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Sunday, Jun. 29, 2008

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Improving America

C orrecting three root-cause problems will go a long way toward making America self-reliant and move us toward regaining the honor and respect we no longer enjoy on the world stage.

• Root cause 1: The oil standard. Our next president should immediately initiate a Manhattan Project on energy, using our best and brightest to provide workable solutions to take us off the oil standard. Because oil is directly related to literally all of our economic and military issues, this is job one. It must be a unified effort that can’t be squashed by Big Oil and Detroit for their own self-serving greed.

• Root cause 2: Broken education system. Re-focus our educational system with the objective of producing world-class American scholars and thinkers. Forget canned concepts such as No Child Left Behind. The very lifeblood of our country — our intellectual talent — is wasting away because education has been shorted on every conceivable front.

• Root cause 3: Deceitful elected officials. The past seven years of lies, smoke-and- mirror games, blatant dishonesty, political spin, unprovoked wars, arrogance and idiocy at the top cannot happen again. We must elect passionate, sensible, ethical, progressive leaders who won’t lie to us and are accountable to us.

Philip Ruggles

San Luis Obispo

Religion vs. science

The truth is, as to the beginning of the earth, neither evolution nor creation have any scientific grounds to stand on. No one was there to see it. It can not be reproduced, tested or falsified as required by scientific standards. They both must be taken on faith, hence they are both religions.

Scientists have no idea as to how life actually began in that primordial soup, where DNA information came from and they haven’t found any intermediate forms between the species.

However, intelligent design and the worldwide flood fit very nicely when explaining the world as we see it.

Evolution requires much more faith than intelligent design, but evolution scientists will believe anything rather than accept something supernatural.

More and more, highly trained scientists from the big universities are turning to intelligent design. It is obvious that those that are so

adamantly against it have not read any of its studies with open eyes.

Paula Nixon

Paso Robles

Lay off Dan De Vaul

Did Councilwoman Christine Mulholland think she was elected to the City Council to improve the view from her home?

Until the city of San Luis Obispo can provide a viable alternative for the people living on Dan De Vaul’s property, the city should stop their vendetta against him.

Maybe the people who live across from De Vaul wouldn’t have their view ruined if they looked up instead of down their noses. If only the real estate salespeople had pointed out the view before those houses were purchased.

Doug Ward

Grover Beach