I, too, think we could do with a little scientific literacy. I will admit: Mr. Marti has certainly read some of the works of Darwin. I have read a very little of that material, but found it exceedingly dull and tentative. We have seen viruses and all other simple organisms mutate and interact with each other. None, that I know of, have ever "jumped category." Nor have any of Mr. Darwin's "species." Even if they have, it would not prove to be of scientific value. It would be open-ended and tentative. Viruses are not considered whole cells, in some schools of thought. It must be the missing link!

Real, honest science has progressed a long way since Darwin. And also, the ability to research the things that are important to a person has advanced immeasurably since I was in school at old Berrien High. If I had the Internet in 1955, think how smart I could be. I might even show up some of these people who have a DNA over 95 percent exactly like a chimp. Holy giant jumping grasshoppers, Batman. We may have to start fingerprinting these chimps. No telling how many crimes could be solved, if we had only known this "fact."

If I may change course a bit: Only last night, on the History Channel, we learned that the object with the heaviest gravitational pull in the known universe was a super nova some (I forgot, intentionally, too) large number of light years away. Now, folks, that happened a long time ago; the light just got here. At the time that was going on, humans were still roaches, as we have found plenty of their fossils from about that time. Now, what does this prove, other than roaches are super hard to get rid of? Nothing, I suppose. But what did Darwin prove?

Science, by definition, is exact. Theory is like a pontoon bridge, to be used until a permanent one can be built. I, when young, had in my possession an old book that gave the theory of phlogiston. Man, that thing had me almost believing that stuff.

Me thinks someone has been seeing too many "Dow" commercials. How does that go? Elements "bonding" with elements. We have seen the nucleus of certain atoms with the electron microscope, but still the electrons look like a fuzzy area. Cross references with RF energy, MRI imaging, the actuality of hydrogen with an atomic weight of 2, the inability of certain heavy metals to stay intact and an untold myriad of other facts makes this science. MRI molecular resonance imaging is NRI nuclear resonance imaging. The name was changed to MRI to prevent the public from being frightened off.

The nucleus of all atoms resonate at different frequencies under high magnetic force, and proper agitation, thus those machine guns and A model Fords, etc. I had one in 1995 and thought I had been to the Battle of the Marne. The liquid N that keeps those things super cold is for... uh, I don't know. Now I have ruined everything. I bet I had all you folks thinking I am smart. No, none of that stuff that a well-known country singer, supposedly, uses. MJ will burn up the brain and revert you back 5 percent. You will be a chimp. What is a scientifically ignorant old man supposed to do?

I saw none of that in Darwin's works, though I am admittedly ignorant of most of his stuff. I intend to stay that way. Go and make me an organic molecule, open chain, closed chain, straight chain, split chain, any way you can; and from that a very small virus. It's going to take a lot more than those CH radicals. You will have to have several elements. By the way, use your own dirt. Do not mistake a single-celled organism with a large multi-elemented molecule. It takes a lot of molecules to make one cell. A lot of elements too. Until someone can engineer a common living cell from scratch, we will have to take "Darwinism" with a grain of NaCl.

Genetically, apples and pears are almost the same, yet there has never been an example of cross-pollination. I find that hard to believe, yet I did read that somewhere. I think it was in the DATE educational program.

"Darwinism" is theory. Some of this is, without doubt, factual. Some, lighter fluid (phlogiston in a can). I, for one, do not understand why folks are still quoting a 19th-century naturalist while well into the 21st. This poor uneducated country boy will hold onto to his creationist views until such time as someone can show the answer to some infinitely more important questions. The end of space and time, the beginning of both. Lately the theory that an explosion of an item smaller than an atom created all the matter in the universe. I wonder... What was holding that thing together for the infinite time before the "Big Bang"? Reminds me of a blivet (10 pounds of bull in a 5-pound bag).

Forget the water, bring me some Koolaid.

Now, to Hitler. Read "Mein Kampf." Note the number of times "sub human" groups are mentioned, i.e., Poles, Gypsies, Jews, Slavic peoples, Negroes and of some interest, race-mixing Americans who will not fight. I should explain about that "American comment": What the man said in so many words was that Americans wouldn't get involved in a long, drawn-out war; we had too many racial problems. Sounds a little Darwinistic to me too. There is a real lesson in that. I think we are all better off than we would be in any other part of the world.

What was Darwin's motive for berating slavery in Brazil? Had not the English kept the Irish slaves for hundreds of years? Were they not the ones who had introduced slavery to the English colonies? What was Darwin's rich family, including his first cousin wife, doing while the Irish starved in the potato famine?

A great example, that man. He nor few of his incestuous family ever did a day's work in their lives. Why did he not mention the Dutch, Spanish, French and other slave traders? This could anger some folks, but it is something to think on. The Irish and the Africans came here because of slavery. The Irish were free as soon as they paid off their indenture. (Jefferson tried to do the same for the African.) The African had to free himself later. Lincoln only signed a paper; over 200,000 black troopers did the freeing. That for some reason is comforting to me. I ain't giving anything to those... uh, yankees. (I'll apologize to my "yankee" friends later.) Please, folks, have not Georgians always loved justice?

All of you who believe in Darwinism should get like-minded folks and form some clubs. We who don't already have ours. They are called churches.

My God, my God. Why do some close their eyes and refuse to see?