Posted on 12/27/2004 2:34:25 PM PST by Ed Current
The most censored speech in the United States today is not flag-burning, pornography or the press. The worst censors are those who prohibit classroom criticism of the theory of evolution.
A Chinese scholar observed, "In China we can criticize Darwin but not the government. In America you can criticize the government but not Darwin."
Polls show that the vast majority of Americans reject the theory of evolution, as have great scientists such as William Thomas Kelvin and Louis Pasteur. But that does not stop an intolerant minority from trying to impose a belief in the ape-to-man theory on everyone else.
Local school boards have finally had enough of this tyranny. From Georgia to Pennsylvania to Ohio to Wisconsin to Kansas, school boards are finally moving toward allowing criticism of Darwin's theory.
The Darwinists have propped up their classroom dominance by the persistent use of frauds and flacks. The fraudulent pro-evolution embryo drawings of Ernst Haeckel littered schoolbooks for 100 years, and it took specific action by the Texas Board of Education to keep them out of current textbooks even after the New York Times exposed Haeckel's deception.
Many textbooks feature pictures of giraffes stretching their necks to feed high off of trees, but genetics and observed feeding habits disprove that as a basis for evolution of their long necks. Moreover, the striking beauty of the colored pattern on the giraffes illustrates that design, not merely usefulness, is what animates our world.
Continued censorship of criticism invites additional fraud, so evolution has suffered more embarrassments than any other scientific theory. The Piltdown man was a lie taught to schoolchildren for decades, even featured in the John Scopes Monkey Trial textbook, and only five years ago a dinosaur-bird fossil hoax was presented as true on the glossy pages of National Geographic.
If Darwinists want to teach that whales, which are mammals, evolved from black bears swimming with their mouths open, we should surely be entitled to criticize that. Yet school libraries have refused to accept books critical of evolution, even when written by college professors.
Responding to the majority of their constituents, Georgia's Cobb County recently authorized a textbook disclaimer saying "Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered."
The American Civil Liberties Union claims this is unconstitutional and is seeking out supremacist judges to order classroom curricula to continue the censorship and forbid an open mind about evolution. If the theory of evolution were well supported, there would be no reason to oppose open debate about scientific claims.
In December 2004, a world-famous champion of atheism, Antony Flew, announced his conversion to acceptance of intelligent design underlying our world. The Dallas Morning News observed, "If the scientific data are compelling enough to cause an atheist academic of Flew's reputation to recant most of his life's work, why shouldn't Texas schoolchildren be taught the controversy?"
At 81, Flew can speak out because he is now free from the peer pressure that silences younger colleagues who fear loss of jobs, funding, or even dreams of winning a Nobel Prize. Evolution critics Fred Hoyle and Raymond Damadian were unjustly denied Nobel Prizes and their work was instead recognized by awards to less-deserving others.
Darwinists know they cannot persuade skeptical adults, so they try to capture impressionable schoolchildren. At our expense and against our wishes, children are taught that the world exists only for what is useful, not by design.
To typical schoolchildren full of wonder, we live in a world best described as a marvelous work of art. The snowflakes that grace us at Christmastime typify the artistic beauty that bestows joy on all ages but, like an acid, evolution corrodes this inborn appreciation of beauty and falsely trains children to view themselves as mere animals no more worthy than dogs or cats.
There is a strong correlation between belief in natural selection and liberal views on government control, pornography, prayer in schools, abortion, gun control, economic freedom, and even animal rights. For the most part, the schools in the blue states carried in the 2004 presidential election by U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., are strongly pro-evolution, while the red states carried by President George W. Bush allow debate and dissent.
It should surprise no one that the United States, land of the free and home of the brave, has the lowest percentage of evolution believers in the world. The highest percentage lived in the former East Germany.
The U.S. Senate of former Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., quietly slipped a provision into the No Child Left Behind Act that requires, by the 2007-2008 school year, science testing by grade 5. That gives censors the authority to force 10-year-olds to believe and defend evolution.
It is long past time for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect their children from the intolerant evolutionists. Hooray for courageous school boards that are finally rejecting censorship and allowing debate.
"Are you joking?"
Uhh, no. Please explain why you have no objection to germ theory? Or the theory of flight? Maybe you should avoid getting on a plane, since those pesky scientists don't know what their talking about! Evolution is just as proven as other theories, so why no problem with them?
6020 entries in Google for this quote and no attribute other than "a Chinese" paleontologist, scientist, etc.
This means it is probably not true at all. Leastwise, it is not subject to substantiation and is therefore not a fact.
"I think there is more than enough doubt about this. "
hahaha! There is adequate 'scientific' doubt about global warming? Uhhh, right... Can you please post links to these institutions that do not accept global warming?
BTW, Fox news is NOT an acceptable scientific organization. I want a governmental one like the NAS, or an environmentla journal. This should be good...
Good observation. One of the most ridiculous statements i've ever read. Whales from bears. Really
"He didn't say "there is no evolution." "
And I didn't say he said that. By logical extension, you are denouncing me for saying something I didn't say.
The problem arises because in the minds of literalists,
the two do not and can not co-exist in this domain. Those who argue for the established science impugn the beliefs of those who follow the Christian Bible literally.
It's a problem with the mental manipulation of abstract concepts, characteristic of the literalists' developmental stage alaPiaget. The corresponding archetypes manifested in this period of mental development revolve arond the Pater and identification with him - the task of the child. That's my opinion, of course.
As Connie observed, not everyone reaches the spiritual maturity achieved by Einstein.
Wo - I mean, Jeepers
ROFL! Thanks!!!
"If the data are not on your side you can always turn to ridicule and personal attacks."
Sounds like you stole a page from James Carville & Terry McAuliffe!!
Sounds like you stole a page from James Carville & Terry McAuliffe!!
Or Shaun "AirHorn" Hannity.
"You think a couple of sparks in the lab - with apologies to experimental physicists - is the same?"
You really fell into this trap? I thought better of you, really.
You defeat your own argument by not accepting your own logic when applied to a different discipline. You also dismissed research that is easily substantiated by any fool with access to Google.
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Don't worry, the next ice age will arrive before your list does.
Apparently that's what they used to think. Now they think whales evolved from hippo-like animals.Read the whole story
More from the site:
The currently favored hypothesis is this: cetaceans were descended from a very early, as yet unknown artiodactyl. This artiodactyls had a slightly more primitive ankle structure than any known artiodactyls. It was also more primitive than the known ancestor of hippos, the anthracotherioids. Therefore, the cetaceans separated from the artiodactyls and anthracotherioids before the Eocene.
Of course, any hypothesis that's based on fossils that are tens of millions of years old is bound to have problems. The similarity in cetacean and mesonychian cranial and dental morphology becomes a question. Was this the result of convergent evolution or was it a feature that was shared by a very early common ancestor to the three groups (cetaceans, mesonychians, and artiodactyls) but was lost in later artiodactyls? Also, the DNA analysis favors a sister-group relationship between whales and hippos but, morphologically, hippos are closer to artiodactyls than whales. Therefore, the relationship between whales and hippos remains unclear. The answers will likely come from as-yet-undiscovered fossil finds.
That's a typical cop-out of Evolutionists. It's all the same garbage.
The first living thing, would by definition, have to be a species.
So, the great theory about the "Origin of Species" would therefore have to explain the origin of the very first one.
I can understand people in the 19th century buying into evolution, when they were almost entirely ignorant of the enormous complexity of living things, and believed that the universe was eternal.
But to believe in evolution in the 21st century, requires brain washing and blind faith.
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