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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin reacted during the inaugural broadcast of FNC’s “Jesse Watters Primetime” on Monday. Palin said the virus was being used as a way to “control the people. “This is madness though, this COVID overreach, overregulation, overreaction. “I don’t know who decided that this was going to be one that was going to be politicized and weaponized, science, a virus?” Palin continued. “A virus that has just turned into something that is just something to control the people — well, that’s exactly what it’s become, and it’s a shame.”

Where and how did the complex genetic instruction set programmed into DNA come into existence? The genetic set may have arisen elsewhere and was transported to the Earth. If not, it arose on the Earth, and became the genetic code in a previous lifeless, physical-chemical world. Even if RNA or DNA were inserted into a lifeless world, they would not contain any genetic instructions unless each nucleotide selection in the sequence was programmed for function. Even then, a predetermined communication system would have had to be in place for any message to be understood at the destination. Transcription and translation...

It's Christmas lunch at my house this year. My mother, a practising Jew, will be at the table, and so will my father-in-law, a fundamentalist Christian. My children were bequeathed a rich religious heritage but they have turned out to be "none": non-scripture, non-believers, non-religious. Before they were 13, they were declared atheists. "C'mon, Mum, how can we have a bar-mitzvah if we don't believe in God?" they intoned. And the idea of going to church on Sunday instead of to soccer struck them as ludicrous. If they had a religion, it was sport. People with religious or spiritual beliefs...