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.