Will the Bones Speak Against Us?
March 31, 2005
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Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman in Florida that many thousands of words have been written about in the last two months, has died. She was starved and dehydrated under the watchful eye of the State and her husband.
There is much I can say about this, but I offer an unusual take. This is the second time in a week that I have taken a look back to dusty bones, but the April 2005 edition of National Geographic has a look at the recent find of tiny human-like bones in a cave in Indonesia that speaks volumes about how shrunken our souls have become.
I’ll let the images and copy from the article “Family Ties” say it all:
A toothless Homo erectus skull (left) discovered in Dmanisi poses an intriguing question: How did he survive without chewing? Maybe he found soft foods, or perhaps another hominin helped him (right)—which, if true, would be the first sign of human caring. {Caption and images from National Geographic, April 2005, pp. 18 & 19}
Now I am not an apologist for Darwinism (quite the opposite, in fact), nor do I necessarily support the contentions of National Geographic here. But whatever your take on “proto-humans” may be, the issue stands. If it is true that Homo erectus—with a brain nowhere near the size of ours—cared for the toothless old individual in their midst that may not have been able to care for himself, how is it that Homo sapiens in 2005 can willfully starve one of our own to death?
Have we become less moral than animals?
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Finally! Back in Business!
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As you know, I’ve been struggling ever since my satellite Internet provider pointed my dish to a new satellite about five weeks ago. Within two hours after the repoint, I was down and things have been flaky ever since. I’d have no connection for entire days and then I’d be okay for a couple days and then back to the same garbage.
Well, after having another installer spend four hours here on Tuesday and being on hold on the telephone with my provider for what seems like a grand total of about thirty-six hours (it was more than four yesterday and almost three today, repeat that over the course of five weeks and you get the idea), I was sent a new modem and things seem to be working. The guy who repointed the antenna must have shorted something out in the modem in the process of changing things.
So, in other words, a perfectly good system was totally hosed because of one man. I think there’s a theological lesson in there somewhere, but for today, I am just glad to have access again!
You’ll be hearing more consistently from me in the coming days—I hope—so hang in there and thanks for stopping by, even if the posts were a bit erratic lately.
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