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Gavin Lawrie

Press Service International

Gavin Lawrie is a retired Barrister and Solicitor from Tweed Heads NSW Australia and author of the book: 'THE EVIDENCE OF EVOLUTION: Uncovering The Faulty Science Of Dawkins' Attack On Creationism'. He is married to Jan with two adult children and they are grandparents.

Gavin Lawrie's previous articles may be viewed at http://www.pressserviceinternational.org/gavin-lawrie.html

  • Bursa here, bursa there, bursa, bursa everywhere

     For the comfortable, enjoyable functioning of our bodies bursas are situated in various places. No-one wants the inflammation of one (bursitis) which brings nothing but pain and restricted movement.

  • Silent witness of the leaf

    Chances are you live near a tree. A truly brilliant marvel of creation vital to our existence silently operates out of sight.

  • Dementia & Two Mothers

    We visited Edna, my wife’s 93 year old mother who lives behind locked doors in a nearby aged-care facility.Dementia is defined as a chronic or persistent mental disorder marked by memory failure, personality change and impaired reasoning: from Latin meaning ‘out of one’s mind’.

  • Bohemian rhapsody

    We watched the movie about English rock group Queen and its lead singer Freddie Mercury with its euphoric highs and chaotic lows, concluding with the awesome performance before the roaring clapping crowd of 100,000 excited fans at the Africa LiveAid concert at London’s Wembley Stadium.

  • Israel Folau

    Israel Folau attracted considerable media attention about his social media post whilst responding to a question.

  • The divine knitter

    One of the consequences of making further trips around the sun can be more ‘body crumbling’.

  • Silent witness of the wing

    There are nearly 10,000 recognised species of birds in the world, ranging in size from the tiny hummingbird weighing about 2 gms with a wing span of 8 cm to the 11 kg Andean condor with a wing span of more than 3 m.

  • Asked to play Santa

    The teenage granddaughter of a trader at our daughters’ farmers’ market asked would I play Santa on the last Saturday before Christmas Day.

  • Isn’t evolution fantastic? 

    I told Richard, a trader at our daughters’ farmers’ market that my wife and I would not be there next Saturday. We were going whale watching, they being on their annual northerly migration from Antarctica.

  • Silent witness of the egg

    Which is the correct worldview - that God created everything or that mindless evolution explains everything? The ‘top down’ explanation or ‘bottom up’ mindset?  There isn’t a third understanding of our world…is there?