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Canon Speedlite 270EX II Flash
About this itemWorthy successor to the venerable Canon 270EX Speedlite, the new, ultra-lightweight Canon 270EX II Speedlite is a compact, high-performance flash unit designed for the evolving EOS enthusiast.
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Worthy successor to the venerable Canon 270EX Speedlite, the new, ultra-lightweight Canon 270EX II Speedlite is a compact, high-performance flash unit designed for the evolving EOS enthusiast. Developed for fun and easy flash shooting, when used with select Canon EOS DSLR cameras that have a master function, the Speedlite 270EX II can be used as a versatile wireless slave flash. This Speedlite can also be used with other compact digital camera models equipped with a dedicated flash shoe mount.
User-friendly in both function and design, the 270EX II Speedlite flash's Tele/Wide function easily and elegantly allows adjustment of illumination angle and guide number to match shooting conditions. On your photographic journey, the Canon 270EX II Speedlite is primed to be there at every step.
- Vertical bounce capability up to 90° provides a wide range of picture-taking options
- Flash coverage can be switched between Normal (28mm full-frame equivalent, max. Guide No. 72 ft./22m at ISO 100) and Tele (50mm full-frame equivalent, max. Guide No. 89 ft./27m at ISO 100)
- Slave function allows the flash to be triggered wirelessly (when used with an EOS DSLR with a master function)
- Flash release function triggers the camera wirelessly from the flash on a 2-second delay, allowing the flash to be repositioned to illuminate the subject
|On-camera, E-TTL II/E-TTL autoflash Speedlite
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|Type-A EOS cameras (E-TTL II/E-TTL autoflash)
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| • EF lens: 28mm/50mm
• EF-S lens: 17.5mm/31.3mm
• Manual switching
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• 2) Quick flash: Approx. 0.1 – 2.6 sec. / Lamp blinks at 8Hz (with AA/LR6 alkaline batteries)
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| Intermittent flash firing system.
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• Periphery: Approx. 11.5' / 3.5m (in total darkness)
Compatible with model EOS 5D Mark II and later. Available via firmware update for: EOS-1Ds Mark III, EOS-1D Mark III, EOS 40D, EOS 50D and EOS Rebel XS.
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• C.Fn-11: Slave auto power off cancel (within 8 hours/within 1 hour)
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Mailing-list Howto
What is a mailing list - Public and private lists
A mailing list is essentially a list of mail addresses to which mails are sent automatically by a software installed on the server.
Depending on the configuration it's possible to define lists as closed if only subscribed users can send messages to it, or open if anyone can send mail to it. Note that in any case mail sent to the list will be received only by subscribed users.
A list can be defined as public if its messages are archived on a public repository (such as our public list web archive) or as private if only its subscribers can read archived messages.
Please keep in mind that if a list is public messages sent to the list will appear sooner or later on Google and other search engines. Be aware of this downside of pulic list when you write a mail to it.
To participate to a list and receive messages sent to it you need to subscribe, but public lists allow you to read their archives online and open lists allow you to write to a list without being subscribed to it.
To subscribe to a list you can visit our hosted lists page and find the
public list you want to become part of: click on it and fill
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If the list is private the list administrator will have either to directly subscribe you or to send you a link to the subscription form you'll have to fill.
Mailing list are very useful tools to communicate, to coordinate projects involving people very far away from each other and to debate important issues if used correctly. It's difficult to define general rules to achieve proper use of mailing lists: every list has its own customs and guidelines and the best idea is to ask those already part of the list some advice.
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So log into your https://www.autistici.org/mailman/admin/LISTNAME page and start working on it.
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Most of the default options will be fine, but you should know that you shall never change the host_name option since it would break your list.
In the Password page you will be able to change and reset your admin password. You can also setup a moderator password to give away to other users: a moderator is someone who will be able to approve or reject non-subscribers messages to the list, but not to change other list settings.
Membership Management
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In the Membership List subpage you'll find a list of all the mail subscribed to the list along with a series of option for each one of them:
- mod refers to moderated users, ie users whose message will need administrator approval before being forwarded to the list
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- digest and plain refer to the way these users receive the list messages: plain means they will get each mail individually, while digest allows them to receive a daily/weekly/monthly summary of the list messages in a single mail
If you want to unsubscribe a single user, just click on the unsub box next to his/her mail and then on "Submit your changes".
To subscribe multiple users simultaneously, go to the Mass subscription subpage and fill in the form with one mail per line. You will also be able to write a short welcome message to the ones you are subscribing.
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- Advertised is the option to point out wether you want your list to be known to the public or not. If you say yes to this option your list will be included in our hosted lists page. The default value is no.
- Subscribe Policy specifies what a user should do to subscribe to a list: reply to an automatic mail sent by the mailing list software, wait for administrator approval or both. The default value from april 2012 on is to require both steps to subscribe to the list, but before that date the default value was to allow subscription with a single mail reply, so better check what is your list situation if you are a A/I old timer.
- The Ban list is a list of email who are forbidden subscription to the list
- The last interesting option allows you to choose who can see the list of people subscribed to the list. The default option allows only list subscribers to see who are the other people subscribed, but it's possible to extend this possibility to anyone or to shrink it to the administrator only.
The Sender filters subpage will let you decide what to do with messages
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It's this subpage where a list administrator can set the options needed to have an open list where everybody can send emails without the need for the administrator approval.
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Tend to pending moderator requests
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by Anton Shilov
Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday officially unveiled its code-named Yukon platform that is aimed at inexpensive thin-and-light mobile computers. AMD's new platform based on Athlon Neo processor and AMD M690E core-logic with built-in graphics core will not compete against Intel Atom-based systems directly, but will enable very affordable ultra-thin notebooks.
"Before today, there was a compromise associated with selecting a highly portable notebook, forcing consumers to choose either the full PC experience of an ultra-portable at a high price or the limited PC experience of a mini-notebook at a low price. AMD enables balanced PC performance, including the option of advanced graphics and video for true HD entertainment, all in an affordable, ultra-thin notebook," said Chris Cloran, corporate vice president of client division at AMD.
AMD's Yukon platform consists of AMD Athlon Neo or AMD Sempron single-core central processing unit (CPU) with integrated single-channel DDR2 memory controller in ball-grid array (BGA) packaging, AMD M690E chipset with built-in DirectX 9-class ATI Radeon X1250 graphics core and AMD SB600 I/O controller. System designers may also install discrete DirectX 10-supporting ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3410 graphics processing unit to enable higher-performance and higher-quality graphics on inexpensive computers.
