Scientists and the new habit of conjecture.

More and more I am reading about scientists who make preposterous claims that have no fact in evidence. Most recently is the discovery of a child who had a Denisovan father and a Neanderthal mother. The child's bone was found in a known Denisovan cave. Fine. I can believe that!

What I can't believe is what I'm hearing them say about it. For example Svante Pääbo, the lead author in the study said to Science Daily that, "Neanderthals and Denisovans may not have had many opportunities to meet. But when they did, they must have mated frequently -- much more so than we previously thought." Pääbo goes further when speaking to The Guardian and said, "I’m beginning to think that when these groups met, they were quite happy to mix with each other." Why? Because you found one instance? Even if you found one hundred instances, what makes you think they were happy?

If we're going to make suppositions, then it sounds even more to me like the Neanderthal was taken by force. I mean, this was a Western Neanderthal not found in the region she was from! Who is to say that these were not warring beings and that the Neanderthal wasn't a slave?

The father, though obviously Denisovan, did carry some of his own Neanderthal DNA. That doesn't mean that his ancestor wasn't taken, raped or something else just as violent.

Scientists unfortunately look at the past with rose colored glasses. The past was a brutal hateful place! Murder was acceptable in many instances and the death penalty was very well appreciated. There were no human rights and suffering was rampant.

It's too bad then that we can't seem to get the real truth from scientists, today. I do apologize to Mr. Pääbo for picking on him because it's not just him. I see it all the time now. I would prefer that they stick to the evidence and don't try to coat it with sugar. Let's hear the real science and leave it at that.

BEWARE of Chinese Mobile Apps

There are a number of conspiracy theorists out there who make false claims that are really nothing to be concerned about. Fake news is loaded with it and so are those who believe the government is hiding alien information and so on.

Then comes along something that is a bit uncomfortable. China has been known to hack into United States government computer systems. China is a communist nation. Many millennials (even people in their 30's and I know because I've met them) do not really understand what that means.

A quick lesson is (Wikipedia is pretty useless these days when trying to read something that should be easy) a basic Karl Marx teaching. That is that the government makes the decisions for you. They decide where you work, how much you make, etc. They take most of your money and put it in a pile. They pass that pile out to others. The only rich people are government workers and you have no chance for advancement, ever. They take a large portion of your money and keep it for themselves. They give you health care with a mortality rate (the noted article says, "China faces huge health care problems that make those of the United States seem almost trivial by comparison") that is very high and is call socialized health care for everyone, even if it's killing them. Karl Marx is the founder of communism as well as fascism. We all know how evil the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany was and so China, who follows this same philosophy is truly an enemy.

What Christians can tell atheists and other non-believers.

The problem with non-believers is that they don't understand God nor the Bible. The ONLY verse they seem to remember is Matthew 5:39. That's the most often quoted verse that any non-Christian seems to know.

There are 31,102 verses in the Bible. How do this "specialists" know what the other verses say? They don't! They know Adam and Eve but somehow miss the "fall of man" and its significance, which clearly means that we ALL are sinners, even Christians. I will never understand why this is confusing to them.

How You can Kill a Church with Lilies and How You can Help to Avoid It

Every day we live for God. God created us and God can destroy us. It's that simple. We can sugar coat it all we want, but God is the Alpha and the Omega and there is no way to argue that.

Atheism is spreading at an alarming rate. They are, themselves, a religion. I'm not going to get into why I say that because only Christians would understand what I mean and since you do, I can skip it. Suffice it to say, they preach much more loudly than Christians do.

For that reason, I'm here to admonish Christians around the world, to include Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama. Why aren't you doing what it says in the Bible? We'll come back to that part.

You see, churches are dying. My own church did. The church I've known all my life. It was my foundation. It was where I learned about Jesus and his sacrifice for us all. Yes, yes, my family taught me too but that's off subject. The point I'm making is that this church was my life and family. It shut its doors and do you know why? Stupidity. That's why.

CNN's is disgusting!

Today I was reading about the current FBI most wanted list. Just bored, wanted to do something online.

They captured one Eduardo Ravelo. Curious about the circumstances, I Googled a couple of articles. Now check this out!

