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Obama, Biden are like boys with wooden swords
To the editor:
Nothing makes clear the obvious lack of understanding of war and peace by the two senior occupants of our White House than their recent order to attack killers of our ambassador and others in Benghazi. President Obama and Vice President Biden mirror two small boys with paper hats and wooden swords. Revenge deaths are not our goal. Safety, responsibilty and security are.
You don’t win wars by simply killing all who kill you. Finding killers and sending an unmanned drone after them is far easier than attaining and maintaining peace.
David L. Woods
Hedgesville, W.Va.
Is your faith in nothing or is it in God?
To the editor:
I read Allan Powell’s column on the supernatural (Sept. 20). It was interesting to read that Powell and his mentor, E.O. Wilson, have impatience, even irritation with people of faith.
To them, I say there is no absolute knowledge. Life is a matter of faith and the question is: In what will you put your faith? They want us to believe that in the beginning there was nothing — no matter, no time, just nothing. Then appeared a wormhole, and in that wormhole appeared a particle — maybe a quark or even smaller. This tiny particle exploded.
Now, there is a heat of billions and billions of degrees. This congealed into forms of matter. Many of these forms existed for only a trillionth of a second, but they created matter very quickly. The inner actions took place every 25 nanoseconds. That is 40 million times a second. This explosion created a universe out of nothing.
There were trillions of stars, planets, comets and black holes. It calmed down into the Milky Way and a medium star called “the sun.” As things cooled, nine planets were created, all out of nothing.
Can Powell deny that even if this fantasy is right, its astounding complexity shows a masterful design? And a masterful design demands a designer. And so we have the choice of faith. Do you want to put your faith in nothing or a masterful designer, God?
Powell tells us the claim that life has a supernatural cause is unsupportable. Anyone who looks at the masterful design inside a single cell with 3.1 billion genomes carrying the exact design of life can see it is more than just an evolutionary accident. Powell has more faith in nothing than I have in God.
Robert Stone
Mercersburg, Pa.
How poor is poor enough?
To the editor:
How much poverty can Hagerstown really handle? In the past four years, we’ve watched our “middle-class” incomes drop or stay essentially the same, while gas prices have doubled and everything else, including groceries, health care and taxes, has gone up, too. If this is the middle-class tax break the president promised before his first term, we can’t afford another one. Neither can our kids. As the deficit increases, neither can their kids.
To the editor:
Nothing makes clear the obvious lack of understanding of war and peace by the two senior occupants of our White House than their recent order to attack killers of our ambassador and others in Benghazi. President Obama and Vice President Biden mirror two small boys with paper hats and wooden swords. Revenge deaths are not our goal. Safety, responsibilty and security are.
You don’t win wars by simply killing all who kill you. Finding killers and sending an unmanned drone after them is far easier than attaining and maintaining peace.
David L. Woods
Hedgesville, W.Va.
Is your faith in nothing or is it in God?
To the editor:
I read Allan Powell’s column on the supernatural (Sept. 20). It was interesting to read that Powell and his mentor, E.O. Wilson, have impatience, even irritation with people of faith.
To them, I say there is no absolute knowledge. Life is a matter of faith and the question is: In what will you put your faith? They want us to believe that in the beginning there was nothing — no matter, no time, just nothing. Then appeared a wormhole, and in that wormhole appeared a particle — maybe a quark or even smaller. This tiny particle exploded.
Now, there is a heat of billions and billions of degrees. This congealed into forms of matter. Many of these forms existed for only a trillionth of a second, but they created matter very quickly. The inner actions took place every 25 nanoseconds. That is 40 million times a second. This explosion created a universe out of nothing.
There were trillions of stars, planets, comets and black holes. It calmed down into the Milky Way and a medium star called “the sun.” As things cooled, nine planets were created, all out of nothing.
Can Powell deny that even if this fantasy is right, its astounding complexity shows a masterful design? And a masterful design demands a designer. And so we have the choice of faith. Do you want to put your faith in nothing or a masterful designer, God?
Powell tells us the claim that life has a supernatural cause is unsupportable. Anyone who looks at the masterful design inside a single cell with 3.1 billion genomes carrying the exact design of life can see it is more than just an evolutionary accident. Powell has more faith in nothing than I have in God.
Robert Stone
Mercersburg, Pa.
How poor is poor enough?
To the editor:
How much poverty can Hagerstown really handle? In the past four years, we’ve watched our “middle-class” incomes drop or stay essentially the same, while gas prices have doubled and everything else, including groceries, health care and taxes, has gone up, too. If this is the middle-class tax break the president promised before his first term, we can’t afford another one. Neither can our kids. As the deficit increases, neither can their kids.