The first microprocessors to power cheap ultra-think notebooks from AMD are Athlon Neo MV-40 (1.60GHz, 512KB level-two cache) with 15W thermal design power (TDP), AMD Sempron 210U (1.50GHz, 256KB L2 cache) with 15W thermal envelope and AMD Sempron 200U (1.0GHz, 256KB L2 cache) with 8W TDP. All chips are made using 65nm process technology.
Considering the fact that AMD's M690E + SB600 chipset consumes only up to 11W (8W + 2W~3W), the Yukon platform looks to be rather competitive with 19W – 26W thermal design power for all chips. Considering the fact that AMD Athlon Neo processor should offer higher-performance compared to Intel Atom chip, AMD-based ultra-thin laptops may steal some customers from Intel-based netbooks.
"We believe there is a significant market opportunity that lies between the less-capable mini-notebook and higher-priced ultra-portable notebook segments. Integrating the right kind of technologies will enable companies to pioneer a new category of ultra-thin notebook PCs, offering consumers the value they seek in a challenging global economy," said Bob O'Donnell, program vice president of clients and displays at market research firm IDC.
The new AMD platform debuts within the HP Pavilion dv2 ultra-thin notebook, which measures less than one-inch thick and weighs less than four pounds. The HP Pavilion dv2 also comes equipped with a 12.1" diagonal LED BrightView display, nearly full-size keyboard, and optional external optical disc drive with Blu-ray capability.
"Together HP and AMD identified an opportunity and designed a platform to bring consumers an affordable notebook that is a perfect balance of performance and style," said Kevin Frost, vice president or notebook global business unit of personal systems group at HP. "With an exceptional visual experience, rich features, and robust graphics and processing capabilities, consumers will be thrilled by the sleek design and reasonable price of the HP Pavilion dv2 Entertainment Notebook PC based upon the AMD ultrathin notebook platform."


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Good Means for an Evil End
It is amazing how many people see the gospel as a way to prosper. Rank heresy guaranteeing a hundred-fold financial reward in this life for those who "name it and claim it" permeates the airwaves. Companies emblazon "Christianesque" slogans on ...Read More
The Revelation of Character
A man cannot hide his character from God, but it can remain unknown to others. This practical observation should always be kept in mind as men are considered for church office. But even if we are not candidates for leadership, ...Read More
Ordain with Discernment
John Calvin writes, "Every person should attend to his own health, not for the sake of prolonging life, but that, as long as he lives, he may serve God, and be of use to his neighbors." While we must be ...Read More
In the Presence of the Court
John Chrysostom says, "As it is wrong to condemn hastily and rashly, so not to punish manifest offenses is to open the way to others, and embolden them to offend. …The threatenings of hell show the care of God for ...Read More
Honoring Church Elders
The way in which we value goods or services is seen in the amount we are willing to pay for them. We have no qualms about spending money in order to get the best medical care or receive the best ...Read More
Lifting the Church's Burden
Matthew Henry aptly comments, "Rich people should be ashamed to burden the church with their poor relatives." It is easy to think that helping the impoverished is someone else's responsibility, even if they are related to us. But each of ...Read More
Gossips and Busybodies
The life God has given each of us is short, and it will be measured in the heavenly rewards He has promised us. We should therefore make the most of it that He might find us to be good and ...Read More
Seeking the Lost
Jesus came to seek and save the lost. He commanded us to do likewise. What are you doing in response to that command?Read More
Moving Out of the Temple
Are you actively moving outside the walls of the church and taking your faith to the world?Read More
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One of the top four manufacturers of mainboards will cease to exist in about three years from now, according to a vice president of MicroStar International. The reasons for that is slow desktop computer market growth and the growing popularity of notebooks. Obviously, before one of the top four makers is gone, many second-tier makers will vanish into thin air.
Asustek Computer, Gigabyte Technology, EliteGroup Computer Systems (ECS) and MicroStar International (MSI) are currently the world's largest makers of both branded and generic mainboards, who control the lion's share of the market. But one of them will "drop out" of the market in the next few years since limited further expansion of the motherboard business "will not be able to support the growth of the four giants any more", said Henry Lu, vice president of products at MSI, in an interview with DigiTimes web-site.
There is no secret that shipments of various mobile computers – including notebooks and netbooks – are currently exceeding shipments of desktop systems. As a result of practical stagnation of the desktop market, shipments of mainboards also remain on the same level, which means that if one producer suppliers more, other manufacturers lose.
Just like any other high-tech providers, motherboard suppliers have to invest into research and development, design of their products, production lines improvements and so on. Since those investments tend to get higher every year, amid shipments growth stagnation, at some point one of the top four vendors will not be able to keep the pace and will either have to leave the market of mainboards or unite with another big player.
In the recent years many smaller motherboard producers merged with each other in order to stay alive, but while for some it was the path for prosperity, the other vanished into oblivion. On the other hand, Asustek Computer and Gigabyte Technology, who wanted to create a joint-venture motherboard supplier Gigabyte United, decided not to combine their businesses. There were also rumours that Asustek expressed interest in taking over MSI.
According to some estimations, Asustek supplied 21 million mainboards in 2008, ECS also shipped 21 units, Gigabyte produced 19 motherboards and MSI delivered 16 mainboards.
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Keeping the Passion Alive
If you and your husband felt there was something missing in your relationship when you first got married, it almost certainly wasn't passion. While the intense desire you felt when you made love for the first time may have dwindled some by the time you reached the alter, your sexual relationship was likely still very much alive and kicking.
Eventually, though, the honeymoon comes to an end. Enter the pressures of daily life. With 40-hour work weeks, making sure the mortgage is paid, keeping the house (somewhat) presentable on a daily basis, and choosing from 100 different TV channels, it's easy to see how sex could lose its spark. Fortunately for couples everywhere, there are a few simple ways to help get it back.
Above all else, remember that what you put into your sex life is what you get out of it. If you feel like the flames of your passion have been reduced to embers, spend more time trying to reignite it.


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Happy Holidays!
This is the time when we take some time to reflect on the past year, while looking forward to what the next will hold. I always try to consider those gifts received during the past year. We had an excellent year, with more adults willing to share their gifts with the girls of Southern Alabama. In so doing, they are building girls of courage, confidence and character who will change their world.
