The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS End of an era; thou shall steal a End of an era; thou shall steal an election; rock the world December passed, and with it went the final year of the Twentieth...
...Darwin was unaware of genetics, chromosomes, and microbiofogy, yet his theory is taught to our children as if it was predicated on these mysteries that we are only now unlocking...
...If Ameriea's conservative movement turns against evofution it will totally discredit itself, and become a complete laughingstock...
...Karnick's are exceffent, but I would like to mention one author and two of his books: Phiffip MacDonafd's Murder Gone Mad (1931) and Warrant for X (1938), considered by many two of the best mysteries ever written...
...Although I no longer support that bastion of racial quotas and multiculturalism, hearing "The Victors" on a crisp autumn afternoon stiff gives me goose pimples...
...If the structure of a single living cell is more complex than the man-made structure of New York City, it is puzzling as to how a cell could occur by even the most complex set of accidents...
...On one side of the abyss stood the ape, on the other the [church...
...A string was attached between them over chaos, and I was balancing on this string and advancing in terror...
...The category was "Ballfement...
...Not even Senator-Elect Hillary R. Clinton, the Kennedys, or any of the other rightful heirs to our founding fathers could save the Republic...
...Approximately 65 percent of all novefs are purchased by women...
...Madonna was married without incident...
...Astorga's face when he was taken into custody...
...Today, even the most extremist and backward Islamic fundamentalists have accepted modern evofutionary theory...
...Rosser, perhaps best remembered for his rather naive performance of chopsticks on Mr...
...Can you teff me anything you know about evofution, any one thing, any one thing that you think is true...
...If Mr...
...James Baker into florida, where they picked the pockets of a saintly Democratic team headed by urban reformers such as Chicago's Mr...
...Wells...
...I look forward to reading your magazine because it is unafraid to print the truth...
...I have long been interested in the evofution debate due to the difficulties that our discoveries in microbiofogy present...
...fet him reveaf some of the "documented" facts about evofution...
...fiterary agents and editors at pubfishing houses are predominantly women...
...However, I'm not surprised that introductory textbooks contain errors in treating of evofutionary biofogy, since they typically contain errors in treating of any subject...
...AFFEN C. STOWEFF Cfinton, Iowa Designer fabrics As a reformed atheist, I was fascinated by the articfe on Bayfor and Dembski ("The lynching of Biff Dembski," by fred Heeren, TAS, November 2000...
...Adoff Hitfer and Mr...
...The law of cui bono casts the spotfight on Miss Hiff, who has been having difficufty getting on tefevision tafk shows recently, and whose chances for a Presidentiaf Medaf have gone agfimmer with the defeat of Vice President A1-Gore...
...The gigantic tree was sfashed by an unknown passerby equipped with a chainsaw...
...It is going to come as a shock to a fot of peopfe, not just Ron Unz, to reafize how fittfe we know about the "singfe most important scientific discovery in all human history...
...JOEL H. BENINGTON, PH.D...
...Modern evofutionary theory is the thoroughly documented foundation of hall of all modern science...
...680 pp./$18.95 paperback GOD INSTITUTE 1000 Massachusetts Ave., N.W...
...Rocker extraordinaire Mr...
...Wearing ski masks and carrying burglary equipment they followed the hellish Mr...
...Some are shown to be fafse, others misfeading, others based on faked evidence...
...But would you ever be allowed to sit on your chifd, Herr Seemann, or watch tefevision on him, you dinkefspief...
...But to suggest that maybe Darwinian evofution is a sham because the textbook treatments are flawed is the lamest form of scientific criticism...
...To be sure, it stirs passionate emotions in true befievers, as Unz shows...
...DON ROGERS via the Internet I fervently wish I'd had your December issue 53 years ago...
...The American Spectator 9 February 2oo1 CORRESPONDENCE A Conservative Second I was absofutely appalled by your current cover story attacking the Darwinian theory of evofution ("Survivaf of the fakest," by Jonathan Weffs, TAS, December 2000January2Oof...
...In fact, what is there, careful and nuanced as it is, strikes me as being an immensely persuasive argument for Darwinian evofution...
...God bless all writers who are challenging the Darwinists...
...The 64 chapters in this vofume contain hundreds of recommendations for radically reducing the size and the scope of the federaf government and returning it to the fimits prescribed in the Constitution...
...I tried it on the members of the Evofutionary Morphofogy Seminar in the University of Chicago, a very prestigious body of evofutionists, and all I got there was sifence for a long time...
...Although I am a theoretical physicist by training, I would admit that Darwinian evofution is far more important and sofidly established a scientific doctrine than Einsteinian relativity, Newtonian mechanics, or Heisenberg's quantum physics...
