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...Implicit in Behe's question and the arguments it elicits is the idea that everything has to have had a beginning...
...Abbott fled New York and at my direction was apprehended in Morgan City, Louisiana...
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...It is what scientists are beginning to see as a totally septic situation...
...Your authors falsely accuse the scientists of proposing that, for example, a dinosaur egg contained a mutation, and the hatchling broke out of its egg and took to the air as a bird...
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...It boggles the imagination to think the deeply religious Polk would feel personally comfortable, let alone politically compatible, with the Clintonite cabal of abortionists, gay rights advocates, class warfare practitioners, ethnic victim groupies, and other incompetents and degenerates currently constituting the party of Jackson and Jefferson...
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...GARY SOKOLA Mount Vernon, Virginia Reading Lesson Geof Rayner in his letter (TAS, October 1996) sees the primary cause of all British ills as "seventeen years of unbroken Thatcherite rule...
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...My essential point was that the team was made up of war veterans...
...Tullia characterizes as "silly" the contentious, complicated, and emotional issue of employing pregnant women in combat roles...
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...How we got that way is another question, and the answer to that question cannot change the answer to the first question...
...Sherri Tullia's sadly mistaken letter in the October Correspondence is an apparent effort to ignore and dismiss facts that question the wisdom of employing women in combat or aboard warships...
...The early steps and stages are far more inevitable and predictable in principle than the later ones...
...In that letter on the second page, the first paragraph contains this sentence: "How else to explain the daily drumbeat of negative newspaper and magazine articles about the Dole campaign...
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...CORRESPONDENCE Mailer's Jailer RET's October editorial glorifying Norman Mailer leads me to believe that even The American Spectator, to which I have turned in recent years for high standards and honesty in journalism, suffers too short a memory...
...In this richly textured tale, Father Elijah crosses Europe and the Middle East, moves through the echelons of world power, meets saints and sinners, presidents, judges, mystics, embattled journalists, faithful priests and a conspiracy of traitors within the very House of God...
...Fascism also has a socialist pedigree, being created by Mussolini as a result of his split with the Italian Socialist Party...
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...It can only be based on a complete failure to understand either the philosophy of science or evolutionary theory...
...Apparently RET has forgotten the episode, so allow me to refresh his recollection...
...He has totally misunderstood both evolutionary theory and the ongoing ferment on evolutionary topics...
...I will not subscribe to a magazine that employs pseudo-conservatives that criticize me and my politics...
...With the new plan, the highest income earners will shoulder a larger percentage of the state income tax burden...
...DAVID A. HIGHLANDS Milwaukee, Wisconsin I normally like Tom Bethell's contributions, but after reading "A New Beginning" I suggest he confine himself to literary, political, and social issues...
...Culver, perhaps he could give examples of the "series of fossils" illustrating evolution beyond a reasonable doubt...
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...And by the way, Colson's conviction was not plea-bargained down from greater charges—he confessed and practically begged for a sentence because he had a sense of guilt that the Clintonitescouldn't feel even while getting rich by taking away the lifetime savings of middle class people (not just via Whitewater — that's how Ron Brown got wealthy as well...
...One would think that such kowtowing to the teachers' unions would reap some modest electoral reward...
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...I suggest he reread my article, which he must have confused with someone else's...
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...I ask you the same question: How do you explain the negativity of Pleszczynski, Bethell, Rabkin, and Eastland...
...In typical Mailer fashion he exploded and ended the press conference...
...At the time I was a Detective Sergeant and one of my duties was supervising the effort to apprehend Abbott...
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...That seems to me the only unpretentious and therefore most useful approach to the debate...
...It is also the most difficult to deal with from a leadership perspective...
...Gene Lyons doesn't mention any of this, but I'm sure that's what he means when he says the press is wrong...
...The reason: Abbott didn't like the way Richard had spoken to him...
...There were two recollections I question...
...Key to Behe's thesis is the question of how the "complex biochemical systems" that have resulted in life as we know it "came into existence in the first place...
...If one accepts that premise, then none of the heretofore offered rationales for life, including Bethell's, is complete...
...Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Desert Storm, and all the rest of the conflicts of this century...
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...It must be acknowledged that the evidence for evolution, as detailed as it is, is still shy of filling in all the details...
...however, it has aroused my trivia curiosity...
...It is now known that DNA and genes are constantly mutating and duplicating, often creating surplus genes with no current functions...
...The evolutionists are on much firmer ground...
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...Through a process of selection, predation, and agglomeration, the formation of evermore-complex self-replicating collections of molecules was inevitable...
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...For those TAS readers not intimately familiar with the mailed fist of the NJ-GIT, a brief recent history lesson: Democrat (and champion class warfare pugilist) Jim Florio raised the top marginal rate from 3.5 percent to 7 percent, a loo percent increase...