To put the year in perspective, I was just sorting through this past year's photos. What a great way to reflect on the many experiences that have stretched girls beyond their comfort zone. These giving adults have taken them to new places, have them experience new activities and make new friends. What is most important is these girls are building skills that will last their entire life. What a wonderful gift you are to the girls you work with and your community.
I hope each one of you have a wonderful holiday season and a fantastic 2012.


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text: We live in a science-based culture dominated by measurements, graphs, statistics and calculations. The more we think in terms of quantity, however, the more we value the richness of qualitative experience which we seek for in nature, in our food, in the arts, in religious experience and in human relationships as an inwardly fulfilling, yet elusive antidote to our obsession with numerical accuracy. In the end, most of us would choose quality over quantity. But qualitative experience seems at first to be the antithesis of scientific objectivity. Is there—can there even be—such a thing as qualitative science? 1. What are qualities? We generally distinguish between good quality and poor quality when we judge almost anything: shoes, tools, even education and human relationships; food, water, soil, etc. Man-made products are of good quality when they are well made, durable, … [Read more...]


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Albert Mohler, President of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, yesterday posted False Start? The Controversy over Adam and Eve (hat tip to Joe Carter at First Things) which details the dispute in evangelical circles regarding the historical nature of human origins as described in Genesis and its impact on the Gospel story. This might be an old debate, but I am not certain it has ever been fought within evangelical churches before; historically, the fight has been directed from evangelicals out at theological liberals and Darwinists. A number of evangelical scholars, however, have challenged the former consensus. Mohler represents their views within his post:
(Barbara Bradley )Hagerty (of NPR) asked Dennis Venema, a professor of biology at Trinity Western University, if all humans descended from Adam and Eve. "That would be against all the genomics evidence that we've assembled over the last 20 years, so not likely at all," Venema said. He explained that there is simply too much genetic diversity among human beings than would be possible with an original reproducing pair. Venema affirmed the standard evolutionary line of argument and explained that, in Hagerty's words, "modern humans emerged from other primates as a large population - long before the Genesis time frame of a few thousand years ago."
There are other evangelical scientists and scholars whom he cites in the same vein, but Mohler seemed most troubled by this assertion from Karl Gibberson regarding the impact of these claims regarding Adam and Eve:
The Bible is not a book. It is a library — dozens of very different books bound together. The assumption that identifying one part as fiction undermines the factual character of another part is ludicrous. It would be like going into an actual physical library and saying "Well, if all these books about Harry Potter are fictional, then how do I know these other books about Abraham Lincoln are factual? How can Lincoln be real if Potter is not?" And then "Aha! I have got you! So much for your library."
Mohler ends with what he sees as the troubling implications of such a claim:
The implications for biblical authority are clear, as is the fact that if these arguments hold sway, we will have to come up with an entirely new understanding of the Gospel metanarrative and the Bible's storyline.
The denial of an historical Adam and Eve as the first parents of all humanity and the solitary first human pair severs the link between Adam and Christ which is so crucial to the Gospel.
If we do not know how the story of the Gospel begins, then we do not know what that story means. Make no mistake: a false start to the story produces a false grasp of the Gospel.
Are these issues for Catholics in general or Catholic biblical scholarship? The Catholic Church in general has been more open at an official theological level to the reality of evolution, as long as one maintains the reality of divine creation and the meaningfulness and purposefulness of life, but does this openness to evolution extend to a denial of an actual human pair, Adam and Eve? The Catholic Church has also had little trouble reading the Bible symbolically, figuratively, and allegorically, but could it deny that behind the mythic accounts of Adam and Eve stand two real human beings? This seems to be where the evidence of evolutionary theory is taking us, but it also seems to me that the Church's position has been somewhat ambiguous on certain matters or silent.
Humani Generis 38 says "that the first eleven chapters of Genesis, although properly speaking not conforming to the historical method used by the best Greek and Latin writers or by competent authors of our time, do nevertheless pertain to history in a true sense, which however must be further studied and determined by exegetes." What does it mean for something to "pertain to history in a true sense"? Two actual people created directly by God who then are tempted and sin? Or the reality that humanity has fallen? Certainly, reading these texts in a figurative or symbolic or even mythic sense, properly understood, is quite common amongst Catholic exegetes, but how does it "pertain to history in a true sense"? That is an ambiguous way to state asomething that could have been stated in this manner: those two people were historical persons. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) states in 289 that "Among all the Scriptural texts about creation, the first three chapters of Genesis occupy a unique place. From a literary standpoint these texts may have had diverse sources. The inspired authors have placed them at the beginning of Scripture to express in their solemn language the truths of creation - its origin and its end in God, its order and goodness, the vocation of man, and finally the drama of sin and the hope of salvation. Read in the light of Christ, within the unity of Sacred Scripture and in the living Tradition of the Church, these texts remain the principal source for catechesis on the mysteries of the "beginning": creation, fall, and promise of salvation." This passage names the literary character of the Genesis texts and speaks of how they express "in their solemn language the truths of creation - its origin and its end in God, its order and goodness, the vocation of man, and finally the drama of sin and the hope of salvation," but is this the same as saying there was an actual Adam and Eve? Or does it deny that there was such a pair?
However open the Church has been to theistic evolution, the CCC 375 states that "the Church, interpreting the symbolism of biblical language in an authentic way, in the light of the New Testament and Tradition, teaches that our first parents, Adam and Eve, were constituted in an original "state of holiness and justice". This grace of original holiness was "to share in...divine life." This does suggest an original human pair, even in light of "the symbolism of biblical language," which does not seem to square with the evolution of human beings. It might be more complicated than that, though, for on a number of occasions the Church has insisted that even if human beings developed through evolutionary processes, the human soul is created directly by God. This could open up the doors to an understanding of the evolution of beings and then a direct encounter with God in which two of these first beings are made human by being "ensouled." According to Gaudium et Spes 14 when a human being "recognizes in himself a spiritual and immortal soul, he is not being mocked by a fantasy born only of physical or social influences, but is rather laying hold of the proper truth of the matter."
