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Cassini Confirms New Moon of Saturn
pipcorona writes ""In a spectacular kick-off to its first season of prime ring viewing, which began last month, the Cassini spacecraft has confirmed earlier suspicions of an unseen moon hidden in a gap in Saturn's outer A ring. A new image and movie show the new moon and the waves it raises in the surrounding ring material."
How is naming an object orbiting Saturn a moon a good use of your tax dollars?
On the other hand, your State Board of Education wants you to really THINK about where you came from, and not simply accept the implausible idea that God did it in six days nor the unlikely explanation that it just happened, and kept on just happening, for billions of years. They want you to question your assumptions, and to know what you're taking on faith.
You choose to put your faith in Isaac Asimov. Fine - you get the answer to the basic questions of life from a science fiction writer. You might be interested in the writings of that sage, L. Ron Hubbard, who took the next step and invented his own religion (Scientology).
Raise your children as if you were teaching them to raise your grandchildren, because you are.