From: joemahoney1950@gmail.com   
      
   Various themes and motifs recur throughout Neil's writings.  There is a   
   persistent fascination with freedom (as opposed to equality), with faith (as   
   opposed to reason), and with the supernatural (as opposed to materialism).    
   But there are seemingly less    
   expansive topics which nonetheless constitute obvious fixations for Neil.    
   Why, for example, does he persist with the subject of the LENS?  Think of "The   
   Camera Eye."  "Red Lenses."  "Prime Mover," in which perceptions are filtered   
   and "lenses polarize."    
    "Stick it Out," in which the focus is altered to make the wrong seem right.    
   What's going on here?  Why is Neil so obsessed?   
      
   The answer is that different but related issues -- indeed PASSIONS -- are   
   being addressed.  "Red Lenses" is about Neil's acute awareness of encroaching   
   liberalism and communism.  More perspicacious than the average rock drummer,   
   Neil discerns this    
   metastasizing evil, and the threat it poses to his treasured freedom and   
   faith.  The average man sits in front of the television, assuming all is well;   
   but Neil is well aware of the left-wing threat that "lies in the darkness [or   
   on CNN and MSNBC], dead    
   ahead."  So that's what the anxiety-fraught "Red Lenses" is about.   
      
      
   But three years later, Neil again dealt with the theme of lenses -- only in   
   the much grander, imposing and serene "Prime Mover."  The feel of this   
   ambitious, towering cathedral of a song is completely different.  Here Neil   
   does not see evil through his    
   lens -- but supreme benevolence.  Nonetheless, these lenses "polarize."  So   
   what's going on here?     
      
   The answer is that the well-read Neil has been following the work of Lehigh   
   University Michael Behe, author of "Darwin's Black Box."  And it is Behe who   
   discovered that biological systems -- specifically the flagellum of the   
   bacteria -- exhibits    
   irreducible complexity.  It was INTELLIGENTLY DESIGNED.  This organelle,   
   visible only through the LENS of a microscope, is quite clearly constructed by   
   a supreme mind.  Like the finest watch or car -- only far grander, albeit at a   
   microscopic level --    
   the flagellum has indisputably been shaped and machined buy a supreme   
   intelligence -- by in other words, a PRIME MOVER:  Christ Himself!  May you   
   find Him now.   
      
   And it is through the lens that this Grand Discovery, the Last Nail in   
   Darwin's Coffin and the Firmest Foundation for all our Faith was made!     
      
   Hence Neil's love of the LENS; and hence his Ode to our Prime Mover.   
      
   Joe    
      
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