Posted on 01/04/2018 6:01:32 AM PST by Heartlander
If you’re rejoining us following your Christmas-New Year’s holiday, you may have missed a highlight of 2017 at Evolution News: the countdown of our top stories of the past year. Looking at them now, I’m struck by how various they are, how they show in a snapshot the fast-“evolving” evolution debate, which is a multidimensional phenomenon.
Here, again, are our headlines from the 10 days leading up to January 1:
While looking back with appreciation at the contributions of our writers, bylined and otherwise, I’m also pained by how much, of necessity, had to be left out. I would add, in retrospect, that it’s fascinating and gratifying to see the way a scrappy underdog like ID, taking on the most entrenched and sclerotic scientific orthodoxy there could be, has succeeded in hijacking the minds of our critics.
Here, for example, is a story that comes across my desk just this morning:
It’s a headline today at Wired, a story by reporter Matt Simon. The whole thing makes no sense — Simon is trying to argue that unguided, undesigned evolution by random mutation and natural selection provides a model for human design of robots. He invokes the Cambrian explosion, which, of course, was the subject of Steve Meyer’s most recent book. Mr. Simon predicts that such an “explosion” lies ahead in the diversification of robotic inventions.
One theme of 2017 was the internationalization of ID. Meanwhile we are colonizing the mainstream media, which, revile us as they do, can’t seem to leave us alone. You can expect more stuff like this.
It was a fun year, and a strong one for the ID movement. Now on to 2018!
bkmk
The Catechism of the Catholic Church asserts: “Methodical research in all branches of knowledge, provided it is carried out in a truly scientific manner and does not override moral laws, can never conflict with the faith, because the things of the world and the things of faith derive from the same God. The humble and persevering investigator of the secrets of nature is being led, as it were, by the hand of God in spite of himself, for it is God, the conserver of all things, who made them what they are.”
I will add a new dimension to this topic of discussion in May of this year.
It will shift the discussion a bit in the Lamarkian direction, but not discount the Darwinian theories.
As a neuroscientist I needed to understand the science supporting a change in my own perception of reality almost thirty years ago. In 1988, as a result of meningitis I died, had an NDE, and returned to my physical body with a very unique ability. Consciousness became physical to my perception.
Not so much current thoughts, but stored memories of people’s life experiences from conception forward. I am a skeptic and needed to explore, validate and understand this process. A few years ago I found that there are also memories prior to conception.
What I demonstrate and explain is that the physical attributes are a direct function of the influence of consciousness on the DNA transcription process.
I’m not discounting neurobiology or genetics. Just explaining the overriding influence of the process. This is what provides the life itself.
By reading the consciousness field details it is not difficult to understand many physical and personality attributes, including many illnesses such as cancer, MS, and other auto immune disorders.
How can this be proven scientifically? By bypassing the critical senses and the critical mind, I’ve found that I can stimulate the stored memories in the consciousness field many feet from the physical body and have a direct cause and effect, stimulus with measurable response influence.
I stay away from the word “soul” as much as possible, but in actuality, this process reads people’s souls.
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