Correspondence
penile implant, under certain circumstances, could explode. The trial continues. President George Bush unveiled a get-tough plan for improving American education, but it fell far below the standards...
...The difficulty is that no one has...
...Cakora might say...
...As well they should, 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...
...Edmond, Oklahoma Contrary to the assertions of Mssrs...
...While this idea would overcome the weaknesses of "gradualism," no one as yet has discovered evidence of one of Gould's dense breeding populations...
...One hundred and fifty years ago, scientific norms included the concept of spontaneous generation of life...
...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...
...Philip E. Isett, Ph.D...
...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...
...Ten years ago, Australopithecus afarensis ("Lucy") had closed the book on the candidate for the first man...
...This may be the case with Mr...
...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...
...1:16)—is another question which could stand some objective treatment...
...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...
...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...
...Other, similar declarations have been made since, but none, I think, is more revealing...
...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...
...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...
...A Theory in Crisis, to the considerable array of scientific evidence that challenges evolutionary assumptions...
...Laboratory Director St...
...Ray Hutchinson La Jolla, California THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 1991 7...
...What we have is a philosophic fact of evolution...
...Cakora mentions "consistent observation and inferences by the thousands" as evidence for the "fact 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...
...If they did, either singularly or in toto, there would be no debate (or, as Mr...
...The living forms then were introduced to earth from outside...
...Cakora prefers, "dispute...
...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...
...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...
...How evolution might have proceeded once it was well underway also has the faithful puzzled...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...Cakora and widely recognized as one of the nabobs of the evolutionary philosophy, has felt it necessary to come up with an alternative explanation...
...George Foreman stayed upright for 12 rounds in a decision that went to heavyweight champion Mr...
...He maintained that Mr...
...Boyd and Cakora, Mr...
...Evander Holyfield...
...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...
...In 1972, Francis Crick, America's Mr...
...That is, they appear to fit in with the idea rather than to refute it, so they are considered to be publishable...
...These observations, etc...
...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...
...President George Bush unveiled a get-tough plan for improving American education, but it fell far below the standards set by Mr...
...First of all, Professor Boyd cites "literally thousands of publications," and Mr...
...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...
...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...
...Sir Fred Hoyle, astronomical theorist and scientific gadfly, also gave up his Darwinism for panspermianism in 1982, when he co-authored Evolution from Space...
...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...
...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...
...Is not such a conscious disregard for the truth irrational...
...More information can be had by contacting the militantly named Bowlers Victory Legion in our nation's capital...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...Truthfully, though, none of the observations and inferences immortalized in "literally thousands of publications" proves evolution...
...Both men wrote from the typical pro-evolution point of view, which misrepresents some very important facts...
...It does indeed believe that the Scriptures are inerrant...
...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...
...Cakora...
...Finally the laugh is on Oprah...
...The Council of Trent (1545-63) attested the inerrancy in unmistakable terms...
...Eric Rachul MD...
...in physics from Berkeley...
...Michael Denton, a molecular biologist, devoted an entire scholarly treatise, Evolution...
...However, because he was a believer in evolution, he took refuge in theidea of infinite regression...
...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...
...Letter of the Biblical Commission, 1948) As for evolution's being "as well established as our planet's shape and position," Dr...
...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...
...Crick and Gould are not the only famous evolutionists to find the questions about orthodox Darwinism hard to live with...
...Olaf Hospital Austin, Minnesota Michael J. Cakora is mistaken when he says the Catholic Church does not believe in the inerrancy of the Scriptures...
...Fifty years ago the steady state of the universe was preferred by leading cosmologists...
...are merely conformable with evolution...
Vol. 24 • June 1991 • No. 6