Humani Generis 36 declares that "for these reasons the Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God (my italics). Likewise CCC 33 speaks of "the human person: with his openness to truth and beauty, his sense of moral goodness, his freedom and the voice of his conscience, with his longings for the infinite and for happiness, man questions himself about God's existence. In all this he discerns signs of his spiritual soul. The soul, the "seed of eternity we bear in ourselves, irreducible to the merely material", can have its origin only in God." It is vague and ambiguous, therefore, whether these texts are speaking of "Adam and Eve" as the original human couple, or the original beings who after development through evolution are made human by the process of entering into a relationship with God by means of the bestowing of a soul. This is not the only matter to be considered. As Mohler makes clear in his piece, as significant as the notion of human creation is the "Fall," Original Sin, for it is from the depths of sin and death that human beings are saved in the Christian redemption narrative.
Again, though, ambiguity is found throughout these discussions. As CCC 390 has it, "the account of the fall in Genesis 3 uses figurative language, but affirms a primeval event, a deed that took place at the beginning of the history of man. Revelation gives us the certainty of faith that the whole of human history is marked by the original fault freely committed by our first parents." What does "figurative language" indicate when the passage goes on to speak of "our first parents"? Does it mean that certain elements of the account are figurative, such as the Serpent? Or does it indicate that the whole of the account, including the notion of the two original human beings, is to be understood as figurative? "A primeval event, a deed that took place at the beginning of the history of man" is different, it seems to me, than stating simply that the Fall as described in Genesis is an historical event, but this is not clear.
They key component of human sin, after all, is a willingness to choose evil and this requires in the Christian salvific scheme not only free will, but the "likeness" to God, which is seen primarily in the reality of the human soul. Gaudium et Spes 13 states that "although he was made by God in a state of holiness, from the very onset of his history man abused his liberty, at the urging of the Evil One." Yet, as Gaudium et Spes 18 goes on to say, "it is in the face of death that the riddle a human existence grows most acute. Not only is man tormented by pain and by the advancing deterioration of his body, but even more so by a dread of perpetual extinction. He rightly follows the intuition of his heart when he abhors and repudiates the utter ruin and total disappearance of his own person. He rebels against death because he bears in himself an eternal seed which cannot be reduced to sheer matter (my italics)." Human beings, though, share death with other creatures, for whom it does not create an existential dilemma; it is this eternal seed which cannot be reduced to sheer matter, the soul, which creates the problem of death. After all, the reality of human evolution would necessitate the death of many beings prior to the full flowering of homo sapiens. This is a question of a different order than the evolutionary development of our human bodies and suggests the giving of the soul is the beginning of our human dilemma. If the giving of the soul does not occur concurrently with the beginning of the evolutionary process then how we understand "Adam and Eve" changes from the model of creation in Genesis with a strictly "original pair".
This is what I mean by ambiguity: one could argue the point one way or another from Church documents and Catholic scholars certainly do, with some concentrating on the openness to reading these accounts of Scripture in light of literary myth and theistic evolution and others stressing the reality of one original human pair who "fell" in a specific event, even though all of the evolutionary evidence points away from such a reality. In the Letter Of His Holiness John Paul II To Reverend George V. Coyne, S.J. Director Of The Vatican Observatory (1988), John Paul II acknowledged that we were still in a feeling out period between science and theology. His comments though looked positively to the flowering of this relationship:
What, then, does the Church encourage in this relational unity between science and religion? First and foremost that they should come to understand one another. For too long a time they have been at arm's length. Theology has been defined as an effort of faith to achieve understanding, as fides quaerens intellectum. As such, it must be in vital interchange today with science just as it always has been with philosophy and other forms of learning. Theology will have to call on the findings of science to one degree or another as it pursues its primary concern for the human person, the reaches of freedom, the possibilities of Christian community, the nature of belief and the intelligibility of nature and history. The vitality and significance of theology for humanity will in a profound way be reflected in its ability to incorporate these findings.
Apart from the general claim that we cannot ignore the relationship between science and theology, significantly he stated that "theology will have to call on the findings of science to one degree or another as it pursues its primary concern for the human person, the reaches of freedom, the possibilities of Christian community, the nature of belief and the intelligibility of nature and history." This is a task that will be perpetually unfinished in some ways, as both science and theology are perpetually unfinished, but it seems that clarity is still needed in determining the basic implications of what even a theistic understanding of evolution implies for human origins. This is quite apart from the literary study of Genesis, which has clearly outlined the complex nature of these myths of human origins, their relationship to and dependence upon other ancient Near Eastern accounts of human origins and the theological not historical nature of these accounts. As John Paul II asked,
"If the cosmologies of the ancient Near Eastern world could be purified and assimilated into the first chapters of Genesis, might not contemporary cosmology have something to offer to our reflections upon creation? Does an evolutionary perspective bring any light to bear upon theological anthropology, the meaning of the human person as the imago Dei, the problem of Christology – and even upon the development of doctrine itself? What, if any, are the eschatological implications of contemporary cosmology, especially in light of the vast future of our universe? Can theological method fruitfully appropriate insights from scientific methodology and the philosophy of science?"
These are all excellent questions, but for those of us who have thought the answers of human origins in Catholic theology were more clearly in line with the findings of evolutionary theory, there seems to be more ambiguity than I was aware. Even if Catholic theology is long beyond Mohler's unease that the Bible is more than history or his rejection of evolutionary theory, it seems that the questions he asks regarding Adam and Eve still have answers vaguely similar to his.
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For a philosophical, theological, and scientific defense of a literal Adam and Eve, see my recent article, "The Rational Credibility of a Literal Adam and Eve," in the peer-reviewed Spanish Thomist journal, Espiritu.
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In it, I address objections raised by the claims of some researchers in paleoanthropology and genetics. I do not presume the faulty scientific claims made by young earth creationists, but use evidence based science.
I am a pot stirrer like you and I make no claim to truth. I follow my God given reason, faith and the mercy and grace of God.
The Church does not deny evolution. It embraces what some call theistic evolution, meaning that God creates, evolution occurs, but God alone gives humankind a soul. If time is not important, then we may have an incomplete account of creation or at least we may not fully understand it.
I believe that God has a purpose and it does not matter if I sufficiently understand it. This does not mean I blindly believe in every literal word written in the Bible, at least without context. Biblical exegesis marches forward and we have all benefited from a better understanding of the truth through continued scholarship of scripture, tradition, reason and human experience.
We have more important fish to fry than unraveling the mystery of the Adam and Eve story.
Hi Mike, Remember I'm dealing in "What Ifs" and glad to know you took time to read my post. I'm like a junior chef offering a pot of soup I just put together. Executive Chefs, I mean scholar like yourself must stir and taste the soup and tell "junior" if its palatable for sale. If not, flavor and texture may need improvement and for that I depend on the "seniors" to fix it up.
