[onedoug]

I love the Old Testament (particularly Torah), geology, seismology, physics, chemistry, meteorology (not climatology!), molecular biology....

[Quix]

I can’t recall

ever . . . certainly only very rarely if ever . . .

succeeding in getting a naysayer to answer questions like that.

WHAT’S WITH THAT???

I thought they were interested in truth and only truth???

LOL.

[Quix]

In a rapidly changing, over much a paradigm shifting context

where

critters and 'officials'

were determined to keep (and quite successful at keeping)

"peer reviewed" [you are aware of where most of the grant money comes from?]

and

"tangible evidence"

out of the VERY PUBLIC domain . . .

IF YOUR LIFE AND YOUR FAMILY'S LIVES DEPENDED ON IT . . .

HOW

would you go about determining in the least degree what was really going on?

[Quix]

I certainly love and/or greatly enjoy to varying degrees:

—Scripture . . . more or less all of it . . . though I struggle still at times with Job, Lammetations and the Song of Solomon.

—most sciences—particularly geology, biology, astronomy,

—all the social sciences

—language use, graphics, graphic design,

—gardening, woodworking, furniture design and construction, landscaping, weaving, pottery, jewelry making, cooking, designing solutions to use-of-space problems;

—writing, photography, hiking [used to more enjoy backpacking . . . I like my Tempurpedic too much, as I’ve aged].

—group process; intense dialogue; satire; humor;