...Mark fabiani, the Conscience of the Clinton White House...
...Unfortunately he does other unspeakabfe things with the arm and fittfe Engfanders are afarmed...
...In progressive India's state of Uttar Pradesh a Hindu rigorist organization associated with India's ruling coalition banned any celebration whatsoever of the New Year as so much Christian hocus pocus-and with good reason...
...Darwinian evofution is (arguably) the single most important scientific discovery in all human history...
...The three feature articles on science feed a particular interest of mine, and I appreciate the Dembski foflow-up ("The Deed Is Done," by Fred Heeren...
...Thirty-five of the protagonists are femafe, 13 mafe...
...So while little of the "evidence" in the introductory textbooks may stand up to rigorous critique, that emphatically does not mean there is no evidence out there...
...He had recently tried putting a simpfe question to various groups...
...franz-Georg Schwetje, puffed such ads as "Three-piece sofa set Adoff" and "Cabinet Rommef" when their pro-Nazi theme was brought to the attention of prosecutors...
...I support traditionaf sociaf vafues and maintaining the cruciaf rofe of organized refigion in our society...
...On most issues, I would probably be characterized as a strong sociaf conservative...
...Nikos Kazantzakis describes his (and my) ordeal in schoof when Eoanthropus dawsoni (Piltdown man) was accepted as authentic evidence of transpacific evofution: "My disillusion and indignation endured for months...
...This is crisis materiaf...
...William Dafey and Mr...
...Michael Jackson or perhaps Mr...
...This would indicate reading differences between men and women, which I am not quafified to expfain, but which inffuence the finaf product...
...The surviving three, all geckos, were very much alive, perhaps explaining the silly smile on Mr...
...luna, that 1,ooo-year-old redwood that the celebrated Miss Julia Butterfly Hiff protected from the ministrations of the vife Pacific fumber Company, has suffered another indignity...
...On December 31 the Boy President signed the Republic up to the International Criminal Court, but too late...
...In the United Kingdom a seven-foot figure of frosty the Snowman was reported to authorities for committing "gross indecency" in pubfic...
...Afthough I am a conservative, I would rather support an uftra-fiberaf pofiticaf feader who befieved that the world was round than a conservative pofitical leader who believed that it was flat, because the fatter belief is clear proof either of appalling ignorance or complete insanity...
...RON UNZ Chairman, English for the Children Chairman, Wall Street Analytics, Inc...
...Washington, D.C...
...The nuptials were celebrated at historic Skibo Castle in Dornoeh, Scotland, the "Mildew Capital of the World...
...RET R. Emmett Tyrreff, Jr.'s Pubfic Nuisances John Corry's At farge W Iady Pfeszczynski's Monday Thoughts Jackie Mason & Raouf fefder "Absofutely frank" Rocca Ask Ben Stein Booksheff Enemy of the Week Movie Takes "A soup-to-nuts agenda to reduce spending, kiff programs, terminate whofe agencies and dramatically restrict the power of the federaf government...
...I urge conservatives not to foflow that path...
...The common misrepresentations in biofogy textbooks that have been copied for generations are finally being unmasked...
...rock the world December passed, and with it went the final year of the Twentieth Century and the second millennium, all in one gulp...
...NICK ORANCZAK Catasauqua, Pennsylvania In the December 2000/January 2001 issue, Jonathan Wells exposes a number of errors and hall-truths common in introductory biofogy textbooks used in high schoofs and cofleges...
...January 1, 2oo1 would have been so much better for young Mr...
...Wells has found in introductory textbooks, one could readily substitute a substantial body of evidence supporting the general principle that the textbook writers were trying to get across to their unsophisticated audience...
...I think it was deep in the way that it was very fight...
...Karniek has confirmed my befiefs ("Hofiday Gift Guide: Mystery Books," TAS, December 2ooo/January 2oof...
...There are no melanic moths or faked embryos by Haeckel...
...It would have spared me from very much grief when I was in high schoof being brain-washed with Darwin's delirious daydreams...
...But I think he will in the end agree that it is more important to know the truth about an important subject than to cherish our prejudices about it...
...I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness...
...I have 27 novefs I have purchased in the fast six years, broadly cfassified as mysteries, that I haven't read, except for a coupfe of pages or chapters, and that I shall never read...
...In place of each of the ham-handed examples that Dr...
...However, later in the book, it quotes Darwin that perhaps life may have spontaneously arisen in some murky poof...
...Eight years after transforming a Baptist Altar Boy from Hope, Arkansas, into an impeachable rogue, this monstrous cabal tapped five members of the John Birch Society on the Supreme Court to thwart the will of 5o,158,o94 Gore voters and certily this historic electoral heist...
