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Presented by the HUU Board of Trustees February 3, 2008 Story for all Ages John Godfrey Saxe's ( 1816-1887) version of the famous Indian legend It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. The First approached the Elephant, And happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At once began to bawl: “God bless me! but the Elephant Is very like a wall!

by James J. Geary January 27, 2008 Good morning. The title of my talk is Evolution versus Intelligent Design. Maybe a better title would have been “Creationists Don't Give Up." I'm sure you understand that I can only touch on a few of the recent highlights of this protracted debate between evolutionists and creationists. It's been going on for nearly a century and a half. Intelligent design is just the latest effort of the creationists. UU minister Forrest Church, in a sp

Rev. Emma Chattin January 20, 2008 First Reading ~ From Isaiah 43:18, 19 “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Second Reading From Zaid Hassan in The... Axioms of Social Change Problems are tough because they are complex in three ways. They are dynamically complex, which means that the cause and effect are far apart in spac

A Walk in the Park with Doubting Thomas: the stormy epiphany by Tom Endress December 2, 2007 During the past several months, several HUU members and attenders have talked about significant spiritual experiences in their lives. Some short, some long. I am commandeering a whole morning, possibly two, for mine because the spiritual experience I am about to describe, as best I can, occurred early in my adult life. I have spent almost a half century trying to understand that

Judith Hollowood November 25, 2007 “If we choose to let conjecture run wild, " Darwin wrote in his personal notebooks, “then animals ¦-our slaves in the most laborious works, our companions in our amusements-they may partake of our origin in one common ancestor-we may all be melted together." From these cautious early thoughts, Charles Darwin went on to develop the theory that most educated Western thinkers believe to explain the proliferation and variety of life on earth