Star Trek: The Next Generation - All Good Things... - series finale episode - season 7 episodes 25 & 26 - Monday 23 May 1994
(Q appears as a ancient man with an ear trumpet)
Q: Eh? What was that she said, sonny? I couldn't quite hear her.
PICARD: Q? What is going on here? Where is the anomaly?
Q: Where's your mommy? Well, I don't know.
From 2/6/1911 ( my biological maternal grandfather Ronald Reagan ) To 12/18/1969 ( from my official United States Navy documents: In the Circuit Court of Sevier County Arkansas Thedia Gay Burgess was granted a divorce ) is 21500 days
21500 = 10750 + 10750
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/9/1995 is 10750 days
From 7/13/1940 ( Patrick Stewart ) To 12/18/1969 ( from my official United States Navy documents: In the Circuit Court of Sevier County Arkansas Thedia Gay Burgess was granted a divorce ) is 10750 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/9/1995 is 10750 days
From 4/21/1926 ( my biological paternal grandmother Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II ) To 9/26/1955 ( premiere US TV series "Jungle Jim" ) is 10750 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/9/1995 is 10750 days
From 7/21/1925 ( John Scopes found guilty by jury in Tennessee ) To 6/1/1984 ( premiere US film "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" ) is 21500 days
21500 = 10750 + 10750
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/9/1995 is 10750 days
From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) To 4/9/1995 is 1485 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/26/1969 ( Richard Nixon - Executive Order 11497—Amending the Selective Service Regulations to Prescribe Random Selection ) is 1485 days
From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) To 4/9/1995 is 1485 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/26/1969 ( Richard Nixon - Proclamation 3945—Random Selection for Military Service ) is 1485 days
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/apr/09/philosopher-takes-on-evolution-he-says-science/
The Spokesman-Review
NATION/WORLD
Philosopher Takes On Evolution He Says Science Supports ‘Intelligent Design’ Idea
SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 1995
By Kelly McBride
As a philosopher and a physicist, Stephen Meyer is trying to answer the most basic of questions: How did life begin?
The Whitworth College associate professor is rattling scientific norms with his answers.
Scientists across the country have read his articles and heard his theories. They either dismiss him as a religious kook or hail him as a pioneer in his field.
Meyer, 36, challenges the theories of evolution. He argues that the very first cell was made by a mind, a being, some outside force.
In other words: God.
He calls the theory “Intelligent Design” and he says there is scientific evidence to support it.
Meyer’s work, along with that of a few other scientists in the United States and England, competes with the Darwinian theory of evolution - the prevailing theory in biology since early this century.
In the last few years, Meyer has taken on other researchers in scientific journals and mainstream publications.
It’s the Scopes Monkey Trial, nature vs. God, with a new twist for the ‘90s. Now, both sides claim scientific evidence.
Meyer was a geophysicist for a Texas oil company in the mid-1980s when he started thinking seriously about how life started.
Like most religious scientists, he meshed his beliefs about God with his knowledge about evolution.
One of the tenets of evolutionist theory is that life arose from a mindless, undirected process.
“Theists, which I was, generally think that God was in some way directing evolution,” Meyer says. “But they really aren’t thinking very carefully about that. Because if evolution is an undirected process, how can it be directed by anyone, God or otherwise?”
After attending a debate between Christian and atheist scientists, Meyer was impressed by the people who believed God’s existence could be proven. He decided to take their work further.
At Cambridge University in England, where he received his Ph.D in the philosophy of science, he began critiquing evolution research.
Evolutionists believe the amino acids floating around in the “primordial soup” arranged themselves into the very first cells and life unfolded.
Meyer says that’s improbable and that scientific experiments have backed him up.
“What they learned in the ‘60s is that pure chance isn’t going to do it,” he says. “Even if you concede all of the most positive conditions, all you have is amino acids sitting around. They still need to be arranged properly.”