...Nowhere in my article did I say anything about dinosaur eggs or hatchlings...
...Francis Crick, for want of a better idea, suggests that perhaps the seeds from which all life sprouted were sowed by extraterrestrials...
...yet the GOP, in apparent confusion as to what it stands for, rarely challenges this deception...
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...FRANK BADOMI Brooklyn, New York Polk in the Ribs It's nice that Joseph Shattan's article "One-Term Wonder" (TAS, October 1996) recognizes the important role of James Polk's presidency in American national development and makes it clear that conservatives should admire Polk...
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...Neither my time nor your space will allow me to dissect each fallacy and misconception in his article, but let me assure you, the entire article consists of nothing but fallacies and misconceptions...
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...The rest have been destroyed by subsequent geological events (plate subduction, volcanism, weathering, etc...
...Alas, virtually all of the state's teachers despise her...
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...The Pope and the Cardinal Secretary of State call him out of obscurity and give him a task of the highest sensitivity: to penetrate into the inner circles of a man whom they believe may be the Antichrist...
...Since evolutionary theory is so obviously true (it is indeed the most certain knowledge that we have), maybe Bethell's belief that it has philosophical implications is his corrupt basis for believing that evolution may not be true...
...Christine Whitman has done more than any other elected Republican woman to midwife the transition of American women from the most compassionate givers of life to the most dogmatic takers of life...
...Tullia unfairly ignores tremendous "successes" integrating women in combat roles, and insults military leaders of both sexes...
...Evolutionists prefer to stereotype creationists as unenlightened country bumpkins pathetically clinging in ignorance to the idea of a Creator, but maybe it's time people started to study the evidence for themselves instead of listening to what they're told by people who don't want them to realize that evolution is far from being factual...
...Within six weeks of his release from prison, he stabbed to death Richard Adan, a 22-year-old Cuban-American actor working in his father-in-law's restaurant...
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...The National Socialists had a 25 point party platform which included abolition of all "unearned" income, control of large enterprises, and confiscation of land without remuneration...
...For twenty years he has been "buried in the dark night of Carmel" on the mountain of the prophet Elijah...
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...First, some biochemist's inability to imagine the early steps of evolution in no way threatens the obvious fact that it did occur...
...During World War Two, it was not uncommon to read about the exploits of the Marines in the Pacific theater, and I have no quarrel with that, because they did a magnificent job...
...Its 25th point was, "We shall centralize all powers in the hands of the government in order to mechanically govern all movements of individuals...
...BERT T. CHAPMAN Government Publications Coordinator Assistant Professor of Library Science Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana Behe, Humbug Tom Bethell reports that a "big fight is going to erupt" between the Darwinists on the one hand and creationists on the other ("A New Beginning," TAS, September 1996...
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...Mussolini's earlier efforts on behalf of the socialists are well documented, as are his later beliefs (e.g...
...He seems to think that it is the job of the biochemist to "imagine" things rather than discover them...
...Lyons's reference to Newt Gingrich's late academic employer as "Peckerwood State, or some school in Georgia...
...The question that goes begging, then, is, "What is the origin of the creator...
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...And Bethell, of course, wants us to conclude that there must be a creator, which he deifies, because the explanations of Darwin, Crick, and other proponents of the "ideology of materialism" are so unsatisfactorily incomplete...
...Mailer was called to testify at Abbott's trial, but by that time the court wasn't particularly interested in his opinions, so he was dismissed...
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...Thus, while Communists and Fascists are admitted to be similar in their totalitarian traits, their philosophical roots are claimed to be quite different...
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...It should be realized that, except for snails and 12 December 19 9 6 • The American Spectator clams/oysters, with their hard shells, probably only one in several million individuals became recognizable fossils after they died, and that probably only one in many million fossils has been discovered...
...Dawkins's The Selfish Gene contains a description of the logical evolution that would inevitably occur...
...Focusing on Abbott's "sensitivities as an artist," Mailer stated he was "willing to gamble with a portion of society to save this man's talent...
...The American Spectator • December 1996 83 Correspondence (Continued from page 83) However, too many ignored the fact that the Army was also there, and shared the misery the same as the Marine Corps...
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...He believed it futile to seek answers to questions that have no answers...
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...Although he was a Democrat, and I didn't agree with all he did or said, I think Truman was a great president, and I'm sure he meant no disrespect to the Marine Corps...
...The efforts of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler were nothing if not exercises in big, oppressive government...
...It is a matter of biological reality that the ecology is a very nearly closed system, and almost every living thing gets consumed by either predators or scavengers, or through biological decomposition...
...The promotion/leadership argument is self-centered, egocentric, and "careerist...
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...Many other lines of descent have huge gaps (bats, for example...
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...Notwithstanding largely successful efforts in stopping sexual harassment (a true issue of discipline), military leaders have not, however, been all that successful in matters of the heart...
