Glynn Wilson

Oh, no!

Not again.

Say it ain’t so, judge.

Remember Carl Sagan? He was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator who died in 1996. During his lifetime, he published more than 600 scientific papers and popular articles and was author, co-author, or editor of more than 20 books, according to the Wikipedia page on him.

In his works, he advocated skeptical inquiry and the scientific method.

The reason I share it here today is to shed some light on our recent discussion on science, religion and politics.

I thought a lot of science was fairly well settled back in the 1990s, including the facts about evolution and climate change due to human induced global warming. But we still have some politicians in this country who are clearly willing to exploit the lack of “belief” about these issues on the part of certain segments of the undereducated public.

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The Big Picture
by Glynn Wilson

It is way too pretty on the porch this morning to be mad at anything or anyone. No matter who happens to occupy the White House or the governor’s mansion, or what morons serve in Congress or the state legislature, I have a roof over my head and food to eat, a little gas in the van, and I’m not in the path of Hurricane Irene making a fool out of myself on TeeVee.

On the other hand, I refuse to allow a few moments of quiet solitude to distract me from the mission at hand. The county I live in is in big financial trouble, and the state is not much better off. This country is reeling from one human catastrophe to another. And even though the U.S. is no longer rated triple A, the world still depends upon leadership from us.

But like a lot of commentators, I wonder if we are any longer up to the task. We seem to be a mixed up people now, so oblivious to the cause and effect of our problems as to defy our ability to craft solutions.

A couple of nights ago, I got a friend request on Facebook from someone in Brazil, who sent me a nice note and asked how things were going in the U.S. I jokingly told him all my friends were searching the world over on the Internet for somewhere to move when the shit goes down.

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Our Ultimate Fate May Depend Upon It

by Glynn Wilson

The very fate of our human species, yes, and your state too — as well as this country and the earth — may well depend on a compromise between science and religion.

Yes, you read that correctly. Not that I ever wanted to admit it before.

This will be a precarious journey with no guarantee of success like the fate of all life itself, from the beginning into the infinite future.

A top American scientist from Alabama writes that religion and science “are the two most powerful forces in the world today, including especially the United States.” That is from Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson’s book The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth, which he wrote to Southern Baptist preachers who hold sway over millions of votes that could have a positive, or negative, impact on all kinds of government policies.

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Responding to questions about the New York community center controversy, former independent Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura stuns CNN with the comment that “religion is the root of all evil.”

He says Muslims have the right under the Constitution to build a mosque near the 9/11 ground zero site, and points out that the First Amendment protects unpopular speech because popular speech does not need protection.

He ain’t the brightest bulb on the planet, but he shows the courage of his convictions and an uncommon common sense.

Exactly What We All Should Do to Right-Wing Nuts

You can’t argue with morons. The best policy is to just laugh in their face. I call it positive peer pressure. Try it. It works.

Tim Tebow

Womens’ rights campaigner and attorney Gloria Allred has joined the growing chorus of folks angered at the decision by CBS to allow an pro life group to air an ad during the upcoming Super Bowl on February 7. The ad will feature University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow and his mother Pam, who claims to have chosen not to have an abortion when she was pregnant with him over the recommendation of doctors in the Philippines.

Allred contends abortion was illegal there and she doubts the story, she says in an interview.

Allred says she will lodge a complaint with the FCC and FTC “if this ad airs and fails to disclose that abortions were illegal at the time Ms. Tebow made her choice.”

Despite resistance from women’s groups, the ad is expected to air. It focuses on Ms. Tebow’s 1987 pregnancy, when she fell ill in the Philippines.

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Locust Fork News-Journal editor and publisher Glynn Wilson was interviewed Thursday by the OpEd News on the first year of Barack Obama’s presidency and the subject of change.

Here’s the blurb and link.

It’s only been a year since we got rid of Bush. Y’all remember W, the worst president in history, right? So yeah, we got change. We got rid of the corporate Republican cabal running the country into the ground. Is Obama moving fast enough on all fronts to satisfy every liberal groups’ demands and all the promises of the campaign? No, of course not. Remember, it took 8 years for Clinton-Gore to balance the budget and get our economy back on track. Remember the “peace dividend?”

OpEdNews Interviews Glynn Wilson on Obama and Change

Television producer and founder of People For the American Way Norman Lear talks about about religion in politics and the paramount importance of the First Amendment in American Democracy.