At the risk of being redundant, longwinded, which my wife tells me I am, as best I see it, the Adam and Eve "mythos" is all about the foundation of the Original Family of God as explained in my original post. And by Divine intent that "family" included all homo sapiens wherever they existed, so long that their evolutionary progression allowed them to accept moral responsibility, when that "choice" according to Paul written on the tablets of the human heart was presented to them. The time factor is of no consequence to God, since assured by his Word a thousand years are but a day and a day like a thousand years. to the Almighty.
Just as Redemption which in time took place on a certain day at a certain time, at a certain place, in a certain year, was iinclusive of all humanity past present and to come, so too, I think, the foundation of the First Family of God with all its storied literary devices, its imaginary human contributions, at the moment it happened applied to all humanity no matter where they were, because if inspired by God it is true, as God deals only in truth, leaving embellishments to the storyteller(s.) Eden's "paradise" was a "Paradise of Super Abundant Grace" an endowment making them prototypical of the "new creation" the NT would funnel to all in time.
At least so it seems to me, but remember I am only a "junior chef" stirring a fabulous simmering soup, awaiting the more erudite to enhance its flavor and texture.- I just love "stirring pots!" - Like if the Holy See hadn't listen to jealous tattle from clerics who had the Papal ear that Jesuit priest Ricci through his successful methods of evangelistic inculturation of the Chinese was damaging the Church, just think how different world history and the Church would be! Oh well, it's true, I am longwinded! Sorry!
The only issue I have about your possible story is that Adam and Eve were created by God and were in Paradise/Heaven for a time before they ate the forbidden fruit and were thrown out of Paradise/Heaven to live in the world. Using the genealogy in the Bible, this Adam and Eve, lived on earth about 5,000 years ago. They dwelt on earth with all other modern humans and migrated out of Africa about 80,000 years ago to populate the out of Africa world. This is a confirmed fact based on genetics and archeology.
If there was original sin, then we inherited this sin from the Biblical Adam and Eve. However, the Genesis story posits at least one serious question.
>> What about all the other modern humans that lived in the Africa 5,000 years ago and have descendants in Africa today? In other words, these modern humans and and their descendants never left Africa. The question is: When did these modern humans get a soul from God? Was it 5,000 years ago when the first so-called Adam and Eve was created by God and dwelt on earth? If so, how do we account for the fact that all out of African modern humans today descended from this Adam and Eve, but not the other modern humans who lived in Africa before 5,000 years ago and have direct descendants in Africa today?
>> If our Biblical Adam and Eve was created with a soul about 5,000 years ago, how do we account for all the other modern humans who descended from a out of Africa Adam and Eve 80,000 years ago? In other words, did all the other modern humans that were living on earth 5,000 years ago get a soul at the same time that our Biblical Adam and Eve got one from God? If so, how do we account for the fact that all these other modern humans were not the descendants of this Biblical Adam and Eve?
"Adam and Eve real people?" What a great question! It seems Professor of Biology Dennis Venema of Trinity Western University and others doubt it. He says if true, "that would be against all the genomics evidence we've assembled over the past twenty years." Well, if the Adam and Eve story is test-tubed the way Genesis puts it, I mean in a constricted way, the Professor and others may be right. So, I'd like to do a couple of "What ifs?"
With due respect to the Genesis account, an essentially true story told imaginatively by human authorship, understanding Divine inspiration verifies its "trueness" as God deals only in Truth. Whereas, its hyperbolic vesture in telling, is Imaginatively human. So, with due respect also to Augustine, maybe there is another way to understand the Adam and Eve story. Here's how without theological credentials, I suggest it may have happened.
From all eternity it was Divine intent to form what is today called the "Family of God." At a time determined by God, the Original Family of God was called forth parentally in the persons of Adam and Eve not as a separate creation, but taken from the existing human gene pool, lavishly graced and prototypical to the later call of Abram, to the call of Moses, to the Christ and his Church, the latter in its perfection the most perfect expression of the Family of God. In other words, the Adam and Eve story is all about the original Formation of the Original Family of God of which we are inheritors' or as Paul said, "partakers."
But what about Original Sin as understood by God, in the Original Family of God through our First Parents not in flesh, but in Grace and its effects on all humanity? Touching on it I've said this at another time, that, if Rene Girard is correct that "all human desire (I call desire sin's cradle) is mimetic, could it be a consequential residual effect of the Original Sin committed within the Original Formation of the Original Family of God? An inheritable consequence.
Concluding, obviously with an incomplete presentation I end with the same question with which I began, "Adam and Eve real people?" The answer? Yes!
I never questioned whether modern humans evolved from first human parents, namely a particular Adam and Eve. Recently, however, I have conducted several Y-DNA tests in an effort to complete my paper research on my family origins (which I was able to trace back to the 1500s in a small town in Italy). DNA genealogy is the latest scientific method of connecting us to ancient times when modern humans first migrated out of Africa to eventually populate the world.
I read several books on human migration and there is currently consensus in the scientific community that modern humans (homo sapiens sapiens) all trace back to a so-called Adam and Eve that migrated out of Africa about 80,000 years ago +/- a margin of error. At that time, modern humans existed in Africa and date to about 200,000 years ago. However, all non-African modern humans can be traced to one so-called Y-Adam and Mitochondrial Eve. We also know that more primitive forms of humanoids existed at that time, namely, Neanderthals and Homo erectus and they have been dated to millions of years ago. These primitive forms of humanoids also migrated out of Africa and conclusive evidence of them are found in other parts of the world. Modern humans did not evolve from them. Modern humans replaced Homo erectus and Neanderthals as they did not survive the many climatic changes that occurred in history.
This begs the question. If modern humans evolved from one Adam and Eve with a soul given to them by God, then at what point in the evolution of modern humans did this occur? In other words, when did God give these modern humans a soul? Since we know that modern humans migrated out of Africa 80,000 years ago and we are all descended from this so-called Adam and Eve, then according to the genealogy of the Bible God gave Adam and Eve a soul about 4,000-5,000 years ago. If true, this implies that the many modern humans who existed before 5,000 years ago had no soul until one was given to one particular Adam and Eve about 5,000 years ago.