...and the degree of difference will get greater the older the fossil is, to the extent that physical methods are available to determine the age...
...Trivia Curiosity I thoroughly enjoyed reading Victor Gold's article "Year of the Ruptured Duck" in your October issue...
...Anyone with even an elementary knowledge of the fossil record knows that those two sentences perfectly describe the situation...
...or are still buried and undiscovered...
...Republican (and I'll-let-you-fill-in-the-correct-term) Christine Whitman lowered the top rate from 7 percent to 6.58 percent, a 6 percent decrease...
...The result has been a public relations disaster...
...Next, any statement that the fossil record does not support the theory of evolution is absurd...
...It doesn't change a thing...
...ARTHUR L. MOTTET Longview, Washington Tom Bethell (and his subjects Behe and Berlinski) appears to be making the same errors as are made by the advocates of "creation science...
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...Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the origin of whatever it was that subsequently evolved into whatever it is...
...Whereupon, he was asked by New York Post reporter Mike Pearl, "Who are you willing to see sacrificed—waiters...
...Buddha, whom I mention here as philosopher, not religious icon, never took a position on whether or not there is a creator...
...There is no honest basis for such a belief...
...Naturally, sensitive politically correct Democrats and liberals, in their desire to avoid "offending" allegedly aggrieved ethnic constituencies, will bend over backwards to avoid associating themselves with, let alone praise, the most successful Democrat President...
...His assertive and prescient diplomacy, along with his courageous and decisive leadership during the Mexican War, helped bring the United States to the brink of global power which William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt would enable America to achieve a half century later...
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...Incidentally, if life couldn't have begun here on earth, then how did it get going on the oft-proposed "distant planet...
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...My recollection is that during the war he played first base for Detroit...
...There are many series of fossils which show beyond any reasonable doubt that species have evolved into descendant species...
...Not a perfect contrast, to be sure...
...The earth, as its materials agglomerated at this distance from the sun, had an atmosphere and ocean rich in water, ammonia, hydrocarbons, phosphates, sulfates, etc...
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...The Fascist conceptionof the state is all-embracing, and outside of the state no human or spiritual values can exist, let alone be desirable...
...Forgotten are Mailer's despicable deeds, overshadowed apparently by his "lusty interests...
...KENT D. JOHNSON Stafford, Virginia Raw Sewage Regarding "Fool for Bill," the article by Byron York on Gene Lyons (TAS, October 1996): On page 41 he quotes Mr...
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...Highlands suggests that a lack of curiosity about origins may be "the most useful approach to the debate...
...His letter is so devoid of fact and replete with accusation, and so many of the points at issue are "obvious facts," "entirely inevitable," "so obviously true,"and so on, that he needs no evidence at all—and I invite him to go on believing whatever he wants...
...The term "Nazi," in fact, is derived from the name National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistiche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei...
...Evolution does not even predict that fossils will exist, let alone that one will be able to find all the transitional forms...
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...RICHARD MARCUS Scarsdale, New York Boo Christie Florence King's review of Patricia Beard's bio of Governor Christine Whitman (TAS, October 1996) continues in the steps of Stephen Moore, Rich Lowry, and Ramesh Ponnuru by trumpeting "her famously successful 36 percent tax cut...
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...Yet many of these disproved theories are still taught as fact in school science textbooks...
...I will address just three of the more important ones...
...He cites Michael Behe as the vanguard of the Darwin revisionist movement...
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...What evolutionary theory would predict is that, if through some freak accident some remains do survive, they will be different from modem forms...
...Misinformation aside, what bio, and what book review, of Christine Whitman would be complete without reviewing her support for abortion, most recently highlighted by her applause for Clinton's veto of the bill prohibiting the Mengele-like partial-birth abortion procedure...
...That, however, might have led to problems for Mr...
...The third major point that I wish to show to be completely invalid relates to Bethell's avowed belief that evolutionary theory has some kind of ill philosophical consequences...
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...As for the Rudy York reference, the offending sentence in the article would seem to be, "Boston, with Ted Williams, Rudy York, and Dominic DiMaggio back from service, had won the American League race over the favored Yankees with surprising ease...
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...Never mind that the considered psychiatric opinion of Abbott was of a person in a "paranoid state" and "capable of sudden violence...
...however, for most Americans, and most certainly for all the soldiers, sailors and airmen who serve alongside pregnant women, it is not silly and deserves full and informed debate...
...This is, as I recall true, but Mr...
...Communism is acknowledged to be the result of left-wing excess, but Fascism and Nazism mysteriously become the consequence of right-wing (read conservative) extremism...
...This diagnosis must lose some measure of plausibility for anyone who recalls that Margaret Thatcher was ejected from the premiership in 1990, eleven not seventeen years after entering that office...
