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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
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To: moog; Admin Moderator
To squelch? The goal to silence, eh?

Sure a fine enough job. Galileo then was left with the words choked in his throat for fear, today the keybaords of the meek are stilled by abusive posters who bully with name-calling, inanity, and mud-slinging.

221 posted on 01/16/2006 10:00:37 PM PST by bvw
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To: Luis Gonzalez
Whoa wait a minute

YOU told me that God created evolution
I only asked you to support your "opinion" from the source, His Word

Obviously you can't

222 posted on 01/16/2006 10:01:13 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: moog

I bet it's painful just about anywhere, although I suppose it's probably less painful in some less-endowed subgroups of humanity, those subgroups having less to lose.


223 posted on 01/16/2006 10:01:33 PM PST by LibertarianInExile (Freedom isn't free--no, there's a hefty f'in fee--and if ya don't throw in your buck-o-5, who will?)
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To: moog

The Privy part was even more painful to Ben Franklin. He had to leave Britain ASAP, least his own be rendered.


224 posted on 01/16/2006 10:03:10 PM PST by Torie
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To: King Prout
you proposed a conclusion that the statement would be useless.

And I told you why. Logic does not require a null hypothesis. Your "premise" is false. Letters do not self-replicate.

225 posted on 01/16/2006 10:03:20 PM PST by AndrewC (Darwinian logic -- It is just-so if it is just-so)
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To: Hodar
Ignorance is a option

Dinosours had primitive hearts, digestive systems, brains, ect

Otherwise they would have been better, not bitter

226 posted on 01/16/2006 10:03:26 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: bvw

in case you have not noticed:
1. there are no "meek" on CREVO threads.
2. no one on CREVO threads have their keyboards "stilled".
3. histrionics and florid orotundery are quaint, but uncompelling in an arena of science.


227 posted on 01/16/2006 10:05:15 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: bvw
Sure a fine enough job. Galileo then was left with the words choked in his throat for fear, today the keybaords of the meek are stilled by abusive posters who bully with name-calling, inanity, and mud-slinging. What the _____? Are you actually taking me serious????? Geez Louise. I'm not that type (name calling and such). My posts are stupid yes, but name-calling??? Oh brother. Please don't take me or yourself too seriously (emphasis on me). Look at some of the other posts if you want to look for what you described.
228 posted on 01/16/2006 10:05:32 PM PST by moog
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To: apackof2
"post the Scripture where the Lord states that He "created" evolution?"

Matthew 12:39
" He answered, "A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a miraculous sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

229 posted on 01/16/2006 10:05:51 PM PST by spunkets
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To: LibertarianInExile
Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish.
Proverbs 31:6


Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
Proverbs 21:9
230 posted on 01/16/2006 10:06:15 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: LibertarianInExile

I bet it's painful just about anywhere, although I suppose it's probably less painful in some less-endowed subgroups of humanity, those subgroups having less to lose.

HEHE:) Good one.


231 posted on 01/16/2006 10:06:48 PM PST by moog
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To: LibertarianInExile
Your behind the times by about 2,000 years

Your quoting form the old covenant of the Law

There's a New Covenant, or haven't you heard?

Luke 22:19-21

19And he (Jesus) took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me." In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

BTW I don't have to worry about the "family jewels", I am a woman
LOL!

232 posted on 01/16/2006 10:06:51 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: Tailgunner Joe
Why Are Historians So Afraid of Holocaust Revisionism?"

WWII historians must be an endangered species. How else to explain their 50-year need for court protection to ensure their survival? ...

Teeheehee
233 posted on 01/16/2006 10:07:05 PM PST by jennyp (WWJBD?)
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To: Torie

The Privy part was even more painful to Ben Franklin. He had to leave Britain ASAP, least his own be rendered.

That's why he bought stuff, so he wouldn't have to be a render.:)


234 posted on 01/16/2006 10:08:06 PM PST by moog
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Richard Weikart, Ph.D., is associate professor in the department of history at California State University, Stanislaus. Before joining the faculty there he was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Iowa. He has been a Fulbright and Gordon Prange fellow, and has written for various periodicals, including the Journal of the History of Ideas, Books and Culture: A Christian Review, and Fides et Historia. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, and his M.A. and B.A. from Texas Christian University.

Dr. Weikart has an On Line Lecture on the topic: "From Darwin to Hitler: Does Darwinism Devalue Human Life?" (2004). You can link to the free webcast video HERE: http://webcast.ucsd.edu:8080/ramgen/UCSD_TV


235 posted on 01/16/2006 10:08:13 PM PST by XR7
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To: jennyp
How else to explain their 50-year need for court protection to ensure their survival?

Would you care to list these court cases for us? It would enlighten me on how historians need protection from the likes of "Calypso Louie".

236 posted on 01/16/2006 10:10:12 PM PST by AndrewC (Darwinian logic -- It is just-so if it is just-so)
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To: spunkets
I don't need a sign

I know in Whom I believe

237 posted on 01/16/2006 10:10:31 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: moog

Neither a render nor a borrower be.


238 posted on 01/16/2006 10:10:39 PM PST by Torie
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To: AndrewC

nice dodge. total lie on your part. typical.

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

You replied: "and STILL be useless."

STILL is the key word. In your application, it means, denotation, literal: "even under those specific conditions you set forth"

you are too clever an irritant to not know this.
you are, thus, engaged in willful and deliberate falsehood and self-aggrandizement.

go 'way, blowfly. shoo.


239 posted on 01/16/2006 10:11:24 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: Torie

Neither a render nor a borrower be.

I owe you one. :)


240 posted on 01/16/2006 10:11:31 PM PST by moog
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