Posted on 01/16/2006 8:32:58 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Darwinists must be an endangered species. How else to explain their 80-year need for court protection to ensure their survival?
In 1925, an ACLU-driven defense team in the Scopes-Monkey Trial wanted a court to declare that laws forbidding the teaching of evolution were unconstitutional. In recent weeks, in a courtroom in Dover, Pa., the same organization applauded a judge’s ruling that the teaching of ideas contrary to evolution, in this case Intelligent Design, were unconstitutional.
The same ACLU that once advocated for free and open discussion in schools is working to see it stifled today.
Its website boasts, “Intelligent Design is a religious view, not a scientific theory, according to U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III in his historic decision in Kitzmiller v. Dover. The decision is a victory not only for the ACLU, who led the legal challenge, but for all who believe it is inappropriate, and unconstitutional, to advance a particular religious belief at the expense of our children's education.”
Science involves observing nature and producing hypotheses which explain the data -- and of discrediting theories which don’t fit new observations. Having judges decide what constitutes science is as nonsensical as scientists issuing judicial decisions.
And the irreligious left, perpetually misusing the First Amendment, can’t identify which religion is being established. Is it that of the Jehovah’s Witnesses or of Catholicism? Perhaps Mormonism or Orthodox Judaism? Among many others, these disparate faiths all claim as canon the book of Genesis, where the religious version of creation is found.
But ironically, while no particular religion is being promoted by the teaching of Intelligent Design, there’s a belief system, which has established “churches” in several states, that is being favored by ACLU-- and court-imposed censorship: atheism, whose worldview promotes moral relativism and secular humanism.
The left maintains that Intelligent Design is merely creationism -- a literal reading of the Bible’s account of creation -- camouflaged in scientific language. But even a casual perusal of ID demonstrates there is no dependence on Genesis for any of its arguments, nor does it teach any biblical doctrine. It merely demands an examination of the evidence -- or lack thereof -- that uncountable species arose from primordial soup, or that they evolved over time from one to another.
To support Darwin’s theory, the earth should be teeming with myriad transitional specimens, but they are noteworthy, despite incessant extrapolation, only by their absence.
Other modern observations are daunting for Darwinists: digital information -- universally a mark of design -- in the genetic code and irreducibly complex structures such as miniature molecular machines within the cell which Darwin could hardly begin to imagine. Using the eye as an example, he coined the phrase, “organs of extreme perfection and complication” and recognized his theory’s inability to explain them. New discoveries only exacerbate these shortcomings.
And despite frequent references to “organic chemicals” present on the formative earth, neither Darwin nor modern scientists can demonstrate how to get from these compounds to just a single-cell living organism, or even a virus -- let alone the complex life forms. The search for that initial “spark” of life, or an explanation of why it is no longer in evidence, has been forever elusive.
Ironically, the scientific community, which anxiously tries to find evidence of other intelligent life in the universe, blatantly turns its back on the one intelligence we have the most indication of: a creator; a master chemist for whom the DNA code -- a puzzle which even our terrestrial species is just starting to grasp -- is a simple blueprint.
Even though ID relies not at all on the Bible, it does leave open the conclusion that the designer is the biblical God and this implication of God is what the Darwinists seem to fear.
So there may yet be hope for these folks since the Psalmist says, “The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.” Let’s hope they eventually wise up.
AHhh...
But this attitude gets expanded to fit whatever is needed at the time.
"Run along now: you're dismissed."
Speak for yourself. Everyone doesn't do it.
My, my, my...
That BB sure is Smart! It knows about things that are, by definition, unknowable!
You're probably quite a MELODIC fellow!
Have you ever had to SING for your supper?
How would you rate yourself, on a SLIDING SCALE, from 1 to 88??
Why... it's merely EVOLUTION, trying to find a better way!
I DO wish the folks would not try to 'correct' these things, for in them may be the salvation (or maybe exaltation) of our species!
So does Mormonism!
(There's just no END to these dang religious revelations; is there!)
Ok: what percentage then.
(And don't forget the link ;^)
thanks, good link........
No, God R smart, and set it in motion with the forces of nature.....like childbirth, them thar sperm R smart too, with no brains, and them thar earthquakes R smart too, and them suns R smart that they know when to go to sleep......uh huh.......Physics R smart too, how do it know? My my my.....:))
No, evolution doesn't exist, it's only a theory, never been proven. Birth defects are caused by defective genes and/or environmental factors.......
"The Koran explicitly claims to correct the errors that have crept into Judaism and Christianity."
**** Certainly if you mean the errors of omitting intolerance and violence. Those are omitted......and suicide bombing of the infidels.....
Thanks dude.
I think Tom has very basic misunderstandings of the Big Bang, the explanations for it and the intentions of those expressing the concept of it as something other than a normal explosion.
I don't have the background to be an authority on the subject but you as an Astronomer should.
Thanks for the link, it went into my resources file.
Uh, no, actually it doesn't. You do realize that if you don't really want to discuss an issue, you don't have to reply, right?
That link talked about Einstein's cosmological constant, as I said. I have a basic understanding and enough to know that God started it....nothing has changed.
No manner of science, facts, proof or otherwise will convince or show you a God. The scientific proof is there, the documentation is there, it's just your soul won't let go.....that's it. So, I understand the BB enough to describe it to a layman, obviously not with the formula's and such.....
Yet more proof why ID does not belong in science classes or in science classes masquerading as a 'philosophy' class.
Obviously, tuskless elephants are being born. (right?)
Their numbers are increasing for two reasons.
1) Poachers are killing the tusked elephants, thus reducing the size of the tusked gene pool. (right?)
2) Poachers aren't killing the tuskless elephants, thus the size of the tuskless gene pool is increasing because the tuskless elephants are breeding. (right?)
If the trend continues, then eventually, there will be no more tusked elephants because their gene pool will have been depleted through poaching, leaving only the tuskless gene pool from which elephants will be born. (right?)
I can't believe we're debating these simple breeding techniques used since time immemorial to control and direct the results of breeding, but there you have it --creationists on parade.
If you think this is incorrect, please explain how you think natural selection works and we'll go from there.
Or, do you think natural selection is a bogus concept and that everything (and I mean EVERYTHING!) that happens on Earth is as a direct result of divine intervention?
Do you believe animals breed and pass along their traits (good and bad) to future generations?
Or, do you believe that all (and I mean ALL!) animals appeared on the Earth in their current form as a direct result of divine intervention?
Yup. And if I want to muddy the waters, I can keep talking in circles around that subject.
They STILL haven't shown that tuskless breed true, or that it's recessive.
Just a lot of words about about what MIGHT be going on.
So you're proud to be a fatuous, trite troll. How nice for you.
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