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Let’s Have Judge Judy Tell Us How Old The Earth Is

A friend of mine once told me how he tried to settle it.  My friend, Bob, was an Air Force physician.  He is a devout Catholic (Catholics allow for much of the language in Genesis being metaphorical.)  Somehow or other he ended up visiting a science museum with another officer, a pilot and devout Evangelical.  There was a display on evolution, which the Evangelical went into something of a tirade on.  Bob’s response was that his friend trusted science when he took his plane up into the sky and when he was treated for diseases, so why not when it comes to evolution.

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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.