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(\223Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim \
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(A search of military and historic academic libraries has identified sixt\
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(Deep Time\227that the distant past cannot be recounted. He wants to keep\
tree-of-life studies )Tj
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(\205)Tj
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(\223Understandably, the creationists have watched the cladistic revoluti\
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(continuity, or ancestry, is no longer the realm of science. Thus, contin\
uity looks )Tj
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(philosophical, not empirical. Second, the molecular work in a cladistic \
context seems to point )Tj
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(to the existence of genetic types\227 shades of the \221kinds\222 spoken\
of in Genesis. Suddenly, in )Tj
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(the space age, the old-fashioned systems of Linnaeus and Cuvier, with th\
eir divine )Tj
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(underpinnings and all, are beginning to look pretty good.\224 )Tj
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(\227Larry Withan, By Design, p.182-183)Tj
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(Although retired from formal university duties, I was in no sense \221on\
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(Darwinism. With the first publication of Darwin on Trial in 1991 I assum\
ed the leadership of )Tj
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(a tiny group of scholars sometimes called the Intelligent Design Movemen\
t, with a strategy )Tj
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(we called the Wedge \(explained in the introduction to my book The Wedge\
of Truth\). Our )Tj
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(bold claim was that scientific credence, when evaluated without an overw\
helming bias )Tj
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(toward materialism, does not support the Darwinian creation story that h\
as effectively )Tj
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(become a state supported religion in modernist culture. On the contrary,\
the evidence actually )Tj
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(supports the supposedly discredited view that an intelligent designer ou\
tside of nature had to )Tj
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(be involved in biological creation. Our major problem was not finding th\
e evidence but )Tj
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(getting our argument past the manmade philosophical barrier embedded in \
the very definition )Tj
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(of science that forbids the consideration of evidence that may point to \
the role of an )Tj
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(intelligent cause in biological creation. Nonetheless the evidence is th\
ere, and we needed only )Tj
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(a fair opportunity to make our case.\224 )Tj
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(\227 Phillip E. Johnson, The Right Questions, p. 79, 80)Tj
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(On the contrary, our culture is more accurately described in Amaury de R\
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(seductive attributes of women rather than their worthiness as mothers, o\
ur devaluing of )Tj
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(maternity, our sanctioning of abortion, and our declining birth rate\227\
we resemble the Greek )Tj
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(and Roman Empires in their decline. Documenting how triumph of the first\
full-fledged )Tj
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(feminist movement led Roman women to scorn childbearing as \221unworthy \
of their talents,\222 de )Tj
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(Riencourt concludes that with the decline in marriages and fertility, Ro\
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(ethnic suicide. Similarly, Greece was described by Polybius in the secon\
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(\221subject to a low birthrate and a general decrease of the population\205\
Men had fallen into such )Tj
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(a state of luxury, avarice and indolence that they did not wish to marry\
, or, if they married, to )Tj
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(rear the children born to them\205and by small degrees cities became res\
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(\223Totalitarian movements always seek to weaken family institutions so \
that men, women, and )Tj
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(children will become equally subordinate to the State. De Riencourt has \
described how, from )Tj
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(the Spartan dictatorship through Leninist Russia to the National Sociali\
sm of Hitler\222s )Tj
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(Germany, the patriarchal autonomous family was attacked as a dangerous b\
arrier protecting )Tj
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(individuals against an all-powerful government. Although their propagand\
a may stress family )Tj
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(sanctity, as Christopher Lasch observed, totalitarian regimes depend on \
the \221decay of )Tj
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(patriarchal authority\222; a society in which \221the few tyrannize over\
the many\222 follows the )Tj
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(collapse of that familial authority. Unfurling its totalitarian colors, \
contemporary feminism )Tj