Inside a cell there are precise arrangements. Amino acids in proteins, as well as the components of DNA molecules, are in a specific order.
It’s that encoded information in the cell that indicates the presence of a designer or a creator, Meyer says. Nature can’t make such a code on its own, he says.
“What makes this controversial is that people see it has religious implications,” Meyer says. “If there is evidence for an intelligence that preexists the advent of humans and all other life, if the big bang is true, and if other laws of physics are fine-tuned to allow for life to exist, you start putting these things together and it looks like a God hypothesis.”
By 1990, when Meyer came to Whitworth to teach philosophy, his theories were making ripples on the smooth surface of the scientific community.
A guest editorial in the Wall Street Journal in 1993 sparked a frenzied response from scientists around the world. Some supported Meyer’s ideas; others thought he was crazy.
“The problem is more and more scientists are going crazy,” Meyer says. “Especially the young people, who, frankly, are not as frightened by convention and are tired of the old ways of thinking.”
Now he has hooked up with a mathematician and a biologist to write a book that offers a new explanation of how life began more than 3 million years ago.
It’s a question no scientist can answer conclusively, but Meyer wants to try.
At times the debate degenerates from science to personalities. On one side are a few young, eager scientists, fresh out of school with their Ph.Ds. On the other are researchers with years of experience.
“It’s not like (design) ideas haven’t been looked at,” says Eugenie Scott, executive director for the National Center for Scientific Education, the organization that reviews and certifies scientific curriculum for classroom use. “They’ve been looked at and greeted with a big yawn.”
Still other noted scientists acknowledge that Meyer’s theory has some weight and that evolution theories are falling apart.
“If the topic didn’t carry such ideological weight, current theories of chemical evolution would be laughed into silence,” wrote Michael Behe, a chemistry professor at Lehigh University.
Before Meyer and others can even discuss the evidence, they have to convince the world of science to hear their arguments.
“When you present your theory for intelligent design, people respond by saying, well, that’s not science,” Meyer says. “It might be true and it might be false, but you can’t talk about that in science.”
Scott is among the many scientists who say Meyer’s work is religion, not science. And her opinion carries weight among educators.
“It’s really frustrating to deal with these folks,” Scott says. “There’s a difference between being on the cutting edge and being on the fringe.
“I think it’s important to realize what the burr is under their saddle.”
Science traditionally has been defined as the study of nature. Thus, all the scientific answers must be naturalistic, Scott said.
Meyer and his colleagues say those rules are preventing scientists from coming up with the best answers to the origin-of-life question.
“Make your best theory, no holds barred, and forget all these silly rules,” Meyer says.
Scott and others say the rules keep charlatans off to the sidelines, where they can’t do any harm.
“It’s really sad to see this controversy,” she says. “They are behaving like something would happen to their faith if you could explain the origin of life.”
Even among the faithful, Meyer finds little support. From Pope John Paul II to the Association of Unitarian Churches to the Central Conference of American Rabbis, religious leaders have shied away from Intelligent Design.
Most churches teach that evolution and faith can co-exist.
“You can accept a lot of different theories about what happened, whether it was gradual or it was sudden,” Meyer said. “Irrespective of all of those debates, here in the cell, in the very simplest living form present, we have the distinctive hallmarks of a designed system.”
In other words: God.
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All Good Things [ Star Trek: The Next Generation ]
Stardate: 47988
Original Airdate: May 23, 1994
Q: This is you. I'm serious. Right here, life is about to form on this planet for the very first time. A group of amino acids are about to combine and form the first protein, the building blocks of what you call life. Strange, isn't it? Everything you know, your entire civilisation, it all begins right here in this little pond of goo. Appropriate, somehow, isn't it? Too bad you didn't bring your microscope. It's really quite fascinating. Oh, look, there they go. The amino acids are moving closer and closer, and closer. Oh! Nothing happened. See what you've done?
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 2:38 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Tuesday 21 March 2017
