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 […]
Kerns
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Challenge accepted
All we need is one example of an impossibility to prove Kern’s source is false. In Kern’s Bible, we read of the sun and moon standing still as related in Joshua. That means gravity ceased; the laws of physics were negated. Religion provides metaphors for an unschooled era; today’s science describes and measures reality. Kern’s […]
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‘Shut up or get out!’
Yet, all I want people to consider is this: Do the Kerns really hate homosexuality so much that they would wish for dinosaurs to replace it? Forget about the Bible or science for a second, and ask yourself as a human being: Does it really matter if we lived with dinosaurs? Do we really have […]
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Delicious discourse
I simply want to take a moment to say that — in all my years of reading the Gazette — I have never encountered a Commentary/Letters section as relevant, well-written and non ax-grinding/dead horse-kicking/ox-goring and positive as those very pages in the Aug. 10 edition. From Jason Reese’s Commentary “Okie local” to (hopefully) the last […]
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Fossil watch
Here is a partial list of transitional fossils: Pikaia, Conodont, Haikouichthys, Arandaspis, Birkenia, Guiyu, Cladoselache, Tristychius, Ctenacanthus, Paleospinax, Spathobatis, Protospinax, Acanthodians, Palaeoniscoids, Canobius, Aeduella, Parasemionotus, Oreochima, Leptolepids, Amphistium, Heteronectes, Paleoniscoids, Osteolepis, Eusthenopteron, Sterropterygion, Panderichthys, Elpistostege, Obruchevichthys, Tiktaalik, Acanthostega, Ichthyostega, Hynerpeton, Labyrinthodonts, Lungfish and Temnospondyls. —Jay Edwards Norman Oklahoma Gazette provides an open forum for the […]
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‘A precious garden of dumb’
I have a term I apply to this kind of ostrich-like worldview: cultivated ignorance: stupidity planted, nurtured and fed as if it were a precious garden of dumb. —Howard Koerth Oklahoma City Oklahoma Gazette provides an open forum for the discussion of all points of view in its Letters to the Editor section. The Gazette […]
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Maybe I’m amazed
That is funny to me because I have a huge book of quotes from evolution scientists that question evolution. Putting that aside, I want those of you who read my comments and those comments of my detractors, regardless of whether you agree with me or not, to consider an important point involved in this debate. […]