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(has similarly feigned concern for families while denouncing as women\222\
s worst enemy the )Tj
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(patriarchal authority most likely to produce strong and enduring familie\
s. )Tj
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(\223Today\222s patriarchal decline under the aegis of a triumphant femin\
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(the practice in Nazi Germany of rewarding illegitimacy with especially s\
unny nursing homes )Tj
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(for mother and child, a step the state took towards complete severing of\
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(woman and offspring. Thus Mead concluded, \221The most successful large \
scale abrogations of )Tj
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(the family have occurred not among simple savages, living close to the s\
ubsistence edge, but )Tj
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(among great nations and strong empires.\222 )Tj
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(\223To contemporary feminists, the traditional family is the same obstac\
le to women\222s freedom )Tj
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(and equality that Russian Bolsheviks believed it was to Communism.\224)Tj
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(\227 F. Carolyn Graglia, Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism,\
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(To have convinced myself that market production was more gratifying than\
caring for my )Tj
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ld have required )Tj
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(me either to deceive myself about what I really did in the workplace or \
to value a job for its )Tj
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(\223That not all women flourish in the marketplace is evidenced by a fem\
ale attorney\222s )Tj
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(Washington, D.C. It is an eighty mile round trip; in winter, they leave \
home in the dark and )Tj
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(return in the dark; they see each other more than they see their spouses\
. What sounds to me )Tj
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(like a trip from hell, however, is the highlight of the day for this wom\
an. Her companions are )Tj
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(\221an alternate family\222; her \221hectic job leaves scant time for so\
cializing at work\222; she is \221so )Tj
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(weary\222 at night that she often will just \221collapse in front of the\
TV set.\222 Watching the morning )Tj
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(traffic grind to a halt, she observed: \221This is the most exciting par\
t of my day.\222 \221After this we )Tj
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(all go sit in our little offices and wait patiently to get back in the v\
an.\222 Ah, what joyful )Tj
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(liberation from domesticity! In all my years as a mother at home, not on\
e day was so )Tj
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(uninteresting that I would have looked forward to that van ride.\224)Tj
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(\227 F. Carolyn Graglia, Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism,\
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(Q )Tj
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(Midge Decter has observed that a young woman embarked on sexual adventur\
e usually )Tj
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ver, often have widely )Tj
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(varying views of what their premarital sexual relationships imply. A 197\
5 survey conducted )Tj
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(at a midwestern university disclosed that while eighty per cent of the w\
omen engaging in )Tj
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(sexual intercourse hoped to marry their partner, only twelve per cent of\
the men shared this )Tj
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(expectation. Young women should contemplate this study every day; nothin\
g better )Tj
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(demonstrates women\222s willingness to deceive themselves as to men\222s\
intentions.\224 )Tj
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(\227 F. Carolyn Graglia, Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism,\
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(For anyone seeking to understand and challenge the feminist worldview, I\
cannot endorse )Tj
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(If there isn\222t such a place already, there ought to be a Center for t\
he Study of Studies. It )Tj
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(seems from just a casual perusal of specialized Websites that there must\
be a hundred or so )Tj
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(studies released each day that appear to have some bearing on human life\
. As often as not, )Tj
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(one study contradicts another, and you begin to suspect over time that s\
tudies reveal nothing )Tj
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(more than the researcher\222s expectations. )Tj
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(\223There are people who make a living\227and a decent one, no doubt\227\
gathering up and )Tj
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(analyzing studies in a particular field. At the Harvard-Smithsonian Cent\
er for Astrophysics in )Tj
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(Cambridge, Mass., for instance, a group of researchers looked into clima\
te studies for the last )Tj
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(thousand or so years to get a fix on the century just past. They looked \
