When the pioneers were opening up farming land in the USA, they recognized they had many barriers to remove, and much preparation was needed, before they could reap a harvest. Trees and rocks had to be cleared from the land, as there was no use trying to sow seed for a crop on land that already had vegetation.

Looking at the war in the Middle East certainly reminds one of the passage in Matthew 24:6, "And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: See that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass."

"When weasels breed together, they produce more weasels, just like themselves." This was one of the captions I read as I entered the display on Darwin and natural selection at the British Museum of Natural History, in London. As I continued on through the display, I discovered that dogs breed dogs and that moths breed moths.