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... GLOBAL NEWS ... NEWS ty. Perhaps highly intelligent beings in our universe, such as our descendants in the far future, will also create universes. Plausibly the creation of universes is the natural con- sequence of life evolving to a very high level of intelligence." Why is our universe so carefully designed the way it is? Because it was cre- ated by intelligent beings basically similar to us. The universe they occupied was compatible with their existence and there- fore finely tuned and basically similar to our own universe. Our universe inherits the characteristics of its parent universe except for small random or designed genet- ic variations in the values of the fundamen- tal constants. The article, titled "The Natural Selection of Universes Containing Intelligent Life”, suggests that "the creation of our universe was not a mysterious supernatural event by a supreme being beyond human compre- hension, but a natural event caused by superior beings (angels) essentially similar to ourselves and hence comprehensible." (Source: Edward Harrison, news release for Royal Astronomical Society, 14 August 1995) possible that this comet has a small nucleus with most of its surface emitting dust and gas. It is also possible that this comet has a large nucleus with only a small active region. We just don't know. (Sources: Charles S. Morris, email csm@encke.jpl.nasa.gov; Stan Deyo's WATT's News, no. 2, September 1995) Inclusive Version also eliminates all refer- ences to the Jews killing Jesus, which makes it the first translation of the Bible to take on the issue of anti-Semitism. The translation also makes a great effort to reduce the number of times God is referred to as Lord, because lords as a rul- ing group are passé. The word "slaves" is also dropped in the new translation, replaced by "people who were enslaved", and the phrase "the blind” becomes “people who are blind”. However, the editors did draw the line at calling disabled people "differently abled". (Sources: kalivas@aol.com via the Internet; Weekly Telegraph, 6-12 September 1995) COMET HALE-BOPP, FOR THE NEXUS READER Many people have asked the question, "With all that gear out there, how come the experts didn't discover Hale-Bopp first?" Or did they? What follows is a titbit emailed to NEXUS. Make of it what you will. The Truth About Hale-Bopp? From the Art Bell Radio Web Date: 7 Aug 1995 From: wmtim@aol.com (WmTim) | work at an institution that studies data gathered from a number of 'outward- looking! satellites. We first saw Hale- Bopp on July 3rd. We have determined that it has made a number of course-cor- rections since that time. Once we con- firmed the data that first suggested these corrections, government 'spooks' from some unidentified agency seized the data, and our satellite links were shut down "for maintenance". Never before have we lost all our links at once. Our name for the 'comet' was "Contact 070795B". Use that name when asking questions and see the result you get. (Source: Stan Deyo's WATT's News, no. 2, September 1995) IS THERE SUBLIMINAL SEX IN "THE LION KING"? Stafford, Virginia, USA — A Christian group wants Walt Disney Co. to remove The Lion King from video stores, claiming the cartoon movie briefly, and subliminal- ly, shows the word "sex". The American Life League, which claims to be the nation's largest anti-abor- tion group, was alerted to the brief appear- ance of the word by a woman who said her four-year-old son noticed it. After seeing that the word appears to be formed by a dissipating cloud of dust about midway through the movie, the group is encouraging people to write to Disney to complain. As the dust begins to trail off, it appears to form the letters S-E-X, with each letter fading as the next becomes clear, the group claims. (Source: Sunshine Coast Daily, 2 September 1995) EUROPE PAYS TO LET FOOD ROT Nearly three million tons of fruit and vegetables, including almost a million tons of apples, were destroyed in 1993, at a cost of £439 million (AUD$900 million), under the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy. More than 720,000 tons of peaches, over half a million tons of oranges and 165,000 tons of nectarines were also taken off the market by farmers paid by Brussels to destroy their own produce. THE NEW POLITICALLY CORRECT BIBLE The New Testament got a major facelift in September, with a new English transla- tion eliminating references to God the Father, turning the Son of Man into “the human one" and removing accusations that Jews killed Christ. This new politically correct version, pub- lished by Oxford University Press, says children should not "obey" their parents but “heed" them; wives are no longer "subject" to their husbands but "committed" to them, “darkness” is no longer equated with evil because of its racist overtones; and the Lord's Prayer now begins with "Our Father-Mother in Heaven". References to the "right hand of God" are also deleted, eliminating possible embar- rassment to left-handed people. It now becomes "God's mighty hand”. The New Testament and Psalms: An ! Wey iG We ba ht Lee tl ees ) Ally, cof | ONS: JE OPENING OF THE AYOCADO SEASON {i/[) ALIENS (NOT BIG BANG) CREATED OUR UNIVERSE? An amazing article pub- lished in the September 1995 issue of the quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society is seriously exploring the notion that our universe may have been created by beings of superior intelli- gence living in another universe. Consider the following from the news release: "...Modern cosmology has reached the stage where this form of cre- ation is a strong possibili- NEXUS ¢ 7 OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1995