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(\223From this formidable array of information, Harvard-Smithsonian resea\
rchers concluded that )Tj
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(the last century was not so hot. The world was generally warmer in the 5\
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(\223Hello? Does this mean that the thousands of global-warming scare sto\
ries were bunk, and all )Tj
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(the resultant legislation is just another of society\222s self-inflicted\
headaches? Judge for )Tj
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(yourself: After 1300, the world generally got colder, a cycle that ended\
about 1900. So, quite )Tj
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(naturally, the world then got a little warmer than it had been for those\
last 600 years. We are )Tj
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(talking natural cycles. )Tj
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(\223The variety of data examined to reach this conclusion is most impres\
sive and seems worth )Tj
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(noting for the record: borehole data, cultural data, glacier advances/re\
treats, geomorphology, )Tj
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(isotopic analysis from lake sediments or ice cores, tree or peat cellulo\
se, corals, stalagmite or )Tj
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(biological fossils, net ice accumulation including dust or chemical coun\
ts, lake fossils and )Tj
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(sediments, river sediments, melt layers in ice cores, phenological and p\
aleontological fossils, )Tj
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(pollen, seafloor sediments, luminescent analysis, tree-ring growth and s\
hifting tree-line )Tj
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(position plus tree stumps in lakes, marshes and streams. )Tj
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(\223It\222s not the intention of this columnist to suggest that any sort\
of study or scientific finding )Tj
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(justifies inundating ourselves in industrial smog and pollution. But sho\
uldn\222t those )Tj
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(propagandizing kids and other gullible citizens with fears of becoming c\
rispy critters due to )Tj
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(man-made \221global warming\222 somehow be held accountable? Why is it i\
llegal to threaten )Tj
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(someone with a gun but okay to threaten them with junk science?\224 )Tj
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(\227 Insight Magazine, April 29 - May 12, 2003, p. 16,17 )Tj
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(The Bush administration and a California school district yesterday asked\
the Supreme )Tj
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(Pledge of Allegiance with the phrase \221one nation under God.\222 )Tj
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(\223Attorney General John Ashcroft, who vowed to \221spare no effort to \
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(our citizens to pledge allegiance to the American flag,\222 said that ap\
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(\223 \221Our government and people can acknowledge the important role re\
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(America\222s foundation [and] history,\222 as reflected by the national \
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(Mr. Ashcroft said.)Tj
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(\223Solicitor General Theodore Olson told the high court the reference t\
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(the government\222s appeal of a 2-1 decision by the 9th U.S. Court of Ap\
peals. )Tj
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(\223 \221That is what the Pledge of Allegiance does. The Pledge is, ther\
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(\223The 9th Circuit court set off a nationwide furor when it ruled on Ju\
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(\223That opinion was amended Feb. 28 to declare unconstitutional a Calif\
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(\223But both opinions contain the same conclusion: \221The statement tha\
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(\223Sacramento atheist Michael Newdow sued on grounds that his daughter,\
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(\223The girl\222s mother and legal custodian, Sandra Banning, objected t\
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(\223The California policy requiring teacher-led recitation every day wit\
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(\221violates the Establishment Clause,\222 the 9th Circuit said.)Tj
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(\223Efforts to have an expanded \221en banc\222 review of that decision \
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(ruling \221wrong, very wrong.\222 )Tj
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(\223Their lengthy dissent in February said the judgment\222s flawed reas\
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(\221to the chopping block\222 the Gettysburg Address, the Constitution, \
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(Independence, and the fourth verse of \221The Star-Spangled Banner.\222 \
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(\223Mr. Ashcroft listed those references yesterday and predicted the Sup\
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(\223 \221Two decisions of the Supreme Court have said without qualificat\
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(\223The 9th circuit agreed with that argument but enforcement of its rul\
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(\223In rare cases, the high court summarily decides some cases without h\
