Creation Museum can open eyes

Start looking for intolerant comments by university professors and news articles from the liberal media regarding the very professionally done exhibits at the Creation Museum. If you recall, a few months ago, The Associated Press released a one-sided article from the Museum of Natural History on a new human evolution display, which included a chimpanzee, modern human and Neanderthal. Human origins are by no means observable or repeatable through experimentation _ the only procedure that can be done is to examine the remains and the site and put an interpretation on the findings.

On May 28, Answers in Genesis opened the doors of the Creation Museum, which defends a biblical worldview, including a literal account of creation. Ken Ham, founder of Answers in Genesis, raised the finances for the nearly $30 million, 60,000-square-foot Creation Museum. Comedian and "mock news reporter" Bill Maher, who has said Christians suffer from a neurological disorder, covertly visited the new facility.

According to the Bible and other ancient cultures, the planet’s terrain and climate were much different 5,000 years ago and people lived much longer than we do now, and some may have been much larger. It is quite possible that "Neanderthals" were 200-plus-year-old people or they were malnourished and diseased, thus causing bone deformities. Modern human skulls vary greatly: Down’s syndrome, African pygmy, Aborigine, flat-head Indian and European skulls are all significantly different.

Layer upon layer upon layer of sedimentary (mud/sediments) rock that entombs in it millions of dead things including dinosaurs, plants, people, etc., could have only been laid down by a catastrophic worldwide flood, as mentioned in the Book of Genesis, and could not have logically occurred more than hundreds of millions of years by natural silt sedimentation or just by local flooding. Please see

www.answersingenesis.com for more.

John (J.P.) Pasquale

Livingston Manor

Can’t please everyone at fair

I want to respond to the last two letters regarding the Otsego County Fair, one from Mr. Perry and the other from fair manager Judy Harris.

I understand the fair board has been working hard over the past few years to create a more-inviting county fair. Volunteering can sometimes be a thankless job, and you never please everyone.

I bet if you raised the price of the ticket at the gate and kept the parking free, you would not have heard any grumbling from Mr. Perry, with the same result of increasing revenue.

The cost of going to the county fair increases only if you want it to, by going on rides, eating all the traditional food served at the fair and going into the grandstand for shows. I suggest if Mr. Perry would rather spend his money on something he considers more substantial, then he should go to the movies.

To the fair board, I’d love to see one evening with a named entertainer to draw a crowd to the fairgrounds. Cobleskill and Delaware County, to name two, have had success, why hasn’t this been done? I appreciate that the fair is now running in the black. Keep up the good work.

Kathy Hewlett

Otego

Wind turbines will ruin area

The idea that the New York Catskills, our beautiful land, may be taken over by 400-foot-tall industrial wind turbines is making me ill! These IWTs do not belong in our backyard!

You may not have them directly in the site of your home, but you will see them, and you will feel the destruction that they will do to our community.

Property values will plummet, businesses will suffer, enrollment at our schools will be down. Who would want to come here? Certainly not young families who are planning their bright future, not anyone who thought about coming to Meredith, Delhi or any of the surrounding towns to begin a new life.

Is that what we want? Well, maybe there are some who want that, and maybe that is their goal.

It is clear that the IWTs are being shoved down our throats for the good of a few. The people of Meredith and some from surrounding towns have begged, pleaded, even have cried to the town board meetings.

Please don’t do this!

We need to come together, ban IWTs in our beautiful Catskill mountains. Get involved before it is too late.

Maureen Holderith

Meredith

Sears should stick to issues

I am appalled that you allowed the column by Tom Sears regarding Plame/Wilson/Libby to be printed in your paper. I don’t object to the mistakes, misrepresentations, maybe even outright lies in it. It is not your job to determine the truth of opinion pieces.

It is your job, however, to ensure that those columns offer constructive debate on the important issues of our times. It is not constructive debate when the columnist indulges in gratuitous ad hominem attacks. For those who don’t know, an ad hominem attack attacks the man, not his arguments.

Claiming that someone beats his wife is irrelevant to the validity of his views on health care. Likewise, claiming that Mr. Wilson and his wife are "mere political hacks" says nothing about the validity of his fact-finding mission to Niger, nor does it address the appropriateness of revealing her service in the CIA.

His comments about Hillary Clinton, brain-dead leftist liberals and Harry Reid are equally beside the point. (Mr. Sears, even a cheap shot that is true is still just a cheap shot.)

I understand that you have planned for and made room for his column every other week. I suggest you reject columns like that one and replace it with a reprint of one by conservative op-ed columnist James Pinkerton. While I disagree with much he says, I admire his consistent ability to make a rational argument. Hopefully, Mr. Sears can write a column that sticks to the matter at hand rather than dealing with petty, infantile grudges. I will read it with great pleasure. If he cannot, there are plenty of intelligent conservatives in this area who can.

John A. Hussey

Delhi