Thoughtful Preparations: Media Spin Blog

The writer at RIGHTWING NUTHOUSE sums up the many issues of the bubbling Intelligent Design debate as well or better than the many commentaries thrown into this primordial stew.

Since President Bush commented recently regarding Intelligent Design, ‘’I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought,” the evolutionary can of worms has been opened.

It’s great, because now we can hope for many schools of thought to be discussed, although many do not have direct bearing on evolution. They are simply articles of faith and belief, such as those embraced by the idealogues within the Bush inner circle.

The Hindu term Satchitananda, is their concept of an omniscient God. Perhaps it is long overdue for public education classes to turn more attention to the study of the ideas and principles of philosophy and world religions. This will provide students with more balanced and understanding perspectives of global consciousness.

The writings of scholars such as Hank Wesselman and Carlos Castaneda discuss what sounds like a cosmic multicellular entity, composed of all the souls of the universe combined in a matrix. That many minds acting in harmony is closer to God than this world, or maybe it’s just a like a bunch of glowing jellyfish floating around peacefully on the waves of space. I agree with our Great White Father Bush in the White House, and encourage the reading and discussion of these books in classrooms as soon as possible.

For a more scholarly look at geological time and evolution, see the excellent web site, The Virtual Fossil Museum.

An interesting thread about U.F.O. sightings was recently started up on a computer graphics forum populated by many practicing professionals and students, CGTalk part of CGSociety.org. (You may need to join this to view the thread. CGTalk Forums are still available without fees.)

The discussion kicks off with member “socool” asking if this video is a real UFO sighting or CG special effects. See either http://www.aboutrealstuff.com/video/real_ufo.jsp or http://www.zippyvideos.com/214500292671265.html.

Most had the opinion that it is a clever fake, and knowing what we know of state of the art of visual effects in today’s movies, why would anyone believe it to be real? Many contributed their own photos and videos. Knowing these photos have been submitted by visual effects artists, casts serious doubts on them.

The last two the artist has Rich Cabrera included “hoax” in the filename.

Trying to get away from hoaxes and to the bottom of all this are organizations such as UFO Evidence and The Disclosure Project. Dr. Stephen Greer of The Disclosure Project is making valiant attempts to clear away the carnival atmosphere associated with UFO research, and speaks throughout the country, including the National Press Club Conference (see video). His work appears to get into the X Files intrigue of big government and media cover ups.