In our local Ottawa Citizen, this little gem caught my eye and I thought I
would pass it on:
Quote from Ottawa Citizen Sunday March 1, 1998 Page A 11
Cleaner Car Fuel
The age of super-clean hydrogen-powered cars is moving closer. A Japanese
team reports in New Scientist that it has found a catalyst that separates
oxygen from hydrogen effectively and long-term. The Japanese use powdered
copper oxide as their catalyst while a Spanish group, which has managed the
same results, uses a secret molybdenum compound.
Hydrogen can run car engines with little modification and exhaust fumes are
made of water and oxides of nitrogen.
In regards to your posting on Evolution, I came across this little gem from
one of my favourite writers, John Ralston Saul:
If you believe that evolutionary theory makes sense it teaches that a
dynamic equilibrium can exist for a long time before snapping into new and
unpredictable models, but when one brand of anything becomes too dominant,
it destroys the conditions needed for its survival.
Along with your thoughts, Jay posted on evolution, I don't know that we have
discovered yet how genes change in humans. for example, take a behavior
like selfishness. At what point did selfishness become a gene. If one guy
developed a pattern of behavior called selfishness in his lifetime, at what
point and through what mechanism did that get encoded into the genes through
his sperm and introduced into the human line. Selfishness, might be a
survival attribute in some circumstances and it may be a case of banishment
from the tribe or quick retribution from other stronger or more numerous
members in another circumstance. I am not entirely sure or convinced that
evolution explains behavioral patterns and yes, I took the time to read and
annotate a lot of material you have referred too on this matter but remain
unconvinced. If these kind of changes were taking place, I would expect too
see in modern humans a variety of abnormalities - I know there are plenty of
crazies now - being experimented with by "nature" in our current time of 6
billion people. Even on the physical changes, some people are still being
born with tails, I would expect to see that line of development become more
pronounced as we are not currently killing babies who have this birth
(defect). To the best of my knowledge, this is not the case.
Take people who have their corpus callosum surgically cut and who continue
to exist and function in the protected environment of a hospital. Why have
we not seen children being born who have developed a gene that has been
passed on by the first individual. I know, a pretty weak example but I
think you get my point, (they may, probably are not breeding) but the
evolutionist's argument has to be that at some time, what is abnormal
behavior becomes a gene and then is passed on making others abnormal until
they gain numerical supremacy.
Respectfully,
Thomas Lunde
PS Enjoyed your latest diehard mailing and I have missed your comments on
the list for the last several weeks.
