Editorial

Welcome to this collection of articles, hymns, audio, discussions and other resources. Please take some time to look around and explore the nooks and crannies, download some audio, give feedback on the Discussion Board, or just have a good read on some controversial issues.

For those who have been here before, you will see that the main additions over the months of August and September so far have been the additions to the audio page and the reworking of the graphics. Articles have not been added to much in the latest months, mainly becuse I have been doing most of my writing on Usenet, and particularly on talk.origins, the newsgroup with the heaviest squad of opponents to creationism available on-line, unless you know any tougher bunch, in which case call me. One particularly interesting discussion, if you would like to follow it is here, where I call the evolutionists' bluff on their much vaunted claim that they are dismissive of Creationism as they "have yet to see a Creationist give them a falsifiable prediction based on a scientifically phrased hypothesis". Yeah, right. Well, after much thought and deliberation, I do this, and, although they are very complimentary about my work which is pleasant of course for me as a non-scientist, then they make their excuses as to why they this cannot be done because (despite claims that we have 'bazillions' of pieces of data about non-living species and this was a simple test mainly involving living species)or why they haven't got time to look at it right now, and hurry away, but at least one or two of them as you can see in the thread will admit that I have given them the long awaited, so they say, falsifiable prediction from a Creationist, so they had their chance to do some real science with a Creationist and they're the ones who chickened out.

You can see the whole story by moving around that thread in the link to Google groups just given. That is Usenet, by the way, in case you were wondering what the name stands for. Originally I was going to reproduce some of my many thousands of Usenet articles here, and I hope I will when I get to it, but so far I have discovered that writing fresh material, whether here or in Usenet itself, is more interesting for me than dredging up my Google archive.

Incidentally, this is not the first time evolutionists on Usenet had no answer for me but carried on their sweet way anyway, and still called it science. The first time is described in one of the articles here, Article 7, to be precise "On the origins of language species".

A small amount of material in Polish is incorporated, and that as well as the other languages will grow as will the English language content. To get to the Polish material, click on the white and red Polish flag in the banner above. Nowosc! Juz grupa dyskusyjna tutaj po-polsku! Witam goraco. Please note the Polish material is other material, not necessarily translated from the English part. I might sometimes do translations, but not as a general rule. So, if you know both languages, please use both parts of the site.

If you want to give feedback on any item, or post an article here, then feel free to post it on the bulletin board for this site, which is guaranteed censorship-free unless you blaspheme or use obscenities, or break the law in some other way which leaves me no choice. If you really must swear there, try to limit it to toilet words, rather than blasphemies and sex-related swearing. I am no fan of censorship, and whatever is reasonable, legal and fair I won't edit or delete. I did think my BBS was a bit sparsely populated until I had a bit of a look round at some of the other ones you can find on the web. Discussion on a BBS is not that easy to generate.

I'm also planning to include an area on this site dedicated to Usenet itself, what it is, how it works, and how to use it, and some links into particularly interesting Usenet discussions. There are other upcoming projects like my wife's pages, which will mainly be her lovely recipes, and some others like the good apples/rotten apples project. All of that coming up in the coming weeks and months. It is something for you to look forward to as the days grow shorter and the nights colder. So check back often.

The articles (currently numbering in the mid teens) remain the most characteristic part of the site and they are very varied in subject area, and some of them are intented to be very thought provoking, and not short of humour, where appropriate. For the sort of humour they might have, see the example on the right, courtesy of the bookeeping department in our firm (well, it isn't month end every day, I suppose): The articles cover many topics from fishes and films through to people and politics. Something for everybody, and no shortage of controversy.	. .
	. .	Coming up later this year are my pages of "Recommendations and Unrecommendations" or "good apples" and "rotten apples", where I intend to be every bit as outspoken in both my praises and criticisms of products, organisations, etc, as you would expect if you've read the articles. So watch this space. You won't be able to buy any recommendation, or buy off a criticism except by having a genuinely good product or service. I am not interested in making money with the internet - the day I start wanting to stick paid ads and paypal donation buttons and all that macaque on my site is the day I stop doing it - thankfully I don't need it so it is easy for me to talk, but the commerciality of some sites, and yes I have in mind particularly some of the Christian ones, really makes me sick - but only in saying what I really think is the truth, which is what I've always wanted to do, as the picture on the left illustrates.

The date of this update is 12th September 2004. Recently the regular visitors will have noticed a major overhaul of the graphics, as I was getting fed up of the old ones. The largest latest additions as I said at the outset are in the audio page as well as the new navigation bar on the left. So if you want to know what a missionary to Poland sounds like, and what they have to say to Poland and the Polish speaking world, then download some of the sermons off the audio page, or the English content there, which is read by myself, if you want to hear a Limey accent.

Other than that, by me in the music area there is a little hymn singing in Russian by yours truly, along with a little serenade to my wife. Among the stuff which has now been up a while, but you may not have visited yet, is my old hymn collection. This is a set of ten Hymns that I wrote many years ago, and never published until now. I had them all written in a little book which I kept with me always meaning one day to share them with a broader public, apart from number ten, which was always kept separately, just because I wrote it at a different time. You will find some midi which self-opens on that part of the site, which if you don't want to hear, remember to press the stop button on your browser when it comes up.

To thrash me at games, find me under the member name "Uncle Davey" at www.itsyourturn.com, in my view the best board games place on the net.

To listen to sermons, the best place on the web is www.sermonaudio.com. To find hymns for private or family worship, or which you could even use at your Church if you don't have people who play instruments, the place I recommend is www.cyberhymnal.org.

Uncle Davey 12th September 2004