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The Clackamas Wednesday, No venri^F29|19y Jon Roberts Feature Editor Is it evolution or creation ism? This is a question that has been fiercely debated over the last decade. The answer to this ques tion is more a statement of what a person believes rather than what they can prove. The theory of evolution is just that, a theory. It is not a scien tific law. Which means that evo lution can not be reproduced in labs and can not be seen in every day life. When I speak of evolu tion, I mean evolution of species. Evolution is the “best answer” with our current knowledge as to how life.came to be on earth. At least, that is what the great mirids of the’ twentieth century say.'4 À scientific theory can be disproved and be tossed out at any time, but why is it that evolution is being taught as a fact in schools all across America and the world?" There are two types of eVo lution :one can be observed5 ahd the other has never happened. The first is evolution or adapta tion. One example is insects de veloping a resistance to pesticides ovefa-period of a few years. -The sfecoriditype of evolution isc-tiie theory that if you consider any5 two 1 ^ìmpinion j| animals, you could trace them to the same ancestor. Mark Isaac, the writer and editor of the evolution home page on the Internet, defines evolution as a change in the gene pool of a population over time. If this were true, there should be proof in the fossil record that evolution exists. If evolution exists, there should be transitional fossils in the fos sil record. A transitional fossil is a fossil that would show a change between two different classes of animals, i.e. a bird with teeth in its beak, a reptile, with feathers, etc. One animal that evolutionists point to as a good transitional fos- ; sil is an animal called: Archaeop- ' teryx, which is a bird’s body and the head of a reptile. According to Isaac, “this is clearly a mix of bird and reptile.” If this animal were a transitional fossil, it should have transitional features. A tran sitional feature is -a feattire that shows characteristics of bottiani- mals, not just seperate parts of both like Archaeopteryx does. According to the creationism home page on the Internet, when fossils are- examined, they. form records.’of existing'and.exiinct ■ Organisms'witti'elearly.defiaed gaps, or missing transitional forms. Following are some problems with the theory of transitional fos sils existing, according to the cre- , ationists home page: The first problem is the Cam brian explosion. At the bottom of the geological column in the so-called Cambrian rocks are found highly complex creatures such as trilobites, worms, sponges, jelly fish, etc., all with out ancestors. These are highly complex life forms appearing on the scene without forerunners. The second problem is in sects; when found in the fossil record, they are already developed ¡without ancestors. Dragonflies are dragonflies; cockroaches are cockroaches. A third problem is inverte brates and vertebrates; transi tional forms leading to vertebrates are absent* even though the tran- sitiomsupposedly took millions of years; ;-,It is theorized that life passed through a stage where a creature possessed a simple rod like notochord. Proof of this has not been found. The fourth problem is mam mals; mammals just appear in the fossil retjQrdi,i,again/w4th.QUt! trap- sitionaf forms ( in his book notes, Gish 32 such or ders of mammals). Marine mammals like whales, dol phins and sea cows also appear abruptly. It has been suggestecTthat the ancestors of the dolphins are cattle, pigs or buffaloes. This has been painting by Alex Ebel Evolutionists claim the Archaeopteryx clearly proven is the “missing link” between lizard wrong. and bird when it appears not to be. The fifth prob lem is the enigma of flight; sup states “that transitions may occur posedly, insects, birds, mammals in small population, in a small (bats) and reptiles each evolved area and/or a relatively short the -ability- to fly .separately. In amount of time.” He also states : each of the fotir Cases, there are that “the fossil record is still spotty ' ho series of transitional forms Co and always will be.” support this assertion. Since the time of Darwin; the The sixth problem is pri- amount of fossils unearthed has • mates; lemurs, monkeys, apes and » increased a hundred-fold. i mail appear fully formedrin tfe- 0 Evolution is clearly false, yet ; fossil’fedbrd? The proverbial it is still being taught as a fact in I “missiiig lihk”betwee)n man'and - schools. Since this is true, why ape remains: elusive. are Schools so' afraid of teaching Finally, the last problem is creationism? Could it be there is dinosaurs; again there is the ab as much, or more, proof for cre sence of transitional.sprjes,lead; ationism as evolutionism? Or is . ihg to these giants. it that creationism is the one true i dh Mark-Isaac,amevolutionist, answer to the origin of life? Dissension creates Would companies have made the money if there weren’t pirates? chaos in Capitol Should pirating be illegal? Ryan Humphris -Staff Writer toad to ' v -The recent shutdown OftOUr Government has shown us that Congress needs to get their pri