According to the Reverend Pat Robertson, Haiti’s devastating earthquake resulted from a curse placed on that Caribbean country when, as Robertson asserted, its people made a pact with the Devil to gain their independence from France.

Let’s see why Reverend Robertson, founder of a Christian university and celebrated host on CBN, said such a thing. Before it gets covered up and revised by religious gobbledygook, aided by a cooperating and neglectful press, that is. After all, Robertson is presumed to be intelligent and educated. Why would say such a thing on his TV show, knowing, as he should have known, that 80% of Haitians are practicing Christians? Robertson certainly would not lie and—since I don’t think he would lie (but is often wrong)—the question is:

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We comfortably delude ourselves when we think life, as we know it, is present only on Earth. Any reasonably educated, well-adjusted, adult living today knows that:

• Our planet is but one of eight orbiting our sun
• Scientists say our sun was born five billion years ago
• Our sun is but one of 100 billion suns in our galaxy—the Milky Way

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Any minimally educated, well-adjusted adult living in the 21^st century should know that, except for psychosomatic and environmentally-caused diseases, most human diseases are either inherited or caused by the body’s reaction to invading microbes (fungi, bacteria, viruses). We should understand that disease does not result from curses, spells, demons, or an angry God. Most of us support scientific research into the real causes of diseases to find effective ways to combat them. However, there are those who are proud of their scientific ignorance, who steadfastly refuse to relinquish it, and who apparently would like to return the human family to the Dark Ages.

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Breaking News: Another Genie Out Of The Bottle! It is now technologically possible for a baby to have more than one biological mother! Scientists have now developed the technology to selectively remove one or more chromosomes from the unfertilized egg of a woman and replace it with a corresponding one from another woman. If you think public arguments over evolution or Intelligent Design in our schools, global warming, or universal health care have been deafening, you ain’t seen nothing yet!

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