What Are The Darwinists Afraid Of?

The Post Chronicle | 8\07\05 | Patrick J Buchanan

[RepublicNewbie]

In the "Monkey Trial," 80 years ago, the issue was: Did John Scopes violate Tennessee law forbidding the teaching of evolution? Indeed he had. Scopes was convicted and fined $100.

But because a cheerleader press favored Clarence Darrow, the agnostic who defended Scopes, Christian fundamentalism -- and the reputation of William Jennings Bryan, who was put on the stand and made to defend the literal truth of every Bible story from Jonah and the whale to the six days of creation -- took a pounding.

[F16Fighter]

What Are The Darwinists Afraid Of?

The same thing Democrats, Athieists, Communists and Liberals are afraid of -- GOD.

[Gumlegs]

Evolutionism is a cancer to knowledge. Evolutionists are definitionally incapable of recognizing intelligence.

Where did you find this "definition"? Please supply it here.

They claim to be created in their own image: a most unimpressive collection of matter. Not surprisingly evolutionism is definitionally flawed: "A change in gene frequency over time." Even DEvolutionists believe in this! It only gets worse from here for evolutionism.

???

So the gatekeepers of higher ed are definitionally incapable of recognizing intelligence. Does anyone see a problem here?

Well, we could start with the problem you have with logic ...

Evolutionism is the answer to the fornicator. If your will to fornicate is strong enough, evolutionism and all its glory is yours.

I withhold my precious bodily fluids, Mandrake.

[bobdsmith]

So you are saying Darwinists are god-fearing americans?

[longshadow]

fchristian is that you?

Naaaa; sounds more like General Ripper......

[stormer]

LOL -- I've often wondered what happened to that guy.

[bvw]

As your on-line persona marks you as a member of the species Muscidae, it would inordinately presumptative to attribute great reading comprehension skills to you. I, however, was careful in what I last wrote to you and did NOT use closed and non-closed systems interchangeably. Each use of "system" was predicated by terms stating exactly what I meant "system" to mean in that sentence-local conext.

[Matchett-PI]

"Executive Summary of Thread: .. [snip]

Is this where you got the inspiration for your "Executive Summary"?

Or was it from here?

[bobdsmith]

I think you mean the family Muscidae.

[bvw]

Right.

[stormer]

"I think you mean the family Muscidae."

Beat me to it.

[bluepistolero]

Are you trying to say that denial isn't just a river in Egypt?

[YHAOS]

Executive Summary of Thread:

Are you A.), or are you B.)?

[ASA Vet]

I believe fchristian went from irrational rants to threatening irrational rants so became "nobody by that name."

Since this new irrational ranter just signed up today I've not put him/her on my "KookBurgers to ignore" list yet.

[TomB]

Uh, no. You said:

Physical systems, without ideas being inserted into them, do not evolve.

That is completely and totally incorrect. (and odd)

[Vaquero]

"To be fair to Pat (irritating, in and of itself), the Pope never actually required anyone to believe in evolution. The church's position, as I understand it, is that belief in evolution need not be inconsistent with Catholicism." Funny how when I was a kid in the 50's and 60's it was the Catholics who were considered living in the dark ages....now it is most visible in the bailiwick of certain Protestant sects....and by that I mean those that call themselves Fundamentalists (of course you cant get more fundamental than the RC Church or one of the Orthodox Churches.)

[stormer]

And his posts could always be identifies by some rather strange exuberance:

"Evolutionism = DEATH; wander in the darkness. The panties of the prophets display THE EVIDENCE TO ALL that care to see."

Probably not verbatim, but close.

[longshadow]

Pat Buchanan is a good guy. I've met him a few times, and even had him speak to a group at my house for a fund-raiser, but he's in over his head here.

Oh, I understand; he's very good on a number of political issues, but his science knowledge is deplorable. Hard to fathom, as he's a grad of that very upscale Washington area prep school as I recall.

He's also gone off the reservation in recent years with his "populist" stuff -- anti-big-business, anti-globalization, anti-free-trade rants and that sort of thing. Very out of character; very calculated to increase his political base beyond the hard core conservatives.

I'm sorry, did I say "opportunist"? I didn't mean to.....

[bluepistolero]

The panties of the prophets

lol.

[TomB]

I'm sorry, did I say "opportunist"? I didn't mean to.....

Heh.

But you were thinking it...

[longshadow]

But you were thinking it... I confess; I'm a thought-crime felon!