• Questions for evolutionists • Police math • Bike path: Try it • Article was an ad Questions for evolutionists I have been following the Intelligent Design debate in The Garden Island with interest. Three questions for evolutionists: 1. Is
• Questions for evolutionists
• Police math
• Bike path: Try it
• Article was an ad
Questions for evolutionists
I have been following the Intelligent Design debate in The Garden Island with interest. Three questions for evolutionists:
1. Is it more logical that an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent God created everything out of nothing, or that a blind, deaf and dumb nothing turned itself into everything?
2. In the primeval earth, with the absence of any energy metabolism and storage system, ozone layer, or transcription and translation apparatus, what specifically was the code and mechanism that gave rise to telenomy; “information stored in a living thing?”
3. If blind chance was able to spontaneously generate life from non-life in an uncontrolled environment (unshielded from deadly ultraviolet light), then why have modern scientists been unable to replicate that feat in a controlled environment with all the information they have on biochemical compounds and their reactions?
Police math
About three weeks ago The Garden Island featured an article about how the usual number of police officers was down on our Garden Island by about 10. You wouldn’t know it by observation.
I commute from Lihu’e to Kapa’a every day, and there is a police officer at rush hour helping direct traffic where Kapule and Kuhio highways merge. In May there was a strong police presence in the “click it or ticket” campaign. There are many more drug busts than before Chief Lum took office.
We would be the first to cry out if the presence of our wonderful police officers diminished. Doing the math, it computes that fewer men are carrying the load, and they deserve compensation, which equals overtime. It is my understanding that the police department can cover the debt.
We also need to understand the nature of ice users. When using, their body temperature tends to feel hotter than normal, and after some use, light bothers their eyes. That means that they are more likely to be up at night, in the “overtime hours”. Would we want our officers “clocking out” instead of following the leads that they need to pursue at the very moment they arise?
More math: If we want our police budget to go down, we can help. Police officers carry a great burden for us of maintaining order, and seeing that people treat each other right. If we as individuals were able to deal with each other respectfully, crime would go down. There would be no assault, harassment, or theft, etc. Let us teach our children what is right, by example, as elders did in the past. Let’s remember that forgiveness is another option to revenge. Let us help the police department clean up the drugs by reporting suspicious activity.
To Chief Lum, and the police officers who serve Kaua’i: Thank you for all that you do. Thank you for continuing to take care of us amidst the constant controversy. If you are known as the ones who beat down the Ice problem on this island, you will be heroes to the great majority. The fact that you can still put a “Cop on Top”, and be involved with KPAL, and the other wonderful volunteer things that you do is icing on the cake.
Bike path: Try it
Mr. Mickens, it is apparent you are not a bicyclist nor walker. Since I do not frequent Lydgate Park I have no observation or opinion regarding the Bike Path other than: Lydgate is really all about safe swimming, picnics, and family parties.
The Bike Path from the Park to Kamalani Bridge is sooo short as to not really constitute a bike path … yet … until it heads to Nawiliwili.
However since I have now parked my car, chained my motorbike, and taken to pedaling a mountain bike on the bike path; I find each morning a very large number of residents and visitors biking and walking to work, shopping, and breakfast … this part of the path I use is from the south end of Baby Beach to the north end and further of Kealia Beach. A round trip of about 7 miles, easily entered onto at any point by bikes, walkers, strollers and citizens of all ages. It is a beautiful and safe ride and walk from Baby Beach in Kapa’a to Smokey Louie’s Kapa’a Neighborhood Swimming Pool.
But from the back of the pool heading north to the south end of Kealia is a horrible but existing cane road path of dangerous and difficult rubbled asphalt. This otherwise scenic and safe open path is begging for just a narrow strip of pavement. The pool and Kealia already both have public restrooms as should Baby Beach. This part of the overall path is already landscaped by nature and now and in the future needs no maintenance or additional landscaping. And concrete needs no maintenance.
This Kapa’a-Kealia is a perfect part of the path for the already large numbers of residents and visitors who already use the path and need to be provided a safe outlet for their TRANSPORTATION needs to the beaches, parks, shopping, and jobs. More users will come when it is completed.
You should invest in a bike and do your part to get off the highway you complain of. I did, as have many others. I ride to work on the path once I arrive in Kapa’a.
Biking or walking the path with the fresh air from our tradewinds gives one a healthy perspective on their quality of life and coveted longevity. May-be your outlook on the bike path would not be so sour if you embraced the bike path as one of its users.
Perhaps your energy would be better spent promoting new highway funding from Honolulu and Washington, D.C.; than negating monies already ear-marked for Kaua’i for a bike path only.
It is not unrealistic to predict that as gas prices soar in the future, that more and more bicycles, tricycles, and quad-cycles will enter the transportation flow. Let’s be ready with a 12′ wide path. With our tradewinds how long before the youth invent wind-biking to Lihu’e.
In closing, many of us would like to urge the Mayor to pave the path soon from the Kapa’a swimming pool to at least the parking lot at the north end of Kealia. We can walk our bikes for now across the highway bridge over the Kapa’a Stream in Kealia. Mahalo.
Article was an ad
I cannot believe that The Garden Island would print an article on a product called Ocean Solution as if it were normal reporting (9/28/2005). This is blatantly an advertisement and yet it appears as an “environmental solution” to the numerous beach closures that occur on Kaua’i (see first paragraph).
By the way, how many “Beach Closures” have there been on this island in the past 10 years ? There has to be more interesting news on Kaua’i than this ad. Come on, guys.
