Why No Free Speech
About This Subject?

Editor, The Herald:
   A couple of weeks ago I had the chance to go see the new Ben Stein movie “Expelled, no intelligence allowed.” Stein a noted activist, game show host and speech writer for presidents Nixon and Ford takes on the Neo-Darwin establishment and asks the question, Why is there no free speech allowed in this sector of society? He does indeed make a valid point, whether it be civil rights, women’s rights, gay rights, animal rights etc, Americans have always been allowed to have an open logical discussion about these subjects but why not in the case of Darwinism?
   I believe that this is a great tragedy. The inability for intelligent design to taught or at the very least discussed in the classroom is a shame. I think in all likelihood it is because so many Evolutionists are fearful that maybe just maybe Darwin got it wrong! And if Darwin got it wrong and we didn’t come from mud animated by lightning that can only mean one thing…God got it right!
   There are areas at the biochemical level that cannot be explained in Darwinian terms but rather broad suppositions that are put forward by Evolutionist like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. Ultimately, Neo-Darwinism is amazingly silent on the subject of biochemical evolution, why?
   The most shocking part of Stein’s movie was the elegant brutality in which Richard Dawkins, the most prominent evolutionist/atheist demeaned God, suggesting that the Christian God was no different than Zeus, Poseidon or fairies at the bottom of the Ocean. If I were to ever encounter Mr. Dawkins I would politely inform him that the obvious difference between Zeus and the Christian God is that there are no physical documents that suggest that Hercules or any of Zeus’s 100 or so sons ever existed, whereas we have historical accounts, even by those who were not Christians, that there was a Man name Jesus, who claimed to be the son of God, who died and rose on the third day! In order for Dawkins to prove that my God is a myth he must disprove Jesus Christ and his resurrection and so far people like Dawkins have gone 0-for-2000 years!
   The saddest part of this is that, more and more, God is taboo subject within the classrooms of schools and universities in America and the thought that there is a creator tends to be overwhelming, why? Because if there is a creator then WE have to be accountable for our lives our choices, meaning that moral aren’t relative, but have a purpose and are absolute and that ruffles the feathers of those who disregard moral responsibility or the notion that there is a supreme being.
   Finally, I challenge the universities to approach this arena of discussion via debate between an evolutionist and a believer in Intelligent Design. It would be great to see this discussion take place right here in town, because so may people constantly ask the question, where did we come from? As food for though I would recommend seeing Expelled.
Dean J. Meadows 
Prince Edward

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Runners Thank The YMCA

Editor, The Herald:
   The running community of Southside Virginia is most appreciative for the efforts of Jennifer and Dan at the Southside Virginia Family YMCA for the Heart of Virginia 10K race.
   The event was well organized and adequately manned at each waterstop/mile interval. There were numerous energetic volunteers, healthy post race fluid and caloric replenishments, and lots of happy runners.
Jimmy Gates
Rice

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