The Butterfly Effect

Introduction:

IF/THEN

Paul Walker preached Moses in the ark...if I make a mistake, then come to me

If Jesus used everyday people, places or objects to teach people, then I should follow his example.

If you are hungry, then you wish to be fed.

If you are a true disciple of Jesus, then you will take every opportunity possible to glean more from him and of him.

If you disagree with something I say or do, then you should come to me, and me alone.

• Deuteronomy 5:8-10 “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind, or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea. You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected—even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me. But I lavish unfailing love for a thousand generations on thosewho love me and obey my commands. (nlt)

• Romans 14:10-13 So why do you condemn another believer? Why do you look down on another believer? Remember, we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. For the Scriptures say, "'As surely as I live,' says the LORD, 'every knee will bend to me, and every tongue will confess and give praise to God.'“ Yes, each of us will give a personal account to God. So let's stop condemning each other. Decide instead to live in such a way that you will not cause another believer to stumble and fall.

Butterfly effect

• Doctoral thesis in 1963 by Edward Lorenz-meteorologist

• What it is........

• Laughed out of the New York Academy of Sciences

• The subject was disputed for decades.

• Proven in mid 90s by physics professors

• Law of sensitive dependence upon Initial conditions

ABC's Person of the week with Peter Jennings

• Norman Borlaug

• Hybridizing corn and wheat for arid climates

• Mexico, the plains of Siberia and dust bowl of Western Africa, desert south west, south and Central America

• Won the Nobel Prize

• Saved over 2 billion lives

• For that, he was person of the week

• Henry Wallace

• Secretary of agriculture

• Vp for Roosevelt from 1941-1945

• As VP, he created a station in Mexico to deal with the growing famine in the dust bowl by growing hybridized wheat and corn and hired Norman Borlaug to run it.

• George Washington Carver

• He was born George Washington to Mary and Giles (it is believed) sometime in 1864.

• 266 things he developed from the peanut, 88 with the sweet potato

• Age 19, Iowa state university

• Not allowed to live in the dorms, due to his race.

• Lived with the family of his professor who had a 6 year old son and allowed him to go on botanical expeditions with this brilliant student

• Jwc inspired a young Henry Wallace

• While no one was looking, he flapped his butterfly wings

• A farmer from Missouri, named Moses Carver and his wife Susan

• Purchased Mary & Giles around 1855

• Quantrell's raiders attacked his farm and kidnapped Mary Washington (Susan's best friend) and 2 of her children

• Moses sent a Union scout to find them.

• The scout only found 1 month old George.

• Moses and Sarah Carver raised and educated George and his brother, Jim

Philippians 1:27

Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in one spirit, contending as one man for the faith of the gospel. (niv)

Romans 6:20-23

When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Mark 9

42 "If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them if a large millstone were hung around their neck and they were thrown into the sea.

Person of the Week: Norman Borlaug

April 2

By Peter Jennings

Norman Borlaug may have saved a billion lives.

He is a scientist who has spent his long life teaching poorer nations how to grow food successfully.

"Countless millions of men, women and children who will never know his name will never go to bed hungry," said Secretary of State Colin Powell at Borlaug's 90th birthday celebration, held at the State Department on Monday.

"When I see the misery and the hunger and poverty in the Third World, I'm angry. This is why I stay at it," Borlaug told ABCNEWS.

This week, he attended an international conference on food and farming in Uganda, where he told delegates of the challenge of producing enough food for the rapidly growing population.

Humble Beginnings

Borlaug was born and raised in Cresco, Iowa. He was educated in a one-room school house, but he got a lifetime's education on the American prairie during the devastating droughts of the 1930s.

"Most Americans aren't here today that lived [though] that process, and I think that's one of the things that helped push me towards international agricultural development," he said.

Borlaug began working in Mexico during the 1940s, when farmers were struggling and famine was on the horizon.

He discovered that instead of growing tall, beautiful stalks of wheat, shorter wheat was more efficient and had a greater resistance to disease. He's credited with saving the country from famine.

He then turned his attention to Asia and the Middle East, where he brought new types of seeds and fertilizers. Borlaug taught the underdeveloped nations of the world how to grow the food they needed to survive. It was called the "Green Revolution."

"I never thought that a small boy from a one-room country school would have had the experience of working at whatever this is — 50, 60, 70 countries around the world," he said.

Agronomy was not his original ambition.

"My ambition though as a boy was to become the second baseman for the Chicago Cubs. That I never realized!" said Borlaug.

In 1970 he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work.

Newest Challenge

For Borlaug the challenge today is sub-Saharan Africa. He believes that Africa's farming could be revolutionized, but he knows talk of potential is not enough.

"The potential is there, but the potential, you can't eat potential," he said. "You've got to have reality — grain, food to eat — to relieve human misery."

Today, at 90, he splits his time between teaching at Texas A&M and working in the developing world.

In the year 2050, there may be 2 billion more people to feed than there are now. Farmers will have to more than double the amount of food they grow now just to keep up.

So Borlaug has not given much thought to retiring.

"I hope I can continue to work and be at least acceptably productive and die with my boots on, working," he said.

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