...The ideofogical straitjacket required by many institutions of "science" has stiffed inquiry into this powerful phenomenon, and thank "The Designer" that Dembski has the guts to stand up against the PC behemoth...
...The auction raised nearly $800,000, a figure that could be reduced considerably if Sir Elton is reimbursed for the cost of delousing them...
...There is fertile ground for inquiry in the theories on the origin of life...
...RICHARD FITZGERAFD Johnson City, Tennessee More on Darwin I just got my December/January issue in the mail and have put off other activities until I digest its amazing content...
...The entrepreneur, Mr...
...And to call the few examples tediously repeated in introductory textbooks "pillars of Darwinian theory" is just silly...
...Modern evofutionary theory,' he writes, "is the thoroughly documented foundation of hall of all modern science...
...Afthough he mentions reasons, I befieve the primary cause of the graduaf disappearance of the genre, as we once knew it, is as foffows (and at my age I can damn weff say what I like...
...WASHINGTON POST R. Emmett Tyrreff, Jr.'s Pubfic Nuisances John Corry's At farge W Iady Pfeszczynski's Monday Thoughts Jackie Mason & Raouf fefder "Absofutely frank" Rocca Ask Ben Stein Booksheff Enemy of the Week Movie Takes & More...
...He was last seen in Bangkok, where he may have been trying to contact Mr...
...How extreme...
...What is sorely needed is a textbook titled "The Evofution of Lies" explaining the "Tree of Lies" - from misguided theories of Darwinism to monumental whoppers of Clintonism...
...Gore completely disappeared from public view, perhaps to be admitted into a mental institution where he is still shouting "2 am the President...
...I am a conservative...
...He was immediately taken to hospital...
...One could argue that textbook writers have a special obligation to be accurate when treating of a subject as emotionally and spiritually charged as evofutionary biofogy...
...Unz is acquainted with facts about evofution that Weffs faifed to mention, or with errors in his argument, he should send us chapter and verse...
...The las Vegas, Nevada, Casanova was arrested at the airport in June when bulges in his groin area aroused police...
...Sir Elton was in london auctioning off his clothes for a favorite charity...
...Disbelief in the modern theory of evofution falls into much the same category...
...He argues that "when the false 'evidence' is taken away, the case for Darwinian evofution, in the textbooks at feast, is so thin it's almost invisible " In a like tone, the sub-heading of the article proclaims that, "many of the pillars of Darwinian theory are either false or misleading...
...The Roman Cathofic Church, which unlike most of the American enemies of evofution, is fed by men who have real theofogical and philosophical training, accepts evofution...
...Wells in wanting textbook presentations of basic biofogy to be both accurate and realistically substantiated...
...They will transform themselves into a fanatic cult drawing its primary support from the most ignorant elements of the population...
...In 1981, Cofin Patterson, a prominent pafeontofogist at the British Museum of Naturaf History, gave a seminar at the American Museum of Naturaf History in New York...
...Don D. Astorga, 31, to attempt his old "lizard-in-the-underpants" routine again...
...According to the keepers of the national conscience huffing and puffing up there in the Kuftursmog, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, yes the party of country clubbers and ruddy duddies, was transformed by the devious Bush family into a gang of political secondstory men...
...Beijing has begun a dipfomatic offensive geared to gaining the ofympic games eight years hence by installing musicaf pubfic comfort stations in pface of the disgusting out houses that now serve that city...
...The alma mater does pay "copious tribute to the schoof cofors," but the fight song is all about football...
...All future American elections will have to be held under the supervision of United Nations poll watchers, if there ever are future elections...
...If conservatives reject Darwinian evofution, they will lose the support of nearly every scientist, every technofogy entrepreneur, every practical businessman, and the bulk of America's coflege educated population...
...Jonathan Weffs's articfe, adapted from Icons of Evofution, examines some of the best known cfaims...
...My son's biofogy book states that there is an immutable law of biogenesis, which states that life always comes from life...
...Inteffigent Design will have more impact than Darwin in a few decades, especially since the math backs it up...
...Recommendations incfude reforming Sociaf Security with private investment accounts, instituting major tax cuts, terminating federaf programs, and protecting civif fiberties...
...Go Blue!- and pass the water buckets out...
...Hermann Goering...
...So, you teff us, Ron...
...Bonaventure University St...
...The American presidential election was stolen in a most unlikely scenario...
...20001 www.cato.org T his fourth edition of the Cato Handbook for Congress for the 107th Congress will once again set the standard in Washington for reaf cuts in spending and taxes...
...It is afways tempting to add one's favorites to any reading list, and Mr...
...And so the Republication treachery continues...
...It took years for me to get my head on straight...
...Upon further inquiry the coppers found he had stuffed a dozen rare lizards into his underpants, all dead except for three...
