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Life's Disappointments

4.17.08 @ 12:01AM

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"Where did the Nazis get the idea that some human beings were 'lives unworthy of life'?"

I'd ask the Democrats who think it fine to take about 1,000,000 such lives a year in this country. They don't call it euthanasia or genocide though. They call it abortion.

Mr. Weikart might have titled this "Democrats and Darwinism."
-- Jay Molyneaux
North Carolina

TWO THUMBS DOWN
Re: Ben Stein's Florida's Darwinian Interlude:

With talk of Stein's new movie, I searched the net for more information and found this nearly two-month old article. I'm sorry for not commenting earlier.

Stein starts with 7 talking points, such as "Where did matter come from?" Evolution explains the diversity of life on earth. I does not explain abiogenisis, nor numerous laws of physics. It doesn't have to. The first 6 of Stein's talking points are therefore non sequiturs, having double-ought nothing to do with evolution. Whether God sparked life in the primordial ooze, or life arrived on earth in a meteor hardly matters to evolution.

He speaks of "Darwinism," as do Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. None define what the heck that's supposed to mean. Apparently means something to them, but no one else that I know. It's meant as a prejudicial term, I can tell, but I haven't been able to figure out why. I can't defend or refute Darwinism, because I don't know what it is. I can easily defend evolution.

Stein's 7th point, "Has anyone ever observed beyond doubt the evolution of a new mammalian or aviary species, as opposed to changes within a species?" is bizarre. Evolution only counts if we see it? It doesn't count if it's insects, reptiles or amphibians? Or amongst myriad invertebrates? Or plant life?

People have a general knowledge of life and the history of earth. We know the earth is old. We know that there have been different kinds of animals on earth at different times, like dinosaurs millions of years ago, and mammoths more recently. Species come and go. All that is required for evolution is reproduction, inheritance of traits, variability of traits, and time. All of these can be seen by everyone, though people really have a hard time imagining geologic time, as we have no paradigm. I love Ben and Ann and Rush, but their position on evolution and creationism/ID is destructive. How can they sell conservative values to people after showing such colossal ignorance? Why should anyone believe them on anything else?
-- Joe Baxter
Fort Mill, South Carolina

RNC IN NAME ONLY
Re: The Prowler's The Excluded Believer:

Why am I not surprised that the RNC is so tone deaf?

I am both a Catholic and a Federalist, but I am certainly not voting for John McCain.

The RNC, the President (in his second term) and the Congressional Republican leadership embody the characteristics which have caused the Republican Party to squander its majority status to fall to its current depths of public opinion.

John McCain similarly personifies those same traits.

He has spent the last 7 years opposing his party and President, and now the RNC proudly proclaims him as its choice for November.

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