Touchy issues we avoid
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whom we have in abundance down here. Don’t agree? The next time an SEC team wallops some Big Team or west coast team, scan the lineups and do the arithmetic. And this leads us to an even more controversial subject, human evolution through natural selection.
As for natural selection, there is no firmer evidence today than the alarming survival and reproduction of medicine-resistant bacteria and viruses in our hospitals and clinics. If we don’t find a way to check this epidemic we may someday evolve (there’s that dirty word again!) a bug that will wipe us all out before we can come up with an antidote.
Back in Africa the carnivorous animals had a favorite name for humans
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who were slow afoot: “dinner.” By this fact and the horrible conditions aboard the slave ships, only the superior physical specimens survived to reproduce. Thus, today we have African American athletes of unusual ability, especially in sports in which speed, strength and agility are most important. This is a selfevident fact.
Many people believe the Bible’s account of human development is the indisputable literal word of God. They believe that the scribes who wrote the Holy Scriptures were God’s unerring stenographers who recorded His words exactly as He spoke them. But to begin with, which Bible are they talking about? There are several versions, and some
I am writing in response to the article in the Dec. 14 edition of the Catoosa County News entitled: “Was it cronyism? The hiring of Randy Camp to be Catoosa County’s new Fire Chief turned into a debate on ‘good old boy’ politics when commissioners decided they needed to approve all department heads.”
Although I very much appreciate a sincere and open-to-the-public political debate among elected officials when it comes to governmental decisions, I would like to voice my opinion in regards to the ultimate issue of the article, which was the hiring of Randy Camp to be Catoosa County’s new fire chief.
Although I do not know Mr. Camp personally, I have known him professionally for over 20 years, and I have never heard anything bad said about him, which I cannot say of very many governmental officials. I have seen Mr. Camp being interviewed on the news after a fire in Walker County; he was sweating as if he had written a bad check; he had singed eyebrows; he was dark with soot; and he was the of the fire department, obviously leading the charge into the fire.
Whether it may appear as cronyism, or an effort to oversee the hiring of department heads in the county, it is clear to me that in this case, the correct hiring decision was made. The debate among the commissioners should not overshadow the fact that the county ultimately made the correct decision on behalf of the citizens of the county. If my home or business catches on fire, I want Randy Camp leading the way. conflict on some important points. There are also two distinctly different creation accounts in the Book of Genesis. But that’s a can of worms I’m not qualified to open, and won’t.
Evolution through natural selection is an observable, verifiable biological process researched and taught in practically every accredited university the world over. And I can find nothing in this concept that would conflict with my belief in a supreme being whom I know as “God, the Creator of the universe.” The Bible tells us who and why, history and science tell us when and how.
This is a little off the subject but related, I think: Doesn’t it take more blind faith to be an atheist than a believer? Think a minute about that one.
George B. Reed Jr., who lives in Rossville, can be reached by email at reed1600@bellsouth.net.