Social, economic and pragmatic conservative. Interested in specific tactics and strategies for defeating liberalism. Not interested in utopian views of conservative perfection that some dream about. I believe we are in a war with those on the left who will patiently inch the ball along and rally together to achieve their common goals. Our side has not matured yet to that level of teamwork and pragmatism. I also get frustrated with our side's overcautiousness and tendency to play defense rather than stay on offense. Such is life ...

I'm also a born-again Christian and an engineer. I see no clash between science and religion. I'm a believer in good science. I believe in micro-evolution or the ability of species to change over time. I think evidence has been demonstrated to support minor changes within species. I have yet to see any compelling evidence for macro-evolution. I don't challenge it simply based on religious grounds but I challenge it based on a lack of evidence. I am a believer in Intelligent Design. I'm an old-earth creationist but don't disparage young-earth creationists because none of us really know the details behind the first chapters of Genesis. A young earth is certainly possible. Anything is possible with God. I believe the important point is God created everything and is capable of creating it in any manner He chooses.

I welcome ideas on how we can make progress in defeating liberalism and make America a better place for our children and their children's children.

Some thoughts about the evolution debate:

1. Some evolutionists have actually suggested that there is no such thing as "macro" or "micro" evolution. The question is not whether these are accepted terms in certain scientific circles. The evolution debate is usually centered on what is being taught to children.

The following is from my son's College Biology Textbook, Biology, Sixth Edition, Campbell & Reece, 2002, page 476:

"Speciation is at the boundary between microevolution and macroevolution. Microevolution is a change over the genetics in a population's allele frequencies, mainly by genetic drift and natural selection. ...Yet the cumulative change during millions of speciation episodes over vast tracts of time must account for macroevolution, the level of change that is evident over the time scale of the fossil record."

"Must" account for macroevolution? They sure don't sound too confident about that do they? This is an interesting admission. This statement basically says given enough time, stuff happens. So the answer is ... macro and micro evolution are indeed terms being used to teach college age students about evolution. So these are indeed fair terms to use in a debate over whether evolution should be taught or not. It is also relevant because most of the debate is on macro evolution not micro evolution. People are not debating whether finches have different beaks on the Galapagos islands as a result of evolutionary changes. People are debating over whether man evolved from apelike creatures or single celled organisms. That is where the central debate is.

Evolutionists want to argue evolution is an all of nothing deal because they wish to hide behind the evidence of micro evolution. Well they can't have it both ways. Most evolutionary evidence stems from micro rather than macro evolution. So ... if macro and micro evolution can not be discussed separately with evolutionists then they (evo's) would need to produce evidence for macro evolution to defend evolution itself. They can not have it both ways.

2. Are evolutionists in bed with the liberals and are they stepping up their indoctrination activities:? The following is from my son's College Biology Textbook, Biology, Sixth Edition, Campbell & Reece, 2002, page iv:

"An evolution Theme More Pervasive than Ever ... And as the one central theme that unifies all of biology by accounting for both the unity and diversity of life, evolution is woven into the fabric of every chapter of our book."

Unity and diversity? Sure sounds like we-are-the-world political correctness to me!

3. Does evolution just describe how life evolved or does it address the origins of life? The following is from my son's College Biology Textbook, Biology, Sixth Edition, Campbell & Reece, 2002, page 516:

"The origin of life: ... Most biologists favor the hypothesis that life on Earth developed from nonliving materials that became ordered into molecular aggregates that were eventually capable of self-replication and metabolism... Abiotic synthesis of organic compounds is a testable hypothesis. "

4. ID is already having an impact in College Biology textbooks.
Here's another excerpt from my son's College Biology textbook, Biology, 6th edition, Campbell/Reece, pg 477: "... Many people find it hard to believe that such complex organs could be products of gradual evolution rather than finished designs created for humans. If the eye needs all its parts to work, the argument goes, how could a partial eye be of any use as an evolutionary stage? ... In those animals that do have complex eyes, the organs evolved from simpler ones not in one quantum evolutionary jump, but by incremental adaptation of organs that worked and benefited their owners at every stage of this macroevolution" Nice try. Unfortunately they were unable to defend how eyes evolve. But its a start. ID is already a success in that it is getting evolutionists to finally have to defend their theories in the textbooks.

5. Biology textbooks try to dispense with any notion that changes in species over time is "pre-ordained"
Here's another excerpt from my son's College Biology textbook, Biology, 6th edition, Campbell/Reece, pg 481: "... The appearance of an evolutionary trend does not imply that there is some intrinsic drive toward a preordained state of being. Evolution is a response to interactions between organisms and their current environments. If conditions change, an evolutionary trend may cease or even reverse itself." blah blah blah Michael Weiner threads: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1606437/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b7ad8351a55.htm http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1056924/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/942186/posts