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even though there was no dissociation westonaprice.org/traditional_diets/na- ists like to suggest that intelligent design
of the compounds, hence no “ free” tive_americans.html). is just a new name for creationism. What
fluoride was being stored anywhere. I rarely, if ever, comment on web you describe should be termed creation-
The investigation showed identical writings. But this article really im- ism, which is not the same as intelligent
“calcium crystal deformation” as seen pressed me with its forthright treatment design.
with inorganic fluoride. For references of New Age nutritionists. The way many Intelligent design has been brought
and further information, visit http://poi- of us see it, American Indians never left forward by a sizeable group of highly
sonfluoride.com/pfpc/. the Garden of Eden. They were dragged reputable academicians and medical
out of it by white colonists who consid- doctors. Their work generally can be
GREAT RESPONSIBILITY ered themselves superior to the “primi- found at the Center for Science and Cul-
I can’t tell you how grateful I am tives,” who had learned how to live off ture at the Discovery Institute in Seattle.
to WAPF for teaching me about correct the land without destroying it. Agricul- Go to this link for a brief description
eating; your information has trans- ture, especially the American system of and contrast of their approach with cre-
formed my life. However, with this great industrial farming, has brought us noth- ationism: http://www.intelligentdesign.
knowledge we embrace comes great ing but illness, and promises to deliver org/whatisid.php.
responsibility. It is so difficult to see worldwide famine. I have had a deep interest in this
people you care about dying at a young My sisters eat breakfast cereal, low- subject for some years and have read
age and so many others who are sick. fat foods, and restaurant meals—and are several excellent books by intelligent
But they won’t listen even after you have overweight and lethargic. They avoid design researchers. I organized a presen-
told them how they can reclaim their fats and are always hungry. tation on evolution by Craig Holdredge
health. Such an important topic, yet no one of the Nature Institute at High Mowing
I am forty-two years old, hav- addresses it honestly in the mainstream in the spring of 2007.
ing outlived more than half my close media. I hope your message reaches a One key concept of intelligent
friends! I regularly hear of very young much wider audience. design is the irreducible complexity
people dying of cancer. I met a nursing Betty Miley of living organisms, which ties in well
home worker on the way to work two Norwood, Louisiana with holistic thinking. If any group of
weeks ago, and she told me they have scientists is going to break through the
patients in their late 90s who are doing INTELLIGENT DESIGN Darwinistic dogmatism of our culture,
far better than patients in their 60s or I have a small bone to pick with one it’s this group at the Discovery Institute.
70s. I told her that when raw milk was paragraph in the article by Tom Cowan They have been able to pass academic
widely available here in Canada (before called “Moods and the Immune Sys- freedom laws in several states that make
1930), the diets were far healthier than tem.” You write: “People living today it possible for high school science and
now. The older patients grew up at a time basically have two conventional philo- biology teachers to question Darwin
when these nutrient-dense foods were sophical views to choose from. One is without fear of being fired.
more widely available so their bodies the notion of intelligent design, namely Gerhard Bedding
were more robustly formed. that plants, animals and humans were Keene, New Hampshire
Joseph Ouimet created and then, boom, it’s all over,
Toronto, Canada here’s the finished product. The other TREATING FIBROMYALGIA
is the Darwinian theory.” An acquaintance of mine sent me to
GUTS AND GREASE You are confusing intelligent design your site because I used to suffer from
Thank you for the wonderful article with creationism. There’s a vast differ- fibromyalgia, and she thought the diet
on the diet of Native Americans (www. ence there, though aggressive Darwin- you have there might be helpful for me.
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