The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS • April is gone but not Saddam Hussein, the high-tech Idi Amin of the 1990s, whose vast programs for population control have markedly thinned out Iraq's Kurdish and Shi'ite...
...Cakora prefers, "dispute...
...It totally devalues wildlife...
...This being the case, it is obvious that there is no such thing as a scientific "fact of evolution," i.e., one that has been demonstrated repeatedly by experiment or by incontrovertible observation...
...are merely conformable with evolution...
...Fifty years ago the steady state of the universe was preferred by leading cosmologists...
...He has been made visiting professor of political science at the University of Hawaii, after which he can be shoved off on the University of Buta Ritari in the Gilbert Islands, and then the University of Taongi Atoll, and forget not the University of Tuamotu Archipelago including PukaPuka, and on to Disappointment Island (Longitude 140°, Latitude 15°), thence to the University of Melbourne...
...The distraught Mr...
...Luck was with them and the wild life began, culminating in one of the girls suffering a broken rib and unwanted affections while another sighted Senator Kennedy's genitalia heading her way beneath the senator's button-down Oxford cloth shirt and grinning visage...
...Dwight Gooden signed a three-year contract with the New York Mets for $15.45 million, demonstrating, alas, that the 1980s are not over yet...
...Kenyon seems to have become disenchanted with the whole state of evolutionary thought and to have lapsed to being what might be called a"pure" creationist...
...Edmond, Oklahoma Contrary to the assertions of Mssrs...
...Ran Abrahamy operated on him in 1987, he discovered that it was an inch too large (9.2 inches) and began to bend...
...At scandal-ridden Stanford University where President Donald Kennedy still rules through his network of thought patrollers and bully boys, the authorities have successfully conducted an experiment on live students to ascertain whether two students of the opposite sex (male and female) could cohabit in the same dormitory room "platonically," which is to say, forgoing both sexual congress and acts of homicide...
...And it was echoed in the encyclical letters Providentissimus Deus of Leo XIII (1893) and Spiritus Paraclitus of Benedict XV (1920), to mention a few sources...
...The political talents of Michael Dukakis have not gone unrewarded...
...Mr...
...It does indeed believe that the Scriptures are inerrant...
...That youthful German aviator who, in 1987, landed a single-engine plane in Red Square despite strict Soviet laws protecting the rights of pedestrians faces incarceration once again...
...President George Bush unveiled a get-tough plan for improving American education, but it fell far below the standards set by Mr...
...Michael Denton, a molecular biologist, devoted an entire scholarly treatise, Evolution...
...The Council of Trent (1545-63) attested the inerrancy in unmistakable terms...
...TWo hundred and fifty years ago, convincing evidence had been amassed for the existence of a satellite of Venus (it was actually a combination of optical illusion and aberrations...
...In consumer news, expect Mr...
...What we have is a philosophic fact of evolution...
...Other, similar declarations have been made since, but none, I think, is more revealing...
...Cakora might say...
...Actually, Miss Soldan could have had more fun in the Macomb County Jail in Mount Clemens, Michigan, where "Gender Exploration Week" was observed with a bit more intellectual rigor...
...Martinique testified in Fort Lauderdale that, soon after Dr...
...They are so puzzled, in fact, by the obvious impossibility of Darwinian "gradualism" and by the harmful accompaniments of mutation that Stephen Jay Gould, cited by Mr...
...He maintained that Mr...
...The trial continues...
...RET CORRESPONDENCE An Evolving Controversy After reading the letters by R. Thomas Boyd and Michael J. Cakora in the April issue [in response to Terry East-land's article, "Scientific American on Trial," TAS, February 1991], I feel constrained to get the record straight on the theory (better hypothesis) of evolution...
...The idea that evolution has been proved by large numbers of measurements or publications is a full-fledged non-sequitur, but is believed by many laymen because of their confidence that anything scientists believe must therefore be scientific...
...Gould's idea, known as "punctuated equilibrium," hypothesizes the existence of extremely dense breeding populations among which big changes took place in a relatively short time, interspersed with long ages of stasis...
...George Foreman stayed upright for 12 rounds in a decision that went to heavyweight champion Mr...
...Harper would forsake his giraffe barbecue for something more civilized, perhaps barbecued head of lettuce or barbecued grasshopper...
...She lit out for home, unassisted by the senator, thus proving that history remains a great teacher...
...Cakora...
...Laboratory Director St...
...Crick and Gould are not the only famous evolutionists to find the questions about orthodox Darwinism hard to live with...
...Tom Bethell and Mr...
...While this idea would overcome the weaknesses of "gradualism," no one as yet has discovered evidence of one of Gould's dense breeding populations...
...Joe Sobran, all of whom once admonished that Saddam's legions would butcher the allies with the utmost exuberance and loss of life...
...He joined the ranks of those whose faith rests in "panspermianism" (the idea that life, at least in some rudimentary form, exists in many places throughout the universe) and insisted that the evolution of life from non-living matter really did take place, though it must have happened on some other planet...
