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A week ago, people in my organization where busy in discussing only two things. The performance ratings of individuals and the speculations about the amount of increment in the salary. Some people had gone one step further and were planning for a vacation once they got a good bonus and increment. Some intelligent people where busy in data analysis of the trends over the years in pay rise and rankings. You could hear these discussions in the conference room, in the canteen and the tea shop outside the office. Finally when the curtains came down, I was shocked to see that we were running short of bandwith as almost 90% of the people were logged into the HR site for next 2-3 hrs analysing how much increment they got and also comparing how much their colleagues got! (more…)

How did the whole creation come in to being? This is the question which still divides the American people, which was also the subject of a court room dialogue back in 1925.

The story goes like this, a famous American defense lawyer Clarence Darrow, while defending a school teacher charged for teaching evolution, called William Jennings Brian, the prosecuting attorney and an avowed Biblical scholar, as a defence witness! Then began a series of questions designed to undermine a literalist interpretation of the Bible. From Noah to Jonah, from Moses to Adam …. After initially contending that everything in the Bible should be accepted as it is given there, Brian finally conceded that the words of the Bible should not always be taken literally. In fact, in response to some relentless questioning on the number of days taken for creation, Brian replied that “My impression is that they were periods and not 24 hour days.” This clinched the day for Darrow, as it was assumed that one such ‘period’ could be infact a few hundred million years and it is plausible to assume that a Biblical day could be the same as a huge geological epoch or era , big enough to accommodate all the evolutionary changes required by Darwinism.

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