Blogs Blog 51

The majority of the news I read I get from blogs. Personally I like professional blogs and tend to stay away from amateur blogs. In my opinion amateur blogs are not organized and are a pain to read. I use igoogle to organize a live feed of a few blogs that I regularly visit including, gizmodo.com, engadet.com, kotaku.com, io9.com and mmo-champion.com. While they report on some of the same things the information on all the sites is always different. Io9 is a feed of about 9 blogs put into a convenient space. For political information I use drudgereport.com and cnn.com while they are not blogs they are still information sources worth listing.

Blog 50

The most striking idea in the first chapter of The Stranger is how the main character does not show any emotion when it comes to the death of his mother. “Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know. I got a telegram from the home: “Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours””. This is the most important point of the story I feel because it shows that the main character is a very unemotional and disconnected main character and right from the begging it is understood that the main character will be an outcast emotionally and sets the tone for the rest of the book.

Genesis 1 Blog 49

Something peculiar in genesis is that the order in which god created each of plant or creature somewhat follows the evolutionary pattern. First god created light in the darkness of the universe, which kind of supports scientists thought that the big bang came from two objects colliding in space, which was dark and then became light. After that god created plants and then animals and then humans. This is exactly how evolution and scientists believe life began, first trees were on the planet and then fish became land animals and then birds and lizards and eventually humans which is the same order as genesis gives people.

Darwin Blog 48

“To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator, that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual”. It is interesting to here Darwin discuss a “creator” because many people view Darwin as an atheist who proved one of the most controversial issues pertaining to both life and religion ever. Darwin was religious and his wife even more than him; therefore, Darwin did not try and disprove creationism but instead he tried to support the idea of a divine creator because in his mind there must have been a creator in order to set evolution in motion.