The American Spectator

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p>When did the GOP completely lose track of their principles (lower taxes, limited government, individual rights) and begin taking up emotional issues that are politically popular? The GOP and its members are no longer concerned with values and principles, only ideology and power in the name of "protecting" Americans. Who will protect us from them? My statement may have been "silly" to JBL, but the way of life of every American is more important than a single day in American history regardless of how horrific a day it was. Perhaps you can answer this question: How much executive branch power is enough? How much surveillance of American citizens is enough? The GWOT will go on for a century so now is the time to think about civil liberties. If we completely change our way of life the terrorists have already won. br> -- Ben Berry br> Silver Spring, Maryland /p> p> WAITING FOR EVOLUTION'S EVIDENCE br> Re: "Darwinism's Last Gasp" letters in Reader Mail's Spokesman Stein and Jay D. Homnick's Accidents Happen : /p> p>I write this letter with some mild bemusement and a moderate amount of apathy since I am of the opinion that this is all a colossal waste of time and money, but did I miss the experiment that proved evolution? Did I miss even the proposed experiment that would test evolution? If evolution were to take place over millions of years, wouldn't any experiment designed to directly test evolution be inherently undoable and therefore moot? How is not being able to test a theory science? I don't see any science being accomplished on behalf of evolution: I see a bunch of taxonomy which is a tool of science, not actual science. Science requires the testing of hypotheses before they can rise to the level of theory. And before someone tries to flame me with some argument about how the study of evolution is the foundation of what we know about the world, let me throw the BS flag. There is absolutely no paper that I have read in a little bit of bench research and a lot of medicine that required evolution to be true. And these are the life sciences: evolution's raison d'etre. At best, evolution is good for about a half of a paragraph in the discussion session -- a throwaway line that means nothing to the next experiment or the next hypothesis. Schools don't need to teach evolution (or ID for that matter) for science to advance. Francesco Redi (the father of the scientific method), Leonardo da Vinci, William Harvey, and Hooke, among others, all made great contributions to the life sciences well before Darwin was even born. So, ID doesn't do science? Neither does evolution. To paraphrase the great philosopher Crocodile Dundee: It's like two fleas arguing over who owns the dog. But as a scientist, I am open to new evidence, so hopefully some erudite TAS

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