Dede LaRock

               As we know, modern technology has enabled us to take wonderful photos of the human fetus living within his or her mother’s womb.  This is a great help to doctors in their care for the pre-born child.  However, it can also provide some with efficient means to invade this most sacred place – the very womb of a mother – and kill its helpless human inhabitant.                 I’m sure all of us recoil in horror when we read or view on TV the holocausts that have been engineered by modern totalitarian governments.  The […]

               A newspaper cartoon pictured a large library with shelf after shelf of books.  In the midst of the picture was a man seated at a table, looking at himself in a mirror; and the caption underneath read: “The little thing that puzzles him.”  The cartoonist was suggesting that for all of our multiplied knowledge, as symbolized by an endless collection of books, the thing we still know least about is ourselves.                 Support for this suggestion can be found in the chronological development of the great sciences.  The first was astronomy.  Then came […]