Dumb ideas

For one, tearing down the O'Shaughnessy Dam in order to restore the Hetch Hetchy Valley to it original pristine condition is a typical San Francisco pie-in-the-sky attitude, another pipe dream cooked up by people who want to turn back the clock fifty or a hundred years or more and go live with the long dead John Muir. They are so out of touch with reality it is really pathetic to say the least.

Then on a different matter, I have news for Eleanor Traeg of Los Gatos: Our troops are not in Iraq to protect this country. They were sent there to topple Saddam Huseein, which they did, but now there is no exit strategy. So sad.

As for the controvery over the new de Young Museum, just wait a few years and the copper siding will oxidise as it corrodes and will turn to a light green color (patina) and blend in with the trees. Maybe then critics will not be so unforgiving.

As for buildings in general in San Francisco, they are so boring. People should take a look at the new and exciting buildings put up in other cities around the world. No, I am not saying they are all good. The biggest failure of all that I know of is the Pompidou Centre in Paris but atrocities like that are rare. This city, has no imagination and is too conservative in those matters.

And yet another dumb ideas for dummies: "intelligent design". No, I am not saying there is no god, just not the one as portrayed in Christian mythology. There may be an intelligent design however it is laughable that some people are saying that the "universe is so complex, that is must have been created by a higher power". Of course it was. The human race is not the most intelligent thing going in this or any other universe but other powers are simply unknown or unknowable at this time in the evolution of the human race and/or the universe itself. Science studies these things, religion does not. It simply buries its head in the sand and says "God created it" so why look any further. At least there is one person at the Vatican willing to research the history of the universe.