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[Douglas <dougwils@moscow.com>]

Dear visionaries,

Mark Rounds replied with seven groupings of answers, and I would like to
reply in kind, albeit briefly.

1. His first point amounts to saying that there is no conspiracy of
"Darwinists." As evidence for this, he points to all the
conferences they have and the vast amount of work they do
together.

2. Allow me to repeat my question again in another form. All life is
related. I am cousin to the moose, the canary, the dog, the postman, the
condor, and the elk. I am allowed to shoot the elk at particular times of
the year, but not the postman. How come? What is the line of demarcation
and why? Who drew it, and who left him in charge?

3. If evolution is going on as we speak, at the speed of generations,
then what happens if the process slows down in one branch and speeds up
in another? And suppose the difference between cul de sac man and
the Overman becomes greater than the evolutionary difference currently
existing between us and our dogs. At that point is it legitimate for
Overman to make us all wear mankind collars and get neutered or spayed?
Why or why not?

4. You mistake the point of my posts entirely. I do not want Creation to
be taught in the government schools. I would rather be dead in a ditch
than have Creation taught in the government schools. I heartily wish you
would continue to teach evolution in the schools just as you are
currently doing. I headed for the tall grass twenty years ago.

5. I agree that there was a scientist in the 1850s who had very little
data to go on and extrapolated too much from his data. Where we differ is
that I believe that very little has changed in this respect.

6. My use of "your liberal sensibilities" was confusing. I was
using the second person plural, speaking of all "you vision2020
types," not "you Mark Rounds." My apologies. 

7. Okay, you're on. I believe that God had the power to create by means
of evolution had He chosen to do so. In fact, this is the only way to
possibly account for such a miraculous series of "against all odds
events." I do not believe He did do so, but He certainly had the
power, and blind chance acting on inchoate matter does not have this
power. But because He is good, He would not have chosen the meat grinder
of natural selection as His means of creation. At Creation, God looked at
all that He had made, and behold it was very good. Death came later, as
the result of human pride and (unsuccessful) attempts at autonomy -- the
kind of unsuccessful autonomy that undergirds all current forms of
government education.

        

All forms
of death and suffering therefore post-date mankind's rebellion.