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Summer is an unpredictable thing nowadays. Last year it passed us by altogether, with just a few sunny days here and there. This year has been better, starting off with some very hot weather in May.

My mother and I were booked on several day trips to the coast, and a week at a holiday camp in Suffolk. Most of these were in June/early July. The weather was not really good for any of these, though the sun did make some appearances between the cloud cover and rain. Forget ‘flaming June’, it is usually more like the traditional April with a lot of showers.

By so-called Mid-Summer’s Day on June 24th, of course, our Summer had hardly even started. Nothing unusual about that, July, August and September being the height of the British Summer when most people go on holiday.

But now, towards the end of July, we are enjoying another spell of good weather.

After the sensational ‘Diana, Princess of Wales’ podcasts, come more sensational Internet revelations.

Dr Ed Mitchell, respected scientist, NASA astronaut and the sixth man to walk on the Moon, can be heard in this YouTube clip telling a British radio interviewer that UFOs are a real phenomenom, that we have been visited by alien craft, the Roswell crash was real, and that there is on-going contact. The cover-up by world governments is now beginning to crumble, Mitchell says, presumably because after 60 years, although we are completely defenseless against these superior civilizations hence the cover-up so as not to panic the public, it is now obvious they are not hostile. Listen to the interview here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhNdxdveK7c&feature=related

Rationalist (atheist) Michael Roll also has two YouTube video clips in which he makes the scientific case for survival of death. Roll says materializations are real, repeatable experiments, one mother has been reunited with her son at least 300 times and he appeared as solid and real as in life.

Is there intelligent design in Nature?

Quite obviously there is. Something as complicated as a human or animal, with all their internal organs, defense mechanisms, etc. cannot possibly have come about thru mere ‘chance’ or ‘accident’ coupled with so-called natural selection. The idea is totally preposterous.

Is there therefore a Creator or God?

Not necessarily, in fact most probably not. A study of natural history suggests everything is evolving very slowly. A Creator/God would suggest the opposite, i.e. that everything was created instantly and planned in minute detail beforehand, therefore there would be no need for evolution.

Where does intelligent design come from in that case?

From ourselves, from all living creatures, who plan the next stage of evolution. First life forms were plants and very simple single-celled creatures. They evolved gradually, but obviously guided by intelligence.

So human and animal brains design the next minute changes in the evolutionary process?

Not necessarily, as this is assuming intelligence and consciousness originate in the brain.

Just a general post as I haven’t written one for a while, having been on holiday for a week.

The rock’n'roll weekend, Wildest Cats In Town, was great, met many friends, and paid my deposit for next July sharing with Frank Walker to see The Comets and Gene Summers.

The main American acts this year were Mac Curtis, Johnny Powers and Charlie Gracie. Mac was disappointing, but the other two were great. Also enjoyed seeing Graham Fenton’s Matchbox and Crazy Cavan, two bands I’ve been following for well over 30 years (including Graham’s previous bands the Houseshakers and the Hellraisers). I managed to exchange a few words also with Mike Coffey, Cavan’s drummer and brother of Breathless Dan Coffey.

I stayed on, with my mother (aged 93), at the Pakefield holiday camp for their Summer Golden Break (Over 50s week), and enjoyed it, though much of the entertainment was a repeat of what we saw back in December when we went on their Turkey and Tinsel Golden Break.