Perhaps the Bible story was more about the time when modern humans reached a stage when they could reason and choose between good and evil, when eschatology became a real question, and the time when God decided to intervene directly and convincingly into human existence to teach us how to live. It is a mystery like so many other mysteries where faith is the only answer.
Around 400BCE, Democritos (possibly with Leukippos), thought about the atom. Why and how on Earth could he possibly come to this conclusion?
What did he have as 'evidence' to pronounce such a statement?
Where are we now on this subject? You can see it every where. (and the working of the computer on which you are reading tis to begin with)
Now, read again the Genesis, being careful not to fall in deism. What do you find?
What does trigger in your mind the terms 'eternal life' in view of the yet in infancy DNA science?
That is a point of view not to be neglected, yet far from giving all answers.
Theilhard, Lemaitre, and others have delved deeply in this direction.
It is also important to recognize that "laws" of science - therories that are veyr well proven - have centuries later been disprroven at least in part and in need of significant revison or full replacement. Newton's law of gravity was discovered to have very subtle discrepancies between the orbits of some planets it predicted and the planets actual observed orbit. 200 years later, Einstein's theory which in part explains gravity replaced Newtow's law. And decades later parts of Einstein's theory on other subjects was replaced by new theories. "Laws" of science are often found to be incomplete and therefore can be misleading explainations of reality.
Our scientific knowledge is often shown to be only a surface view of a far deeper and more complex reality that always remains unknown to us.
The science and the logic of evolution follow the Greek search for "arhea" or origin of all that is. How do we account for what is while acknowledging and making sense of change and difference?
It would make sense that all life is connected somehow - philosophic logic of deduction preceeds scientific exploration because it points to what we ought to look for. Unless you know what to look for, it's pretty hard to identify clues!
So did life arise spontaneously once for all or several times leading to several different outcomes but based on the same fundamental architecture (DNA)? That's a philosophic and scientific question.
Theological revelation holds that all of humanity came from one pair. Logic would demand that such a pair existed eons ago to account for the paleontological record of ancient and global settlements and remains. Science which is accepted as 'settled' on the score of evolution of life beginning 4 billion years ago and necessarily connected "somehow" with each other across plant and animal barriers would seem to point to humanity too being ultimately springing from 1 source - while it is indeed possible our DNA got mixed along the way with other tribes. Perhaps the "sons of men" and sons of god have to do with ensouled and non-spiritually ensouled hominids?
In any event, theology is what is revealed, not something we need wait until science tells us it's safe to accept! The meaning of 1 pair of spiritual ensouled hominids connected with all human beings ought to be clear enough no matter how our various races came to be different.
We need not doubt our theology even while we acknowledge there is plenty of details about Adam and Eve and what happened after the Flood and the exact biological pedigree behind Africans, Asians, and Europeans may come from Noah's 3 sons.... what I fear is that it's our theology that is so easily jettisoned as "maybe not so true" while we turn instead with greater deference to science when that's not called for.
Now, if one's biological time horizon is 6,000 BCE, then granted, one couple seems too few to account for humanity (especially as we're finding settlements from 11,000 BCE).
But if one pushes back humanity's origin to 100,000 BCE it's much more likely that a single couple either created ex nihilo or 2 monkeys endowed with a spiritual soul by God could account for us all.
After all, what does "settled science" declare about evolution? a single start of life from which all other life sprung. Darwinian dogmatists really don't like any talk about spontaneous generations billions or millions of years post their mythic "first life" starting line.... because the logic of "we're all in this together, we're all the same" breaks down if you posit various historic origins of various natures.
In terms of human morality, if we posit that various tribes or races come from different original parents we begin to slide into the fundamental underpinnings of ALL racist theories of superiority/inferiority and undermine the very premise of the concept of universal human rights (in that if we're not all of the same family, if we're not all ultimately equal, then we can't claim equality by right but only by temporary privileges...)
So I'm sure that since "settled" Science (in Darwininan terms) holds that a single origin must be taken on faith for the existence of all life on earth and that human rights doctrine likewise holds that all human beings must come from one pair... we'd be wise to give this "breaking scientific theories to the contrary" some time rather than make a hasty jump into "yeah, let's jettison the past and see what this brings us".
My understanding is that the scientific evidence points away from common ancestry tracable to a single couple.
Pope Pius XII's statement in Humani Generis may well be a statement that will be developed by the Church in the course of time. Recent magisterial statements do not seem to be insistent on such a common descent.
Perhaps we loose a little theologically in our shared humanity from common ancestors but that seems to point us even further back into the past to find our common humanity in our common creator. It may also helpfully point us towards appreciating our common humanity through membership in the wider human community rather than through merely family ties (ties which the New Testament seems somewhat wary of).
God Bless
Thanks also to all the commentors and their prespectives. Stephen M. O'Brien's background information on the church's rejection of "polygenism" seems to be very relevant to this controversy.
But as an intellectual matter I have to agree with Albert Mohler that having an actual Adam and Eve specially created by God and their interaction with God and Satan is an essential foundation to the rest of the Bible. Adam and Eve creation is a real event with hugh specific implications that a methphor such as "all of humanity" does not provide. Individual hman actors and their very specific actions and free will have always played rhe key role in all the scriptures not vague symbolic abstractions like "all of humaity". And Christ himself had always referenced and validated all the scriptures and sought to build on scriptures. Saying these essential relationships and elements were methphors distorts the key message being made that mankind haas been crated by God and has a relationship to God. Humanity is not rhe result of ages of impersonal natrual processes where an mpersonal God remains silent and unknown to humanity. God's direct and personal contact with individual human beings is essential to make the entire Bible story work and be meaningful as Albert Mohler points out.
The first parents story explains a great many things. Ironically in science if you have competing theories to explain something such as human origins,the rule of parsimony is used to favor the expalination that is simpler, more elegant and able to account for more detail when more compelling evidence is lacking . The first parent expaination (theory) of the origin of humanity from Adam and Eve ithout mentioning God , has scientific merit and is not so easily dismissed by new evidence that do not definitively disprove or explain human origns. As often is the case we still do not have enough scientific evidence on human origins.
Science requires that all data and and the interprretation of data be always viewed skeptically and questioned. It needs to be asked is the human gnome data accurate and correctly and logically applied and interpreted? Exhaustively has other processes that may account for the same gnome been considered and ruled out such the possibility that would allow for a first parent but also gnome variability? Mapping the human gnome is only ten years old. Do we really know everything about the how the human gnome formed as it now appears? Or might other processes still be still be unknown and therfore not accounted for?
