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...hometown, he wonders if they will explode. If the refrigerator door closes, he says, "I ask myself if that was incoming fire. A bomb?" And he's older than most grunts. "The younger guys--18, 19 years old--they're definitely going to have some challenges ahead," he adds. "God help somebody who pushes the wrong button on a kid who's been through these things...
Breaux: Yeah, but [Republicans] have got God on their side...
Hollings: I'm a trial lawyer. I made enough money in 20 years as a trial lawyer to afford [working in] this Senate. And I was enthused because, good God, you had a better class of life here. You could make the final argument to the jury and then go in the jury room and vote. The Senate was just hunky-dory. I was just tickled to death. And I'm not sad that I'm not making all that money because I've been enriched otherwise. I'm better stimulated. And all my other trial-lawyer friends are either...
...vocal sector of the religious community, on the other hand, has seized on the anthropic principle as further evidence that God created the universe just for us--adding intellectual support to the so-called intelligent-design movement, which believes that the staggering complexity of nature can be explained only by assuming that some higher intelligence had a hand in designing it. Over the past several years, pitched battles have been fought in school boards in Ohio, Kansas, Georgia and Montana and, just weeks ago, in Dover County, Pa., over whether to give intelligent design and Darwin's theory of evolution...
...tiny pockets of support in the scientific community, most scientists consider appeals to a supernatural designer to be an intellectual dead end. Over and over in our history, natural phenomena--lightning, the changing of the seasons, the nature of the sun and moon--have been explained simply by saying God (or Zeus or Odin) did it, only to have that explanation fall away as science provided a more satisfying answer. Maybe we really have reached the limits of intellectual understanding, but few scientists are willing to give up quite yet, even on seemingly intractable problems...