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(\223If the court refused to take the case, the 9th circuit decision woul\
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Pledge. )Tj
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(\227Frank J. Murray, The Washington Times, May 1, 2003)Tj
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(\221If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to have consensual\
sex within your )Tj
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you have the right )Tj
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(\223Thus did Sen. Rick Santorum express his opinion that the U.S. Suprem\
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(misconduct.)Tj
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(\223Within hours, Democratic leaders, Big Media and \221gay\222-rights g\
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now. )Tj
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(\223As with Lott and Jim Moran, these episodes\227where politicians are \
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(\223Santorum is dead right. Indeed, it was fear of that result that led \
the court to uphold the )Tj
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(Georgia anti-sodomy law in the 1980s.)Tj
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(\223The moral component in Santorum\222s remark is that \221gay\222 sex\227\
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(\223What, then is Santorum\222s problem? It is this: The traditional Chr\
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the American elite. )Tj
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(Indeed, it is detested by that elite as the codification of hatred and i\
ntolerance. )Tj
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(\223America\222s cultural and moral elite is almost wholly converted to \
the doctrine enshrined in )Tj
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voluntary sexual )Tj
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(relations are equal, all are moral, none should be criminalized and any \
state that does so is )Tj
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(bigoted. Moreover, all anti-sodomy laws should be overturned, and if vot\
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(\223To most observers, it would seem that it is Santorum\227the target o\
f vilification and demands )Tj
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(\223And indeed he is. But in the new dispensation, where the left now de\
fines what is moral, )Tj
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(Christianity and its code of moral conduct are the objects of hatred. An\
y who try to enforce )Tj
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(that code are, de facto, bigots and unqualified for secular leadership o\
f our society. )Tj
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(\223We are getting close to a religious test for high office, a test tha\
t no believing, practicing )Tj
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(Christian is going to be able to pass. Indeed, we are becoming a society\
where Christians are )Tj
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(going to discover that they are strangers in their own country. )Tj
0 -2.55714 TD
(\223Not so long ago, \221gay\222-rights groups were considered to be age\
nts of immorality, trying to )Tj
0 -1.2 TD
(alter laws to give their immoral conduct the sanction of law. Yet the ri\
ght did not deny them a )Tj
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(right to propagandize or expel out from office, except in the voting boo\
th. )Tj
0 -2.55714 TD
(\223The New Morality, however, like most triumphant belief systems, is d\
eeply intolerant. It )Tj
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(simply cannot abide being called immoral. Thus, it must persecute, punis\
h and purge. )Tj
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(\223The Democratic Party has capitulated to this revolution. As for the \
Republicans, they are )Tj
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(still rooted in the old Christian morality. But when they blurt out the \
old truths, they find )Tj
0 -1.2 TD
(themselves having to explain what they meant. And, as they do, they must\
mouth all the idiot-)Tj
T*
(pieties of the new morality about \221diversity,\222 and all lifestyles \
being equal, and having no real )Tj
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(quarrel with homosexuals, etc. This will continue until the GOP surrende\
r is complete. )Tj
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(\223The savaging of Santorum shows that a bold expression of belief in t\
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(code and its proscription\227i.e., that homosexuality is unnatural and i\
mmoral, ruinous to body )Tj
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(and soul, a mark of a decadent society\227is now forbidden. )Tj
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(And as one watches \221gay\222-rights spokespersons hurling anathemas at\
conservatives, who are )Tj
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(trying inarticulately to explain what they really mean, the America we g\
rew up in is truly )Tj
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(dead and gone. )Tj
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(\227Patrick J. Buchanan, World Net Daily, April 28, 2003)Tj
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(Q )Tj
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(Media organizations from CNN to the New York Times have all recently adm\
itted to years )Tj
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(of lying about conditions in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. They explain tha\
t they faced either )Tj
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(losing \221access\222 or subjecting their Iraqi employees\227and, of mor\
