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4.18.08 @ 12:01AM

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The writer Joe Baxter criticizes Ben Stein, Ann Coulter, and Rush Limbaugh for their "colossal ignorance" in their views on evolution as defined by Darwin. He does not care to defend the theory of the creation of the first living cell out of that "primordial soup," but is a strong believer in evolution. He is right in not defending the spontaneous creation of life since, given the size of cosmos (10 to the power of 80, approximately) and its age (some 16 billion of years since the "Big Bang"), it is mathematically impossible to have happened by chance. He is, however, a strong believer in evolution, which in his view is irrefutable.

The Darwinian Theory of Evolution is based on the fact of "spontaneous mutations" within a given specie. Some of these sponateous mutations within a given specie are better suited to survive than the original, and so we arrive to the theory of "the survival of the fittest" -- i.e. this particular mutation survived because it was the fittest. This theory can as well be stated as follows: this particular mutation was the fittest because it survived. And that, Mr. Baxter, is against one of the principal theories of logic -- circular reasoning -- as explained already by Aristotle centuries ago. In other words, Ben, Ann, and Rush are definitely not all as "colossally ignorant" as you believe them to be.
-- Marc Jeric
Las Vegas, Nevada

EGGS BENEDYKT ON OUR FACE
Re: G. Tracy Mehan, III's 21 Guns for Benedict XVI

Who is Benedykt XVII, I never heard of this Pope, nor of the other 16 by that name? Is he one of those bitter, gun loving, religious people that Barack Obama warned about?
-- Christopher Holland
Canberra, Australia

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