...In fact, I've heard of scientists who get some of their best research ideas from testing whether what's reported in textbooks is actually true...
...Afterwards her husband, Mr...
...thou shall steal a End of an era...
...Elton John...
...State prosecutor Bernd Seemann noted the ads' dubious taste but said that "as long as you can call a chifd Adoff or Hermann you can give a sofa the same name...
...london's prestigious Plain English Campaign (PEG) bestowed its "foot in the Mouth" award to Hollywood actress Miss Alieia Silverstone for her sprightly asseveration, "I think that the film 'Clueless' was very deep...
...Thanks for a greatly interesting article...
...He goes on in this vein for a few pages in Report to Greco...
...Kanemori had he spent New Year's Eve with a COW...
...John Mellencamp's former piano player was nominated to the fBI's Ten Most Wanted fugitives list, and not for the usual rocker's indiscretions relating to drug abuse or to wife-beating...
...He's been given a stiff sentence for violating the Endangered Species Act, not to mention violating the species...
...The problem is hardly confined to the treatment of evofutionary biofogy...
...Department of Biofogy St...
...Madonna revised the traditional marital vow from a promise "to honor and obey" to a promise "to cherish, honor, delight in family, and always keep and hold to one another" - that fast phrase, perhaps, being a reflection of her newfound concern for yeast infection...
...Avaifabfe at fine bookstores...
...Hit the books, Ron, and get off your high horse...
...I know why, and S.T...
...The mechanicaf figure is supposed to pop out of a Christmas cracker atop the Ripfey, Derbys town hall and wave his arm...
...I've seen medical textbooks that report as fact theories about the physiofogical regulation of sleep that have been discredited for over twenty years...
...Guy Ritehie, surprised the press by going carp fishing with "Sting" while the new bride remained in the castle eompleting plans for a charity of her own, reportedly an international effort "to eliminate yeast infection among Third World PHOTO:AP/ WIDE WORlD February 2oo1 The American Spectator women...
...I sympathize with Dr...
...Palo Alto, California Tom Bethell replies: Ron Unz gives no evidence of having read the article he deplores...
...Ken Starr has triumphed...
...On a positive note, I'm happy to report that the textbook I use in my general biofogy course, which has by far the highest market share among introductory biofogy textbooks (Biofogy, by Campbell, Reece, and Mitchell), is free of all of the misleading examples and overzealous interpretations cited by Dr...
...I tried that question on the geofogy stall in the fiefd Museum of Naturaf History, and the only answer I got was sifence...
...Anyone who has studied compfex, chaotic, seff-organizing systems cannot hefp but see that the laws of the universe are organized so that any compfex system will eventually reach chaos, and then from that chaos, order 10 February 2ooz 9 The American Spectator emerges...
...Eric franklin Rosser, 48, is accused of committing child pornography while running music schools for children in Indianapolis and Thailand...
...Do not expect Mr...
...THE CONTINUING CRISIS End of an era...
...My research reveafs the foffowing: The current selections of the Mystery Guifd reveaf that 17 are written by mafe authors, 29 by femafe authors...
...In Nagoya, Japan, on December 31, Mr...
...Bonaventure, New York Pigskin Blue I believe that Steve Chapman's "Songs for a Saturday" (TAS, November 2000) has combined the University of Michigan's alma mater, "The Yellow and Blue," with the fight song "The Victors...
...And the treatments of human origins, homofogy, the "Tree of Life," the Miller-Urey experiment, and recent evofution in Galapagos finches do not make any of the simplistic and misleading claims that Dr...
...American pop culture's growing cosmopolitanism was demonstrated throughout the month...
...This is how the grisly episode will be recorded in our history books...
...Mystery foves Company I'm 70 years ofd and I read my first mystery when I was nine or ten...
...Pious liberals all over the Republic bang their heads on their prayer mats, moaning "It did happen here," while the Republication mobsters wheel their Stutz Beareats up to the White House and conspire to "end abortion as we know it...
...I heartily recommend this book to anyone interested in a fairminded explanation of how evofution is currently thought to work...
...Keep up the good work...
...Wells has warned us against...
...Melleneamp's 198o album "Nothin' Matters and What If It Did," faces a hefty fine, a 15-year sentence, and confiscation of his Cabbage Patch Doll collection...
...Kengo Kanemori, 24, was sitting down to a New Year's glass of vodka when it burst into flames...
...A furniture shop owner in fower Saxony was threatened with prosecution for advertising chairs and sofas with names recalling Nazi fuminaries such as Mr...
...But I am a scientist first and a conservative second...
...MARK P. SIMPSON via the Internet The American Spectator o February 2001...
Vol. 34 • February 2001 • No. 1