e relevancy, themselves\227to )Tj
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(Saddam\222s torture chambers.)Tj
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(\223Stipulating for purposes of argument that the media were performing \
a service to anyone )Tj
0 -1.2 TD
(other than Saddam Hussein by being his pimp, rather than just pulling ou\
t, it still leaves )Tj
T*
(another devilish question. Why, then, were these same news organizations\
\227CNN and the )Tj
T*
(Times in particular\227so insistent that the United States take no actio\
n to remove Hussein )Tj
T*
(from power, knowing what they now admit they knew? )Tj
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(\223Liberals learned to live with Iraqi citizens being fed into plastic \
shredders, summary )Tj
0 -1.2 TD
(executions, maimings and unanesthetized ear-loppings. Only now have they\
found something )Tj
T*
(truly fiendish going on in Iraq: Christian missionaries are proselytizin\
g! On the basis of the )Tj
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(raw terror on display at the New York Times, I gather the operating theo\
ry is that Iraqis who )Tj
T*
(withstood Saddam Hussein\222s sadistic tyranny for 30 years will be unab\
le to withstand a )Tj
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(Christian missionary. )Tj
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(\223I don\222t know. Liberals have resisted Christianity pretty well. Ch\
ristians are already a )Tj
0 -1.2 TD
(majority in America, and we can\222t even stop public school teachers fr\
om passing out )Tj
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(condoms to fourth-graders or prevent Hollywood from producing movies tha\
t portray )Tj
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(Christians as marauding skinheads.)Tj
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(\223But in the left\222s doomsday scenario, Arabs who have been stewing \
in Islamic theology their )Tj
0 -1.2 TD
(entire lives could watch a 20-minute video on the life of Christ and con\
vert en masse. God )Tj
0 -1.2 TD
(only knows what trouble that could lead to.)Tj
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(\223Interestingly, absolutely everyone concedes that a lot of Muslims ar\
e going to have to )Tj
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(convert to some new religion. That\222s the point of the much-ballyhooed\
claim that terrorists )Tj
T*
(and their sympathizers are not practicing \221true Islam.\222 Well, they\
think they are. Muslims )Tj
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(who share Mohammad Atta\222s religious beliefs as it pertains to infidel\
s are bossily informed )Tj
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(that they are incorrect and ordered to practice \221true Islam.\222 Only\
if a Christian mentions Jesus )Tj
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(Christ, evidently, does it constitute imperialism. )Tj
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(\223In fact, the \221true Islam\222 ruse is straight out of the imperial\
ist\222s handbook. When the British )Tj
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(colonized India, they encountered such charming Hindu practices as \221s\
uttee,\222 which involved )Tj
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(throwing the widow on her husband\222s burning funeral pyre. Instead of \
convincing the Hindus )Tj
T*
(that this hideous practice was a priori wrong, the British went to great\
length to produce )Tj
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(ancient Sanskrit texts proving that the natives were not practicing \221\
true Hinduism.\222 )Tj
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(\223As Anthony Pagden describes it in the book Peoples and Empires: \221\
The British ransacked )Tj
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(Sanskrit texts and questioned local religious leaders in an effort to di\
scover a \223purer\224 form of )Tj
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(Hinduism\222 that would match\227as Pagden puts it\227\221their own noti\
ons of \223morality.\224 )Tj
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(\222 \(Pagden, who has taught at Harvard and has written for the New Yor\
k Times, would be )Tj
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(finished as a respected academic if he ever expressed a personal view as\
to the morality of )Tj
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(burning women alive. )Tj
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(As luck would have it, the governor general of India, Lord Bentinck, mad\
e the exciting )Tj
0 -1.2 TD
(discovery that suttee was just such a distortion of the original Sanskri\
t! He outlawed it in )Tj
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(1829, proclaiming that he had restored the Indians to \221true Hinduism.\
\222 )Tj
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(\223Similarly, when Napoleon occupied Egypt at the end of the 18th centu\
ry, he imposed a )Tj
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(predominantly French culture, claiming he was merely restoring the Egypt\
ians\222 true culture. )Tj
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(\(The only French custom that still survives is the aversion to bathing.\
\) Indeed, Napoleon even )Tj
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(declared that the French not the Muslim warriors he had overthrown, were\
the \221true )Tj
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(Muslims.\222 )Tj
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(\223Liberals don\222t mind pompously asserting that the terrorists are n\
ot practicing \221true Islam\222 )Tj
0 -1.2 TD
(and demanding conversion to a form of Islam closer to their own \221mora\
lity\222 \(as per Pagden\). )Tj
T*
(Like the prim Lady-Do-Rightlys of Britain, they insist they are not dest\
roying a religion, but )Tj
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(rather restoring it to its proper understanding. )Tj
