Solar Winds consist of. However, these grandiose statements that we will have clues to the history of the solar system are ridiculous and based only on the assumptions of the scientists conducting the experiments.

We have no way of knowing what the original makeup of solar system was. Nor do we have a truly legitimate scientific means of determining by measurable data how old the solar system is. All we have is the data we collect today and the recorded data of history. And since there was no one - unless you believe in God - to measure what occurred in the beginning of our solar system, we are left with nothing to rest on but assumptions - or faith. Please be aware of this when scientists marvel once again about the amazing discoveries they’ve made about the origins of our universe from these atomic particles of space dust.

You see, people at NASA need jobs too. And to keep their jobs, they need to keep people interested. Otherwise they lose funding. If they lose funding, they lose their jobs - and their ability to keep people worshipping their science fiction imaginations.

Personally, I love science fiction. I’d just like us to make sure we don’t confuse it with actual science.

Questions Surface About Bush Memos

Putting words in dead men’s mouths… that sounds like the trademark of the liberal agenda to me. Recently, memos were discovered that held some discouraging opinions of President Bush’s National Guard service. These memos were attributed to the late Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, one of Bush’s commanders from 1972 to 1973. Killian died in 1984.

CBS’s experts evaluated the documents and claims that they are authentic. However, independent document examiners - including Killian’s son - had the following to say:

Gary Killian, who served in the Guard with his father and retired as a captain in 1991, said he doubted his father would have written an unsigned memo which said there was pressure to “sugar coat” Bush’s performance review.

“It just wouldn’t happen,” he said. “No officer in his right mind would write a memo like that.”

The personnel chief in Killian’s unit at the time also said he believes the documents are fake.

“They looked to me like forgeries,” said Rufus Martin. “I don’t think Killian would do that, and I knew him for 17 years.” Killian died in 1984.

Independent document examiner Sandra Ramsey Lines said the memos looked like they had been produced on a computer using Microsoft Word software. Lines, a document expert and fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, pointed to a superscript - a smaller, raised “th” in “111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron” - as evidence indicating forgery.
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“I’m virtually certain these were computer generated,” Lines said after reviewing copies of the documents at her office in Paradise Valley, Ariz. She produced a nearly identical document using her computer’s Microsoft Word software.

CBS wouldn’t purposefully sway their data to yield the examination results they wanted, would they?

Maybe they would.