Cambrian Fossils Still a Dilemma for Darwinism 100 Years After Discovery of Burgess Shale
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Exactly one hundred years ago leading American paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott (right) was hiking along Burgess Pass in the Canadian Rockies when he stumbled upon a slab of shale containing fossil crustaceans. His interest piqued, Wolcott made return trips to the Burgess Shale in the following years where he ultimately collected tens of thousands of fossils. Many of these fossils were extraordinarily well-preserved, and they were mysterious. They included strange forms like Anomalocaris, Opabinia, Wiwaxia, and Hallucigenia. These fossils revealed a mystery: like other Cambrian fauna, these strange soft-bodied fossils appeared in the fossil record abruptly, without evolutionary precursors.
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That’s because Darwin was wrong and macro-evolution is pure baloney.
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Abortion and Health Care Reform
By Chuck Colson:
It’s hard to figure out what’s in the various health care bills. But one thing has become alarmingly clear.
From having worked in the White House, I know how important it is for a President to get his facts clear when he is speaking to the American people.
Well, I’m sorry to say, it appears that President Obama has not done that regarding whether or not his health care plan would force Americans to pay for abortions.
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Always Israel’s fault (cont.)
Leo Rennert:
In its Aug. 31 edition, the Washington Post runs an article by Jerusalem correspondent Howard Schneider that accurately reports the indictment of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on corruption charges, but does him a grave injustice when it gets around to recapping his diplomatic efforts to reach a two-state peace deal with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. (“Olmert Indicted on Graft Charges — Israeli Is Accused of Double-Billing” page A6.)
Schneider writes that Olmert pushed for a peace deal almost to the end of his tenure as prime minister, “but the talks collapsed in December” of last year.
This doesn’t begin to tell the tale of the failure of the Olmert-Abbas negotiations. Schneider completely omits the fact that Olmert offered Abbas a Palestinian state on all of Gaza, 93 percent of the West Bank (with some 5 percent land compensation from within Israel), plus a land corridor linking Gaza and the West Bank, plus all Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, plus internationalizaiton of Jerusalem’s holy sites under the control of an administrative directorate comprised of Saudi Araba, Jordan, the Paletinian Authority, Israel and the United States, plus absorption by Israel of some 50,000 Palestinian refugees under a family reunification plan.
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Glenn Beck Targets Pro-Marxist at FCC
By Cliff Kincaid, AIM:
At a 2008 “media reform” conference sponsored by the George Soros-funded Free Press organization, Lloyd declared that the Marxist revolution in Venezuela under Chavez was “incredible” and “dramatic” but that the “property owners and the folks who were then controlling the media in Venezuela rebelled” against the would-be dictator and supported a coup against him. However, Lloyd said that Chavez wised up and “then started to take the media seriously…”
The implication of these remarks is that Chavez dealt with his opponents in the media by trying to control or silence them, and that Lloyd supports that strategy when dealing with opponents of revolutionary Marxism here in the U.S.
Accuracy in Media, which published the book, The Death of Talk Radio?, has been warning for years that the liberal/left has a plan to silence conservative media voices. Lloyd appears to be the point man in this scheme.
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Why Americans are Up in Arms
By: Floyd and Mary Beth Brown, FrontPageMagazine.com:
Leftist elites are up in arms about Americans up in arms. At two recent Obama town hall meetings, men exercising their Second Amendment rights were spotted carrying firearms. While we do not condone threatening the president or anyone else for that matter, these citizens are well within their rights. It is legal to carry a firearm while demonstrating to protect your liberties.
In New Hampshire, William Kostric showed up near a town hall meeting carrying a pistol, and a placard proclaiming, “It is time to water the tree of liberty!” in reference to the famous Thomas Jefferson quotation, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of tyrants and patriots.” Kostric had no intention of hurting the president; he was exercising his rights and making a political statement using the pistol as a visual reminder. When interviewed by Chris Matthews of MSNBC, Kostric said he went to the town hall because he “wanted people to remember the rights that we have, and how quickly we are losing them.” After making this statement, Chris Matthews verbally accosted him and compared him to John Wilkes Booth and other fanatics. Kostric clearly explained that he was not advocating violence, but was practicing his constitutional right to bear arms.
