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"Intelligent Design or Darwin's Evolution?"
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Randy Piper said...

Sir,
I am the webmaster for CyberSEALs.org, and a former Navy SEAL. Several of our members have encountered your website, and your claims of being a "SEAL-trained US Navy DIVER and Special Operations veteran"... and raised the question about your true credentials.

Members of the US Navy's SEAL Teams might provide briefings regarding some particular piece of diving equipment, but Navy DIVER courses are NOT... I say again ARE NOT offered by the SEAL Teams.

The wording you have used on your website, and the graphics of a sewn "patch" showing a seal with a knife in its mouth, a "dixie cup" hat on its head, and the juxtaposed words "US Navy Divers" and "SEALS" are all clearly intended to IMPLY, if not openly state, that you are somehow as equally skilled and credentialed as a member of the US Navy's SEAL Teams.

Your name does NOT appear in the SEAL Database; you are not a Navy SEAL. Suggesting or implying that you were "SEAL-trained" and were subsequently included in SPECIAL OPERATIONS is intentionally misleading.

I request that you reword the presentation on your web page(s) to clearly and truthfully represent the TRUE nature of your "SEAL training" and your participation in "Special Operations".

Steve Robinson RM2(SEAL)
USN 1970-1978
SEAL Team ONE
Inshore Undersea Warfare Group ONE
UDT-SEAL Association - Member
Special Operations Association - Member
POW Network Advisory Board
Naval Special Warfare Archives - SOF Analyst/Contributing Journalist
Disabled American Veterans - Life Member
FORMER Special Investigator - SEAL Authentication Team
CyberSEALs.org - Webmaster
Author - "NO GUTS, NO GLORY - Unmasking Navy SEAL Imposters"

11/16/2008 6:50:41 AM [ Report Abuse ]


W. Craig Reed said...

I always enjoy reading the eloquent arguments proffered about Intelligent Design versus Darwin's Evolution. Both camps staunchly defend black and white positions as if there could be no grey. The world is flat. The world is round. We now know it's neither. We're a bit off-round. The sun circles the earth, no, the earth circles the sun. Now we know that the earth circles the sun, but the sun also circles trillions of other suns...some of which have their own earths (as recently discovered by exoplanet astronomers like Geoff Marcy). While we're slinging arrows at each other, could there be a middle ground? Perhaps man did evolve, over millennia, to the Homo Erectus state, where he stayed for millions of years. But perhaps evolutionists could at least consider that something intelligent started the spark of life here on earth? And perhaps intelligent designers could be so benevolent as to grant God the freedom of taking as long he'd like to create man? Perhaps his 6 days equated to 6 billion years. Has anyone asked Him? Back to the evolutionists, can any one of you explain how, overnight in evolutionist terms, Homo Erectus went from super-dumb to pretty smart--i.e. Homo Sapiens? While you're chewing on that one, how then, again, did Homo Sapiens suddenly, VERY overnight, become brilliant? Complete with language, math, science, biology and civilization in the blink of a cosmic eye? How did we become Homo Sapiens Sapiens (yes, that is the correct term and not a typo)? How did the ancient Sumerians, Mayans, Acadians, etc. know more about astronomy, math, time, etc. than we do today? How did they know the color, location and size of Pluto when we did not even discover that planetoid until 1930? Let's not hide behind science, folks. The so-called scientists of our past thought we should bleed ourselves to get well. And let's not hide behind religion, either. The so-called righteous crucified Christ. Let's all of us begin to open our minds to the evidence. I recently wrote a book titled DNA (search on Amazon.com under DNA-Reed) that explores this evidence from a new perspective and offers startling answers that I encourage you to explore. Perhaps the two camps--Intelligent Design and Darwin's Evolution—are much closer than you think. Perhaps you're both right...but both wrong. If you truly are passionate about this topic, becoming more informed can be exciting and eye opening, not to mention fun. Read the book, then let’s talk.

8/28/2008 4:45:16 PM [ Report Abuse ]