This was posted on the 14th of March. Notice that headline. They are headlining that a Mexican killed Americans with ties to the US Consulate. The Americans are of Mexican ancestry but who cares? They are Americans and at least one of them works for the US Consulate so that makes it even worse. This is a serious allegation now. We have a man killing protected Americans with access to the US consulate. Hello? You would think that CNN would hop all over that. It's a sensational story. Right? Wrong. Instead, they did nothing.

The only thing that they did was the very next day. Instead of taking this where they should have, they change the entire headline and downplay the political implications to ZERO. They simply call the consulate "busy". Get that? Busy?! As in "The consulate is a busy place." This is something you would read in your first grader reader books. No, please don't die of shock and disbelief. It is incredible but true!

Android for Seniors: Chomp and Textra compared, again.

I wrote a blog post several years ago on a comparison between the two. Since then, a lot has changed. I decided it was time to write another one. The one thing to remember is that it does everything the stock Android messaging app plus what is listed here. I may list features already present in the Android stock app but you get the idea.

I am a visual learner. Also, I'm often in a hurry. Most of the time, I simply want a comparison chart. That will tell me what I need to know. If you're like me, then skip on down to the chart, which by the way, is a 3rd grade type of table I'm not sure if you can see it right but lets hope so. ;)

The features I list are the most basic and necessary ones. At least, to me but I'm pretty sure others feel the same. Usually the biggest questions are answered by my chart. Usually.

Now about ads, ads are the new way of doing things to keep apps free. I am divided on the issue. I find them annoying and they give me a headache. You can usually pay for messaging apps to stop the ads. Chomp used to charge for ad removal but I don't remember how much I paid. That will likely be the only information that may be incorrect. If anyone knows, please let me know so I can update it.

You may wish to know which I'm using. I have used Chomp for years, but the one feature I really need isn't available, even though I've requested it for all those years. Textra offers it and so bye-bye Chomp. You may not need that one feature. For me, it is scheduling MMS and group chat messages.

You see, I am a night owl. This arises, for example, when I wish to send a picture I took of a dog (I have 5 dogs now) after everyone went to bed. The problem is that I'll forget to send it to them the next day. Maybe it's an article instead and in Chomp, links are considered MMS. Either way, you can see my problem. Group chat in Chomp is also MMS so I had to toss it in favor of Textra.

I'm new to Textra which is what prompted me to write this blog post. In any case, the list of features may grow so check for updates if you're interested. 

Feature(s)	Chomp Ver. 7.18 ($)	Textra Ver. 3.44 (ads)
Basics
Cost	Free (ads), (?$) (ad free).	Free (ads), $2.99 (ad free)
Group chat/conversations	Yes	Yes
Pins conversations to top	Yes	Yes
Customize notification tones with system and mp3 sounds	Yes	System only1
Customize notification vibrations	Yes	Yes
Tone or vibrate when sent, setting.	Yes	Tone only
Scheduling messages
Schedules SMS	Yes	Yes
Schedules group chat/conversations	No	Yes
Schedules recurring SMS	Yes	No
Schedules MMS	No	Yes
Visual Customization
Change background to photo	Yes	Color change only.
Allows increase/decrease of text size and color.	Yes	Yes
Has themes	Yes, free and ($)	Yes, basic only
Can customize colors	Yes	Yes
Can customize contact colors	Yes	Yes

Notes (most is common sense but, you know how it is):

• Prices are current until 16 Apr 2018, after that prices may be different.
• These are not all the features, it's best to check their websites for a list of features and by the time you read this some features may not even be available. 

Request #1: If this table formatting looks odd, please let me know in the comments.
Request #2: If you wish to know about a feature, please also let me know in the comments. At least, for the version(s) listed above.

1. You are able to copy your music or customized tones over to the system, so that they will become available in Textra. I recommend downloading ES File Explorer (free) and then follow the instructions posted by BOAC.

Is Yoga okay for Christians? It depends on who you ask.

Before I get to the question of Yoga, I must share some personal explanation as to why I even wanted to try Yoga. This desire led to my quest on whether or not it's really okay for a Christian to participate, even though I know it's beneficial health wise.