The second incident prompted the media to erroneously pronounce the opponents of Obamacare as racist rednecks.
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Ecumenical Blast Against Israel
By: Mark D. Tooley, FrontPageMagazine.com:
The departing chief of the Geneva-based World Council of Churches (WCC) slammed Israel’s “sin against God” in his August 26 good-bye to the world’s largest ecumenical group.
“Occupation along with the concomitant humiliation of a whole people for over six decades constitutes not just economic and political crimes but, like anti-Semitism, it is a sin against God,” declared Kenyan Methodist minister Samuel Kobia, during his farewell to the WCC’s governing central committee.
The WCC was founded after World War II and, in the wake of the Holocaust, robustly denounced anti-Semitism as a “sin against God.” Evidently equating the Holocaust on some level with the Israeli presence in the West Bank, Kobia asked his international church audience: “Are we ready to say that occupation is also a sin against God?”
On paper, the WCC is important, with 349 denominations as members, representing over 500 million Christians, or about 25 percent of global Christianity. But in truth, the WCC never fully recovered from its 1970’s alliances with Marxist liberation movements. Catholics and most evangelicals do not belong to the WCC, which friends and foes alike view primarily as the voice of declining Western left-wing Protestantism.
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Israel, Iran and Obama
WSJ:
The reality that Western leaders don’t want to admit is that preventing Iran from getting the bomb is an Israeli national imperative, not a mere policy choice. That’s a view shared across Israel’s political spectrum, from traditional hawks like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to current Defense Minister and former Labor Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Israelis can see the relentless progress Iran is making toward enriching uranium, building a plutonium-breeding facility and improving on its ballistic missiles—all the while violating U.N. sanctions without consequence. Iran’s march to the bomb also alarms its Arab neighbors, but it represents an existential threat to an Israeli nation that Iran has promised to destroy and has waged decades of proxy war against.[...]
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Obama’s Unholy Attack
By Kathryn Jean Lopez, NRO:
The mix of politics and religion can be an intoxicating cocktail. Just now you can smell the incense everywhere, from Martha’s Vineyard to Washington, D.C. For a Left that obsesses over a wall of separation between church and state, when death comes and health-care bills need rallies, there is little hesitation to break out the devotional smells and bells. But the loss of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, one of the most prominent Catholic politicians in the United States, a leading proponent of the president’s health-care-reform push, should not obscure a pivotal fact: Barack Obama has put himself at war with the Catholic Church.
In one of the most overlooked news stories of the health-care debate, the president said, during a conference call organized by liberal religious activists: “I know there’s been a lot of misinformation in this debate. And there’s some folks out there who are, frankly, bearing false witness.”
The president probably doesn’t actually want to engage in a public examination of political conscience. Because bringing up this Commandment inevitably makes one meditate on an earlier one on the list, which deals with human life itself. Obama’s accusation was made in direct reference to the debate about abortion and the health-care bill. “You’ve heard this is all going to mean government funding of abortion,” the president said. “Not true.”
He added that the “fabrications” were “put out there in order to discourage people from meeting what I consider to be a core ethical and moral obligation.”
And with that, the president inadvertently began to pull away the vestments from the eyes of Catholics who had thought he was a perfectly acceptable representative of their views.
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Another Failed Presidency
By Geoffrey P. Hunt, AT:
Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson.In the modern era, we’ve seen several failed presidencies–led by Jimmy Carter and LBJ. Failed presidents have one strong common trait– they are repudiated, in the vernacular, spat out. Of course, LBJ wisely took the exit ramp early, avoiding a shove into oncoming traffic by his own party. Richard Nixon indeed resigned in disgrace, yet his reputation as a statesman has been partially restored by his triumphant overture to China.
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