[8mmMauser]

It's that Kingsley Guy again. This time he posits that man is so darned smart, who needs God. This Guy is so smart he smirks at the realization that he and his leftist brains are so superior to poor dopes like us. We have something similar going on in our garden once it thaws out from the Gore winter. The ants will emerge and if you ask them, they are the supreme rulers of all of Maine. To prove it, they just ask each other.

Now, the Guy invokes the Terri Legacy as proof of something or other, at least that it hangs on his consciousness. Maybe he will evolve.

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Scientific progress, of course, is as much about correcting mistakes as uncovering truths. Newtonian physics put men on the moon, but Einstein's physics demonstrated its flaws and limitations. When Darwin published his findings in 1859, scientific concepts such as systems theory and feedback loops didn't exist. Today, some bona fide scientists are exploring the idea that consistent patterns influence the evolutionary process.

Scientists need to keep an open mind, for there's no telling what the future will bring in the way of knowledge. As Florida moves into that future, however, its public schools need to deal with real science, and not pseudo-science based on the begats or equally questionable foundations.

Republicans in government should remember Terri Schiavo. They pandered to the religious right by trying to keep her hooked up to a feeding tube, but their actions appalled millions of other Floridians, and they felt the backlash.

The same could hold true for evolution. Legislators may win some votes through an egalitarian approach toward biological science, but they risk alienating plenty of other Floridians who want to live in the 21st century rather than the 17th.

Creationism doesn't measure up to science

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[8mmMauser]

Living will or won't and Colby, not just a cheese.

Yesterday we had a spate of living will coverage, all orbiting around the hub of Terri's Legacy. Today is amplification from Colby on living for death. Alas I may only excerpt from this organ, not to say the rest is so brilliant or exciting....

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Today, thousands of Americans will talk about how we die.

Even weirder, those of us working in “the field” are delighted.

The day is called National Healthcare Decisions Day. Today is the first. One of the national leaders of this effort is Kansas City’s own Center for Practical Bioethics. In our city alone, dozens of hospitals and nursing homes are hosting education fairs, radios are running announcements, nurses are wearing “Ask-Me-About-Advance-Directives” buttons, and much more........

Talking honestly about death is the best way to live

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[floriduh voter]

Peggy Noonan wrote this days before Terri's torture ended her life.

Lessons

This piece by Peggy Noonan really struck me this morning. What are the lessons our children will be learning from this Terri Schiavo travesty?

Terri Schiavo may well die. No good will come of it. Those who are half in love with death will only become more red-fanged and ravenous.

And those who are still learning--our children--oh, what terrible lessons they're learning. What terrible stories are shaping them. They're witnessing the Schiavo drama on television and hearing it on radio. They are seeing a society--their society, their people--on the verge of famously accepting, even embracing, the idea that a damaged life is a throwaway life.

Our children have been reared in the age of abortion, and are coming of age in a time when seemingly respectable people are enthusiastic for euthanasia. It cannot be good for our children, and the world they will make, that they are given this new lesson that human life is not precious, not touched by the divine, not of infinite value.

Once you "know" that--that human life is not so special after all--then everything is possible, and none of it is good. When a society comes to believe that human life is not inherently worth living, it is a slippery slope to the gas chamber. You wind up on a low road that twists past Columbine and leads toward Auschwitz. Today that road runs through Pinellas Park, Fla.

I want Jeb Bush to be the stuff of legend--not president--for saying enough is enough and running into the Bastille to save Terri. Just save her. We will work through the backlash later.

... and Jeb froze. FV

[floriduh voter]

All kidding aside, if a Catholic entrepeneur manufactured small and kid sized Popemobiles (that kids could drive), it could pay for this trip and raise money for needy children. It’s not a religious artifact so I think it would be a great idea. If that’s not a hot idea, whatever but I think it would raise lots of money to use for good.

[Sun]

Hope some of you will be able to watch Ben Stein’s movie:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002141/posts

Coming near you this Friday.