At the end of the day one would expect that science and the Bible would be consistant with one another. Their should be only one truth. Generally the Bible is amazingly consistant with major findings currently know to science. The "Big Bang" theory is only a half century old but accumulating evidence points to the vaidity if an unmimaginable orgin from in one small point at one moment in time - a creation. Only a few decades ago many said the universe always existed. But it terns out the universe though vast and complex is finite and had a origin. What does that mean? It means that a major key point made in the first few senetences of the Bible - a creation - is consistant with what is currently known to science. The Bible and science can and does reflect the same reality.
''When, however, there is question of another conjectural opinion, namely polygenism, the children of the Church by no means enjoy such liberty. For the faithful cannot embrace that opinion which maintains that either after Adam there existed on this earth true men who did not take their origin through natural generation from him as from the first parent of all, or that Adam represents a certain number of first parents. Now it is in no way apparent how such an opinion can be reconciled with that which the sources of revealed truth and the documents of the Teaching Authority of the Church propose with regard to original sin, which proceeds from a sin actually committed by an individual Adam and which, through generation, is passed on to all and is in everyone as his own.''
Perhaps a way thru this is to see Christ as the personification of humanity, the Son of Man/Humanity, in a similar sense that the Adam also personifies humanity ?
Perhaps Adam and Eve's original sinlessness and then the fall is more a mythic way of saying that our ability to make moral choices, which only comes at a certain level of human development (both personally in the growth of an infant into and adult and also in the evolution of humanity) not only has the potential for evil choices and in fact invariably does involve our making evil choices (''all have sinned'') ?
The catechism sometimes seems to be carefully crafted by committee to reach a compromise between older and more modern theologies.
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Skip to comments.Iowa scientists: Drought a sign of climate change
Posted on 11/20/2012 2:22:07 PM PST by NormsRevenge
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) This year's drought is consistent with predictions that global climate change would bring about weather extremes including more frequent droughts, said a report released Monday.
The Iowa Climate Statement updates the 2010 report, reflecting the year's lingering drought and the belief that it signifies what many scientists have predicted increasing instability in weather patterns will lead to extremes during both wet and dry years.
The report was signed by 138 scientists and researchers from 27 Iowa colleges and universities. They said they wanted to release the updated report now while the drought is still fresh in the public's mind.
"The drought is sort of a teachable moment," said Jerry Schnoor, co-director of the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research at the University of Iowa.
The scientists are careful to avoid saying any single extreme weather incident is directly caused by global warming, saying too many factors are at play when it comes to weather. But, they did say increasingly volatile weather patterns have been predicted by scientists who study global warming.
(Excerpt) Read more at weather.yahoo.com ...
I thought drought was a sign of lack of rain. Been happening forever.
droughts have been happening since time immemoral
Yeah! We need to get back to normal, predictable weather!
Wow, as soon as the Left's boy got re-elected, Global Warming/Climate Change got dusted off and put back on the front burner.
Must have been those SUVs that the Egyptians were using.
On a micro or macro scale? Zoom in enough and you can lose context. If you look at a once in 100 year drought in the context of 50 years of history, you see a change. If you look at that same even on a 500 year timeline, you see a pattern repeating and the system is maintaining.
Drought in Iowa is a sign of La Nina, just like the early 50's and the 1930's. Nothing to do with "climate change" (the new name for global warming).
>> "The drought is sort of a teachable moment," said Jerry Schnoor
Ostentatious bullcrap.
The "Climate Change" hoax produces grants, and a sense of purpose for otherwise meaningless lives.
The folks who signed the statement are not sufficiently educated in climate science to sign anything.
When Iowa looks like this, call me.....
Climate change has been occurring since the beginning of time....or at least prior to the SUV.
The Dust Bowl/The Dirty Thirties
All of whom are probably looking for federal funding.
You really lose credibility when EVERY weather event is a sign of "climate change".
Gutless academics signing away their integrity for job and funding security.
It would be interesting to track the academics who didn't sign and find out their job status in the next year.
Darn SUVS ... traveling back in time to create the dust bowl. It's witchcraft, I tell ya!
Yep... how could you be carried by 8 slaves instead of 6, you are far too wasteful of resources!!
Droughts go into the average.
Of course, they also say that climate change equals more tropical storms, which drench the entire Eastern U.S. with rain when they come ashore.
These idiots have forever given up any legitimate claim to the title "scientist".
Saw Ken Burns' "Dust Bowl" last two nights. Now that was a drought. Plus poor farming techniques. Didn't hear anything about climate change then, or global warming. Whenever there's some sort of localized weather incident, here they come with that global warming/climate change nonsense.
Also, maybe those scientists should look at the rain we've been having here in Washington state.
Can they provide a list of weather conditions that would not be consistent with climate change? Perfectly average days, nights, and seasons? Has that ever occurred in the past at any time?
When every possible outcome proves your theory, you are have a flawed premise.
Of course. Global climate change is a fact. It's been happening for about 4 billion years.
If anyone thinks, reading this article, that mankind has ANYTHING to do with global climate change, then they are an idiot.
What will they say when we get the next flood? Oh, yea, that's climate change, too. How convenient.
No. Lack of rain is a sign of drought.
Trust me on this. Australians know how to recognise drought.
Althought we tend to attribute the droughts and flooding rains to El Niño and La Niña.
Betcha everyone of these Einsteins voted Obama.
FLASH NEWS!!!!!!!!!!! Below freezing precipitation causes SNOW! SHEESH, I am getting tired of the pseudoscience BS!
I think those "Iowa Scientists" have been studying the Moonshine too long.
Climate Change is the new word for "weather"
Liberals are closest thing we have to Cylons.
Or maybe they wanted to release this information before the drought ended...
Then again they have a point - there's never been a drought before... I'm surprised we even have a word for such an event.
This drought has me concerned. We have never had a drought in Iowa before....................oh wait. Nevermind.
climate change has been going on since the time of creation - before there was ever a smaoke stack.
Mother Nature is going to do her own thing - believe it!!
correction - should be "smoke stack."
Uh, Jerr, being a drought, it's longer than a moment...maybe a "teachable few years."
Also, isn't it about time you finally quit using that banal, trite, and thoroughly worn-out bromide?
It gets dry here every year in August,it just started early this year.
Yes, and if you Einstein wannabees take a look, the climate has been changing since the beginning of time.
