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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 2005
Page
4
Lame duck Cedar Rapids city commissioners defer controversial tweaks to the comprehensive plan for a northeast quadrant mobile home development. They urge basic business action now and defer long-term questions to the new City Council starting January 2.
Frank Olsen reports from Cedar Rapids on how President Bush’s border security and guest worker proposal unsettles conservatives. Critics warn of amnesty risks while polls show support for a temporary worker path linked to border enforcement. The piece notes industry demand for cheap labor and questions on enforcing penalties for employers and home return rules.
A writer attacks ICR literature denying intermediate fossils and argues creationism is pseudoscience. David Novak confronts students with hostile behavior as memories of hate and anger linger. The writer warns against complacency while recalling past atrocities in democracy and faith.
High heating costs and flu season notes frame a winter snapshot. Officials warn flu shot uptake, vaccine effectiveness, and vaccine accessibility across Iowa. Enrollment shifts show Des Moines Area Community College gaining 5 percent while Kirkwood falls 2.4 percent, shifting status among state community colleges. Senate leaders say property tax reform has slim odds this session.
The Nov 24 letter argues that Institute for Creation Research research is ignored because not evolutionist and not legitimate science. It claims Genesis as literal truth and critiques unfalsifiable supernatural claims. It distinguishes secular humanism from religion and calls evolution a belief, not a religion.
Chris Tucker argues that teaching creationism, rather than evolution, would curb youth misconduct, linking moral accountability to belief in God and rejecting Darwinian ideas as a basis for law. He cites school shootings and piercing among youths as evidence against evolution and calls for religious instruction.
A reader condemns justifications of past internment and recounts the Emmett Till case. The letter links WWII era actions and 1950s racial violence to warn against moral complacency and urges vigilance against evil across generations.
A reader argues conservatives press religion into politics to win power, while Democrats led world wars, and John Kerry’s service is contrasted with Bush. The author, religious but not self-righteous, calls for keeping faith separate from state and endorses abortion choice for women.
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