Cold War's Improbable End       

   President Reagan exploited the Soviet's vulnerabilities, with cooperation from Mikhail Gorbachev, who saw the writing on the (Berlin?) wall. The Cold War ended quietly during the third quarter of 1991. 

   George H.W. Bush, who succeeded Reagan in January 1989, wisely declined to crow about Soviet demise. History easily could have been different.  

   First, "experts" thought Reagan was too conservative to be elected. "Reagan Democrats" helped prove them wrong - the No. 1 issue being abortion. But for the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, Reagan might not have won in 1980, and the Cold War would have continued indefinitely. 

   Second, neither Jimmy Carter nor Walter Mondale, the Democrats that Reagan defeated, would have escalated the arms race. 
 

Source: Marvin Olasky, WORLD magazine

based on declassified documents.

The Fourth Age  

    For a man who has no faith in God, Byron Reese, author of The Fourth Age, has an amazing take on the human body's 60 different elements:

   "No known laws of physics can explain how those elements can be combined in such a way as to create an entity with consciousness." 

   Mind and life itself, he writes, "are themselves the most utterly inexplicable things we know of. They are the great mysteries, and may be forever beyond our control."    
...no evolution there, just mystery. 

Also provided by Marvin Olasky

   Beyond our control? - in one sense. God explains what physics can't.  

      Jimmy