Posted on 10/28/2022 8:53:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The American Left, as a political force, relies on deception. At the macro level, the Left lies about pretty much everything. They do this because they are acutely aware that if they told the truth about their policies, very few people would support them.
But there are also smaller fibs. Call them micro-deceptions, ones that betray select issues at the edge of the Left’s radar that are irritating them at the moment. I received one such micro-deception the other day from Amazon.
After purchasing a book from Amazon a few days earlier, (I heartily recommend the Autobiography of Josiah Henson) I received a promotional email for the 150th anniversary edition of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species.
This struck me as odd. 2022 is not 150 years after the 1859 publication of Darwin’s book. The email was selling a version printed in 2003, also not the sesquicentennial of Origin of Species.
In the introduction to this “150th Anniversary Edition,” Sir Julian Huxley writes with the enthusiasm of a middle school cheerleader, “Why is Origins of Species such a great book? First of all, because it convincingly demonstrates the fact of evolution.”
Evolution is not a fact. It is a theory. Huxley knew this when he wrote his introduction so why did he lie? We’ll never know; Huxley died in 1975, the 116th anniversary of Darwin’s book.
Retailers know that anniversary products sell and they’ve done this for many years. So why might Amazon be keen on increasing sales of this book? Perhaps they want to promote misinformation.
The theory of evolution is falling out of favor in scientific circles. This is a very bad thing for the American Left. Darwin’s book was the greatest gift ever for secular humanists and acolytes of Karl Marx because it wrecked biblical creation. Cut the legs out from under Genesis and you take down the Bible itself and the foundation of Christianity. In short, Darwin created a whole new religion.
In fairness to Darwin, he did his best with what was known about science in the mid-19th century. His book came out at a time when germ theory wasn’t even a thing yet. Bloodletting was an everyday medical treatment. Doctors attacked Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis for saying it’s a good idea to wash your hands before delivering a baby.
Into this era of scientific ignorance Darwin added his theory. Since then, we’ve seen staggering advancements in genetics and microbiology. Science has a way of debunking flawed theories and science is not Darwin’s friend.
Many scientists won’t say how human beings came into existence, but they are drifting away from Darwin because science doesn’t support his theory that Man was created through evolution.
Consider Man as an organism. Microbiology teaches us that the building blocks of human life are proteins. Most protein molecules are comprised of 150 to 250 different amino acids, of which there are 20.
To get a properly functioning protein chain of 150 links, these 20 different amino acids must be arranged in a precise sequence. If the sequence is off by even one link, the protein doesn’t do what it’s supposed to. One result of such an error is sickle cell anemia.
Darwin’s theory postulates that nature precisely assembles 20 different amino acids into a usable protein chain of 150 elements. At random. Okay, how does that work?
Say your kid has one of those jewelry craft kits containing 20 compartments of different colored beads, and you’re going to help make a necklace of 150 beads, assembled in a specific pattern. Now blindfold yourself and get started. What are the odds you’ll get it right?
Mathematics tells us the odds. They are so infinitesimally small, we need exponential notation to express them. The number of possible bead combinations is 20 x 10^150, also expressed as roughly 10 x 10^195. The odds are, functionally, zero. You have better odds of guessing how many grains of sand are on a beach. For empirical context, the odds of winning the Powerball are about 2.9 x 10^8.
Darwin and the American Left demand we believe that nature randomly accomplishes this mathematical impossibility, not just once but over and over again. Sadly for Darwin, his theory is crushed under the weight of science and numbers.
This is why academics are leaving Darwin in search of a different answer to the question of life. Science is loath to consider anything supernatural in its explorations, but Darwin’s theory can no longer be used to attack the Bible.
Evolution has joined the pantheon of disproved theories, like the theory of Earth being at the center of our solar system. The fallacy of evolution has crumbled so there’s a push to sell more copies of Darwin’s book before people get wise to the grift. The deception continues, but its days are numbered.
As a Believer, I have always had a hard time accepting the theory of Evolution. However, I now believe that Democrats are descended from pond scum and are the product of the infinite negative mutations that had to have taken place. Since mutations create biological defects in a species it stands to reason that Democrats are dumber than pond scum. Which is why we need to drain the swamp.
Popular science is always a generation or two behind real science. It takes a long time to trickle down. That's why the "New Atheists," abortion supporters, and LGBTQ enablers and others who screech "follow the science" are so laughable. Their version of "science" that they rely on was discredited long ago and they don't even know it.
Anybody who wants to do a serious read on why Darwin’s theory of evolution does not apply to humans, they should read Stephen Meyer’s the “Return of the God Hypothesis”. Darwin is seriously challenged unlike anything I’ve seen before, and the book has information and math not met for the average reader.