...Now that Saddam's army has rid itself of the least fit and improved its marksmanship by shooting long columns of civilians in the back, Saddam will be the Saladin of the modern era—though the first Saladin was, if memory serves, a Kurd...
...That is, they appear to fit in with the idea rather than to refute it, so they are considered to be publishable...
...The difficulty is that no one has...
...Honesty at the expense of oneself or one's philosophy is as rare a thing in the scientific world as it is everywhere else, but one noted evolutionist, G. A. Kerkut, made this revealing admission in his 1961 book, Implications of Evolution: " . . . there is the theory that all living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from an inorganic form...
...William Slagle, the debate coach at Samford University in Columbiana, Alabama, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a student who had failed to prepare adequately for a competition...
...A traditional Easter weekend," the unflappable senator later described it in his only public reference to the saturnalia...
...One hundred and fifty years ago, scientific norms included the concept of spontaneous generation of life...
...More information can be had by contacting the militantly named Bowlers Victory Legion in our nation's capital...
...Finally the laugh is on Oprah...
...Jimmy Carter, in recognition of his knack for playing the international goody-goody and for his legendary "peaceful resolution" of conflict—an obscure reference that, but possibly the Greeks expected him to be implicated in a coup dVtat sometime in the 1980s...
...Martinique further testified that his urologist believed that his 6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 1991 penile implant, under certain circumstances, could explode...
...It was consensual," he added—a discovery certain to perplex the asexual authors of Stanford's "Gender Exploration Week...
...The living forms then were introduced to earth from outside...
...American adepts of progressive thought whose path has not been easy what with socialism's worldwide eclipse and the free market's resurgence, were given cause to exult when the Communist party won Albania's first free election ever...
...Lou Cannon, both affirming to the solemn approbation of reviewers that the Reagans were aplaustic nincompoops and that Ronald Reagan was an even worse President than Warren Gamaliel Harding...
...Early in the month, word of a dangerous new right-wing group chilled the hearts of enlightened Americans everywhere when it was announced that America's 69 million bowlers were throwing their support behind scholarships for children who lost a parent in the recent "One Hundred Hours War...
...Truthfully, though, none of the observations and inferences immortalized in "literally thousands of publications" proves evolution...
...Charles Harper, chairman of the Klub, says that ticket sales are brisk for the feast that will ensue after a 2,800-pound giraffe is roasted to perfection on a six-yard-long spit...
...On April 8, British Prime Minister John Major roused the allies to create in northern Iraq a "protected zone" for Kurdish refugees, and three days later President Bush promulgated a four-point plan to assist the Kurds...
...Evander Holyfield...
...There's no question they had sex," declared Sheriff William H. Hackel, having inspected his smiling charges...
...When asked if he would also deny the post to a Marxist—whose philosophy would certainly demand more than an economic application only—he demurred...
...The Cold War's passing, the 1980s' prosperity, the unification of Germany, world-wide adoption of many American values, and the resurrection of the United States as the world's preeminent power were pure coincidence...
...How evolution might have proceeded once it was well underway also has the faithful puzzled...
...Throughout the month the story remained obnubilated in rumor and arcana...
...If they did, either singularly or in toto, there would be no debate (or, as Mr...
...Whilst wildlife is on the mind, on April 1 a pillar of Palm Beach society reported that she had been sexually violated at the Kennedy mansion, and she had removed one of the famed Kennedy urns to prove it...
...Boyd and Cakora, Mr...
...The experiment was part of Stanford's "Gender Exploration Week," and according to the testimony of one participant, Miss Valerie Paz Soldan, 21, "a lot of people found it very fun...
...in physics from Berkeley...
...1:16)—is another question which could stand some objective treatment...
...There were reports that Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the women's rights stalwart on the Senate judiciary committee, and two male relatives besought the company of several nocturnal cuties in a nightclub on Good Friday night and invited them home for early-morning sport...
...Olaf Hospital Austin, Minnesota Michael J. Cakora is mistaken when he says the Catholic Church does not believe in the inerrancy of the Scriptures...
...These observations, etc...
...Science has indeed corrected itself in these cases, but I'm afraid that the objectivity which permitted and encouraged this correction is giving way to a quasi-religious dogmatism...
...To a visibly distressed courtroom Mr...
...Until very recently it was held in the highest esteem by irenic Liberals and by Mr...
...Letter of the Biblical Commission, 1948) As for evolution's being "as well established as our planet's shape and position," Dr...
...Is not such a conscious disregard for the truth irrational...
...As to whether scientific men may also be orthodox Christians while dismissing scripture as something less than truth—even as cleverly devised fables (2 Pet...
...What the Catholic Church does believe is that the Bible is not always to be taken literally, particularly in the Old Thstament, which is not a modern form of scientific historical narrative but rather a series of narratives which "relate in simple and figurative language, adapted to the intelligence of less educated men, the fundamental truths underlying the divine plan of salvation...
