So what set off this flock of Grackles? And note that they are large and loud Crow-like birds. Is there a connection between toad-murdering crows of Germany and this Houston event? Don't you want to know?

Then, lo and behold, Reuters' news service reported that on May 19, a sleepy little Russian village's lake simply DISAPPEARED overnight! Imagine that! You go to bed telling wife that you will be up before crack of dawn to go "Wet a Hook". You get up, eat a little something, grab gear, and walk down to lake, only to find that it is gone--Poof! [2]

I assure you I am not making any of this up. An entire lake was there when Russians went to bed and next morning it was gone.

Get this: The article is entitled, "Lake Disappears, baffling villagers". They find it, what, a little baffling? I wonder if TERRORIZED would have been a more appropriate word? Baffled just doesn't cut it. I am thinking that an overnight disappearance of an entire lake would elicit a little stronger reaction like,

"Мы тянем наших ишаков из здесь".

This roughly translates to,

"We are hauling our butts out of here."

Just what devil is going on here? Exploding toads in Germany (the explanation was NOT conclusive), vicious people-attacking CROW-like birds in Houston (authorities had to close down that section of street), then overnight disappearance of an entire lake.

Just where are Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Skully when you need them?

[1] Hostile Grackels Attack People in Houston; Associated Press

[2] Lake Disappears, baffling villagers.

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That is where one encounters another theory - different from Interventionism or alien seed from microbial RNA lattices. Darwin was greatly hampered by his materialistic science that understood nothing of cellular level of life biologic. They had no microbiology or electron microscopes. It is upon cellular substrate that each lifeform has been created and Human Genome Project assures us we are not so different genetically from worm. I offer certain 'Faith'-based evidence as proof of that contention.

This theory suggests that crystalline structure of rocks and minerals had a part to play in focusing energy to biological soup ingredients at beginning of life on earth. It is cutting edge stuff and I have only seen one article on it. I like this theory because I am a great fan of String Theory and Solid State Physicists like Robins and Tiller of Stanford (He has a recent book on Creation of life which I quote and have referred to many times in these debates.). String Theory tells us that all matter and energy is derived from 'one dimensional harmonic forces'. Now I can also draw Logos into this and ask about two muons separated in deep Sudbury research center. How can sub-atomic particles communicate as was shown in this study? If they can communicate do they have some rudimentary consciousness? Indeed consciousness may not be only existent in biologic life.

Going down that path will eventually take us to our most feared Creator or collective unconscious, and ONE of many non-theistic disciplines like Buddhism. I did not come to point I am at (OPEN), by desire to believe in a Creator. I assure you I am raised in most Atheistical up-bringing and approach. But now I see some merit in something these religions may have intuited somehow.

“In open state any asymmetry causes an energy imbalance to build up, caused by rectification of random fluctuations occurring in surrounding region. When some shock causes closure, an energy discharge will occur and resulting flow can provide shock needed to cause a change in state of other nearby junctions. So waves of switching action will arise spontaneously: these could be quantum waves: core feature of quantum theory. Furthermore, all ingredients are present from which a working neural network could evolve and could ultimately yield a primary consciousness.

The network or grid, now defining "nuether" and represented symbolically by a rectangular mesh in Figures 3, 5, and 6, would interconnect everything in universe. As yet, however, no universe of matter could exist. Spontaneous creation of nuether had to occur first, followed by evolution of its consciousness, since on this model matter would require deliberate design. {This came from site of Center for Philosophical Freedom and an extensive article by Ronald Pearson which includes this description of his work as well Articles by and about Ronald Pearson, Derbyshire scientist who has discovered a structure of ether that has potential to evolve intelligence. This has provided mathematics to back up experiments of Sir William Crookes and Charles Richet. In these experiments, deceased people returned, proving they had survived death.}” (12)

I see so much in current science that supports life after death theories; and yet it may not be our personality which continues to exist in ways most religions or concepts like Karma think of it. Beyond ‘limbo’ or ‘purgatory’ and these local event horizon states or attached energy bandwidths I think little could be likened to what we would call our own persona. In closing let me say simply – we must learn to think and question in Socratian manner or else we are headed for a lot more war and other ghastly results.

“When she came out of anaesthetic, she turned to always faithful Alice B. Toklas and said, ‘What is answer?’ The heartbroken Alice was unable to reply and, after a pause, Gertrude went on: ‘In that case, what is question?’ These, it is said were her last words.”(13) And in my mind no bard or mere poet ever asked a more important question of life each and every day.