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First black OU player dies at 67 By Bob Hersom The Oklahoman Dr. Prentice Gautt, whose distinguished career included being the first black football player at the University of Oklahoma, died Thursday morning after a brief illness. Gautt, 67, died in Lawrence, Kan., after being hospitalized Monday with flu-like symptoms, his wife, Sandra, told The Associated Press. He was a special assistant to the Big 12 Conference commissioner. “Prentice Gautt was truly a great person,” OU President David Boren said in a statement, “and he will be remembered as one of the most outstanding graduates in the history of...

Fredwin On EvolutionVery Long, Will Bore Hell Out Of Most People, But I Felt Like Doing It  March 7, 2005 I was about fifteen when I began to think about evolution. I was then just discovering the sciences systematically, and took them as what they offered themselves to be, a realm of reason and dispassionate regard for truth. There was a hard-edged clarity to them that I liked. You got real answers. Since evolution depended on such sciences as chemistry, I regarded it as also being a science. The question of the origin of life interested me. The evolutionary explanations...

   "The Klan of Nabal-oney" or ("Grand Wizards Spring to Action") "There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus."---Michael Crichton                                                     ************     Recently a peer-reviewed paper written by Dr. Stephen Meyers, PhD. appeared in a  scholarly scientific journal called "Proceedings", a publication printed under the auspices of the (tax-payer funded) Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.        Problem:  The article in question...  ("The Origin of Biological Information and the Higher Taxonomic Categories")... was critical of certain aspects and presumptions of the prevailing Neo-Darwinian macro-evolutionary theory. The...

Does Science Point to God? Part II: The Christian Critics By Benjamin D. WikerAuthor's note: In the first part of this article, "Does Science Point to God? The Intelligent Design Revolution" (April 2003), I focused on Intelligent Design (ID) as a scientific revolution. In this article, I will get at the importance of the ID movement from a different angle. What happens if we just ignore the ID challenge to evolutionary theory, accept the status quo, and accommodate ourselves to Darwinism? As we shall see, the price of indiscriminate accommodationism to Darwinism is rather high indeed.No scientific theory should have...

The other day, I shared with you the information regarding 'Intelligent Design', as presented by Pat Robertson, founder of the 700 Club, at a National Press Club Meeting. He was asked by the chairman exactly what his stand was relating to creationism and evolution - the way it is being taught in schools today - particularly colleges and universities. I looked up 'Intelligent Design' , and posted what I had found here on the board. In addition, I sent an email to Mr. Robertson, through a section of his site called, 'Bring it on'. I specifically asked for scripture to...

In the Feb. 15 edition of The American Thinker, Steven M. Warshawsky wrote a thought-provoking piece entitled “Beware the Condi bandwagon" that, essentially, warned the gathering numbers of “Rice for President” supporters that Sec. Rice cannot win the presidency in 2008, nor is she qualified to do so at this point in her career. A response from one of the passengers on this bandwagon seems apt. Mr. Warshawsky is right – not a lot of people start a career in elective politics by running for the White House. To do so is daring to be sure, but it is not...

Panicked Evolutionists: The Stephen Meyer Controversy The theory of evolution is a tottering house of ideological cards that is more about cherished mythology than honest intellectual endeavor. Evolutionists treat their cherished theory like a fragile object of veneration and worship--and so it is. Panic is a sure sign of intellectual insecurity, and evolutionists have every reason to be insecure, for their theory is falling apart. The latest evidence of this panic comes in a controversy that followed a highly specialized article published in an even more specialized scientific journal. Stephen C. Meyer, Director of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science...

Duncan Hunter is doing the right thing. ANY FEARS that an expanded Republican majority on Capitol Hill would simply become a larger tool for the Bush administration have already been put to rest in the lame-duck session of the past week. Most notably, Reps. Duncan Hunter, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and James Sensenbrenner, head of the Judiciary Committee, have exerted their independence in blocking the headlong rush to intelligence "reform" legislation that puts current military operation in Iraq and Afghanistan at risk. For their pains and their real political courage in calling conventional wisdom into question, the...

During the second presidential debate, John Kerry said: "I ask each of you just to look into your hearts, look into your guts. Gut-check time. Was this really going to war as a last resort?" How about this for "gut-check time": When you close your eyes, can you see the Democrats defending America? Because I can't see it. These are the people who are obsessed with getting the French to like us. They call terrorism a "nuisance," like prostitution and other petty crimes. ("Hundreds of Children Killed in Chechnya by Nuisance," "British Civilian Beheaded by Annoyance," "9-11: What a Hassle!")...

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I have a message for my liberal friends, relatives, and colleagues: If you think Republicans play dirty and Democrats don't, open your other eye. I've been hearing this complaint everywhere I go. It seems to be the emerging centerpiece of the Democratic campaign message in 2004. Exhibit A is George W. Bush's victory in the court fight over the 2000 Florida recount. Exhibit B is the ongoing attempt by the Republican governor and Republican legislature of Texas to redraw that state's congressional districts. Exhibit C is the recall of Gov. Gray Davis, D-Calif. The complaints are spreading and becoming more...

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