I contend that Oklahoma education is woefully underfunded.
Michael Hopkins
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Get real about climate change
Mickey McVay (“Kool-Aid’s global warming flavor,” Oct. 24, Gazette) then tells us that those who believe in anthropological climate change need courses in historical geology. This is from a man who previously and falsely told us (Letters, “Mistaken environmentalists,” Sept. 14, 2011, Gazette) that the atmosphere is 95-percent water. People who can’t get what is […]
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‘Welfare queens’ a myth
Clearly he thinks either that welfare pays far more than it really does, or that black women are abysmally stupid. Contrary to the “welfare queen” myth, welfare benefits, including both Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and food stamps in 2010, was only 54 percent of the poverty level in Oklahoma. It was 81 percent in […]
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‘Crank’ that
He then throws a rock and says that Earth’s atmosphere is 95 percent water vapor. Actually, it is about four-fifths nitrogen. Most of the rest is oxygen. Water content varies quite a bit and is at most a few percent. This has been known for well over a century. The composition of the atmosphere is […]
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‘Conspiracy theory’
Steve Kern (Letters, “The Rev. Steve Kern disputes dino diets,” Aug. 17, Gazette) is a case in point. The “scientists” Kern listens to start with a conclusion — their dogma — and force the evidence to “fit” it. That some dinosaurs are obvious meat eaters makes some creationists go through mental gymnastics. They think of […]
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Questioning the Kern clan
Clicking “partners” reveals that WorldNetDaily, an infamous advocate of the infantile, racist notion that President Obama was born in Kenya, is an RAFC partner. Since the Rev. Steve Kern and his wife, Rep. Sally Kern, are associated with RAFC and widely pontificate on issues that concern RAFC such as homosexuality and evolution, I think it […]
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‘Dino’ might
The Rev. Steve Kern says, “I challenge (James) Nimmo to refute the observable evidence that has convinced me that dinosaurs and man lived at the same time.” The so-called evidence of dinosaurs (excluding birds) coexisting with humans is so horrid that it is widely held in disrepute even in creationist circles. The most common claim, […]
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Kern makes an omission
Again, Kern is missing the point. This inability to make vitamin C is hardly surprising from either a scientific or a creationist viewpoint since our natural diets include vitamin C and, thus, we can get along without the ability. But what should surprise a creationist is that humans have a broken gene for making vitamin […]
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A ‘point’ refuted
Oh, really? One-celled organisms appeared long before the Cambrian. But maybe creationists don’t think single-celled organisms count as life? Fine. The phyla Porifera (sponges) and Cnidaria (jellyfish, etc.) both predate the Cambrian. What zoologists call phyla, botanists call divisions. Flower plants are such a division, and they first appear in the Mesozoic — long after […]