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Why Are Darwinists So Afraid of Intelligent Design?
Human Events ^ | Jan 17, 2006 | Barney Brenner

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: creationisminadress; crevolist; dishonestfundies; dishonestmonkeymen; goddooditamen; iddupes; idiocy; idjunkscience; ignoranceisstrength; junkscience; madmokeymen; pseudoscience; superstitiousnuts; yeccultists
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To: Hodar
So, the definition of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics MUST be wrong?

I hate to tell you, but the 2nd Law argument was defeated a long time ago simply as most Newtonian laws have been oversimplified to define chaos as non-existance or lower order. If we look at particle physics, we see that higher or more complex states as we see them are actually a direct result of understanding the second law better (entropy). An outside force, energy, can easily cause hydrogen atoms to combine into higher states.
By the way, do you know that the first law of Thermodynamics has been disproved?
Don't hold too much faith to Newtonian laws to continue your 'proof'.


The only thing consistent about science and religion is what we know for a fact today will change tomorrow.
141 posted on 01/16/2006 9:30:53 PM PST by mnehring (Perry 06- It's better than a hippie in a cowboy hat or a commie with blue hair.)
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To: Luis Gonzalez

Oh the wife and/or child abuser. If you quote me, I will deny it.


142 posted on 01/16/2006 9:31:22 PM PST by Torie
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To: metmom

He cannot do anything He wants.

I'm sure not going to argue that with HIM:()


143 posted on 01/16/2006 9:31:28 PM PST by moog
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To: ReignOfError

"Among scientists, "Darwinism" is no more controversial than Euclidism or Copernicism or Pasteurism"

So they have resolved the conflict between gradualism (Darwin's concept) and punctuated equilibrium (Gould's theory)?


144 posted on 01/16/2006 9:31:49 PM PST by fizziwig
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To: r9etb

Why can't I believe that God put into place the natural laws of physics which allowed us to become what we are?


Have you ever contemplated how many galaxies there are, not to mention how many stars, or planets? There may well be multiple universes, and I hope they don't collide.

I believe God created life on this planet. I believe evolution is what we see today. And I think that was God's plan.

So shoot me.


145 posted on 01/16/2006 9:32:30 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: tgambill

....it's all about free will.

Didn't he die?


146 posted on 01/16/2006 9:32:44 PM PST by moog
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To: Luis Gonzalez
There would be a far greater number of atheists or agnostics believing in evolution, than non-Christians proponents of ID.

Well, yes, I suppose a logical atheist would have a hard time with the idea that something alive was responsible for some of the life around us. A religious person, OTOH, being used to the idea of a deity at work within human history, would be far more open to the idea of ID, even if the deity were not necessarily the responsible party.

147 posted on 01/16/2006 9:32:48 PM PST by r9etb
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To: LibertarianInExile
Proverbs 29:25

25 Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is kept safe.

148 posted on 01/16/2006 9:33:02 PM PST by apackof2 (You can stand me up at the gates of hell, I'll stand my ground and I won’t back down)
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To: peyton randolph
Ramen.


149 posted on 01/16/2006 9:33:05 PM PST by dread78645 (Sorry Mr. Franklin, We couldn't keep it.)
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To: moog

During the winter, I bill 24/7.


150 posted on 01/16/2006 9:33:32 PM PST by Torie
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To: Dog Gone
I believe God created life on this planet. I believe evolution is what we see today. And I think that was God's plan. So shoot me.

I'll let you live.

151 posted on 01/16/2006 9:33:58 PM PST by moog
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To: apackof2
Neither.

God created/designed evolution.

A theory that beats the crap out of assigning the truth behind the existence of everything to this uy:


152 posted on 01/16/2006 9:34:11 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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To: moog

who die.....??


153 posted on 01/16/2006 9:34:23 PM PST by tgambill (I would like to comment.....)
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To: Dog Gone

Gosh, another frenzied religious fanatic comes out of the closet. Oh dear. And I don't even own a gun!


154 posted on 01/16/2006 9:34:52 PM PST by Torie
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To: Torie

During the winter, I bill 24/7.

Remind me never to write you an IOU.


155 posted on 01/16/2006 9:35:11 PM PST by moog
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To: mnehrling
John Haglin is a New Age Transcentental Meditation Mystic.

The Haglin I refer to is a researcher at CERN with a PhD in Particle Physics and head of the Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy.

Yep exact same guy Hagelin

Not exactly the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Yes Exactly. The Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy, of which Hagelin is head, is a Maharishi front

156 posted on 01/16/2006 9:35:48 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering)
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To: tgambill

Willie the Dolphin.


157 posted on 01/16/2006 9:35:56 PM PST by moog
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To: AndrewC

if letters imperfectly self-replicated, "every letter is a transitional sentence" would be quite factual.

you folks keep forgetting important details.

please do better.


158 posted on 01/16/2006 9:36:03 PM PST by King Prout (many accuse me of being overly literal... this would not be a problem if many were not under-precise)
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To: Luis Gonzalez

Is that Bing Crosby too?


159 posted on 01/16/2006 9:36:23 PM PST by Torie
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To: moog

The creationist however, in my opinion have went the other way....they say 6,000 years.....which is in my opinion and based on analysis other than mine, incorrect. That Gods 7 days are different than out calendar.....


160 posted on 01/16/2006 9:37:00 PM PST by tgambill (I would like to comment.....)
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