Posted on 01/16/2006 8:32:58 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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.
If we were designed by God, he needs to go back to the drawing board ASAP.
Another capture the word exercise. In any event, Darwinism as I understand it, does not address the issue of how non life became life. So that bit was a bit of a low blow.
Evolution doesn't address the origin of life, no matter how many times it's accused of that.
While CS/ID can't get into the classroom even with "court protection to ensure their survival" and the Discovery Institute combined.
Someone needs to write a song with a refrain: "Don't bible at me in public school".
Can you do better?
"If we were designed by God, he needs to go back to the drawing board ASAP."
You sound very unhappy with the body you inhabit. I'm sorry you feel this way. I'm fairly pleased with mine.
This should furrow a few brows, I can see the lengthy papers
refuting these baseless un-scientific assertions.
So where are the transitional species?
What does that say about you?
The advocates of "Intelligent Design" are ignorant, dshonest, or both.
och... another steamer from the same dungheap
IDers insist on making the two fully compatible -- whatever nonsense it takes.
Scientists are not afraid of "intelligent design", they just realize that ID is nonsense and not a science.
Torie, origin of life is a domain of biogenesis and you can read about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogenesis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_life
He did a perfect thing...but it's mans free will that you are referring to. It's like you get a new car, it's perfect (so to speak), but if you don't take care of it, run it through the proper maintenance, etc.....it will not work for you......
put bluntly: everywhere you look among the living and the dead, there they are.
Of course it does -- no matter how many times "it" denies it.
So the Taiwanese glow-in-the-dark pigs are the product of nonsense, and not science?
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