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.
Not really.
It doesn't matter whether you need a sign or not, none was given, except the sign of Jonah. That means Genesis is parable.
Food for thought.
Yeah, and the English language allows me to use STILL in place of "nevertheless".
adv.
Goodnight.
don't worry, moog - besides, Galileo got himself in hot water because he slandered and plagiarized two (or more) competing astronomers AND publicly insulted his old friend Pope Urban. The Inquisition treated him extremely gently, and in time the Church discovered, again, that the Scripture is a work (at least in part) of Man, and must be interpreted in accord with the reality of the Universe (which is a work of God alone), not the other way around.
Catholics are pragmatic, that way.
The real pains are those so deeply steeped in the doctrine of justification-by-faith-alone that they cannot consider any less-than-literal interpretation of the words they believe without going apoplectic or postal or both.
Are you Jewish?
When asked what he would say to God if he found himself before Him, Russell answered: 'I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence.'
Christian, but Celtic Apostolic (Gnostic) which still holds many Jewish beliefs and traditions. (Heaven and Earth shall pass away before the law..(paraphrased))
LOL! Thanks for the late-night snicker!
*sigh*
another dodge - is there no end to your dissembling?
"STILL is the key word. ***In your application***, it means, denotation, literal: "even under those specific conditions you set forth" "
say it with me, brothers and sisters: IN. YOUR. APPLICATION.
by the way, "nevertheless" means, roughly, "even under those specific conditions you set forth" or "DESPITE those specific conditions you set forth"
potAYtos, potAHtos. you lied. baldly. badly. again.
and yes, it is a very good night.
Hey, you're the one who started quoting the "old covenant," ma'am. And while you're at it, shut your yap. Under your new covenant, you ought to remain silent in front of your betters.
I Timothy 2:11-14
"Let the women learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression."
I just noticed that you didn't spell out the name of God like Biblical Jews
BEAUTIFUL quotes for my collection! Thanks!
Psalm 19
1 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
I was reading about the fossil record the other day and found that there should be billions of fossils of transitional life forms with partially formed appendidges such as nubs, etc. But what they claim to be transitional are fully formed animals. They make stuff up to try and make it believeable and they believe it themselves, of course.
Progressives fight against ANY challege.. Not all Darwinists are progressives, but most are.. And the progressives drive the "outrage".. Even against something so lame as Agnostic Creativism(ID)..
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