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Robert L. Park Friday, 7 Apr 06 Washington, DC

1. MISSING LINK: FILLING IN ALL THOSE "GAPS" IN DARWIN'S THEORY. Every attempt to require public schools to teach alternatives toevolution has emphasized the "gaps" in Darwin's theory. In 1859,when Darwin published "The Origin of Species," it was all gaps. It was Darwin's theory that gave organization to the collectingof fossils, creating the science of paleontology. The onlysurprise is how complete the fossil record has gotten in only 150years. Two reports in yesterday's issue of Nature, beautifullybridged a remaining gap. Fossils of a 375-million-year-old fishwere found in the Canadian arctic, 600 miles from the North Pole. It was a fish with a swivel head, a wrist and an elbow, clearly atransition between fish and land-dwelling animals. It seems tobe a perfect candidate for the hypothesized intermediate species.

2. MISSING GENES: FINDING THE KEY THAT OPENS DARWIN'S BLACK BOX. It was a lousy day for intelligent design, which has had a lot ofbad days lately. Even as a missing link showed up on the pagesof Nature, a report in Science from the University of Oregonshowed how a new hormone-receptor pair evolved. An existingmolecule, created for a different role, was recruited to do thenew job. The lead author, Joseph Thornton, believes this may becommon in the evolution of complex systems. Hormone-receptorpairs would seem to be an example of what intelligent-design guruMichael Behe calls "irreducible complexity" (ID). One withoutthe other would be useless. However, Behe scoffed to the NYTimes that Hormone-receptor pairs aren't really ID. Either he'sstill a little cranky from the Dover trial, or he just prefersmiracles http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/WN05/wn102105.html .

3. MIRACLES: A "SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION" OF WALKING ON WATER? According to yesterday's Wash Post, Israeli and U.S. scientistssuggest that when Jesus walked on water he may have just been onfloating ice from a cold snap. I don't know who these scientistsare, but is this what scientists do? Let's see, he might alsohave been walking on a submerged UFO. Or maybe it didn't happen.

4. BELOW THE BIBLE BELT: IS A BIBLE THEME PARK LIKE A CHURCH?Florida is considering exempting them from taxes. Could you leave your nativity scene up all year round and deduct it?
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Yes. Bob Park (www.bobpark.org) is a moonbat, and yes again, he enjoys flailing away at religious groups. The way I figure it, if someone or something acts like a horses ass, then it or they should be called a horses ass. The ID'ers give religion a bad name, and try to teach children absolute nonsense. There's the other side of the coin where moonbat teachers give learning a bad name, but we'll squish their vittles another day.