_____I’ve found that in my posting of Monday, about the FRESH meeting and it’s guest speaker, I didn’t make myself very clear. My point was supposed to be the war on terror.
_____The war on terror is real and we must somehow win it. We are now losing it. We’ve used every weapon in our arsenal and we are not successful. We must find something else.
_____I see something that we have not used, and possibly the only one thing that will allow us time to figure out how to win the war on terror. The terrorists are supported by drug money, and drug money only exists if drugs are prohibited.
_____People will use drugs. There can be no question about that. If they can’t get them legally, they will get them illegally, but they WILL get them.
_____The Netherlands have shown us that if you legalize marijuana, the use of other drugs will fall off precipitously. If other drug use falls off, terrorisms money falls off at the same rate. If we legalize marijuana, that act alone has the potential of drawing off three quarters of the money terrorism needs to continue attacking the world.
_____We do have to hurry. The forecast is for a bumper crop of opium poppies this year, which will give the drug cartels more than enough to pass around freely to capture new users. If we can release marijuana to the general public before they start shipping that crop around the world, the vast majority of people will reject the heroin.
_____Marijuana is an innocuous drug. It is not as harmful as wine, but even if you don’t think so, would you rather risk your daughter’s life next to a suicide bomber then her getting stoned? That is really the choice here!
A representative from LEAP, (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition,) spoke at the Frederick Secular Humanist meeting Sunday in Frederick Maryland. It was an interesting talk. He pointed out that control, as in how we control liquors, will eliminate the severe problems we’re having with drugs while not increasing drug usage.
He also pointed out that our prohibition is fueling the terrorism that we’re experiencing, and that if we only placed marijuana on the same list as wine, we’d eliminate at least two thirds of the drug problem (because if the people can obtain marijuana like they can obtain wine they won’t want to bother with an illegal drug. Some would, of course, but only a slight few.)
The spokesman also pointed out that our prohibition on drugs has given North Korea, an impoverished country, enough money to produce an atomic bomb. By prohibiting drugs we are helping the terrorists.
We are fighting a war on terror. We are losing it. If we lift the prohibition on marijuana and replace it with controls similar to wine controls, we will eliminate almost all of the money the terrorists use, and that will almost eliminate them.
The government has admitted for at least ten years that the only thing “wrong” with marijuana is that it is illegal. If we make it legal we will cripple terrorism and give our farmers a cash crop they can sell like the wineries do. It will make them more proud of their work and keep them on the farm, while we will take the wind out of the sails of terrorism.
_____Let’s look at the Darwinian theory first. It can be stated in full in a few words: nature selects from random change. That is the Darwinian theory in full. There’s nothing more one can say. When, around five years ago, I heard it for the first time, I was shocked. It is so obviously wrong that at first I thought it was a young earth creationist attempt to confuse things. Then I discovered that that was the position science really held.
_____First off, it doesn’t fit the requirements of a scientific theory. It cannot be observed, tested, or proven in any way. It is a completely philosophical position of the exact same ilk as the young earth creationist theory. Both of them are impossible to prove or disprove.
_____Then there is the situation. We have determined that there have been three major evolutionary periods in the history of the earth. The first one is called the “pre-Cambrian explosion”. Suddenly, around four hundred million years ago, there began a vast proliferation of multi-cellular life changing constantly for some fifty million years.
_____At that point the fossil record began showing repetition, no more change, until the beginning of the second period, called the “Permian die-off”, when something terrible happened around 260 million years ago, and over a period of maybe forty million years almost all of those species disappeared from the fossil record and vast numbers of new species appeared for the first time.
_____Once again the fossil record settled down, no change to speak of until 65 million years ago, at what we call “the K/T boundary crisis”, when it is thought an asteroid crashed into the earth and brought about 30 million years of drastic change in the fossil record, no more dinosaurs along with a plethora of other creatures, to be replaced by other, different but related species.
_____It is impossible to fit the Darwinian theory into that situation although science has tried heroically for decades to shoehorn the situation into the theory with every imaginable twist. They refuse to accept that one cannot twist facts to fit philosophy. One must alter philosophy to fit facts.
_____Evolution must be accepted. Those three sets of circumstantial evidence are sufficient evidence for science to accept evolution. The only question is drive. It’s obviously not random. There is nothing random about the three periods except their happening. The change was a reaction, not a random stroke of luck. There just can’t be that much luck in this world.
_____Evolution is obviously driven. The question is simply what drives it. Again, let’s look at the situation. What are the facts of the matter?
_____Around four billion years ago, single-celled life appeared on earth. This life did not evolve until around 400 million years ago. What changed?
_____Geology tells us that around that time, the earth became a much nicer place in which to live. It cooled down considerably and volcanic catastrophe diminished greatly. It became, for the first time, a place where multi-cellular creatures could enjoy a satisfactory life and, lo & behold, there was an explosion of multi-cellular life.
_____In about fifty million years life reached satisfaction within their new environment, and evolution stopped. Life was happy, and no longer needed to change. This satisfaction lasted until that terrible moment some 260 million years ago when something yet undiscovered drastically altered the environment, causing dissatisfaction for all but a few species. This dissatisfaction caused them to once again evolve, in order to return to satisfaction.
_____Another stint of evolution, this one slightly shorter, and then life, albeit in a new iteration, was satisfied. Once again, life was happy and ceased to change.
_____Then, the asteroid. A repeat of the evolutionary scenario. Environmental change, dissatisfaction, evolutionary change, again shorter, maybe thirty million years, satisfaction, and the end of evolution.
_____The drive for evolution is satisfaction. When a species becomes dissatisfied with it’s environment it will evolve until it feels satisfied within that environment.