orities in order, Our country has become a country that can’t even decide whether or not to be uni fied in a decision. The Demo crats, Jieaded by 5 B ill Clinton, make radical changesin government spending and hope fully reduce the defici t over a 10- year period; The Republicans, headed by Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole, think Clinton is nuts. They .waht -nrajbt’reductions in spending, making most of their cuts in Med ibdre'iahd M'etlfcitidfthcsc sifrb^(fiz,dcfr!u^^Ifirg? homes for Americans and health c'are-for the poor. The Republi cans would also reduce spend ing for programs like student loans and environmental protec tion. - . . . ^<4 Granted, "Itliese programs them sclC^iih^ fed m®£ed and poorly dij^ete^f 4?utdh§£doesn’t mean money should "be taken away from these programs. They shoulfijpst be reorganized, making it harde^ for theni to be misuseB.^* _____ contipfiedop page 3 The Clackamas Print Staff Editor-in-Chief: Çhad Patteson (Ex,t. ^576). o ;. ; Managing Editor: Amy K. Hansop (Ext,.2576) . Feature Editor? jòn Rôbèrts(Èxt.'2578j J Sports Editori Jésse S<jWa’(Éxt. 2578)'’ Photography Editor: Josh Kehler (Ext. 2578) Copy Editor: Vrcki Welch (Ext. 2578) Opinion Editor: Brendon Neal (Ext. 2576) Business Manager: Cor) Karge! (Ext. 2578) ..♦♦♦♦ . ... Staff Writers/Photographers: Eric Eatherton, Dan Anderson, Megan Friedow,. Lora Wahrgren, Linda Barr Batdorf, Andrew Beçk, Pamela Sirianni, Ryan Humphris, Paul Ulmen, Lisa Marie, Brad Zimmerman Secretary: JoAnne Gale:(Ext.23O9).'. : Advisor : Linda Vogt (Ext. 2310), . The Clackamas Print aims to report the news in an honest, unbiased, professional manner. The opinions expressed in The Clackamas Print do not necessarily reflect those of the student body, college administration, its faculty or The Clackamas Print's advertisers. Products and services advertised in The Clackamas Print are not necessarily endorsed by anyone associated with The Clackamas Print. The Clackamas Print is a weekly publication distrib uted every Wednesday except for finals week. The advertising rate is $4.50 per column inch. All signed letters to the editor will be considered for publication and must be submitted by 1 p.m. the Friday prior to the next issue. We will not print letters that are libelous in nature. Clackamas Community College, 19600 S. Molalla Avenue, Oregon City, Oregon, 97045; Barlow 104; (503) 657-6958, ext. 2309. E-mail: cccprint@clackamas.cc.or.us BradZimmernian Staff Writer . Pirating, the illegal copying of software, has resulted in over seven billion dollars in lost rev enues to software companies in theU.S. alppe. However, most of and modem companies receive wouldn’t have been obtained in thepfiijsti place, .if it-weren’t for pirating. It is a fact that software com panies overcharge 65-85 percent for software, to compensate for .^Ipged tost ¡revenues,.due to pj- rating. ,However, most pirates af- tqr,.receiving an .illegal copy of software will quickly delete it — because the software usually doesn’t live up to its expectations, or.it’s, too big and does too little. So,, it stands to reason that the software companies wouldn’t have gotten those revenues in the first place, because the pirates would not have bought the prod uct due to the product’s inferior ity. . Another little known fact is • how-.much-tires of twarc-compa nies make from legally obtained j software that is never used.. Be cause of most store and software manufacturing policies, if a piece of software is physically okay, it ; can’tbereturned.I.e.if you buy | some softSvarelhattooesn^liveup | t0tits;expeGtatiohs,.;y0u.xan.’t re- i turn-it for that sole fact.. ,There- ; fore;-the software companies have - made money on an inferior prod uct, on which the software com- ; pany;in ¡question has massively «overcharged',- JiUo .'it mne ! >r:hO.S;vIt0t)oties,r|t'he' World t leadentirt ¡modem 'manufacturing, ; has:made millions by!producing ' the preferred modem of the pirate. Pirates, not big business, asked for i faster^niore reliable modems and i USR delivered, (and been legally compensated for that delivery). USR knows this, and that’s why it won’t give out lists (to the FBI and police) of people it’s sold modems to. The phone companies have ; also (indirectly) profited from pi rating, because most pirates trans fer files at night, by phone lines. Therefore, the phone companies make money on calls that would have otherwise never been placed (who do you know that makes long distance phone calls to New York at 2 a.m. ?). The phone corri- vpatiies.als0iovercharge in order to compensate for lost revenues (a few pirates illegally use business’ -“internal, switchboards” to place long distance calls). Even though some pirates eventually buy legal copies of soft ware that wete previously pirated, there* are numerous instances where-softwareis illegally copied, and the originating company is never compensated. Software companies could easily compen sate bytihereasing their prices 20 or 25 percent. However, the real ity is that software companies (and phone companies) over charge by much more. The real ity is, that until a testing method (for software) is found, piracy is the only viable option to avoid buying bad software.