I commented to my wife jsut the other night. PBS was showing a documentary on the Dustbowl. I said to her, I'll bet if conditions like that existed today, they would say "Globull warming!". Looks like I was right. What a laod of BULL!
They wanted to release the report BEFORE THE AGW FUNDING DRYS UP COMPLETELY.
Yes, the drought is real. But it's not man made. It has crept northward over the Rockies now, over 39 degrees. This is also solar max, probably during an extended minimum: interesting situation. Look for more radical fluctuations with maybe some cold surprises (also fluctuations—not the ice age of funny stories) in about 4-6 years.
The Navajo Indians moved to New Mexico 500 years ago.. because of a massive drought in Iowa.
The loess hills in western Iowa are sand dunes... from when Iowa was a desert.
I would ask that the dear professor study a little more history before talking out his a$$.
I am an Iowa State engineer.
We brewed up the good stuff. Now I can afford Templeton Rye, and don't need to.
Yup. I was driving through there once and came across a huge refinery. I thought: "What the hey, they don't have oil here."
Then I saw the sign....it was a fuel ethanol plant. Of course I always wondered if every drop of that distillate makes it into the transport trucks.
Or do a few bottles go.....elsewhere?
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New tree ring study shows 2000 years of cooling
Extreme weather is an integral part of the Earths climate.
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The gardens at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library have evolved in three phases. The first gardens, designed in 1933 by Richmond landscape architect Charles F. Gillette was done as a project by The Garden Club of Virginia. The Victorian restoration, suitable to the 1846 construction date of the house, the gardens included two terraces, the lower one featuring boxwood-lined bowknot beds, the only bowknot garden that Gillette created. To further highlight the features of the gardens, a brick terrace and pathways, designed by landscape architect Ralph E. Griswold were erected in 1967-68.
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In short: Trail running at its bestIn full: Fantastic event - excellently marshalled, wonderfully well organised. Huge fan of this event. But it is a bit hard!!Date of review: August 7, 2011
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In short: When the going gets tough - the tough lasts for 13 miles!In full: Excellent race organised by enthusiastic and caring people. My first time at this event and it wont be my last. Enjoyed the course very much even though I don't normally do mud and hills. The route is well marked. Very rewarding scenery in lots of places. Thanks again to the organisers and marshals and those at the water stations for a terrific day.Date of review: August 7, 2011
In short: A beautiful race by friendly peopleIn full: Liss Runners can be proud of this race, great marshals, drinks at the right station, a friendly welcome at the finish and a lovely medal. The course is murderous but very scenic with varying terrain and many testing hills, both up and down.This is my first time running the race and it's up with with one of my favorites. It has it all! Well worth the trip from London.Date of review: August 7, 2011
In short: a great route, well worth having ago, my first trial run and loved it. Lacked some atmosphere but a great raceDate of review: August 7, 2011
In short: Some real tough hills but beautiful views on high ridgesIn full: This was a real toughie with some step climbs and lots of mud. Super marshals and a big thank you to the lovely young lady at the water station at 10 miles who had the largest bowl of jelly babies I have ever seen, which provided a lift for the last run in. Well done Liss Runners Date of review: August 7, 2011
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Stay out of Syria's civil war
Members of Congress of both parties are right to balk at President Barack Obama's request for money to arm rebels fighting the Syrian regime.
"If we intervene militarily, we will exacerbate the situation," said Rep. Chris Gibson, a Republican who used to represent part of this area until the recent redistricting. He knows war better than most members of Congress; he served more than two decades in the Army with multiple tours to Iraq and deployments to Kosovo and Haiti. He said he was concerned about the U.S. getting "sucked into a very difficult situation," especially since budget cuts have hit the military hard.
Democratic Rep. Peter Welch of Vermont warned about "Americanizing a civil war."
Joining them on a resolution were Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Republican Rep. Walter Jones of North Carolina and Democratic Rep. Rick Nolan of Minnesota.
Reps. Tom Rooney, R-Fla., and Michael McCaul, R-Texas, introduced a separate but similar bill that would block the administration from arming the Syrian rebels without congressional approval first.
These politicians understand something that most, surprisingly, don't: Americans are sick of war. It kills people, it wastes tremendous amounts of public money that could be used for better things, it worsens our country's good name, it creates more problems than it solves – and except in rare and debatable circumstances, it's morally wrong. Yet with Syria now following Libya, it's hard to see when our country will stop getting involved in other countries' civil wars.
After many months of doing nothing to aid the Syrian rebels, Obama now plans to give them substantive help. But some lawmakers want to know more about his plan.
They are right to be skeptical. Some remember U.S. aid to Afghan rebels fighting the Soviet Union during the 1980s. Much of it went to the Mujahideen, which attracted Osama bin Laden and others whom the U.S. would later fight against. There appear to be few, if any, guarantees U.S. aid to Syrian rebels would not fall into similarly hostile hands.
Also, the Syrian conflict could be a tinderbox in a tense region of the world, where the U.S. is frequently blamed for meddling. Why inflame it? If there was ever a case for containment, this is it.
To be clear, we are deeply concerned about the horrors of this two-year-old civil war and the potential for Syrian President Bashar Assad's army to use more chemical weapons against his own people. We strongly support the U.S. using diplomatic and economic pressure to help the Syrian people and end the oppression. But it's not our fight, and any armaments we give the rebels will be used to kill, not to heal.
Finally, this is a chance for Congress to assert its authority in matters of war. The Constitution gives warmaking responsibility to Congress, even though the president is commander in chief of the military. The 1973 War Powers Resolution requires the president to seek congressional authority after engaging in hostile actions, but presidents from both political parties have violated it consistently.
In 2011, Rep. Gibson introduced a bill to amend the War Powers Resolution and let the president use military force on his own only when Congress has authorized it through a war declaration, law or treaty commitment, or when the U.S. is attacked or in imminent danger of attack.
Almost a year later, with few joining him on that bill, Rep. Gibson told the Enterprise something that's stuck with us for its pithiness:
"I have seen firsthand what happens in war," he said. "I can tell you that you can give a million descriptions of it, but at the end of the day … you end up killing people and breaking things. You can call it any kind of effort you want, but you've got to recognize that it's a very serious decision, one that should only be undertaken after a long discussion, the American people's involvement and a vote in Congress."
War should be a last resort. The U.S. should not act as world police but rather, as much as possible, a force for peace.