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(\223Inarguably, anyone who views flying planes into the World Trade Cent\
er as a matter of )Tj
0 -1.2 TD
(religious devotion is going to have to get a new religion. Could we at l\
east stop pretending )Tj
T*
(that the British colonial office approach of pandering \221true Islam\222\
is any less \221imperialistic\222 )Tj
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(than Franklin Graham\222s missionaries showing videos on the life of Chr\
ist?)Tj
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(\223Throughout the history of empire-building, Christians were a constan\
t thorn in the side of )Tj
0 -1.2 TD
(the conquerors and slave-traders. They quaintly insisted that, as Pagden\
puts it, the biblical )Tj
T*
(command \221Love thy neighbor as thyself\222 should be a real deterrent \
against pillage and the )Tj
T*
(unwarranted expropriation of the goods of others, even when, as was gene\
rally the case, those )Tj
T*
(others were not Christians. )Tj
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(\223Though some colonialists used Christianity as a fig leaf for pillage\
, they were precisely as )Tj
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(Christian as Cuba, China and North Korea are \221democratic\222 today. S\
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(denounce democracy, citing the atrocities of Red China as proof of what \
such a monstrous )Tj
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(system of government can do. )Tj
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(\223Christians who are willing to leave the safety and comfort of Americ\
a to go to barbarous )Tj
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(lands, risking disease, pestilence and murder, simply because they so lo\
ve their fellow man\227)Tj
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(these are the miscreants who inflame and enrage liberals more than Sadda\
m Hussein and his )Tj
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(rape rooms ever did.\224 )Tj
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(\227Ann Coulter, Frontline Magazine.com, April 24, 2003)Tj
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(Q )Tj
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(For his entire career, Astronomer Dan Werthimer has been immersed in the\
search for )Tj
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(extraterrestrial intelligence \(SETI\), watching the field grow from an \
eccentric hobby to a )Tj
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(respectable scientific discipline, with government funding, conferences \
and grad students. )Tj
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(What it still lacks, though, is a subject matter. \221I\222ve been looki\
ng for aliens for 28 years, and I )Tj
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(haven\222t bagged one yet,\222 he admits. Paradoxically, the field is aw\
ash in data\227unaccountable )Tj
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(terabytes of it, virtually all of it meaningless, including four years w\
orth of random radio )Tj
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(noise recorded by the 1,000-foot dish antenna at Arecibo, in Puerto Rico\
. Not even the )Tj
T*
(world\222s fastest supercomputer could make sense of it all. So Werthime\
r, along with computer )Tj
T*
(scientist David Anderson at Berkeley\222s Space Science Laboratory, enli\
sted a network of )Tj
T*
(home and office desktop computers to sift through this vast electronic m\
idden heap in search )Tj
T*
(of one tiny artifact of civilization. More than 4 million people have le\
nt their computers\222 )Tj
T*
(downtime to this project known as SETI@Home. Next week Werthimer, chief \
scientist for )Tj
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(SETI@Home, will begin assessing the fruit of that effort. His expectatio\
ns are, frankly, )Tj
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(infinitesimal. But you don\222t go into this field unless you\222re an o\
ptimist. )Tj
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(\223The effort is admirable, in any case. Beginning in 1998, while Areci\
bo traversed the sky )Tj
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(observing pulsars and quasars, it also monitored a range of frequencies \
in the UHF band, )Tj
T*
(centered on 1420 megahertz. \221We didn\222t get to say where the telesc\
ope points,\222 Werthimer )Tj
T*
(says, \221but that\222s OK, because nobody knows where to look anyway.\224\
The recordings made at )Tj
T*
(Arecibo were chopped into 107-second segments and sent over the Internet\
to volunteers who )Tj
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(had downloaded SETI@Home\222s screen-saver program. At idle moments the \
program kicks )Tj
T*
(in, sifting through the raw data for signals that stand out from the bac\
kground sounds of the )Tj
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(universe going about its business. About 4 billion candidate signals wer\
e identified in this )Tj
T*
(process, and edited down to the 200 of greatest interest. Next week, for\
the first time, the )Tj
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(project will have 24 hours of dedicated time at Arecibo to look for thos\
e 200 signals again, on )Tj
T*
(the remote possibility that even one of them shows signs of an extraterr\
estrial intelligence at )Tj
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(work. \221It\222s the kind of search any intelligent society has to do,\222\
says Bruce Murray, chairman )Tj
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(of the Planetary Society, which helps fund SETI@Home. \221But you can\222\
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(expectation that you\222re actually going to find something.\222)Tj
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(\227Newsweek Magazine, March 17, 2003, p. 50)Tj
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