Time traveler

I nearly lost my breakfast the other day after reading the moronic drivel in Cal Thomas’ column about his take on Oba­ma’s Christian faith [June 18]. Thomas states that Obama is not a Christian since he (Obama) thinks that “all people of faith — Christians, Jews, Muslims, animists, everyone — know the same God.” 

Apparently Thomas adopts the infantile view that “my god is better that your god,” and that the only true god is the Christian one.

Also, Catholics should take offense when Thomas states that only “serious” Catholics agree with him.

Individuals with Thomas’ mindset are clearly misplaced in time: They truly belong in the 16th and 17th centuries when many more people who shared similar opinions about their own religious beliefs attempted to impose them on others through warfare, torture, genocide and other unspeakable acts of inhumanity.

Robert Desiderato,

Denton

M3 report

The present U.S. Border Patrol has been castrated by politicians, federal guidelines, the ACLU and political correctness. Some of the retired officers have a Web site named National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (www.nafbpo.org).

The M3 report is a daily log of the criminal activity in Mexico and along the border with the USA. It tells of hundreds of murders, shootings, drug busts and conflicts between Mexican law enforcement (some very corrupt), the Mexican military and drug cartels.

According to a recent Breitbart News Agency report, as of January this year, the city of Ciudad Jurarez (across from El Paso) has recorded over 500 murders and over 20 one recent week alone. It is a war for control of drug routes and drug sales into the United States from the south.

What do our politicians in Washington, and our big-haired Texas governor say about this war in our backyard and moving north? “Move along Sheeple, nothing to see here, now get back in line and say you’re sorry.”

Dwight Crawford,

Sanger

It isn’t science

In response to the letter written by William J. Morris Jr., Ph.D., CPA:

First, I am not an atheist and do not speak for them.

Your letter argues for the teaching of intelligent design in the classroom and later says that by not teaching it, somehow there has been religious censorship. Are you arguing for a theology or a scientific hypothesis to be taught in science classrooms?

As a science, intelligent design has not been censored; it simply hasn’t stood up against the scrutiny all theories are subjected to.

Intelligent design states that intelligence is evident in irreducibly complex systems. Introduced in 1987, intelligent design has quickly seen the list of what is “irreducibly complex” shrink significantly. Darwin published Origin of the Species in 1859, and evidence supporting evolution has grown so immense it is now the driving force of modern biology.

The biggest flaw of intelligent design is its untestability. If one can’t prove the existence of the designer, then there is no way to prove the hypothesis put forth by the intelligent design community. The hypothesis is therefore a theology.

It is my belief that science and religion mix as well as oil and water. A person is not wrong for subscribing to the ideals of either, or both, but they must be able to see the separation. For any who have not come to that conclusion, the separation is falsifiablity.

Teaching intelligent design in a science classroom would be a great disservice to our children.

Steven Gore,