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. To the editor,
Please allow me to have
a little discussion with my
_ friend Jorma Jyrkkanen.
Everybody who loves na-
ture is my friend. In his

letter to-the editor in the.

Terrace Review of July. 2
he wrote about ‘‘reality’’,
_ Great!.-No grown-ups
‘ want to: believe in fairy
tales, legends or myths,
Reality _is. what counts.
‘Still, legends can teach us
good morals.
i Ask our natives and our.
| children, They love them!

! There is a place for them

’ under my sun. Jesus told
" us we have to become like
.- children (not scientists) if
. we ever want to encounter
* His Kingdom of peace and
‘happiness. There is more
' between iieaven and earth.
‘than the eye can see.
. Another dimension. If it
comes to creation my

friend still has to prove to |
' me this falls under the

category of legends. The

-- fact that most cultures

have a creation story in
’ some form or another pro-
ves to me that there is a
-, common. historical back-
ground regardless of dis-
. tortion.

:' Many: scientists (not
} Christians, but ‘‘realists’’)
: these days stopped teach-
“t ing evolution, because of a

. ! sure lack of proof and

_' Many disagreements under
. the professionals. The Ho-
ly Spirit gave me the sense
‘ to discover the Creator in
his nature. Also of course
the consequenses of sin
and rebellion when
t disobedience by our first
: ancestors disturbed the
t harmony. and peace of cre-
ation.

Wednesday, July 8, 1987

JUST

"Creation is awaiting: re-
creation according to my
Bible. Nature is not God
(like Pantheists believe),
but God can surely be
noticed
church we sing, “Open miy
eyes that ] may see’’, By
nature we are blind for
true reality. My Bible,
however, tells me more
clearly than nature that
there is a God. When I
notice His Love and pa-
tience with a rotten world

that tries to put the blame ..

for its rottenness on God
himself (If God is love,
why,..7) then I must

believe -the historic ac--

count of so many witnes-
ses. I refuse to believe that
these prophets and

apostles were just a bunch -
of day dreamers who have .

been. fooling us for 10,000
years,
stupid? Start all wisdom
and insight with our
generation of the 20th cen-
tury? Does it take atheistic
communism to. tell us
there is no God? After all
these years.of ignorance?

Are we finally out of the

ape-stage? Glory .to Karl
Marx?
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-in nature. in

Are people. that -

these - Retell that

” believe their Bible: For us

life makes sense. There is
a future. No need to get
high on dope and commit
suicide to end it all. Jorma
seems to think he has all
the facts. Not so. His is a
religion, a belief, too.
There is no scientific pro-

of for anything he believes

in. Nor is there proof that
my God exists and that He
created the cosmos. But I
experience Him and that is
plenty of proof for me.
Cali this subjectivism,
pietism or anything you
want, For-me He is reality.

‘Jorma mentioned that

stars are millions of light
years away. Can you
prove that sir? You believe
your computer... But every-
body knows. that comput-
ers make mistakes. My Bi-

ble never makes a mistake.

In these 6000 years

everything it says came

true. Take AIDS. My Bi-

ble says, ‘‘The wages of.

sin is death’, But not
many believe that in 1987.
Evolution?’ Humanity
solicits its own destruc-
tion.

Millions of light years?
Blind faith in some scien-
tists it is, Moreover, my
Bible doesn’t tell us that
God created -the stars

10,000 years ago. All it-

says is, ‘‘In the beginning
God created the heavens
and the earth’’, That was
act one, How many years

_ago? About 10,000 years
“ago,

we believe, God
Started with act two. He
brought order in ‘nature’s
chaos, Yes, that was His
second act of creation.
Read your Bible carefully.
People are sloppy readers.
Eve did not eat an apple
and Jonah was not in a
whale, for instance. —
Jorma contradicts him.

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self in my opinion. A few . |

weeks ago he wrote a letter
asking the governments to
do. something drastic
about the AIDS epidemic.
I agree with him 100 per-
cent that virus carriers
should: be isolated, We
owe that to society. Socie-
ty does not want to be

discriminated against just.

for the sake of a few
homosexuals, .
come before _ their
“rights”. They have no
right to pass AIDS on to
us. It takes common sense
to protect our citizens, in-
cluding our children.

The contradiction of
Jorma’s theories is that

‘while one believes in evo-

lution, one also believes in
the survival of the fittest.
So why bother to take
measures? : Darwin got
disturbed by realizing the
consequenses of his
theory. He did not have in
mind the ‘‘facts?? we are
teaching our students to-
day. On his deathbed Dar-
win took back everything
he had said. Science and
rationalism are unreliable
guides on our way to eter-
nal life,

My friend Jorma Jyr-
kkanen still has time to
join the. happy crowd of
trusters’ in a- Creator-
Father and see nature with
different. eyes, singing
glory-hallelujah with
black, yellow, brown, red
and. white brothers and
sisters the world over. |.

: Bill Homburg

The
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Terrace, BC

is req

To the editor, — .
I would like to complain
about the situation re-

Jating to the handicapped .

and the postal strike. . -

- A friend, who receives:

handicapped benefits, was
unaware that people were
to pick up cheques from
‘the Post Office. He had
been getting some mail all
week and in his experience
during previous strikes
such announcements were
broadcast Over radio,-He
heard no radio teport. He

heard about it - on the

grapevine.
When my friend tapped
his way along the sidewalk
in front of the Post Office
some striking represen-
tatives accosted him. One

of the picketers laughingly

threw a. sandwich sign
over him, My friend con-
tinued tapping his way to
-the entrance of the Post
Office and the picketer
demanded he stop while
he retrieved the sign.

My friend does not .

“complain, but I think I
must: The Post Office,
like the civil service who
issues cheques. ~to the
handicapped, is a tax sup-
ported service and ‘the
handicapped ‘should be
given better consideration.
Strikers can: perhaps. af-
ford to raise Cain: -but
.a handicapped person’s

| RE PORT ,

a. Is the stork
- about to visit you?

them,

| Letter

C x ynsideration.
uired -

. benefits are often far less -

-than.a postie’s weekly”

cheque.. — ~~

Strikers and the
beaureauacy can afford to
show some consideration
to people who are really
only handicapped by soci-
ety’s . attitude towards

. Bilan’ Gregg
~ Terrace, B.C.

continued from page 4 |

should be put out of the

way to prevent more kill-
ings. And let us not forget
the threat of political kill-

ings like we see in Fascist.

and Communist countries.:

These killings too we

should prevent. Yes, lam
Pro-Life. . .

Channah Polak

Terrace, B.C.

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continued from page 2

nual basis. Whether it be
Halloween, a bank cam-
paign, or a local special
event, staff don’t need
much’ of an excuse -to -
decorate the branch or

‘don costumes.

The Royal Bank looks
forward to sérving -the
community for the nexta0
years.’ a

t Let everyone know about the happy event by having it printed
in the Terrace p Review. Forms are available at the’ hospital. . ;

| Bernard Fickel ¢ and. Mary Richardson are @ proud |
_ to announce the arrival of their first new born.son,
Joshua Kenneth, at 1:48 a.m: on July 3, 1987,
_ weighing 8 Ibs. 3 ozs. We would also like to thank
'. Dr. VanHerk, Dr. Lynn, Dr. Lee and the nursing 7
staff at Mills Memorial Hospital. |

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