Why Are Darwinists So Afraid of Intelligent Design?

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.

For you or anyone else to set it up as something it isn't in order to knock it down is just silly.

I'm not doing that. I'm simply addressing underlying assumptions.

Stop it. I respect your intellect more than to let you do this.

If you really do respect my intellect, then perhaps you should consider that I'm making a serious point. If you look at the assumptions underlying the theory of evolution, and trace them back, the logic leads us to no other assumption than that the origin of life itself was a materialistic event.

Evolutionary theory doesn't address origin of life. It addresses what happened after life appeared. Nothing more.

OK, let's grant that and take ourselves to the very first instant after life began. You're describing a process that begins then. You're saying that the point in time just prior to that amazing instant is ... irrelevant. In a sense I suppose it is, if you draw the line right there.

But a serious scientist also wonders about what happened in the instants before then. Going into the realm of underlying assumptions, I think we would both acknowledge that the "standard model" is that there was no agent other than materialistic chemistry at work.

I think the proof of this assumption is as I said: why else would there be so much effort being put into recreating the conditions for the formation of life?

I must admit that I was not entirely shocked to see the way you responded to my Pastafarian evangelizing. When people are confronted by things of which they are ignorant, they will often react out of fear. Perhaps I could clear up some misunderstandings if I provided some history of FSM. You see, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster came about in early 2004 when our Prophet, Bobby Henderson wrote his now famous Open Letter to the Kansas School Board. At the time, the board was considering changing the biology curriculum to include alternative theories to evolution, the most prominent of which being intelligent design. In his letter, Bobby requested that FSM intelligent design be taught alongside the other theories. From this simple and respectful request, the Church was born. One of the fastest growing religions, today there are over 10 million practicing Pastafarians across the globe who each have their own deep and personal relationship with their Noodly Lord and Creator, the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

We Pastafarians gladly welcome other ideas being taught alongside our own, be they literal interpretations of the Bible or logical conclusions based on overwhelming amounts of physical evidence. Central to the FSM faith is the idea of exposing school children to differing beliefs as to the origin of life and the creation of species. While we Pastafarians believe that in the beginning, a Flying Spaghetti Monster created all that we see and feel, we firmly contend that the theories of evolution and Christian intelligent design be given equal time in biology classrooms. Even though we know, in our heart of hearts, that a Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe, we respect the faith of intelligent design proponents and the staggering mountain of observable evidence supporting evolution cited by scientists the world over.

Sure, some find FSMism hard to believe. It may be helpful to tell you a little more about our beliefs. We have evidence that a Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe. None of us, of course, were around to see it, but we have written accounts of it. We have several lengthy volumes explaining all details of His power. Also, you may be surprised to hear that there are over 10 million of us, and growing. We tend to be very secretive, as many people claim our beliefs are not substantiated by observable evidence. What these people don’t understand is that He built the world to make us think the earth is older than it really is. For example, a scientist may perform a carbon-dating process on an artifact. He finds that approximately 75% of the Carbon-14 has decayed by electron emission to Nitrogen-14, and infers that this artifact is approximately 10,000 years old, as the half-life of Carbon-14 appears to be 5,730 years. But what our scientist does not realize is that every time he makes a measurement, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is there changing the results with His Noodly Appendage. We have numerous texts that describe in detail how this can be possible and the reasons why He does this. He is of course invisible and can pass through normal matter with ease.

Of course, there is infinitely more to FSM than what I can convey in this one post. We will look to continue spreading the good word of the FSM to the masses, so that hopefully they too can be touched by His noodly appendage, just as we have.

Of course, that you don't believe doesn't mean you're right or I'm not wrong. It just means you're going to burn in hell, without benefit of the stripper factory or the beer volcano, and you won't get touched by His noodly appendage. Sorry.
RAmen!

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