Beautiful pictures to be seen at THIS location.

I would like to share here the text from a comment at this page. It's dealing with the statements by some of the replies praising GOD for creating this landscape ....
Grief!
Will you American fruitcakes just STOP your lunacy!
The biggest problem with our planet is nuts like you lot with “Faith” and “Belief”.
It might as well be fairies at the bottom of the garden or ants rule the Earth.
With such “beliefs” wee end up with “the only way is God – MY god – not YOUR god”.
We end up with “let’s nuke the non-believers”.
Then “Let’s get our retaliation in first.”
“An eye for an eye.”
Extremist points of view which generate distrust, hatred and ultimately killing and war.
We’ve enough problems with man’s innate qualities of greed, and the need to dominate and control
without confusing it with nutty religions.
And let’s NOT bring evolution into it.
It’s patently taken AT LEAST 14 billion years and several great extinctions to evolve into what we are – sentient animals with a remarkable capacity to think, a hard-wired facility for language and an ability to communicate.
That is in itself an immensely extraordinary thing.
If you want to believe it was all done in 4-5,000 years – fine. You’re a fruitcake.
But you can still NOT believe that and STILL believe that God created it all.
It’s NOT dependent on evolution.
If your science takes you only as far as the Big Bang event then just go on and believe your “god” triggered the Bang and all that sprang from it. And keep that thought as your provisional explanation. But even then please don’t ossify that thought. Humankind will progress, learn more and explain even more than that. Maybe not this year, decade or millennium. But eventually we will.
As the frontiers of knowledge roll on we’ll know more, though probably not ever everything.
So if you can’t cope with life without the crutch of a god-belief you will still be able to (sadly) go on believing that “god created it”.
But don’t get stuck on evolution.
It wasn’t long ago everyone believed the world was flat.
I mean just LOOK at it.
Fruitcakes of the world cast off your biblical chains.
Get a life. Understand the world.
Understand people.
Get real.
[Thank you, John, for the Link to this site]
[ picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/evapro/531468246]
A woman brought a very limp duck into a veterinary
surgeon. As she laid her pet on the table, the vet
pulled out his stethoscope and listened to the bird's
chest.
After a moment or two, the vet shook his head and
sadly said, "I'm sorry, your duck, Cuddles, has
passed away."
The distressed woman wailed, "Are you sure?"
"Yes, I am sure. Your duck is dead," replied the
vet..
"How can you be so sure?" she protested. "I mean
you haven't done any testing on him or anything.
He might just be in a coma or something."
The vet rolled his eyes, turned around and left the
room. He returned a few minutes later with a black
Labrador Retriever. As the duck's owner looked on
in amazement, the dog stood on his hind legs, put his
front paws on the examination table and sniffed the
duck from top to bottom. He then looked up at the
vet with sad eyes and shook his head.
The vet patted the dog on the head and took it out
of the room. A few minutes later he returned with
a cat. The cat jumped on the table and also delicately
sniffed the bird from head to foot. The cat sat back
on its haunches, shook its head, meowed softly and
strolled out of the room.
The vet looked at the woman and said, "I'm sorry,
but as I said, this is most definitely, 100% certifiably,
a dead duck."
The vet turned to his computer terminal, hit a few keys
and produced a bill, which he handed to the woman..
The duck's owner, still in shock, took the bill. "$150!"
she cried, "$150 just to tell me my duck is dead!"
The vet shrugged, "I'm sorry. If you had just taken my
word for it, the bill would have been $50, but with the
Lab Report and the Cat Scan, it's now $150."
[Thank you, John!]