...The baneful effects of the Ayatollah Khomeini on a happy marriage were manifest when the wife of Salman Rushdie announced her plan to divorce her reclusive husband...
...April brought the publication of choice Reagan biographies by Miss Kitty Kelley and by Mr...
...In the words of Miss Christine Berry, the toothsome representative of Beauty Without Cruelty, "It is extremely barbaric to stick a giraffe on a spit [as against a succulent head of lettuce or a delicious grasshopper...
...Robert Martinique, whose defective penile implant might explode at any minute...
...A different approach was taken by Dean Kenyon, one of the originators of the theory of biochemical determinism, which is now probably the most popular idea of how evolution might have been driven...
...Mims should not have gotten the job, because a person who still interpreted Genesis literally had shown a non-scientific thinking which must color his professional behavior...
...Eastland's assessment of the Piel-Mims affair at Scientific American and, in the broader picture, the self-image of science today, was not inaccurate...
...The citizens of Massachusetts may never have to hear his constipated pronouncements ever again or bear his insufferable wife...
...Ralph Nader to marshal a whole army of his trial lawyers to the defense of Mr...
...Martinique brought his problem to a New Jersey urologist who called in an associate and said, "Oh, my God, look at this...
...Cakora and widely recognized as one of the nabobs of the evolutionary philosophy, has felt it necessary to come up with an alternative explanation...
...Philip E. Isett, Ph.D...
...A Theory in Crisis, to the considerable array of scientific evidence that challenges evolutionary assumptions...
...Even drunk, Senator Kennedy's admirers now know better than to ask him for a ride home...
...Certainly that would be understandable if the Greeks had been following American publishing events...
...In 1972, Francis Crick, America's Mr...
...First of all, Professor Boyd cites "literally thousands of publications," and Mr...
...His colleagues in the biology department at San Francisco State University were so shocked and outraged by his departure from the faith that they refused to let him continue to teach their course in evolution...
...Eric Rachul MD...
...There in the Macomb County Jail, eight male inmates secreted themselves in the jail's female section and availed themselves of the open arms of eight willing female inmates...
...Cookouts, or "braais" as the South Africans call them, are immensely popular, particularly among Afrikaners...
...This theory can be called the 'General Theory of Evolution' and the evidence that supports it is not sufficiently strong to allow us to consider it as anything more than a working hypothesis...
...However, because he was a believer in evolution, he took refuge in theidea of infinite regression...
...This may be the case with Mr...
...He followed the implications of statistical probability to the conclusion that there just has not been enough time in earth's geological history for the amount of change necessary to bring us to our present complexity of life forms...
...Both men wrote from the typical pro-evolution point of view, which misrepresents some very important facts...
...Cakora mentions "consistent observation and inferences by the thousands" as evidence for the "fact of evolution...
...Yet some South Africans still deprecate barbecuing animals and would be much happier if Mr...
...THE CONTINUING CRISIS • April is gone but not Saddam Hussein, the high-tech Idi Amin of the 1990s, whose vast programs for population control have markedly thinned out Iraq's Kurdish and Shi'ite populations and cut much of the fat from that vast war machine of his...
...Ten years ago, Australopithecus afarensis ("Lucy") had closed the book on the candidate for the first man...
...As well they should, Mr...
...The winner of an Oprah Winfrey look-alike contest sponsored by the Ladies' Home Journal is Miss Jecquin Stitt, a worker at the Flint, Michigan, water department and a patient in the midst of a sex-change, which does not speak well of Miss Winfrey's pulchritude, though it does suggest that the world is as weird as her show...
...In Johannesburg, South Africa, the tony Die Afrikaner Klub is apparently proceeding with plans to hold history's first giraffe barbecue, despite nitpicking from adherents of the soi-disant animal rights movement and from assorted nutritionists and vegetarians...
...Ray Hutchinson La Jolla, California THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 1991 7...
...DNA, admitted that the fabric of the earth contained too little molybdenum to drive the kind of molecular changes needed for evolution to have taken place...
...A small example of this type of thinking occurred a couple of weeks ago, when I was discussing the Mims business with a physician who also holds a Ph.D...
...According to the Washington Post, Herr Mathias Rust was sentenced to two and one half years in prison for the 1989 stabbing of a student nurse who spurned his attempt to kiss her "in a hospital locker room"—a widely used German euphemism for obscure anatomical parts not approachable in conventional German social contact...
...Professor Boyd, I suspect, is in the condition of most scientist-evolutionists, who have never themselves proved evolution to have taken place but who feel sure that someone has...
...On April 18, the 1991 Alexander Onassis Award for Man and Society was conferred upon the worthy coco of Mr...
...Sir Fred Hoyle, astronomical theorist and scientific gadfly, also gave up his Darwinism for panspermianism in 1982, when he co-authored Evolution from Space...
Vol. 24 • June 1991 • No. 6
