Tuesday, February 14, 2006

TELL IT TO ALAN SIMPSON

Safety experts say shooter carries responsibility

When it comes to hunter safety, political spin doesn’t fly. Neither do arguments that blame the victim in Vice President Dick Cheney’s ill-fated quail hunt Saturday in Texas, said Mike Streeter, hunter education coordinator for the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.

“Any attempt by whomever to take the blame off the shooter and put it on the victim is wrong,” Streeter said Monday.

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Wednesday, February 01, 2006

GOD HELP US

It's wrong to say science excludes God, experts say

Pierre Laplace didn't do science any favors when he let Napoleon provoke him.After reading the French mathematician's opus on celestial mechanics -- the movements of planets -- the emperor asked him why the treatise, unlike the work of Isaac Newton, made no mention of God.

Laplace reportedly replied, in a huff, that he had no need of that hypothesis.

Ever since, science has been saddled with the canard that it arbitrarily and a priori rules out the existence of a deity. When the Kansas board of education deleted the words "natural explanations" from the definition of science last year, it seemed like an effort to right that supposed wrong. But those who attack science as anti-God are fighting a mirage, say both secular and religious scholars.

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HOWEVER, IN KANSAS IT'S AS EASY AS SPOTTING AN INTELLIGENT DESIGN BELIEVING HICK

Experts Say Stealing Tissue Would Be Tough In Nebraska

OMAHA, Neb. -- As more and more transplant patients across the country get letters from their doctors, asking them to take HIV, syphilis or hepatitis tests, the process of tissue donation is under scrutiny.

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