Two groups of deer were grazing along the roadside in my neighborhood last night as I drove home from the Honors Symposium. (see below) The days are warm and sunny, the nights are still a little bit cold -- no planting yet!

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In The Community: FVCC Honors Symposium: JEFFERSON'S WALL: AMERICA'S DEBATE OVER CHURCH AND STATE -- God on Trial: America's Religious Wars by Dr. Peter H. Irons -- now from the Mt. Shasta area of Northern California, in retirement from UCSD, was a riveting speaker, a kind gentleman, and big success. He DID refute a couple of DeWolf's weak, self-serving assertions, especially the slander about Irons' friend, late scientst Dr. Stephen Jay Gould, countenencing "I.D." or "Creation Science" (sic) in any way, shape or form.
Irons' main theme was that our own country is subject to the ugly passions which cause religious warfare, and there are many historical examples of what a so-called "modern" person may think are abberations only found in Ireland, India, or the Middle East. One of the few protections we have against the worst aspects of our own human nature is "Jefferson's Wall" between religious institutions and governmental institutions.
DeWolf relied on a partial, inaccuratly stated quotation from Justice Jackson in 1944, relative to "Othodoxy," which actually went on to unequivocally state that the principle that our country's constitutional separation between church and state was "beyond the reach of majorities" -- meaning officials and their electorates.
When answering a question from the audience, Irons re-stated the important point that science in general, and "Darwinism"(sic) in particular, were METHODS of inquiry and study, and that "Creationism" was an imposition of a religious establishment, which was forbidden by the First Amendment, according to the Supreme Court in 1987.
A real danger facing our society, according to Irons, is that todays Supreme Court is only one vote away from starting to dismantle "Jefferson's Wall."

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Jean (Dale Arden) Rogers was not only THE BOMB to look at, but she was a very effective space-bombadier. Watch her rescue Flash Gordon in Spitfires of the Spaceways.