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...Mottet, the latest evidence suggests that the early atmosphere was highly inimical to the evolution of life...
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...I am going to state this without equivocation: Life is what it is, and we are what we are, no matter what theory you subscribe to about how we got that way...
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...Okay—whence came they...
...The fact that Communism, Nazism, and Fascism are all peas in the same socialist pod is emotionally unacceptable to liberals...
...Justifying women in combat as necessary to expand career opportunities is careerism at its worst...
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...CARL B. LIND La Jolla, California Harried Marines In your October 1996 issue you have a letter written by a T. J. Tandle, taking Harry Truman to task for stating that the Marines had a propaganda machine almost equal to Stalin's...
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...It explores the state of the modern world by taking the central character, Father Elijah Schafer, a Carmelite priest, on a secret mission for the Vatican which embroils him in a series of crises and subterfuges affecting the ultimate destiny of the Church and the world...
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...In spite of this the Board of Pardons released him...
...Was the Louis-Conn fight called on the radio by Clem McCarthy or was it called by Don Dumphey...
...Even if there were a controlling intelligence, it still requires an activating process...
...When people begin to learn how to think for themselves instead of being told what to think, perhaps we'll begin to have more honest scientists like Behe who emphasize the impossible odds against the complexity of life occurring by chance...
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...But it is also a way out of the debate...
...Tullia's support for women in combat so they may remain competitive for promotion and senior leadership positions is wrong-headed...
...Dozens of books filled with evolutionary mechanisms and theories that have been disproved and discounted over the years still sit on library shelves, many to the great embarrassment of evolution proponents...
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...But Geof Rayner should lose all credibility as a diagnostician for anyone who notices that, although he asserts that she "lauded the get-rich-quick, every-person-forthemselves morality which she...
...they ignore all the massive evidence that proves the reality of evolution, and what they can't ignore they distort and mis-state, e.g., "well supported by the fossil record...
...The critical difference between creation science and evolution science is that everyone interprets the evidence in light of their preconceived bias...
...Think Straight R. Emmett Tyrrell's editorial "Pervasive Politics" (TAS, October 1996) touches on the incessant accusations of Nazism and Fascism directed at Republicans...
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...That Republicans have let them get away with their revisionist deceit should be intellectually unacceptable to the GOP...
...May I suggest that he doesn't have a firm grasp of the scientific method...
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...Truman probably meant no disrespect to the Corps, but merely stated a fact...
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...Political gradations, however, are more accurately portrayed as linear, in which the disdain or desire of governmental power ranges from the extreme right (individual liberty) to the extreme left (totalitarianism...
...How many months does Gene Lyons think Livingstone deserves...
...The article may be correct...
...BYRNE Athens, Georgia Gene Lyons is right when he says the press is dead wrong about the Clintons and Whitewater...
...sought to introduce in Britain," he has failed and apparently not even tried to find and to quote any passage in any of her speeches in which she actually did what he accuses her of doing...
...While it's doubtful that these PC times will see a renaissance in Polk's 10 December 19 9 6 • The American Spectator POWERFUL AND INSPIRATIONAL FATHER ELIJAH WoRKS Of LOVE AN APOCALYPSE P.11C.HAEL D 0 RP I N are by Michael O'Brien ll WORKS of PEACE Athrilling apocalyptic novel about the condition of the Roman Catholic Church at the end of this century...
...There are real scientists with real degrees who can make a very solid case for the theory of abrupt appearance...
...Complete Mailing Address of Headquarters of General Business Office of Publisher: Same as above...
...After considerable correspondence, Mailer, in league with others of his ilk, petitioned the Utah Board of Pardons to parole Abbott because they thought he "had writing talent...
...There was no material gain in Watergate and there were no dead bodies...
...Your article proposes, without a shred of evidence, and without even discussing the supposed mechanism involved, that a super-mind is controlling and directing the creation of new species...
...All I know for certain is that it wasn't Howard Cosell...
...Was his visiting Jack Abbott upon us on June 5,1981, against the advice and pleading of even his closest confidants, acceptable because Mailer likes prizefighting, bullfighting, and a cigar after lunch...
...Copies Each Issue During Preceding 12 Months and Actual No...
...Every year American women kill twice as many young Americans as the aggregate American war dead of this entire century...
...those blood-thirsty male politicians were making war on people who could shoot back...
...One of the great intellectual frauds perpetrated by liberals (and meekly condoned by many Republicans) is the erroneous concept that the political spectrum can be visualized as a circular formation in which extremes of either the right or left somehow "meet...
...Office use, left over, unaccounted, spoiled after printing: Preceding 12 Month Average: 12,168 and Single Issue Nearest to Filing Date: 19,882...
...The investigations of genes and DNA is still in its infancy, though much has been learned...
...With such a scenario, of course evolution could not take place...
Vol. 29 • December 1996 • No. 12
