THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR
UNEVOLVED CONSERVATIVES SPEAK Politics is a lot like that, too. Six more letters in a similar vein precede mine:
Re: George Neumayr's Standing Athwart Huckabee, Yelling Stop:
Mr.
Neumayr...admits
that Huckabee is a "heterodox Republican on some issues," but asks, "So
what? Who isn't amongst the leading contenders in this primary race?"
It's no great compliment to Huckabee.... In addition, Huckabee's rejection of Darwinism is
supposedly too much for sophisticated conservatives.
...As a conservative and Christian, I reject the truth-claims of
Darwinism. It might be said that 99 percent of scientists believe in
the theory, and that conservatives shouldn't disagree with scientists. My reply would be that 99 percent of scientists are insane -- one
percentage point behind mathematicians.
...that's neither here nor there. I do not ask what a candidate
thinks of Darwinian claims, any more than I care what he thinks of
Britney Spears's musical talents...it was Leibniz
who said that this is the best of all possible worlds. The deity could
not have created a better world, given the materials he had to work
with. He had to make do.
-- C. V. Crisler
Gilbert, Arizona
Before George Neumayr sought to establish disbelief in science as a Conservative precept in your pages --
"Against an immutable standard of conservatism, Mike Huckabee is hardly impeccable. I find some of what he says silly and unpersuasive (for example, his support for Global Warming theory)."
-- he asked readers of The American Thinker: "What would Aquinas make of Darwin?" Though he now castigates the Reverend Huckabee's heretical adherence to "global
warming theory, " his own declaration of allegiance to
Aristotle's Physics may be more to the point. Without it, who would suspect that, having lost 100 pounds, Huckabee
would arrive at the bottom one third later, were he and Neumayr to go
jump off a cliff? Who are we to argue with the wisdom of the ancients? This correspondence suggests a double blind experiment Miss
Spears, as a disinterested party, will be invited to administer a
battery of sanity tests to both, and the test scores tabulated by
machine, the use of mathematicians being precluded by Crisler's
Hypothesis. Any American Spectator readers thus certified as sane will be given subscriptions to Science , and the lone sane scientist a subscription to The American Spectator,
and both cohorts locked safely away for a year with nothing else to
read. If, at the end of that time, any have not turned into raving
lunatics, the experiment will be turned over to The American Political
Science Association ,to determine if it has uncovered the savior whose
coming H.L. Mencken predicted during the Harding administration: ‘Some great and glorious day the plain folks of this land
will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be
adorned by a downright moron." FULL DISCLOSURE: When The American Spectator was under (very) different management in 1988, I , being part of the Defense, served as its America's Cup correspondent.
Fear of a computer meltdown prevents me
listing more examples on this warm January day. Those who accept the
works of The Master Of Them That Know as a counterblast to Godless
liberal materialist science will appreciate my predicament. Aristotle teaches
that the silicon dioxide insulating my laptop's electronic guts is just
another polymorph of ice, like quartz, diamonds and pearls.
-- Russell Seitz
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Let
Taser-armed representatives of some ethical polling firm randomly
select and haul off 100 members of the audience at the next meeting of
The American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the first
100 of the Reverends Hagee and Falwell Jr.'s congregants who confess to relying on The American Spectator for their science news
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