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12.28.07 @ 12:01AM

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Who measured it last year? With what instruments? Who averaged the temperatures last year? From what scientific data?

And whatever has happened to the margin of error? A margin of error of less than 1 percent? If the media took a poll of 897 not-so-randomly-selected persons on which candidate 302,561,550.5 Americans believe
will be our next President, a margin of error of 1 percent would be considered a dream come true.

I continue to hope the principles of science still hold that a measurement is accurate only to the second-last digit.

Nah. The principles of science in this case are inconvenient, so they've been masticated and evacuated by agenda-driven mind-controllers.

Just a non-scientific guess on my part.

Much like the "one degree in the past 100 years."
-- A. C. Santore

Pat Michaels is right on!

Great article.
-- Matthew Sachs, M.D., M.P.H.
Resident Physician (PGY-1)
University of Virginia Health System
Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences

IN EVIL'S GRASP
Re: Jeremy Lott's Bad Faith Bestseller:

One cannot help but admire the many that go out of their way to refute such luminaries as Christopher Hitchens in the existence of God argument. Taking on atheists -- especially on their own grounds -- is often an unrewarding task. But I sometimes wonder what it is Hitchen's detractors are trying to do. It is one thing to get into a philosophical discussion around possibilities of theism. It is quite another to bring an atheist into belief in the God of the Book -- in our case, Christianity. Many times we are confusing the two: seemingly arguing for the existence of God when we are actually testifying for Christianity.

We often fall into the trap/falsehood of speaking as if belief is over in one corner and unbelief is in the other. From there one is to weigh belief and unbelief from an objective, neutral ground. The problem is that there is no neutral ground. We come into being as rebels against God and we cannot choose to be other than what we are. We are born in the firm grasp of evil.

So exactly how does one come to be a Christian? Nothing short of divine intervention: "He said to them, 'But who do you say that I am?' Simon Peter replied: 'You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.' And Jesus answered him, 'Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven'" (Matthew 16: 15-17).

Whatever else may be said of Peter, we are like Peter in this respect. We must be called. I do not know Mr. Hitchens' fate. One can only pray for the workings of the Spirit of God -- but that will be at Christ's timing and not ours. Our task is to proclaim the Gospel.

But what about free will? Chesterton once remarked that free will and predestination were really two sides of the same coin. How that can be is beyond our capability to understand. No doubt many of our brethren honestly testify to the moments they accepted our Lord. They believe they themselves decided to follow Jesus. Every word of it is true. Nevertheless, it is to be remembered that God Himself has the last word as to what actually happened.
-- Mike Dooley

POWELL FOR PRESIDENT
Re: David Weigel's Guess Who's Coming to Des Moines:

For all those trying to equate white folk with racism, if my memory serves me well, Colin Powell could have been president after the first Gulf War.
-- Richard Szczepaniec

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