howe burrows. >>> we have a real treasure and treat for you this morning. dr. houston smith is with us this morning, author of the standard textbook on the world's religion. for three decades, students and people who have an interest in religion have been reading dr. smith's book. he's revised it and come to talk to us about that. welcome. >> i appreciate that. >> welcome to mosaic. it is truly a joy to have you. let's begin by talking about the book you wrote nearly four decades ago. tell us about it. >> let me start just a little before that, mainly with my birth, in china, a missionary parent. in a way you can almost say that this book was in my genes because here i was, nurtured in a christian home, but we were the only westerners in the town and all of my contacts with china and chinese and their indigos religions, so one can say that this might be seen as the blossoming of the way that i came into the world. >> what part of china? >> inland, worrel, 70 miles from shane high. >> what time period, if you don't mind me asking. >> not at all. being chinese, n

but animal care experts say this exotic species likes to burrow and that's probably how he got loose.st likely this guy probably dug -- was out in the yard, dug under a fence and escaped that way. >> reporter: lonesome george's pedigree is africa on the southern border of the sahara. they are considered a threatened reptile there but they are easily bred and sold here in the united states. he is worth up to $2,000. and animal care and control is looking for his owner. >> we're estimating he is about 15 years old. they do -- they can live like 100 years and they can get up to 200-plus pounds about a three-foot diameter shell. >> reporter: 100 years old, as eric says, that's a lifetime commitment for a pet. but the owner, they need to get this owner because they need to call animal care and control immediately or else they are going to have to find another home for lonesome george. liz. >> i'm sure, a lot a lot of people would adopt him. can anybody adopt him? >> reporter: absolutely not. they are not going to be adopting him out because they are very hard to raise. they are very picky

how the tortoise made his break for freedom. >> not climbing up but they burrow out. that is probably -- most likely reason he went stray. in somebody's backyards and burrowed under a fence. and escaped. >> he looks hungry. he is probably 15 years old and can live longer than 100 years in the wild. >>> we had heat around here today. records as we talked about. official national weather service highs. orange in san francisco and oakland, records. these two records are tied. 91 in mountain view. 92 in san jose. heat advisory still in effect. tomorrow temperatures are going to come down. along the coast. temperatures down a good 12 degrees. 8 degrees around the bay. cooler weather headed your way. tomorrow will be hot inland. next couple days. 80s, 90s. slow cooling trend. rapid cooling along the coast. forecast tonight. beautiful evening. heat advisory still in effect. tomorrow cooler. you will still notice the heat. hot tomorrow. still. upper 80s, low 90s. along the coast cooler. towards the weekend, cooler inland. so today we had a strong off shore components to the w

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gold and that's really what you need so that's how i see it playing into this overall large theme of the great credit contraction where capital is burrowing down the liquidity pyramid into safer and more with good assets gold being the safety and big coin increasingly becoming more and more with as more merchants accepted and individuals accepted we had a chance to talk with. us and we talked. the multi-tiered payment structure that we have we have the consumer level payment system where people buy food and gas with money but we also have for instance u.s. dollars used in a large way in international settlements is it possible for bitcoins to become a global reserve currency is a big enough to get big enough and also retain i'm sorry and also retain its ability to work in the smaller payment system yeah you can divide big coins to the decimal so two point four quadrillion subatomic units so i mean there's enough big point to have even the smallest micro payments in a you know like a five hundred trillion dollars economy so yeah big point could have could could in its current state of you know absorb enough economic activity in order to do

gold and that's really what you need so that's how i see it playing into this overall large theme of the great credit contraction where capital is burrowing down the liquidity pyramid into safer and more with good assets gold being the safety and big coin increasingly becoming more and more liquid as more merchants accepted and individuals accepted we had a chance to talk with. us and we talked about the multi-tiered payment structure that we have we have the consumer level payment system where people buy food and gas with the money but we also have for instance u.s. dollars used in a large way in international settlements is it possible for bitcoins to become a global reserve currency is a big enough to get big enough and also retain i'm sorry and also retain its ability to work in the smaller payment system yeah you can divide big coins to the decimal so two point four quadrillion subatomic units so i mean there's enough big point to have even the smallest micro payments in a you know like a five hundred trillion dollars economy so yeah big point could have could could in its current state of you know absorb enough economic activity in