Manufacturing Change was the most moving for me. The Affordable Health Care Law or the Common Good would make good ads. Approach them with it. I will leave a review.

Glad you enjoyed then. If you could, I can always use an amazon review. Glad to hear that the gun control story was there, Amazon has been kind of hit and miss with the updates. I'd be ecstatic if teh Tea Party ran with those as ads - but I won't hold my breath.

Excellent! Very moving (perhaps because I can well relate to the stories). It would be interesting to use some of them for a series of short movies or even Tea Party ads. The gun control story is there.

Just curious, when your done, please tell me if the story about gun control that I added a few months back is included. I'm trying to add stories every so often and amazon seems to have issue with substantial updated content, so I need confirmation.

Fallacies of Vision, Kindle version. Just started.

Agreed.

Cancer is nothing more than a mutation of natural cells into something damaging/lethal to the human body. To me, It really doesn't align itself with changing physics (go back in time, slow the spin of the earth, make me fly, etc..), to God it would be more like an alignment. :)

Thanks for taking a chance on my book. I'm pleased to know you are enjoying it. Which one did you pick up?

If my mother had cancer due to certain physical aspects of her surroundings and her physiology, my prayer to God asking him to cure her would be the same as asking for his Laws of Physics being changed. I meant my question in that regard; not the "thanks" version.
BTW - I downloaded your book and enjoying it.

My limited understanding.

The purpose of prayer is giving thanks for what you've been given already. The asking for things (though I don't think changing physics is something many pray for) is an act of reliance. Pray to get picked for a better job, that your kid comes out of surgery, that your son gets on base at a ball game, or that you meet your bills are probably far more common than asking for physics to be changed.

Even if we accept the premise that God created the Universe and the Laws of Physics which govern it (and yes, then God is able to change them), isn't it a bit preposterous for a mortal human to ask God to change those laws in order to appease the human? Isn't that the purpose of a prayer?

Yes, I'm still holding my breath and waiting for the new Pope to have a clearance sale (give away?) at the Vatican... He's all for re-distribution (of other people's money).
Back to intelligent design - neither theory can possibly be proven with the tools and the knowlege that humans have at the moment. I am not advocating either one. However, devoting much resources to the belief in God and, especially, the Church, is a tremendous anchor on human progress and well being. You mention the palaces that the bishops have built for themselves; drive through the poorer areas in the South and be amazed at the no-expense-spared churches towering over the trailer parks. It doesn't take a genius to see that there's something wrong with this picture.

I have no theory on that. With all due respect, it's like asking me why we love Mickey Mouse, a mouse bigger than the biggest rat. To me, they're both fictional.

You are asking me to prove a negative. I can't do that and neither can anyone else. It's like I tell you that there are Coca-Cola factories on Venus, you say there aren't and I say prove it. This is in the realm of what you (and I) choose to believe. To me, the king of a universe which I described as being almost unimaginably vast, being concerned with each and every of earth's inhabitants seems beyond the pale, not to mention all of the possible sentient creatures that may exists elsewhere in the universe. I suspect, however, that where it really counts, you and I are in agreement when it comes to our dealings with our fellow man and the way in which that should be implemented. At least I hope so.

Interesting, but a God (I speak in Christian terms) who could create everything has created the physics of the universe He created, no? On that basis, God would be able to manipulate physics and reality as needed to suit His needs, no? Time. Who can say if the 7 days He spoke of in the Bible means seven rotations of the Earth or seven cycles around the Sun?

I believe in God. I also believe we have only a fraction of an idea of who He really is and what His objectives are. This is my major sticking point with blind obedience to any faith (and I don't like having to say thank you 10,000 times a week). (I also think using He, could be moot since a strictly spiritual being would have no sex as we know it).

Huh?
Why, why?
I'm sure that the above is quite lucid, and self explanatory.

You must know that the Catholic Church would consider you a heretic! I, however, appreciate your view. As to all or most religions having much in common is traceable to at least Ra. Jesus, or, more precisely, the vision of Jesus as portrayed by Christianity, vs. the historical Jesus, has a great many features that have been borrowed from the Ancient Egyptians. Even the concepts of the Saints has been paralleled with Ancient Egypt. And, of course, from the Hebrew Jehovah. As for Islam, since the creation of that religion happened in relatively recent times, we know the details of it being imagined, how and why.
I consider myself and Objectivist and perhaps I can answer why Objectivists are not friends with religions. More precisely, not friends with churches - that is the institutions of religions. A great example of that was actually expressed by a rabbi (can't recall his name), when he was asked to explain the difference between spirituality and religion. Spirituality, he said, is when Pocahontas goes into the woods, sits by a stream and contemplates her surroundings, the earth, the water, the sky, the meaning of life… Religion is when her local synagogue asks for 10%.
Now, it is quite possible that an Intelligence created Life and, perhaps the Universe, or that part of it of which we are aware. Is highly unlikely that this Creation happened in six earth days, as described in the Genesis. More likely, a natural world, with its physical laws, came into existence. Thus, we are all subject to those laws, which may have been created by God. What I find curious is that people pray to the God in order to grant them their wishes (even if most noble), which would necessitate the breaking of those natural physical laws created by that same God. And only in order to satisfy the wish of that person. Amazing!

Altavista was great, until Yahoo took it over and made it less useful. Advanced searches by anything other than search.com find way too many hits.