Evolution is real. But it can’t explain life on our planet as we now find it. Yes each specie evolves. But to go from no life to a Human or even a dog is not something that happens by random chance coupled with survival of the fittest. This is just not mathematically possible. There has not been enough time. And there have been several gaps in evolution with new species just showing up that have no forebearers.
Yes evolution happens. But there is no question that something else happened as well. Earth was somehow seeded with many species. And then evolved from there. Some think Mars was once a live planet and was hit by an asteroid. Others think we have been seeded from somewhere outside the solar system. Whatever it is, its not evolution. Or at least its not evolution here on earth. At least some life formed elsewhere and came here.
“In the beginning God…”
Some people divide their views on evolution into macroevolution and microevolution to resolve any qualms they have about faith and science being in contradiction with one another.
Microevolution explains differences in species, natural selection, advantageous mutations, etc... these things can be observed because the time scale for it to occur can, in some instances, be directly observed from documentary records of relatively quickly changing organisms, or indirectly observed through skeletal and DNA records.
Macroevolution, if described with a purely scientific viewpoint, explains how plants became animals, how invertebrates became vertebrates, how trout and chimpanzees both share a common ancestor. If you want to follow a more faith-based approach, you could say that God had a hand in the arrival of these big differences in the way that life exists on earth.
Macroevolution is impossible to observe directly or indirectly, there's just not enough information available to document the process. Puzzle pieces can be found in DNA, fossil records, etc... to make inferences and scientists put those puzzle pieces together with the best available information.
I personally have no qualms with evolution macro or micro, interfering with my faith. Evolution and Faith answer two different questions, one suggests "what" happened, the other suggests "how." New information supporting or disproving on one of those won't shake my belief in the other, only inform and refine it.
What I am saying is that mathematically macro-evolution seems impossible. There must be a missing piece. Darwin’s theory does not hold scientific water at the macro level. Possibly the garden of Eden was not on this planet. Whether biblical or science, there is something missing.
I’m working on a Theory of Devolution. Mankind is growing dumber by the day.
There have been lots of ideas about the evolution of life way before Darwin.
Anaximander and Empedocles of ancient Greece espoused their theories. Ibn Kaldun of 1300’s espoused his own theory.
All,like Darwin were limited by the knowledge of their time. Even the Navajo had their own evolutionary cosmogeny. None of these philosophies had the information we have now. Expect another newer evolutionary theory to replace Darwin among the “nature is all that there is” crowd. It is clear that the complexity of cells, DNA and RNA and epigenetic control of bio information, etc is way more complex than the simple bags of protoplasm the 19th century scientist knew.
Time and Chance are the creative gods of the modern biological synthesis.
P.S. Read the late Tom Wolfe’s last book....”The Kingdom of Speech” for a very interesting account of Darwin’s life and how him and Wallace both tried to have their ideas of natural selection as a driving force of evolution worked published. Quite interesting.
This is a joke, son. Don’t celebrate too soon.
An omniscient, omnipotent God can do it any number of ways. I’m more interested in why, not how.
Whereas, say, the Great Pyramid, I’d rather know the how than the why.
Evolution was a child’s fanciful tale from the start. But it was the only alternative to the God account, so people ran with it.
Our Creator’s creation is designed to evolve.
All have to do is take quick look around you and see all the moronic idiots all around you to figure out Darwin’s theory is BS
Ancient Aliens....
Not even that. It's an hypothesis. A theory has something to back it up. An hypothesis is a guess.
It's Darwin's Hypothesis of evolution. It was some old guy guessing as to how something might have been. And he was 100% wrong.
First of all, because it convincingly demonstrates the fact of evolution.”
Yeah, parallel units, male and female, can evolve. Got it.
“Darwin looked at the world thru the scientific lens of Natural Law from which is derived Cause and Effect.”
Darwin plagiarized most of his theory from Alfred Wallace. He was working in different countries and sent in his research and explanations to Darwin.
The problem with the big bang is the math does NOT work. Never has. According to math, if the BB were to occur we would need to be seeing 95% more matter and a lot more energy than we see today in the universe, or else the BB would not have had enough mass to cause the BB.
This is why the endless search for “Dark Matter” and “Dark Energy” that they never find. So, they promote the BB knowing that it can’t have worked, thinking they will find proof that it did.
Also, the new telescope DID not show much more matter, only mostly the matter they had seen before at better detail. And yes, they cannot “look back” FAR back into time they way an expanding universe should - they don’t see lots of forming galaxies. Only mature ones.
Wait…. but… but.. I thought that “the science has been settled!”…
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